Young Earth Today 2032 - YES We Can ... Drop Deep Time!

Today we drop the Kraken on Origins by Robert Shapiro which focuses on the Origin Of Life #OOL ... it was endorsed by Isaac Asimov!

Also, we delve into the thought of anti-evolutionist Hilaire Belloc (d. 1953).  HG Wells wrote a whole book to refute his critique of Outline of History!

Before we get to Origins & Belloc, let's take jaunt into YES research.

 

Where do we go to find info that supports YES - Young Earth Science?  That is, the evidence from History and Science that points to a youthful world.

 

The first item on Qwant is pro-YES !!

https://www.qwant.com/?q=%22Young+Earth+Science%22&t=web

Bing Deep search >>  

"young earth science" definition

https://www.bing.com/search?q=%22young+earth+science%22+definition&shm=cr&form=DEEPSH&shajax=1

Four references to my work !!

YANDEX search >>

"young earth science" definition

https://yandex.com/search/?text=%22young+earth+science%22+definition&lr=109918

 

YEP is more fair to YES than many other searchers!!

https://yep.com/web?q=%22young%20earth%20science%22%20definition

 

PreSearch shows several pro-YES items and my book YES - Young Earth Science appears twice !!

https://presearch.com/search?q=%22young+earth+science%22

 

YES Virginia, there really is Young Earth Science ... #Got_ACROnymz ?

https://www.allacronyms.com/YES/Young_Earth_Science

A classic argument for a youthful world is the downgrade of Earth's magnetic field.  It has long been understood that Earth’s magnetic field is decaying at a rate of  5% per century.  However, as reported by Forbes, the Swarm system of satellites (Alpha, Bravo & Charlie) has discovered that the actual decay is 5% per decade!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/03/29/is-earths-magnetic-shield-eroding/#23f14319385b

 

One reasonable conclusion from this data is that the earth is newer than many people think:

https://www.icr.org/article/371

 

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Robert Shapiro wrote Origins: A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth which came out in 1986: 

https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Skeptics-Guide-Creation-Earth/dp/0553343556

 

It was praised by Ashley Montagu (who favored the unity of humanity), Isaac Asimov and Lynn Margulis (Carl Sagan's first wife). Shapiro speaks of the Eskimo's Creation Story (pp. 15,16), but what about the Deluge?  A number of tribes from the "Great Snowy North" such as Eskimos, Inuits, Yup’iks and Aleuts have traditions of the Global Flood.  Flood traditions of the Northern North American indigenous tribes:

https://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Innuit

Hilaire Belloc (d. 1953) took on Darwin & HG Wells (War of the Worlds, Things to Come) in A Companion to Mr. Wells’s Outline of History. Belloc, was born in France, but died in England. He wrote over 150 books on a wide range of topics.

His travelogue The Path to Rome was a bestseller. He also wrote satiric novels that were illustrated by his close friend G.K. Chesterton! He was unjustly denied a fellowship at Oxford due to his religious views. You can read about him in Jerry Bergman's most excellent Silencing the Darwin Skeptics (p. 114):

https://www.amazon.com/Silencing-Darwin-Skeptics-Slaughter-Dissidents/dp/0981873480

 

A companion to Mr. Wells's "Outline of history" by Hilaire Belloc:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74534

 

Hilaire Belloc seems to accept the long ages of mainstream Geology, yet he  recommends Aquinas, but Thomas falls into the YES camp!!  The famed astronomer Ptolemy (d. ~170 AD) held that the constellations of the  zodiac will have finished a complete rotation in 36K years.  Aquinas responds that (pp. 361,362):

 

This reason seems unsuitable, because if there were any movement (revolution) in the sky which does not finish sooner than after 36 thousand years it would follow that the universe would have to last that long, which does not seem probable (quod non videtur probabile).

https://www.academia.edu/121775481/Was_Thomas_Aquinas_a_Young_Earth_Creationist

 

In addition, Aquinas believed in Creation in Six (real) Days #CISD

HG Wells wrote a book in response to Belloc and pushes Darwinism.  The opposite of evolution is Biological Essentialism.  My thesis is the stasis of Essential Types of Life (ETL's).  Examples of ETL's include horses, hydras and humans.  I think Belloc would agree with me since he stated,  

 

