YES WorldWide Turns the Tide

International attitudes on the age of the earth often lean toward Young Earth Science (YES).  An omnicultural approach which not only looks at geology, but also history and cultural traditions of catastrophe, is the best approach to answer the age question (Gilgamesh, Atlantis etc.).  

In a survey of 33 Korean Biology teachers, only 48.5% agreed with the statement, “Modern humans are the product of evolutionary processes that have occurred over millions of years.”  Notice that this not only touches on Darwinism, but also the age of the Earth.  A significant number of these teachers (21.2%) agreed with the statement, “Organisms exist today in essentially the same form is which they always have.”  This apparently favors the stasis of Essential Types of Life (ETL’s). That is, rabbits make rabbits and snakes make snakes, which is consistent with YES.  Furthermore, more than 40% hold that “Much of the scientific community doubts if evolution occurs.”  One wonders if this was in reference specifically to the Korean scientific community. [1]  If you have more info on this please leave a comment.

In Turkey nearly 75% of students reject evolution.  Even Turkish pre-service biology teachers had a MATE (Measure of Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution) score of just 64% which is quite low compared to most countries.  If YES is right, then Darwin can’t rule the day. [2]

A 2007 survey of 1600 Russians yielded a key result:  30% agree with the statement, “[The] first human beings were living in the same era as dinosaurs.”  A 2005 poll of the same question for the European Union had 29% agreeing with man-dino coexistence!  Surely, humans and dinosaurs together at the same time is consistent with YES.  In a 2010 opinion poll, only 26% of Russians labeled themselves as evolutionists‼  In contrast, 64% of Chinese self-identify as evolutionists. [3]  Both countries have a long history of Communist indoctrination on Darwinism.

Let's move from Russia and China to the Middle East.  Israel carries high democratic ideals and generally has a high tolerance for minority views.  Consider former chief scientist with Israel’s Education Ministry, Dr. Gavriel Avital, who challenged evolution:

If textbooks state explicitly that human beings' origins are to be found with monkeys, I would want students to pursue and grapple with other opinions. There are many people who don't believe the evolutionary account is correct. … There are those for whom evolution is a religion and are unwilling to hear about anything else.

Avital was removed from his post because of his controversial views.  If YES is True, then evolution is False.  We have zeroed in on just four countries, but if we expand our view we find that omniculturalism supports YES.  Although the Mayans were off in supposedly predicting a world changing event in 2012, they hold to a start date of 3114 BC.  Thus, the world may be only thousands of years old (NOT billions).

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Notes:

1)“A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Korean and American Science Teachers'Views of Evolution and the Nature of Science” by Sun Young Kim and Ross H. Nehm, International Journal of Science Education, Vol. 33, No. 2, Jan. 15, 2011, pp. 197-227, p. 212.

2)  Ibid., p. 201.

3)  “Questions on Supreme Being, Reincarnation and Evolution,” p. 107,

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Some claim that a global calamity with massive impact requires a complete revision of geological science. In contrast, Stokes and Lee state in their Geology text Introduction to Geology (Prentice-Hall) that,

A catastrophist might contend that the twisting and breaking of strata, the transportation of huge blocks of rock, the violent cutting of canyons, and the wholesale destruction of life is within the power of a great universal flood - and he would be right. [1]

Note:

1)  Introduction to Geology by William Lee Stokes and Sheldon Judson (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1968), p.296.
     
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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.