Former
aeronautical engineer and award winning SciFi author, James Hogan said, “A
comparatively young world – in the sense of the surface we observe today – is
compatible with unguided Catastrophist theories…” [1] Hogan states that
conventional dating, “was more a product of materialism’s fight with religion
than an empirical construct … [it was] manufactured to provide the long time
scales that Lyell and Darwin needed.” [2] Hogan maintains that, “Mountain uplifts
and other formations show indications of being younger than conventional
geology maintains.” [3] One example that Hogan presents that challenges
standard dating uses thermoluminescence of lunar material which was dated at
less than 10,000 years. [4]
R. A.
Lyttleton (F.R.S., astronomer), said that due to tidal friction, “… the Moon
would have been almost in contact with the Earth only about 1,000,000,000 years
ago…” – far less than the accepted 4.5 billion years. [5] Richard Milton, science journalist and Mensan,
is sympathetic to Young Earth Science (YES).
Carbon-14 has not reached the equilibrium point, so this planet is less than 10,000 years old Milton informs us. [6]
According
to Claudia Stolle of Denmark’s National Space Institute,
“At
the moment, the Earth’s magnetic field is decreasing by approximately 5 % per
century, and scientists are unable to explain the reason for this or describe
the consequences this will have” (http://www.space.dtu.dk/English/Research/Earths_physics_and_geodesy/Magnetic_field.aspx).
Could this support YES?
Scientists
in Sweden have discovered that remains of type I collagen, a structural
protein, are retained in a mosasaur fossil.
Using synchrotron radiation-based infrared microspectroscopy they showed
that amino acid containing matter remains in fibrous tissues obtained from a
mosasaur bone (http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-endogenous-proteins-million-year-old-giant-marine.html):
Could
these delicate structures really be millions of years old?
The
half-life of 146Sm (Samarium) has recently been changed from 103 ± 5
million years to 68 ± 7 million years (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6076/1614.short). That’s a 34% reduction! Ultrasonic cavitation of water increases thorium
decay by a factor of 10,000 (http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/39158)!
Chinese
history begins around 2200 BC. [7] The
Mayans placed the beginning at 3114 BC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar).
British Egyptologist David Rohl has proposed a shortened Egyptian
chronology (http://www.amazon.com/Pharaohs-Kings-David-Rohl/dp/0609801309)
Roger Henry has proposed a similar view:
The actual mechanism for resolving the chronological
problems is to recognize that two dynasties (the 19th and 20th) are duplicated -
they are listed twice by Manetho, first with Egyptian names and then with Greek
names. And a third dynasty, the 21st, is
actually concurrent with the Persian Era. [8]
The
Sumerian King List (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List) can be compressed to 6,660 years by
translating from sexagesimal (base 60) to decimal (base 10):
Base 60
|
Decimal
|
||||
King
|
Reign
|
(60^2)'s
|
60's
|
1's
|
Reign
|
Alulim
|
28,800
|
8
|
0
|
0
|
800
|
Alalngar
|
36,000
|
10
|
0
|
0
|
1,000
|
En-men-lu-ana
|
43,200
|
12
|
0
|
0
|
1,200
|
En-men-gal-ana
|
28,800
|
8
|
0
|
0
|
800
|
Dumuzid
|
36,000
|
10
|
0
|
0
|
1,000
|
En-sipad-zid-ana
|
28,800
|
8
|
0
|
0
|
800
|
En-men-dur-ana
|
21,000
|
5
|
50
|
0
|
550
|
Ubara-Tutu
|
18,600
|
5
|
10
|
0
|
510
|
Total
|
6660
|
||||
Notice
how the even multiples of sixty and 3600 (sixty squared) verifies this theory.
Lucretius
(d. 45 BC), Roman poet and Epicurean, advocated YES (On the Nature of the Universe, Book 5, 326):
Why have no poets sung of feats before the Theban War and
the tragedy of Troy [~1200 BC]? The
answer, I believe, is that the world is newly made: its origin is a recent
event, not one of remote antiquity. That
is why even now some arts are being perfected
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1)
Kicking the Sacred Cow by James Hogan
(Baen, New York, NY, 2004), p. 47.
2)
Ibid., p. 175, Note: Hogan is endorsing Velikovsky’s opinion.
3)
Ibid., p. 174.
4)
Ibid., p. 206.
5) The
Earth and Its Mountains by R. A. Lyttleton, (John Wiley & Sons, 1982,
Chichester, UK), p. xv.
6)
Shattering the Myths of Darwinism by
Richard Milton, (Park Street Press, 1997, Rochester, VT), p. 33.
7)
Western Civilization (Comb. ed.) by
Margaret King (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2000), p. 10.
8)
Synchronized chronology: rethinking
Middle East antiquity by Roger Henry (Algora Pub., 2003), p. 10.