It is true that humanly recorded historical experience covers but a very brief fraction of the total time allowed for even the shortest estimates of the past of this world. None the less, it is sufficient to prove that types once achieved are permanent. Call it five thousand years (perhaps man-made prehistoric [sic]  pictures may extend that limit), even that short period is enough to prove the existence of stable types. For if during five million years some animal form existing at the moment has been forever slowly changing by a process such that its present apparent fixity is an illusion, and is still proceeding to further slow changes indefinitely, then five thousand years ought to show a perceptible fraction of the movement; only a thousandth of it, no doubt, but one in a thousand is measurable: tiny, but measurable. Yet no fundamental change, still less any progressive change, is apparent. During all the historical epoch fixity of type is invariable. [see Ch. 2]

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/74534/pg74534-images.html#Page_9

 

Belloc further defends the fixity of types in the fossil record:

 

The geological record also shows us nothing but Fixed Types. Each may have come by a transition more or less rapid out of some other—but at any rate fixed they are, and the longer the time demanded by the modern geologist for his periods, the longer the Fixed Type can be proved to exist. Some few survive  today from the very early days of life on this earth. It was hoped, when the theory of Natural Selection was first broached, that evidence would appear for continuous change. None has so appeared. On the contrary, the more fossil evidence we acquire the more definitely does it appear that the Fixed Type is the normal - indeed the only - recorded thing.

 

I argue in the last chapter of my book Biological Essentialism naturally leads to Young Earth Science (YES):

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320

 

The rate of rock formation is a key factor in the #Age_ofthe_Earth Controversy as   Belloc admits:

 

It is, perhaps, asking too much of our author [HG Wells] to adopt a strictly scientific attitude: that is, to distinguish between hypothesis and proved fact. And this is particularly true of a study so full of hypothesis as geology. Men pretend to vastly more knowledge than they have in that branch of knowledge - as, for instance, on the rate of stratification. A man cannot but be influenced by his own time, and Mr. Wells is influenced by the unscientific loose thinking and insufficiently supported affirmations of his generation and place.

 

HG Wells was born in 1866.  In the early 1800's there were a number of "Scriptural Geologists" who defended the #GlobalFlood from Scripture and Science:

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Turning-Point-Terry-Mortenson/dp/0890514089

 

Even the Babylon Bee ("Jay Stixx" film) has gone Young Earth!!

Young Earth Creationism Rocks with Dr. Tim Clarey:

https://rumble.com/v3nyt5d-young-earth-creationism-rocks-with-dr.-tim-clarey.html

 

No, we don't have over 2K episodes.

However, our numbering ("How Numb I Am" ♪) has been sequential since Young Earth Today 2024:  

https://youtu.be/5bQ7iDhopWg

 

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Hilaire Belloc - A Biography by A. N. Wilson (1996):

https://www.amazon.com/Hilaire-Belloc-Biography-N-Wilson/dp/0749324074

 

** kudos: mag-decay graphic: 

https://www.soulask.com/the-state-of-the-earths-magnetic-field-indicates-that-it-will-soon-shut-down-completely/

 

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Collapse of Old Earth

 

Suppose you wanted to know the modern name of Constantinople, you could reach for an encyclopedia.  Or, you may wind up the #Inter_Webbz and learn about New Amsterdam's cousin.  Try this search on ur fave app >>

   "young earth" evidence science history

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Because the case for Young Earth Science #YES is hard to find, the head-long collapse of the Old Earth Enterprise is delayed.

There is a worldwide sequence of rock layers known as the Sauk Sequence. We go from cobble&boulder layers to sand then shale and then fine-grained deposits like limestone.  This entire series lies atop the Great Unconformity which we see at the bottom of the Grand Canyon for example.

https://newcreation.blog/receding-then-spreading-a-new-approach-to-young-earth-history/

 

This would seem to indicate a great disaster over the whole earth.  Our global traditions of a Great Deluge serve as evidence of this historic event:

https://www.masterbooks.com/flood-legends-paperback-single

 

The variety of rock layers geologists commonly study can form rapidly.  Consider this conclusion from Juergen Schieber et al writing in the Journal of Sedimentary Research:

 

These experiments demonstrate unequivocally that carbonate muds can also accumulate in energetic settings. ... Observations from modern carbonate environments and from the rock record suggest that deposition of carbonate muds by currents [up to 20 in/s] could have been common throughout geologic history.

