Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Origins and the Time Question


Ariel A. Roth (b. 1927) is a zoologist who was born in Geneva:

https://youtu.be/ekGxRTl5EoY

 

In 1981, Dr. Roth testified before the House Education Committee in Salem, Oregon.  He said that many biologists do not regard evolution as a fact and that many researches acknowledge that Chemical Evolution is impossible.  That is, that the first living cell could have formed spontaneously.  Apparently, Dr. Roth is in the middle of the panel in the pic below):

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ChVWAAAAIBAJ&pg=6667,5616739&dq=ariel-roth+classroom&hl=en


The discussion lasted for several hours and four additional rooms held interested spectators.  The Chair claimed that Creation had lost to Science 100 years earlier.  He could have had the Scopes Monkey Trial in mind.[1]

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jay-hall-m-s-b64526a_destination1925-darwinism-scopesabrmonkeyabrtrial-activity-7391260200202264576-PbS_?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAHbbPwBBTN3-5NHy1Ow3Aqgq-KCW2E14ew

 

The following factoids I gleaned from Dr. Roth's textbook Origins - Linking Science & Scripture.  Protein breaks down fairly quickly, so when we find it in the Geologic Record could it really be millions of years old? #MOYO

Protein has been found in dino eggs![2] 


In 1974, Roth and other scientists lived for a week fifty feet under the ocean's surface near the Grand Bahamas. They studied coral formations.  Hydrolab was just 18 feet long and was operated by NOAA (<> NOAH).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_A._Roth

 

The great thickness of some reefs has been used as an argument against a Youthful World.  Roth's conclusion, "... the fastest rates for reefs and framebuilders do allow for the growth of the Eniwetok reef, which has a thickness of 1405 meters, in less than 3,400 years."[3]  Some grow over 400 mm/yr.[4]

 

What about supposed "reefs" in the fossil record.  They were formed catastrophically as rapidly accumulating debris flows.  Consider this remark from Blatt, Middleton & Murray (Origin of Sedimentary Rocks, Prentice-Hall):

 

Closer inspection of many of these ancient carbonate "reefs" reveals that they are composed largely of carbonate mud with the larger skeletal particles "floating" within the mud matrix.  Conclusive evidence for a rigid organic framework does not exist in most of the ancient carbonate mounds.  In this sense, they are remarkably different from modern coral-algal reefs.[5]


In a paraconformity, the rock layers are parallel and there is no evidence of erosion.  In many cases this "gap" allegedly represents millions of years.  A simpler explanation is continuous deposition and the Deep Time must be dropped (like a *hot* mike).  For example, between the Aussie Bulli #COAL and the rocks above there is an alleged gap of 5 million years.  We find another case with the Morcles Nappe in Switzerland with 45 million "missing" years.[6]

 

In 2021, Roth's chapter on flat gaps in the rock layers appeared in Design and Catastrophe: 51 Scientists Explore Evidence in Nature.  This comports with #Catastrophism and the Young Earth view.

https://www.amazon.com/Design-Catastrophe-Scientists-Explore-Evidence/dp/1940980305

 

Dr. Roth on the "flat gaps" - Millions of years missing:

https://creation.com/en/articles/ariel-roth-interview-flat-gaps

 


Exploring Young Earth Science:

https://youtu.be/dC-NQq4ZjhE

 

Interview with Dr. Roth:

https://shalomlc.org/interviews/interview-ariel-a-roth

 

Ariel Roth Lectures:

https://youtu.be/rv-4D3jD9Iw

 

my site: https://totalyouth.us

 

Notes:

1) Origins: Linking Science and Scripture by Ariel A. Roth (Review & Herald, Hagerstown, MD, 1998), pp. 17-21.

https://www.abebooks.com/9780828013284/Origins-Linking-Science-Scripture-Roth-0828013284/plp

2) Ibid., p. 243.

3) Ibid., pp. 238,239.

4) Ibid., p. 237.

5) quoted in Roth, p. 240.

6) Ibid., pp. 226,227.

 

** kudos - graphic source:

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/ecosystem.html

 

#MOYA #Millions_Of_Years_Ago #MOYO #millionsofyearsold #Ariel_Roth #zoologist #Geneva #FROYO #House_Education_Committee #Salem #Oregon

#Chemical_Evolution #evo #Crevo #OOL #Origin_of_LIFE #Creation #Science #Scopes_Trial #monkey #Dayton #TN #Origins #Scripture #protein #Geologic_Record #RPM33⅓ #Geology #Young_Earth #reefs #Eniwetok #Bahamas #Hydrolab #paraconformity #Bulli_Coal #COAL #Switzerland #Barry_Switzer (cooked @ burger for him 1nc) #OU #TrueTruth ╬

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