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CREATIONISM VS EVOLUTION, (CONT.)
II) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY & PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF A RECENT CREATION, (cont.)
B) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY & PHYSICAL EVIDENCE FROM EARTH WHICH TESTIFY TO A RECENT CREATION, (cont.)
b) PHYSICAL EVIDENCE SUPPORTING INITIAL CREATION
1) EARTH'S ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD INDICATES A RECENT CREATION
It may well be that the earth's electromagnetic field had its beginnings on that first day of Creation - just a number of millennia ago.
As a matter of fact the magnetic force of the earth has been observed as diminishing at a predictable rate every year. If the earth were billions of years old, even millions, then this magnetic force having originated so long ago would have been so huge as to be strong enough to pull in a whole galaxy like a black hole would. Therefore life on earth millions of years ago would have been impossible.
According to Dr. Thomas Barnes, the earth's electromagnetic field has been found to be decreasing exponentially, losing one-half of its energy every fourteen-hundred years. If we extrapolate, and turn the clock backward, (as weak as the field is today, causing such problems as depletion of the ozone layer with increased exposure to ultraviolet radiation) this means that fourteen hundred years ago it was twice as strong as it is today. This also means that twenty-eight hundred years ago, the earth's electromagnetic field was four times as strong as it is today. When you go back in time beyond eight to ten thousand years, you find the electromagnetic field of the earth would have been so powerful that the existence of life would have been impossible. Many fine physicists have run calculations to show that if you extend as far back as fifteen thousand years, the energy of the earth's magnetic field would approximate that of a magnetic star. Under such conditions, it would have been impossible for life as we know it to exist on the earth. So, when we take the literal facts, we find that we don't have thousands and millions of years to deal with in relation to this intercontext of the days of creation."
[Dr. Russell Humphreys stated, ('Impact' Periodical #242, August 1993 issue, printed by the Institute for Creation Research, El Cajon, Ca, in article entitled, 'THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD IS YOUNG')]:
"The earth's magnetic field is a powerful witness for a world much younger than the billions of years required by evolutionary theories. Let's start the story with the most prominent feature of the field today - its very rapid decay....
The average intensity of the earth's magnetic field has decreased exponentially by about 7% since its first careful measurement in 1829. The field's intensity includes components of strength and direction and tells us the amount of force turning a compass needle northward. By estimating the field intensity everywhere (in, on, and above the earth), we can calculate the total electrical energy stored in the field. Such calculations show that the total energy in the field has decreased by about 14% since 1829.
This rapid decay of both energy and intensity was not widely known, even among scientists, until Dr. Thomas Barnes, a creationist physicist, began publicizing it in 1971. He pointed out that such a decay would occur very naturally if the electrical current producing the field were slowly losing energy because of the electrical resistance of the core. This theory is called free decay....
The free-decay theory contradicts the evolutionary dynamo theories, which claim that complex processes in the earth's core have converted heat energy into electrical energy, much like an electric generator, maintaining the field for billions of years. Many intelligent scientists have been working on dynamo theories for over four decades without great success. Furthermore, recent measurements of electric currents in the sea floor weigh heavily against the most popular class of dynamo theories.
Thus evolutionary dynamo theories do not have a good explanation for the rapid decay of the field, whereas the free-decay theory does. However, our historical data on the intensity of the field only goes back to 1829. Was the field decaying before that? Fortunately, there is a scientific way to answer that question.
Archaeomagnetism is the study of the magnetization of bricks, pottery, campfire stones, and other man-related objects studied by archaeologists. Iron oxides in those objects retain a record of the strength and direction of the earth's magnetic field at the time they last cooled to normal temperatures. Archaeomagnetic data taken worldwide show that the intensity of the earth's magnetic field was about 40% greater in 1000 A.D. than it is today, and that it has declined steadily since then.
Such a rapid decay could not have been going on continuously for millions of years, because the field would have to have been impossibly strong in the past in order for it to still exist today. Creationists of the 1970's extrapolated today's decay back into the past, showing that the field could not be more than about 10,000 years old, assuming a constant decay of intensity.
Unfortunately, the archaeomagnetic data do not support that assumption. Instead, the data show that the field intensity at the earth's surface fluctuated wildly up and down during the third millennium before Christ... A final fluctuation slowly increased the intensity until it reached a peak (50% higher than today) at about the time of Christ. Then it began a slowly accelerating decrease. By about 1000 A.D., the decrease was nearly as fast as it is today....
