Young Earth Science: Catastrophism

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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Catastrophism - It's What's For Dinner!

Suppose your son has a serious case of bone cancer. Would you trust a Young Scientist to treat your child? That is, would you trust Doogie Howser (14 yo)?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096569/

Would you listen to a Young Earth Scientist #YES who shares evidence for a youthful world? I have written two books on that account:

Is a Young Earth Possible? - How Science and History Point to a Youthful World and Why it Matters ★★★★½

https://www.amazon.com/Young-Earth-Possible-Science-Youthful/dp/1088860788/

YES - Young Earth Science ★★★★

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

Catastrophism (most rocks formed fast) is a key pillar in the case for a #YoungPlanet ... Immanuel Velikovsky (Иммануи́л Велико́вский) brought #Catastrophism #CAT into larger public awareness with such works as Worlds in Collision (1950) and Earth in Upheaval (1955):

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Immanuel-Velikovsky

In 2015, Charles Ginenthal came out with Newton, Einstein, and Velikovsky which deals with the instability of the Solar System and challenges mainstream dating methods:

https://www.velikovsky.info/newton-einstein-and-velikovsky/

Einstein (d. 1955) and Velikovsky (d. 1979) corresponded with each other from 1946 to 1955:

http://www.varchive.org/cor/einstein/index.htm

https://www.velikovsky.info/before-the-day-breaks/

What started the #OldEarth fad? Rejecting #CAT ... we read this from the New International Encyclopedia (1915):

Geological work is so slow, and the evidence of vast changes in the past, so clear, that, so long as it was held that the age of the earth was to be reckoned in a period of a few thousand years, no other conclusion was possible than that the changes observed had been rapidly made as a result of stupendous catastrophes. ... however, it was made clear by Hutton and his successors that the recorded facts indicates slow changes, it began to appear possible that the age of the earth was great [millions of years]. The promulgation of the doctrine of evolution, and the increased knowledge of past life, as recorded by the fossils, brought further evidence of the great age of the earth. [1]

What can we say about prejudice against #CAT ? According to Michael Rampino (Biology Prof, NYU),

In 1831, the Scottish horticulturalist Patrick Matthew (1790-1874) published a clear statement of the law of natural selection ... which both Darwin and Wallace later acknowledged. Matthew, however, was a catastrophist, and he presented natural selection within the contemporary view that relatively long intervals of environmental stability [and biological stasis ?] were episodically punctuated by catastrophic mass extinctions of life. https://nyuscholars.nyu.edu/en/publications/darwins-error-patrick-matthew-and-the-catastrophic-nature-of-the-

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Or You Can Call Me Ray (Cosmic Quest edition)

Or You Can Call Me Ray:

https://youtu.be/Mh-q-kkwT3w

Ma Bell (The Telephone Company) created a super cool film series on scientific topics. I just dug The Strange Case of Cosmic Rays (1957) directed by Frank Capra:

https://youtu.be/k_wt5AFjRQo

The film references using isotopes for medicine. John Joly, the physicist who was a pioneer in this area, actually rejected radiometric dating as a reliable geochronometer because of discordant results. I document this in my prior book:

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

Ice cores are brought forth as a friendly witness to an old earth. But I deny Old Earth Fallacies #OEF and here's why ... the impact of cosmic rays on certain isotopes should vary during magnetic reversals. However the findings do not match mainstream expectations:

The researchers have a major theoretical problem. They assume that during a geomagnetic pole reversal, the intensity of the Earth’s magnetic field decreases tenfold, which allows more cosmic rays to form beryllium-10. The problem is that the effect supposedly occurs only equatorward of 60° latitude, which means that there should be no change in beryllium-10 production above the Antarctic Ice Sheet during a reversal! So, the process of increasing the concentration over Antarctica under these circumstances becomes speculative. [! in original]

From "Still Trying to Make Ice Cores Old" by Michael Oard (2006):

https://answersingenesis.org/environmental-science/ice-age/still-trying-to-make-ice-cores-old/

Luis Alvarez (d. 1988) won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968:

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1968/alvarez/biographical/

He is highlighted in the "Strange Case" video (see above) since he studied cosmic rays and was an innovator with respect to methods of detection. "One of the unwritten laws of physics is that one really hasn't made a discovery until he has convinced his peers that he has done so." - Luis Alvarez (see p. 284):

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/alvarez-lecture.pdf

One wonders what percentage of physicists are skeptical of the Billions Of Years Ago #BOYA frame of mind?

Dr. Alvarez also ventured into Geology and was a firecracker for the #NewCatastrophism ... there was even a journal dedicated to catastrophism put out by geologist Johan Kloosterman in the late 1970's. Philip "Pib" Burns, a programmer at Northwestern University, chronicles the rise of modern catastrophism:

From the middle of the nineteenth century until about 1980, most geologists and other earth scientists opposed the idea that impact events played any significant part in the history of life on earth. In 1980, Walter and Luis Alvarez and their colleagues Frank Asaro and Helen Michel published an historic paper suggesting that an asteroid about 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter struck the earth sixty-five million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous. ... If the impact site were in the ocean, a huge tsunami ("tidal waves") would rise several kilometers in height, sweeping hundreds of kilometers across the continents, sweeping away everything in their path.

