TABLE OF CONTENTS
A) ONLY TWO POSITIONS TO CHOOSE FROM: CREATIONISM OR EVOLUTION
B) BOTH IDEAS HAVE RELIGIOUS IMPLICATIONS
C) DEFINING TERMS IS CRITICAL IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE TRUTH ABOUT ORIGINS
1) VARIATION WITHIN A SPECIES IS NOT THE SAME AS EVOLUTION
2) SCIENCE'S DEFINITION OF DIFFERENT SPECIES DOES NOT ALWAYS REFLECT REALITY
D) SCIENTIFIC PROOF DEMANDS OBSERVABILITY, EXPERIMENTABILITY, REPEATABILITY AND FALSIFIABILITY
II) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY & PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF RECENT CREATION
A) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY & PHYSICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE UNIVERSE
1) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY OF A RECENTLY CREATED UNIVERSE
DETAILED INDEX OF THIS SECTION
2) PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF A RECENTLY CREATED UNIVERSE
c) PLANETS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM APPEAR TO BE YOUNG
i) FACTS ABOUT PLANETS AND MOONS
ii) SATURN'S RINGS CANNOT BE MORE THAN 10,000 YEARS OLD
iii) CRATERS ON VENUS ARE VIRTUALLY UNDISTURBED INDICATING A YOUNG PLANET
f) EXISTENCE OF COMETS SUPPORTS RECENTLY CREATED UNIVERSE
B) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY & PHYSICAL EVIDENCE FROM EARTH WHICH TESTIFY TO A RECENT CREATION
a) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY OF THE INITIAL CREATION STAGE OF THE EARTH
DETAILED INDEX OF THIS SECTION
b) PHYSICAL EVIDENCE FROM EARTH SUPPORTING INITIAL CREATION
1) EARTH'S ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD INDICATES RECENT CREATION
DETAILED INDEX OF THIS SECTION
4) THE PREFLOOD PERIOD - AFTER THE FALL
a) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY OF THE EFFECT OF THE FALL
DETAILED INDEX OF THIS SECTION
b) PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF THE EFFECT OF THE FALL
2) PREFLOOD LAND, OCEAN AND CLIMATE DIFFERENT
3) THERE WAS LITTLE VOLCANIC OR TECTONIC ACTIVITY
4) THERE WAS UNIVERSALLY WARM PREFLOOD CLIMATE
5) FLOOD REQUIRED A UNIQUE RAINFALL SOURCE
b) THE FIRMAMENT CANOPY AROUND THE EARTH
c) FUTURE RESTORATION OF THE CANOPY
5) PERIOD OF THE WORLDWIDE FLOOD
b) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY OF THE WORLDWIDE FLOOD
2) SCRIPTURE DESCRIBES FLOOD: CATASTROPHIC/WORLDWIDE - NOT BOUND BY TODAY'S NORMATIVE PROCESSES
a) FRESH OLIVE LEAF WHICH DOVE RETRIEVED DOES NOT INDICATE A TRANQUIL FLOOD AS CRITICS MAINTAIN
b) MARINE LIFE SURVIVED THE FLOOD
c) PLANT LIFE SURVIVED THE FLOOD
3) BIBLE FLOOD ACCOUNT IS ORIGINAL & NOT DERIVED FROM THE BABYLONIAN MYTH AS CRITICS MAINTAIN
a) BIBLE ACCOUNT & BABYLONIAN MYTH: TOO DIFFERENT TO PROVE DERIVATION
i) THE 'gods' OF THE BABYLONIAN FLOOD ARE NOT THE ONE TRUE GOD OF THE BIBLE
ii) ANNOUNCEMENT OF BABYLONIAN FLOOD KEPT SECRET
iii) THE BABYLONIAN ARK & ITS OCCUPANTS ARE DIFFERENT
iv) CAUSES & DURATION OF BABYLONIAN FLOOD DIFFERENT
v) THE BIRD SCENES ARE DIFFERENT
vi) THE SACRIFICE & BLESSING ARE DIFFERENT
b) SUMMARY: THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT IN GENESIS IS ORIGINAL
4)TERMS DESCRIBING THE FLOOD IN SCRIPTURE ARE UNIVERSAL
a) SCRIPTURE, BEING INSPIRED BY GOD IS TO BE TAKEN IN CONTEXT IN THE LITERAL SENSE AUTHORS INTENDED