Paleomagnetism is the study of magnetization locked into rocks at the time of their formation. Paleomagnetic data show that while the geologic strata were being laid down, the earth's magnetic field reversed its direction hundreds of times. Reversals are a very severe departure from steady decay of intensity.
Both archaeomagnetic and paleomagnetic data contradict the early creationist assumption of constant decay of intensity. In 1988 I published a review paper documenting the great diversity and reliability of the data...
The validity of the data required a new theory to explain them. In 1986 I suggested that strong flows of the fluid in the earth's core could produce rapid reversals of the field during and after the Genesis flood. The resulting disturbances in the core would cause the field intensity at the earth's surface to fluctuate up and down for thousands of years afterwards.
This dynamic-decay theory is a more general version of the free-decay theory, since it takes account of motions in the core fluid. Dynamic decay explains the main features of the data, especially several features evolutionists find puzzling. In 1988, startling new evidence was found for the most essential prediction of my theory - very rapid reversals; and in 1990, I showed a specific physical mechanism for such reversals... According to the dynamic-decay theory, the energy in the field has always decreased rapidly. In fact, the energy loss during reversals and fluctuations would have been even faster than today's rate. This information allows us us to estimate the age of the field.
The data and the dynamic-decay theory imply that, ever since creation, the field has always lost at least half its energy every 700 years.... The maximum energy...comes from another theory I proposed about the nature of the field when God created the earth, a theory which successfully predicted space probe measurements of planetary magnetic fields. Extrapolating today's energy decay rate back...to that limit yields a maximum age of 8700 years. According to the dynamic-decay theory, the true age would be less than that because of extra losses during the reversals and fluctuations. The solid line (labeled 'dynamic decay') shows that with a significant loss of energy during the Genesis flood, the age of the field would be about 6000 years....
The precise age limits... ...depend not only on the dynamic decay theory, but also on the theory of planetary magnetic-field origins. However, we can still set a rough maximum to the initial energy from basic physical considerations, as Dr. Barnes has done. Such a maximum would limit the age to roughly 10,000 years.
It is also possible that a small percentage of today's energy decay is not free decay, due to the core's electrical resistance; but rather is dynamic decay, due to residual motions in the core fluid. In that case, the resistance of the core would be less, and the maximum age of the field would be greater. But even in this extreme case, the maximum age would still be only about 100,000 years, far short of the billions of years evolution needs.... At present, the only working theory for the origin, fluctuations, rapid reversals, and decay of the field is a creationist theory - a theory that fits all the data. Thus, according to the best theory and data we have, the earth's magnetic field certainly is less than 1,000,000 years old, and fits in well with the face-value Biblical age of 6,000 years."
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X) THE DAY = AGE THEORY REFUTED
B) EXODUS 20:8-11 REFERS TO 24 HOUR CREATION DAYS
C) DAY = AGE THEORY CONTRADICTS GEOLOGICAL AGE THEORY WHICH IT FALSELY ATTEMPTS TO SUPPORT
D) DAY=AGE THEORY WOULD NOT ENABLE LIFE ON EARTH TO SURVIVE
E) DAY = AGE THEORY CONTRADICTS BIBLE'S TEACHING THAT DEATH FOLLOWED SIN AND DID NOT COME BEFORE IT
XIV) THE LIGHT WAS THERE BEFORE LIGHT BEARING BODIES WERE CREATED
A) THE THREE HEAVENS DEFINED AS STRATOSPHERIC, STELLAR AND GOD'S THRONE
2) STELLAR = THE STARS, OUTER SPACE = HEAVEN
B) FIRMAMENT DEFINED AS AN EXTENDED FLATTENED OUT EXPANSE DIVIDING THE WATERS IN THE HEAVENS
C) THE FIRMAMENT DESCRIBED AS METALLIC CRYSTALLINE HYDROGEN - A WATER VAPOR CANOPY IS A RULED OUT
XVII) GOD CREATED VEGETATION ON THE EARTH
A) THE TIME SPAN FOR THIS WAS A LITERAL 24 HOUR DAY IN WHICH FULLY MATURE PLANT LIFE APPEARED
a) BUT GEN 2:4 REFERS BACK TO CHAPTER ONE NOT FORWARD.
AND THEN 2:5 ZOOMS IN TO A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF PARTICULAR ASPECTS OF WHAT CHAPTER ONE DESCRIBED.