From Is a Young Earth Possible? by Jay Hall (p. 231):

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

Once you adopt #Catastophism ... taking the young earth road is your next route. YES or Young Earth Science will make a radical change to your worldview. Are there further consequences from the age-of-the-earth controversy? YES, indeed:

Darwin ==> no meaning to life,

YES ==> revealed religion (Judaism/Christianity/Islam).

Even non-theists have been converted and followed the Lord Jesus Christ (d. circa 29 AD, then rose again‼):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_converts_to_Christianity_from_nontheism

As Dorothy Sayers (The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club) so eloquently pointed out:

We are waging a war of religion. Not a civil war between adherents of the same religion, but a life-and-death struggle between Christian and pagan. ... it is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and nature of man and the ultimate nature of the universe; it is a war of dogma.

Quoted in "Creation, the Trinity, and the Emperor Without Clothes" by Ian Hodge:

https://dl0.creation.com/articles/p085/c08526/j29_2_124-127.pdf

Near the end of the animated tour on cosmic rays, we hear this:

What a glorious opportunity to add to Man's History. To harness these nuclear fires for Man's use. To accept the challenge of Creation and to use the gifts God gave us to explore the grandest of all frontiers, the Universe. For the more we know of Creation, the closer we get to the Creator.

-- Francis "Frank" Baxter (d. 1982, aka "Dr. Research")

The Strange Case of Cosmic Rays (@ 52:40 mark):

https://youtu.be/k_wt5AFjRQo

more NFO >>

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157068/

"That, to me, is what comedy is all about: keeping fresh and keeping current and changing with the times." -- Norm Crosby (d. 2020)

At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people - everyone whose name is found written in the book - will be delivered. ... But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to increase knowledge. (Dan. 12:1,4)

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Matt Walsh vs. Gravity (Christians Got Worldview)

Christians got WorldView. What are these foundational assumptions and presuppositions based on? The Word of God - the 66 books of the Old and New Testament. You can hear the first book here (Max McLean).

Matt Walsh did a great job on his documentary "What is a Woman?" Nevertheless, we must take note of an anti-young-earth video that Walsh put out in 2018. Walsh, who is a Catholic, claims that the Bible does not teach a youthful world. Alas, PJ Media has joined the havoc and promotes Mighty Matt's attack on dating according to Scripture. Ussher's traditional starting point of 4004 BC was printed in the margins of Bibles for hundreds of years. Matt starts off his video with how we can go to Heaven. Here's our take on salvation. Matt Walsh was interviewed by Piers Morgan earlier this year.

Now, back to the Early Earth. Sir Isaac Newton (d. 1727) discovered the Universal Law of Gravity. In 2005, over thirteen hundred members of the public and 345 Royal Society scientists were surveyed. At issue was the battle between Newton and Einstein as to who made the greatest contribution to science and mankind. And the winner is ...

Public: 61.8% for Newton, 38.2% for Einstein

Scientists: 86.2% for Newton, 13.8% for Einstein.

Did Newton hang with the young-earthers? He accepted that we are all Noachians. That is, we all come from Noah’s sons and we trace our cultural origins back to Babel. In Newton's book on chronology, he boldly stated that, “mankind could not be much older than is represented in Scripture.”

Most of Matt's challenges to the traditional reading of Genesis have been answered masterfully in Coming to Grips with Genesis: Biblical Authority and the Age of the Earth, edited by Terry Mortenson and Thane Ury (2008). This includes the work of Steven Boyd, who has proven statistically that Genesis 1:1-2:3 is narrative and not poetry. The long favored view of Genesis teaches Creation In Six Days (CISD), a Global Flood (GF) and Young Earth Science (YES):

They are deliberately shutting their eyes to a fact that they know very well, that there were, by God’s command, heavens in the old days and an earth formed out of the water and surrounded by water. It was by water that the world of those days was deluged and destroyed ... (2 Peter 3:5-7, JB Phillips).

Former Roman Catholic and Dentist, Anthony Silvestro was a double major in Math and Chemistry. By a graceful providence, the Silvestro family wound up going to the Creation Museum (KY). While there, they heard a lecture by astrophysicist Dr. Jason Lisle and as a result Dr. Silvestro had to rethink his entire worldview. After the talk, Dr. Lisle spent over an hour answering Sivestro's questions. Anthony Silvestro switched from evolution and millions of years to the biblical view of recent creation from just one visit to the Creation Museum! Victor Warkulwiz is a Roman Catholic scholar who takes a traditional interpretation of Genesis and is pro-YES. The Foreword to his book was written by Bishop Robert Francis Vasa (Santa Rosa, CA).