b) CONTEXT OF THE FLOOD ACCOUNT IN SCRIPTURE DEMANDS LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF 'ALL AND 'EVERY'
5) THE RAIN AND FLOODING WERE NOT GRADUAL AND SHORT-LIVED AS CRITICS MAINTAIN
6) THE DESTRUCTION OF A WIDELY-DISTRIBUTED HUMAN RACE IS INDICATED IN SCRIPTURE
a) FLOOD'S STATED PURPOSE: PUNISHMENT OF HUMAN RACE
b) SCRIPTURE TESTIFIES THAT OF THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE ONLY NOAH & HIS FAMILY SURVIVED
c) GOD'S COVENANT WITH NOAH: TOTAL DESTRUCTION
d) HUMANITY NOT LIMITED TO THE MESOPOTAMIAN VALLEY
i) LONGEVITY & FERTILITY OF EARLY MAN = LARGE WORLDWIDE POPULATION
ii) MANKIND'S INHERENT VIOLENT NATURE SPREAD HUMANITY WORLDWIDE
iv) CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES WOULD PREACH THE GOSPEL NOT THE FLOOD
e) EVIDENCE OF ANCIENT INDIANS IN AMERICA DOES NOT PROVE A LOCAL FLOOD
f) ALL RACES DID COME FROM NOAH
ii) THE BIBLE AND RACIAL DISTRIBUTION
iii) RECENT MIGRATIONS ASIA SUPPORT THEORY OF RAPID DISPERSION OF HUMANITY
iv) INNUMERABLE WORLDWIDE TRADITIONS OF UNIVERSAL FLOOD SUPPORT RAPID MIGRATION OF MANKIND
7) THE NEED FOR AN ARK POINTS TO A UNIVERSAL DELUGE NOT A LOCAL ONE
a) THE SIZE OF THE ARK: BUILT FOR A WORLDWIDE DELUGE
b) THE ARK ACTUALLY WAS CAPABLE AND DID SUSTAIN ALL THE ANIMALS INDICATED
c) GATHERING THE ANIMALS TO THE ARK
i) DIFFERENT CLIMATIC & ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL CONDITIONS BEFORE THE FLOOD
ii) MIGRATORY INSTINCTS OF THE ANIMAL WORLD USED SUPERNATURALLY BY GOD TO BRING ANIMALS INTO ARK
d) FITTING ANIMALS INTO THE ARK
i) CRITICS MULTIPLY THE SPECIES
ii) CAPACITY FOR VARIETY WITHIN EACH 'KIND' REDUCES THE NUMBER NEEDED IN THE ARK
e) CARING FOR THE ANIMALS IN THE ARK
i) HIBERNATION: LATENT CAPACITY OF ANIMALS & BIRDS
ii) GOD'S SUPERNATURAL USE OF HIBERNATION
iii) SUFFICIENT DRINKING WATER AVAILABLE
iv) SUFFICIENT AIR TO BREATHE AVAILABLE
f) NATURAL & SUPERNATURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FLOOD INCLUDE ANIMALS IN THE ARK
g) THE ARK WAS NOT DESTROYED BY VIOLENT SEAS AS CRITICS MAINTAIN WOULD HAVE HAPPENED
8) TESTIMONY OF PETER: THE WHOLE WORLD WAS DESTROYED
9) DEPTH OF THE FLOOD = THE WHOLE EARTH WAS COVERED
10) DURATION OF THE FLOOD INDICATES A WORLDWIDE FLOOD
b) 150 DAYS OF PREVAILING FLOODS
c) 221 DAYS OF ASSUAGING WATERS
11) EMERGENCE OF TODAY'S TOPOGRAPHY AFTER THE FLOOD
b) ISOSTATIC READJUSTMENTS IN THE EARTH
a) THE DATE OF FLOOD CAN BE DETERMINED BY ADDING UP THE YEARS STATED IN GEN 5:1-32 & GEN 11:10
b) GENEALOGIES IN GENESIS CHAPTERS 5 & 11 DO NOT HAVE ANY GAPS POINTING TO A SHORT HISTORY OF MAN
c) GENESIS 5 & 11 ARE CHRONOLOICAL INDICATING A YOUNG AGE OF THE EARTH
d) THE NATURE OF THE GENESIS GENEALOGY
c) PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF THE WORLDWIDE FLOOD
1) GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF TODAY'S EARTH IS CATASTROPHIC IN NATURE - NOT UNIFORMITARIAN
a) UNIFORMITARIANISM = PRESENT IS THE KEY TO THE PAST
b) FALSE PRESUPPOSITION OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION
c) THE PRESUPPOSED GEOLOGIC TIME-TABLE
2) EARTH FLOODED BY SUBTERRANEAN WATERS & TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR
b) DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF MODERN RIVER FLOODS
c) DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF OCEAN WAVES
