Catastrophism, China and Cowper's ("Cooper") CAT

In China, tons of soft-bodied organisms similar to the Burgess Shale fossils have been found.  Jellyfish, sea anemones, comb jellies, arthropods and mud dragons were discovered.  These are known as the Qingjiang biota and are dated to the Cambrian Period (518 MOYA).  To preserve soft tissue you must have rapid burial which points to a fast catastrophic event.  If most of the rocks formed rapidly and the alleged time-gaps between the layers are not real (as paraconformities seem to show), then the geological timescale must be revamped. [1]  Young Earth Science (YES) is a viable option and we should challenge "billions of years." 

According to sci-news.com,

The paleontologists were working in the mountains and came down to the banks of the Danshui River, located in Hubei Province, when they noticed some rocks had an odd pin-striped pattern - a telltale sign of layers of mud deposited rapidly by ancient storms ...

But where did the millions and billions of years come from anyway?  Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield wrote a significant history of Deep Time in 1965 (The Discovery of Time).  Titus Lucretius Carus (d. ~55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher and tackled the age-of-the-earth controversy.  Toulmin & Goodfield epically fail to reveal that Lucretius acclaimed a youthful world. [2] [3]  They also suppose that fossils and ancient volcanoes pose a problem for young earth supporters. [4]  On the contrary, Lagerstätte (extremely well-preserved fossils such as the Qingjiang biota) and massive volcanism are in line with catastrophism. [5]               

Near the beginning of their book, Toulmin & Goodfield rightfully quote hymn writer William Cowper (d. 1800) who wrote:

Some write a narrative of wars, and feats
Of heroes little known ; and call the rant  

A history ...

Some drill and bore

          The solid earth, and from the strata there

Extract a register, by which we learn.
That he who made it and reveal'd its date
To Moses, was mistaken in its age, 

Some, more acute, and more industrious still,  

Contrive creation; travel nature up ...

Great contest follows, and much learned dust
Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,
And truth disclaiming both.

One of my fave Cowper gems is The Retired Cat:

A poet's cat, sedate and grave
As poet well could wish to have,

          Was much addicted to inquire
        For nooks to which she might retire,
        And where, secure as mouse in chink,
        She might repose, or sit and think ...
        Forth skipp'd the cat, not now replete
        As erst with airy self-conceit,
        Nor in her own fond apprehension
        A theme for all the world's attention ...
        Beware of too sublime a sense

Of your own worth and consequence.

          The man who dreams himself so great,
        And his importance of such weight,
        That all around in all that's done
        Must move and act for him alone,
        Will learn in school of tribulation
        The folly of his expectation.

Notes:

1) YES - Young Earth Science by Jay Hall (IDEAS, Big Spring, TX, 2014), pp. 121-126.

2) The Discovery of Time by Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield (Harper & Row, NYC, 1965), pp. 47-49.

3) Hall, p. 16.

4) Toulmnin & Goodfield, pp. 141, 142.

5)  Hall, pp. 126, 132, 133.  

*the top graphic has the Chinese word for "fossil"

**MOYA = Millions Of Years Ago

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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

(http://books.google.com/books?id=34ID71tG6i8C p. 137).

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Notes:

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.