6) IMAGINARY CONTRADICTIONS DISSOLVE BEFORE A CLOSE ANALYSIS OF THE TEXT AND CONTEXT
a) CRITICS' CLAIM CONTRADICTION:
GEN 1: A WATERY BEGINNING
VS
GEN 2: A DRY LAND BEGINNING
b) CRITICS' CLAIM: DIFFERENT SEQUENCES OF CREATION BETWEEN CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO
XVIII) GOD CREATES THE LIGHT EMANATING HEAVENLY BODIES
A) ON THE FIRST DAY GOD CREATED LIGHT, THEN ON THE FOURTH DAY HE CREATED LIGHT EMANATING BODIES
B) ONE PURPOSE OF THE LIGHT AND LIGHT EMANATING BODIES WAS TO DIVIDE LIGHT FROM DARKNESS
D) THE UNIVERSE WAS CREATED FULLY GROWN. IT DID NOT EVOLVE
F) DAYLIGHT AND NIGHTTIME ON PREFLOOD EARTH WERE NOT AS DIFFERENT AS TODAY
G) APPEARANCE OF THE STARS WAS MAGNIFIED IN COLOR BY THE 'RAQIYA' FIRMAMENT
XIX) LIVING CREATURES ARE CREATED:
B) ALL KINDS OF SEA AND BIRD LIFE ARE IMMEDIATELY CREATED FROM THE SIMPLEST TO THE MOST COMPLEX
C) "LIFE" = "NEPHESH" 3 DEFINITIONS WHICH ARE USED IN SCRIPTURE
2) "LIFE" = "NEPHESH" = A FIGURE OF SPEECH FOR THE WHOLE PERSON
XX) NEXT, LIVING CREATURES OF THE LAND ARE CREATED
B) ALL CATEGORIES OF LAND ANIMALS WERE CREATED SIMULTANEOUSLY, NO EVOLUTION, ONLY CREATION
C) THE WORLD WAS NOW FULLY PREPARED FOR THE CREATION OF MAN
XXI) LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE
B) MAN IS CREATED IN GOD'S IMAGE
C) EVERY INDIVIDUAL MAN CONSISTS OF BODY, SOUL & SPIRIT, PERSONALLY AND UNIQUELY CREATED BY GOD
D) THE LAST ACT OF CREATION WAS THAT OF WOMAN
a) IT IS NOT GOOD FOR THE MAN TO BE ALONE
b) GOD ARRANGED FOR ADAM TO BECOME FAMILIAR WITH MANY OF THE ANIMALS AND TO NAME THEM
e) AS ADAM GAVE NAMES TO THE ANIMALS IT BECAME EVIDENT THAT THERE WAS NO MATE FOR HIM
h) EVE'S RELATIONSHIP WITH ADAM PARALLELS THAT OF THE CHURCH AS THE BRIDE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
B) THE TWO UNIVERSAL LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS REFLECT CREATION'S DEVOLUTION & DETERIORATION
XXVII) THE GENESIS ACCOUNT OF CREATION IS NOT MYTHOLOGICAL
B) PROPER APPROACH TO THE INTERPRETATION OF THE CONTENTS OF AN ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT
1) RULE #1: IN ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT INTERPRETATION:
LET THE WORDS SAY WHAT THEY MEAN (WHICH MEANS PROPER TRANSLATION). THEN CHECK OUT WHETHER OR NOT THE INTERPRETATION IS TRUTH ON THE BASIS OF AVAILABLE EVIDENCE & TESTIMONY.
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CREATIONISM VS EVOLUTION, (CONT.)
II) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY & PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF A RECENT CREATION, (cont.)
B) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY & PHYSICAL EVIDENCE FROM EARTH WHICH TESTIFY TO A RECENT CREATION, (cont.)
4) THE PREFLOOD PERIOD - AFTER THE FALL
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4) THE PREFLOOD PERIOD - AFTER THE FALL
a) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY OF THE EFFECT OF THE FALL
2) PHYSICAL & SPIRITUAL DEATH OF MANKIND & HIS NEW TENDENCY TO SIN
3) CHANGES IN THE EARTH AND ITS LIFEFORMS
c) NOW THERE IS CONTINUAL & BITTER CONFLICT ON THE EARTH
d) WOMEN NOW HAVE PAIN IN GIVING BIRTH & SHALL BE RULED OVER BY THEIR HUSBANDS
e) PLANT LIFE WAS EFFECTED BY THE FALL
f) ANIMAL LIFE WAS EFFECTED BY THE FALL
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