Over a decade ago, Michael Shermer interviewed Georgia Purdom (Ph.D. Molecular Genetics - Ohio State) at the Creation Museum. Shermer lampooned the young earth cohort in his book Why People Believe Weird Things. [1]

Bill Nye visited the Ark Encounter for a second "debate" with Ken Ham a few years ago. Shermer was brave enough to go to the Creation Museum and Nye valiantly toured the Ark Encounter. How about you Matt Walsh? Where is your William Wallace like courage?? Some would say that the "Genesis is History" view is down for the count. However, the Ark Encounter in Kentucky (near Cincinnati) has seen record crowds. On some Saturdays, there are over 7K visitors. I hereby challenge Matt Walsh to visit the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter in Kentucky and dialog with the scientists there (both adventures are on my Bucket List).

I would guess that Matt has not read my latest book, Biological Essentialism. It explains how there exists Essential Types of Life (ETL's), such as bears and penguins. Thus, organic variation has limits. It also relates to human exceptionalism and gender issues (#WIAW). Matt would especially enjoy the chapter, "Some Men I Know are Really Women." Walsh's blind acceptance of the dictates from Big Science is atrocious. Biological Essentialism naturally fits with the young earth stance.

Walsh leans on Albert Einstein (d. 1955) as his authority figure in the age-of-the-earth controversy. In 1946, Einstein wrote a letter to his friend Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky (d. 1979) and stated, "There is much of interest in the book (Worlds in Collision) which proves that in fact catastrophes have taken place which must be attributed to extraterrestrial causes." Einstein was against cancel culture. Sadly, Velikovsky was viciously persecuted for his unorthodox ideas. Once you adopt Catastrophism, a young earth conviction is not far behind. Einstein stated this in his book on relativity:

The age of the universe, in the sense used here, must certainly exceed that of the firm crust of the earth as found from the radioactive minerals. Since determination of age by these minerals is reliable in every respect, the cosmologic theory here presented would be disproved if it were found to contradict any such results. In this case I see no reasonable solution.

There actually is a contrary result, the recession of the moon. Our Lunar friend is moving farther from the earth, thus, in the past it was closer. This makes the earth relatively young. In a 2012 journal article, Sung-Ho Na of the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute freely admitted that,

Assuming a constant tidal phase lag during the whole geological past, it was found that the Moon should have been located near the Roche limit around 1.7 billion years ago. Since the Moon was formed 4.5 billion years ago, the discrepancy between the two - 1.7 and 4.5 billion years cannot be explained. [2]

The true explanation and reasonable solution is to follow the plain reading of Genesis and support Young Earth Theory Intelligence (YETI). Einstein, at first, held to an infinitely old universe. As Amir Aczel (God's Equation) explains,

Between 1917 and 1929 ... Einstein and most scientists held that the universe was “simply there” with no beginning or end. But it’s interesting to note that creation myths across cultures tell the opposite story. Traditions of Chinese, Indian, pre-Colombian, and African cultures, as well as the biblical book of Genesis, all describe ... a distinct beginning to the universe ... This is an interesting example of scientists being dead wrong (for a time) and primitive ancient observers having an essentially correct intuition about nature. And with the present explosion of models of the universe and sometimes outrageous “scientific speculations” about its origin and future, some commentators are clearly overstating what science has done. One recent example is the book by the physicist Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe From Nothing, which claims that science has shown that the universe somehow sprang out of sheer nothingness.

So, Einstein changed his mind. The Cosmos is not Quizillions of years old. Would Einstein question Deep Time? Consider this famous quote:

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

Charles Hapgood (Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings) advocated catastrophic pole shifts for the Earth. Hapgood’s work was the basis for the disaster film 2012 which was directed by Roland Emmerich. Even Stephen Jay Gould suggested that this theory deserves a fair hearing and should not be dismissed out of hand. The pole shift idea can be rehabilitated by combining it with plate tectonics which I call Rapid Plate Movements (RPM’s). Einstein told Hapgood in a letter, “I find your arguments very impressive and have the impression that your hypothesis is correct. One can hardly doubt that significant shifts of the crust have taken place repeatedly and within a short time." Hapgood and Einstein actually met in January of 1955. [3] Again, Catastrophism and a youthful world are intimately related. If most of the rock record was deposited in a fast manner and there are no large time gaps between the layers, which seems apparent in Grand Canyon, then we must question the mainstream dating methods.

Paul Price has rightly corrected Walsh's UToob cacophony. The "Tim & Eric" tag team have taken Matt to task as well. Tim Chaffey is the co-author of The Truth Chronicles. Avery Foley also joins the fray. I would urge Walsh to read my three latest books which challenge Darwin and Deep Time and "Do Your Own Research" (#DYOR).

Notes:

1) Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer (WH Freeman, NYC, 1997), p. 155.

2) quoted in YES - Young Earth Science by Jay Hall (IDEAS, Big Spring, TX, 2014), p. 35.

3) Ibid., pp. 149, 150.

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