https://www.icr.org/article/four-geological-evidences-for-a-young-earth

The December 23, 1963 issue of Newsweek (b. 1933) reported on a meeting of The American Geological Society where some attendees, "were advising the rehabilitation of catastrophism."  The Science Editor of Newsweek said that catastrophism is "a fighting word among geologists. It is a theory based on divine intervention."  According to the late Bolton Davidheiser (Ph.D. Zoology - Johns Hopkins), "This attitude is unscientific and it seems to be part of a larger conspiracy aimed at the denial of a personal God, and particularly at discounting the atonement of Christ." [1]

How did we get here?  Where did the Old Earther partisan paradigm come from?   "Defending a Young Earth" is a 25 episode series with Dr. Terry Mortenson (Ph.D. History of Geology - Coventry Univ.) that will open your eyes to a youthful world:

https://www.answers.tv/defending-a-young-earth-with-dr-terry-mortenson#

 

My History of Science Prof, David Kitts, former Curator of OU's Natural History Museum (Norman, OK), wrote the primary Philosophy of Geology:

https://archive.org/details/structureofgeolo0000kitt

He admitted in class that overthrusts pose a challenge for mainstream Geology.

 

After detailing inconsistencies with radiometric chronology Gerald Kerkut (d. 2004) said, "We have, then, as yet, no accurate objective clock that will allow us to determine the absolute age of the majority of the rocks of the world.  Instead we have to go mainly on stratigraphical data and there too we find several problems" (quoted in Biological Essentialism, p. 327, see link below).  Kerkut wrote The Implications of Evolution and was the editor of Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology.

 

How about those gaps in the Rock Record?  Up to 200M years!

https://www.grisda.org/origins-15075

 

According to my Dictionary of Geological Terms (3e, ed. by Bates & Jackson, p. 368) a paraconformity is "An obscure of uncertain unconformity in which no erosion surface is discernible or in which the contact is a simple bedding plane ..."  I say the missing time never existed and we see relatively continuous  deposition.

 

How many "kinds" are there?

My book Biological Essentialism delves into the many mysteries of Essential Types of Life (ETL's), such as horses, hydras and humans, and challenges the transformist educational system:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320

 

As for the theological argument for a "New" Planet (not Old), be sure to catch this superb prose from Jason DeRouchie:

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/our-young-earth

 

My books challenge Darwin & Deep Time:

https://totalyouth.us

 

** kudos >> collapse of planet graphic:

https://www.astronomy.com/science/nearest-young-earth-sized-planet/

 

Where is Constance N. Opal? - 4 Lads ♫

https://youtu.be/Uqnb_nU7RBE

 

FYI: My set of encyclopedias is World Book from 1977.

 

Note:

1) quoted in Evolution and Christian Faith by Bolton Davidheiser (Presbyterian and Reformed, 1969), pp. 288.

 

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YES - A Trip Down Memory Lane

 

Do *YOU* remember creating #PlanetEarth ??

So, you don't actually "know" how old our fantastic home truly is, Right?

Deep Time is based on evolution.  The only place you'll find "instant evolution" is on another planet ... one where smart #APES rule the day:

https://youtu.be/TaBcJdNVBJk

#YES >> #YoungEarthScience

 

Ivano Dal Prete (Senior Lecturer - History of Science @ Yale) has written a pro-OldEarth tome - On the Edge of Eternity: The Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and Early Modern Europe which came out in 2022:  

https://www.amazon.com/Edge-Eternity-Antiquity-Medieval-Modern/dp/0190678895

You can read a large chunk of the book by hitting the "Read sample" button.

 

On page 4 Ivano references Aristotle.  I defend the view that Aristotle's Biology naturally leads to a #YoungEarth stance in the last chapter of this book:  

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320

 

On pages 5&6, Ivano deals with Martin Rudwick, a great writer on Geological topics.  Here is my response to The Meaning of Fossils (Rudwick):

https://adamslostdream.blogspot.com/2010/06/meaning-of-fossils.html

And also Earth's Deep History by Rudwick:

https://youngearthscienceblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-young-earth-with-critical-thinking.html

 

On page seven of Edge of Eternity we read this,

 

The core teachings transmitted by the book of Genesis, such as that the world was made by God with an act of free will and that a sinful mankind was exterminated by a flood in a not too distant past, were rarely questioned.

 

Some three-year-olds even know the first verse of the Bible: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen. 1:1).  That's the whole universe at the start, not just the earth.  The sun, moon & stars were made on #Day4 (Gen. 1:14-19).