d) TREMENDOUS EROSION FROM FLOOD'S RAINFALL
3) MASSIVE WORLDWIDE VOLCANIC, SEISMIC AND TIDAL WAVEACTIVITY INDICATED
b) EVIDENCES PAST VOLCANISM TESTIFY WORLDWIDE FLOOD
ii) EVIDENCE OF PAST VOLCANISM CANNOT BE EXPLAINED BY UNIFORMITARIANISM
c) EVIDENCES OF PAST EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY TESTIFY TO A WORLDWIDE FLOOD
ii) EVIDENCE OF MASSIVE MOVEMENTS IN THE EARTH'S CRUST CANNOT BE EXPLAINED BY UNIFORMITARIANISM
4) UNPRECEDENTED SEDIMENTARY ACTIVITY POINTS TO FLOOD
b) SEDIMENTARY STRATA CANNOT BE EXPLAINED BY UNIFORMITARIANISM
c) INNUMERABLE GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS CANNOT BE EXPLAINED BY UNIFORMITARIANISM
iii) FLUVIATILE PLAINS & ALLUVIAL SLOPES
iv) LARGE, HIGH PLATEAUS AND SPECTACULAR CANYONS WITH UNIFORM HORIZONTAL STRATA
v) SINUOUS, MEANDERING RIVERS AT CANYON BOTTOMS
vi) 'ANACHRONISTIC' MOUNTAIN STRATA
x) CAVE DEPOSITS: STALACTITES & STALAGMITES
FOSSILIZED TREES IMBEDED ACROSS ROCK SEDIMENTS- RAPID FORMATION
5) PALEONTOLOGY = A STUDY OF FOSSILS RELATIVE TO THE ORIGIN OF LIFE POINTS TO A WORLDWIDE FLOOD
i) STROMATOLITES - CREATED BY GOD DURING CREATION WEEK
b) FLOOD PROVIDED IDEAL CONDITIONS FOR FOSSILS
ii) FOSSILS WHICH ARE THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENTIRE ORGANISM BY FREEZING
iii) FOSSILS WHICH ARE THE PRESERVATION OF JUST THE HARD PARTS OF THE ORGANISM
iv) FOSSILS WHICH ARE THE PRESERVATION OF JUST THE CARBON ('CARBONIZATION' = COAL)
v) FOSSILS WHICH ARE THE PRESERVATION OF JUST THE ORIGINAL FORM IN CASTS OR MOLDS
vii) PRESERVATION OF ANIMAL AND HUMAN TRACKS
d) EARLY BURIAL OF MARINE CREATURES
e) LATER BURIAL OF LAND ANIMALS AND PLANTS
ii) HIGHER MOBILITY OF THE VERTEBRATES
iii) FORMATION OF COAL BEDS: A PRODUCT OF MASSIVE SHORT TERM SEDIMENTARY ACTIVITY
iv) THE 'MESOZOIC' STRATA-DINOSAUR
v) FINAL FLOOD DEPOSIT - MAMMAL FOSSILS
f) LIVING FOSSILS (GEOLOGIC TABLE)
6) THE AMOUNT OF WATER ON THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH TESTIFIES TO THE WORLDWIDE FLOOD
b) ENCLOSED LAKE BASINS AND RAISED BEACHES TESTIFY TO MUCH MORE WATER IN THE PAST
c) EVIDENCE OF MUCH GREATER RIVER ACTIVITY IN THE PAST
iii) CERTAIN SAND & GRAVEL DEPOSITS INDICATE FORMER EXISTENCE OF GREAT RIVERS
iv) VALLEYS & RIVERS EVIDENCE MUCH GREATER RIVER ACTIVITY IN THE PAST
v) RAISED RIVER TERRACES EVIDENCE HIGHER LEVELS & VOLUMES OF STREAM RUN-OFF
d) EVIDENCE OF FORMER LOWER SEA LEVELS
b) RAPID WORLDWIDE DISPERSION OF MAN, ANIMALS & PLANTS WAS POSSIBLE AFTER THE FLOOD
1) THREE MAJOR VIEWS ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN THE PRESENT WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS
2) UNIQUENESS OF AUSTRALIAN MARSUPIALS DOESN'T CONTRADICT WORLDWIDE ANIMAL DISPERSION AFTER FLOOD
3) RAPID ANIMAL DISPERSION IN RECENT HISTORY SUPPORTS WORLDWIDE ANIMAL MIGRATION FROM THE ARK
c) EVIDENCE OF AN ICE AGE POINTS TO A RECENT CATASTROPHIC WORLDWIDE FLOOD
b) EVIDENCE FOR ONLY ONE ICE AGE
c) EVIDENCE OF CONTINENTAL ICE SHEETS CANNOT BE EXPLAINED BY UNIFORMITARIANISM
a) SUDDEN WARMING OF THE CLIMATE
b) ABUNDANT CARBON DIOXIDE PRODUCED PLANT GROWTH & RISE IN EARTH'S TEMPERATURE, ENDING THE ICE AGE
3) SUMMARY: ICE AGE: UNIQUE POST FLOOD SHORT TERM EVENT
d) TREE RINGS INDICATE A RECENT CATASTROPHIC FLOOD & RECENT CREATION