 

What about "sinful mankind was exterminated by a flood" in the context of Genesis Six thru Eight (3 whole chapters‼).  The #GlobalFlood destroyed the whole world:

 

So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth." (Gen. 6:13)

 

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.  The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.  They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. (Gen. 7:17-19)

 

But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water.  By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.  By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. (2 Peter 3:5-7)

 

The Antedeluvians could have traveled around the globe.  I argue for early human global navigation here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1088860788

So, if sinful people were everywhere, that implies a #Universal_Deluge

 

Did you see #Moana ?  Polynesians settled nearly every island in the Central & Eastern Pacific.  In 1976, a traditional double canoe made it from Tahiti to Honolulu.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-story-moana-and-maui-holds-against-cultural-truths-180961258/

 

Augustine is quoted on page 15.  Interestingly, the Bishop of Hippo (Numidia) held to a youthful world:

https://creation.com/augustine-young-earth-creationist

 

Even mainstream #Science admits that the tectonic planet may move as fast as seven times the current speed:

https://news.yale.edu/2010/08/10/gondwana-supercontinent-underwent-massive-shift-during-cambrian-explosion

 

I argue for Rapid Plate Movements #RPM in this podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dub-step-earth-rpms/id1144900202?i=1000385711364

 

Dr Don Batten (Ph.D. - Plant Science) vs. #OEFs

https://youtu.be/y23ap4bKSi0

 

Fields, Diamond et al of Argonne National Laboratory have suggested that the solar flare proton flux may have been greater in the past:

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/1972LPSC....3.1637F/ADS_PDF

Could this have affected radioactive decay rates?

 

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my vidz: https://www.youtube.com/@YoungEarthScienceYES/videos

 

Dinosaurs in the Bible? ... You bet! (cf. Pr. 13:11, Heb. 13:5) #Express #UK  Sebastian Kettley goes #DINO ...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1412889/young-earth-creationism-bible-dinosaur-extinction-earth-how-old-evg

 

#DevilsTower #UFO #MUFON #Closed_N_Qounterz ☺ #OEFs #OldEarthFallacies #gambling $$ #P(evo)≈0.00 #StarCompass #StickChart #Astrolabe #Moana #TheRock #DwayneJohnson #WWE #WWF #WWG #Owen Teague #Noa #NOAH #GF #Deluge #FreyaAllan #Nova #Neo #KevinDurand #Caesar #Cesar #LydiaPeckham #Kosher #Soona #AndyMcPhee #MacFly #Elder #DichenLachman #Corina #CorinaCorina #YU_domii_Wrong ?? ♫ #instalution #InstantEvolution #Got_Apez ? #TrueTruth #Got_DINOz ? #PSALM8 

The Bidenator-in-Chief vs. the #HeatDeath of the Universe!

The Second Law of Thermodynamics says that entropy increases over time.  When you put #cream in ur coffee and stir it up, the cream does not get "unstirred."  Thus our good friend #Cosmos1 must ultimately be diagnosed with a #HeatDeath as entropy progressively increases toward a maximum where work is impossible.

https://www.britannica.com/science/thermodynamics/Entropy-and-heat-death

 #Trust_the_SCIENCE

 

Since the #Universe is still with us, there must have been a beginning (cf. Gen. 1:1) and #Creation is true.

 

According to #SwissCows Biden has no interest in Intelligent Design (ID):

https://swisscows.com/en/web?query=%22Joseph+Biden%22+%22Intelligent+Design%22&_=1717197392925

That is, the search yields Ø

 

What is the connection between Creation and a #YoungEarth ?  I argue the following:

 

Aristotle's Biology >> Biological Essentialism >> Catastrophism >> Young Earth

 

My book Biological Essentialism (pub. 2021):   

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/biological-essentialism-jay-hall/1140135320

 

I have written two books defending a youthful world from #History & #Science

Is a Young Earth Possible?  ★★★★½

  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1088860788

YES - Young Earth Science  ★★★★

  https://www.amazon.com/YES-WorldView-Fallacies-Darwinism-2014-11-14/dp/B01K3RF10I

 

Biden claims to be Catholic. Thaddeus Kozinski, former Academic Dean and

Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wyoming Catholic College stated that,

 

I am speaking of the Catholic theistic evolutionists. They overstep science’s bounds when they claim that debatable theories, such as the theory of evolution, are "facts" -  something that Pius XII condemned very unequivocally with regard to evolution in Humani Generis [1950].  They overstep science’s bounds again when they attempt to render certain non-verified, non-facts, such as common descent from mono-celled organisms, as verified, indisputable facts by recourse to, not actual indisputable evidence, but the social force of the so-called "scientific consensus," that same force that fires and character-assassinates people who publish peer-reviewed scientific articles that  conclude to, say, intelligent design of certain processes, and that excludes anyone but committed evolutionists to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences …  They overstep theology’s bounds when they dismiss the very serious challenges, not just to evolutionary theory, but to the very fact of evolution itself, from not only the Catholic  Magisterium and Fathers of the Church, but also from the latest scientific evidence,  which has, it must be said, proved neither common descent of humans from primitive organisms, nor the generation of all life, in all its glorious complexity and design, from mindless natural selection conserving random genetic variation and mutation.

https://dl0.creation.com/articles/p137/c13759/j34-3_27-30.pdf

 

Is "Sleepy Joe" headed for #Purgatory ?  According to the Council of Trent (1545-1563 AD):  

 

CANON XXX, If any one saith, that, after the grace of Justification has been received, to every penitent sinner the guilt is remitted, and the debt of eternal punishment is blotted out in such wise, that there remains not any debt of temporal punishment to be discharged either in this world, or in the next in Purgatory, before the entrance to the kingdom of heaven can be opened (to him); let him be anathema.

https://www.papalencyclicals.net/councils/trent/sixth-session.htm

 

Thaddeus Kozinski - Teacher of Philosophy & Great Books:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/thaddeus-kozinski-a363bb5/

 

Australian philosopher Michael Devitt (CUNY - NYC) has a  book with the same title as mine (Oxford University Press):

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/biological-essentialism-9780198840282

 

#Bidenator - cool font:

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When it comes to origins we must face the question, “What happened“?  That is, did man come from molecules or are Essential Types of Life (ETL's) limited with respect to variability?  Biological essentialism implies stability and variety among basic categories of life.

If I said that President Kennedy’s head wound was the result of abuse of exotic Norwegian teas, you might think me insane.  Most agree that JFK was shot, but in some circles the “who” is controversial.

It is possible to be an essentialist and an atheist - they are wrong about the existence of God, but at least they’re correct with respect to what happened in the history of life.  Surely the ability of the incubator bird to keep its eggs at 91°F and 99.5% humidity did not evolve.[1]  When did an intelligent agent make a cell phone, bridge or clock through “evolution”?  Evolution is the method of an inefficient “god.”

Essentialism implies a young earth. If biological entities reproduce their own type, then all the main categories have always coexisted.  In order to match this view with the geologic record the time scale must be collapsed.[2]  That is, corals, frogs and people have always coexisted.  “Who did it?” is not the only important question.  “What happened?” is also critical.

The earth is cursed because of Adam’s sin (Gen. 3:17) and even the stars are impure in God’s sight (Job 25:5).  Stars blow up and thus lack perfection.  God made man perfect from the beginning (Eccl. 7:29, Mt. 19:4).  In conclusion, there were no tornadoes before Adam and Eve sinned.  This makes theistic evolution impossible.

The Westminster Confession states that God created, “...the world, and all things therein whether visible or invisible, in the space of six days; and all very good” (ch. 4.1).  That is, galaxies and angels are untouched by sin at the end of six days when man was created.  Also, the universe cannot be billions of years older than man!

Consider the following creationists:  Steven Austin (Ph.D. Geology) was published in the International Geology Review in 1999.  David Phillips (M.A. Paleoanthropology) works at the paleontology lab at the La Brea Tar Pits.  John Oller (Ph.D. General Linguistics) is an elected member of the New York Academy of Sciences.  Kurt Wise (Ph.D. Geology - Harvard) was privileged to have the late Stephen J. Gould as his principal advisor!  The “Against All Odds” video series, part of the Annenberg/CPB collection, is shown in many statistics university courses and contains a segment in program 2 entitled “Lightning Strikes in Colorado.”  It focuses on the research of Raul Lopez (Ph.D. Atmospheric Science) - a creationist![3] 

 