e) HISTORICAL RECORDS INDICATE A RECENT CIVILIZATION NOT AN OLD EVOLVED ONE
f) THE WORLD'S POPULATION TESTIFIES TO A YOUNG EARTH
g) CONTINUING CATASTROPHIC ACTIVITY TODAY CONTRADICTS UNIFORMITARIANISM
7) CONCLUSION: TODAY'S GEOLOGY EXPLAINED BY A CATASTROPHIC UNIVERSAL FLOOD NOT EVOLUTION
8) METHODS OF AGE MEASUREMENT INDICATE A YOUNG EARTH
b) RADIOACTIVITY AGE MEASUREMENTS
2) METHODS OF RADIOACTIVITY AGE MEASUREMENT
a) SUMMARY OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF RADIOACTIVE DECAY
b) ALPHA-DECAY & THE POTENTIAL BARRIER
iii) THE VAN ALLEN RADIATION BELT
i) DEFECTIVE METHODS AND FAULTY INTERPRETATIONS CAUSE ERRONEOUS RESULTS
ii) ORIGINAL LEAD NOT CONSIDERED IN RADIOACTIVE AGE DETERMINATIONS RESULTING IN FALSE CONCLUSIONS
iii) LEACHING OF LEAD OR URANIUM RESULTS IN RADICALLY INCORRECT DETERMINATIONS
iv) METHODS WHICH COMPENSATE FOR SHORT COMINGS IN THE AGE METHOD FAIL COMPLETELY
v) LEAD ISOTOPE METHODS ARE NOT ACCURATE EITHER
vi) OTHER LEAD AGE METHODS ARE NOT ACCURATE
vii)CONCLUSIONS ON ACCURACY OF LEAD AGE METHODS
ii) FALSE ASSUMPTIONS MADE IN CARBON DATING METHOD
iii) PREFLOOD CARBON 14 PROPORTIONS NOT FACTORED IN
iv) POSTFLOOD CARBON 14 PROPORTIONS HIGHER
3) CONCLUSIONS: RADIOACTIVE DATING METHODS
ii)PRESUPPOSITION: DECAY RATES ARE UNIFORM: WRONG!
c) EVOLUTIONISTS' INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY VERIFIES FALSIFIED AGES
e) PLEOCHROIC HALOS SUPPORT RECENT CREATION & FLOOD
f) METEORITE RADIOACTIVITY REFUTES CONCEPT OF OLD UNIVERSE
8) METHODS OF AGE MEASUREMENT INDICATE A YOUNG EARTH, (cont.)
c)METORITIC DUST POINTS TO A YOUNG EARTH
d) TEKTITES, (METEORITIC GLASS), DISPROVE EVOLUTION
e) THE AMOUNTS OF HELIUM IN THE ATMOSPHERE CORRESPOND TO A YOUNG EARTH
f) 'LOW' SALT CONTENT IN THE SEA INDICATES A RECENT CREATION
g) THE SMALL AMOUNT OF JUVENILE, (ORIGINAL VOLCANIC), WATER INDICATES A YOUNG EARTH
i) THE AMOUNT OF PRESSURE IN UNDERGROUND OIL RESERVES TESTIFIES TO A YOUNG EARTH
j) CONCLUSION RE: METHODS OF TIME MEASUREMENT
C) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY & PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF A RECENT CREATION OF LIFEFORMS
1) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY OF A RECENT CREATION OF LIFEFORMS
DETAILED INDEX OF THIS SECTION
2) PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF A RECENT CREATION OF LIFEFORMS
a) INTERDEPENDENCE OF LIFEFORMS POINTS TO A FULLY COMPLETED & RECENT CREATION
b) LIFEFORMS ARE DEVOLVING NOT EVOLVING
c) THE PREVIOUS EXISTENCE OF EXTINCT CREATURES IS BEST EXPLAINED BY A RECENT CREATION AND THE FLOOD
III) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY & PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF A DESIGNED AND ORCHESTRATED CREATION
A) THE INCREDIBLY COMPLEX DESIGN OF THE UNIVERSE POINTS TO A SUPREME DESIGNER: THE GOD OF THE BIBLE
1) PHYSICAL LAWS & CONSTANTS TESTIFY TO DESIGNED CREATION
b) THE 1ST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
c) THE 2ND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
2) 2ND LAW DOES APPLY TO OPEN SYSTEMS: THE REAL WORLD
4) 2ND LAW APPLIES TO LIFEFORMS RULING OUT EVOLUTION
5) THE 2ND LAW APPLIES THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE TO THE EXCLUSION OF EVOLUTION
2) IF EVOLUTION WERE TRUE THEN WHERE DID THE FIRST MATTER COME FROM?