#DarwinDoubters of the world unite!  David Berlinski (Ph.D. Mathematics - Princeton) said, “The theory of evolution is the great white elephant of contemporary thought.  It is large, almost entirely useless, and the object of superstitious awe.”[4]  Thomas Emmel (d. 2018), who earned his Ph.D. in Population Biology from  Stanford, stated, “To me, the concept of God is a logical outcome of the study of the immense universe that lies around us…. the evidence is all too pervasive for me to think otherwise."  Arno Penzias (Nobel prize in physics for 1978) claimed, “Creation is supported by all the data so far.”[5]  Penzias’ sentiments are echoed by another Nobel prize winner in physics (1927), Arthur H. Compton: 

 

Science is the glimpse of God’s purpose in nature. The very existence of the amazing world of the atom and radiation points to a purposeful creation, to the idea that there is a God and an intelligent purpose back of everything ... An orderly universe testifies to the greatest statement ever uttered: "In the beginning, God."[6]

 

Even an atheist can hold to the fixity of kinds.  G. H. Harper published an article in The School Science Review (a British educational journal) advocating the “steady state theory of species.”  In other words, bears reproduce bears and frogs make frogs - biological essentialism.  Harper is an atheist.[7]

 

I was happy to take a course in the History of Science from Dr. David B. Kitts, formerly a professor of Geology, at the University of Oklahoma.  In that course he pointed out that many supposed overthrusts - where “old” rocks lay uniformly upon “young” rocks -  show no evidence of this interpretation, such as breccia at the contact, and has not been sufficiently answered by the evolutionary establishment.  In an oft quoted article, Kitts proclaimed, “If a paleontologist claims to have supported the fundamental tenets of Darwinian theory in citing the fossil record then he has indeed committed a methodological error.”[8]        

Dr. Kitts debated Duane Gish and Henry Morris in 1973 and was a student of the famous evolutionist George Gaylord Simpson.[9]  In an interview in 1981, Kitts said, “Aristotle, to a greater extent than almost anyone we know about, relied upon his observations.  He observed that individual members of a species do not persist but kinds do persist. ... Evolutionists have a very elaborate abstract theory that compels us to suppose that species do not persist.”  Furthermore, Kitts claimed, “The fossil record is consistent with an astronomical number of theories.  The fossil record does not prove evolution; nothing proves evolution.”[10]

 

Let us examine the wise words of Rufus Porter (d. 1884), the founder of Scientific American, who boldly proclaimed,

 

First, then, let us, as rational creatures, be ever ready to acknowledge God as our Creator and daily Preserver; and that we are each of us individually dependant on his special care and good will towards us, in supporting the wonderful action of nature which constitutes our existence; and in preserving us from the casualties, to which our complicated and delicate structure is liable.[11]

 

One can be an atheist and still attack evolution.  By "essentialism" I mean that all basic types of life vary within limits and we are not the amoeba's cousin. Herbert Spencer, an atheist, wrote "Illogical Geology" critiquing many of the ideas upon which Darwin based his arguments!    

 

my site: https://totalyouth.us

 

Notes:

1) The Evolution of a Creationist by Jobe Martin (Biblical Discipleship Pub., 1994), p.45.

2) Henry Morris noticed this decades ago.

3) Some scientists alive today who accept the biblical account of creation:

https://creation.com/scientists-alive-today-who-accept-the-biblical-account-of-creation

4) "Keeping an Eye on Evolution" by David Berlinski,

The Globe & Mail, Nov. 2, 1996, p. D10:

http://www.refcm.org/scripture-science-stott/evolution/pages/018-eye-on-evolution.htm

5) Some Interesting Statements By Scientists (9-4-99):

https://jashow.org/articles/some-interesting-statements-by-scientists-a-compilation-of-statements-made-by-scientists-only-one-of-whom-is-a-biblical-creationist-concerning-evolution/

6) Arthur Compton Quotes:

https://nichequotes.com/arthur-compton-quotes

7) Harper, G. H., “Alternatives to Evolutionism,” The School Science Review, 1979, 61:15-27.

8) Kitts, David, “Search for the Holy Transformation,” Paleobiology, 1979, 5(3): p. 353.

9) Morris, Henry ed. et al, Creation: Acts Facts Impacts, Creation-Life Pub., 1974, p. 40.

10) personal interview with Dr. David B. Kitts, 10/7/1981 in Norman, Oklahoma:

https://youtu.be/TmF7Y3kpucU

11) Rufus Porter (inventor) facts for kids:

https://kids.kiddle.co/Rufus_Porter_(inventor)