3) SINGING STARS PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF A CREATOR GOD
B) THE INCREDIBLY COMPLEX DESIGN OF THE EARTH POINTS TO A SUPREME DESIGNER: THE GOD OF THE BIBLE
1) GOD CREATED EARTH AS PARADISE BEFORE THE FALL & FLOOD
a) THE EARTH'S PROTECTIVE SUPERCOLD METALLIC FIBEROPTIC CRYSTALLINE ICE CANOPY
b) THE CONTROLLED NUCLEAR REACTION INSIDE THE EARTH
c) FORESTS REVERBERATED WITH MUSIC
2) GOD ORCHESTRATED THE FLOOD AS A RESULT OF MAN'S INCORRIGIBLE DEPRAVITY
C) THE INCREDIBLY COMPLEX DESIGN OF ALL LIFEFORMS POINTS TO A SUPREME DESIGNER: THE GOD OF THE BIBLE
3) MAN IS UNIQUE & COULD NOT HAVE EVOLVED FROM SOMETHING LESS
a) ORIGINAL MAN WAS A SUPERIOR MAN - HE DID NOT EVOLVE
b) MAN HAS A UNIQUE SOUL - SIGNIFYING A SUPREME DESIGNER
c) CONCEPTUAL THOUGHT NOT AN EVOLUTIONARY POSSIBILITY, BUT DESIGNED BY SUPREMELY SUPERIOR MENTALITY
5) SIMILARITIES = COMMON DESIGN NOT COMMON ANCESTRY
6) 'PREHISTORIC' MAN DISCOVERIES SUPPORT A DESIGNED & ORCHESTRATED CREATION NOT EVOLUTION
b) REAL DISCOVERIES SUPPORT A DESIGNED CREATION WHEN PROPERLY INVESTIGATED
1) HOMO SAPIEN DISCOVERIES: CRO MAGNON & MODERN MAN
3) RHODESIAN MAN AND THE REST OF 'ARCHAIC' HOMO SAPIENS
4) PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS = HOMO ERECTUS = JAVA MAN
6) HOMO HABILIS: COMPLETELY ANIMAL OR COMPLETELY MAN
a) 'NUTCRACKER MAN' - A PRIMATE
b) COMPLETELY HUMAN 'HOMO HABILIS' DISCOVERIES
7) AUSTRALOPITHECINES: EXTINCT PRIMATES
8) RAMAPITHECUS: COMPLETELY APE
c) FALSIFIED DISCOVERIES EXPOSE EVOLUTIONISTS AS DEVIOUS
7) THE FALSIFIED SKULL SIZE ARGUMENT
7) MICROBIOLOGY IS IRREDUCIBLY COMPLEX AND DEMANDS AN INTELLIGENT CREATOR
i) THE BLOOD COAGULATING SYSTEM IS IRREDUCIBLY COMPLEX AND DEMANDS AN INTELLIGENT CREATOR
IV) PHYSICAL EVIDENCE REFUTES EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES
A) EVOLUTIONARY 'THEORIES' OF THE ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM REFUTED
b) WHY THE 'THEORY' IS NOT TRUE:
b) WHY THE 'THEORY' IS NOT TRUE
b) WHY THE 'THEORY' IS NOT TRUE
b) WHY THE 'THEORY' IS NOT TRUE
6) PLANETARY COLLISION 'THEORY'
b) WHY THE 'THEORY' IS NOT TRUE
b) WHY THE 'THEORY' IS NOT TRUE
b) WHY THE 'THEORY' IS NOT TRUE
10) EXPANDING UNIVERSE: BIG BANG THEORY
V) CONCLUSION: CREATIONISM VS. EVOLUTION
A) EVOLUTIONISTS' CLAIMS SUSPECT EVEN AMONG EVOLUTIONISTS
2) EVOLUTION OF LIFE FROM NON-LIFE
6) EXTINCTION VERSUS SPECIATION
8) SOCIAL HARMFULNESS OF EVOLUTION
1) BANKRUPTCY OF UNIFORMITARIANISM