Atheism, Essentialism and Young Earth Science (YES)

Even non-theists can see that fish-to-Frank evolution does not work.  G.H. Harper is an atheist and holds to a steady state theory of species.  We propose the stasis of Essential Types of Life (ETL’s).  That is, what remains static in the living realm is at a higher level than species.  Horses trot out more ponies, pigs are pigs again and sharks have a hunger to reproduce more sharks.

Harper wrote “Darwinism and indoctrination” and “Alternatives to evolutionism” in the British education journal School Science Review in the late 1970’s. [1][2]  He proposed that there were special geological conditions during the Cambrian that favored the fossilization of trilobites for example.  A better explanation consistent with biological essentialism (basic types of life vary within limits) is that most of the fossil bearing rocks are part of a Singular Epoch of Rapid Geologic Activity (SERGA).   We detail this approach in our book YES: Young Earth Science.

J.R. Downie and N.J. Barron, writing in the Journalof Biological Education, note that, “Harper (1977; 1979) argues against the teaching of science by 'indoctrination' and suggests a number of alternatives to evolutionary explanations that could be used in discussion of species origins.”

Antony Flew (d. 2010) was a leading atheist for many years, but converted to Deism late in life.  Flew rejected evolution’s explanation regarding the Origin Of Life (OOL):  “How can a universe of mindless matter produce beings with intrinsic ends, self-replication capabilities, and ‘coded chemistry?’” [3]  If evolution is wrong about the start of life, maybe it is wrong about the Universal Common Ancestor (UCA) as well.

Notes:

1) Harper, G. H. (1977) “Darwinism and indoctrination” School Science Review, 59, 258-268.

2) Harper, G. H. (1979) “Alternatives to evolutionism” School Science Review, 61, 15-27.

3) There is a God by Antony Flew (HarperCollins, NYC, NY, 2007), p. 124.

Special thanks to Francis Schaeffer Hall for the second illustration.

Polar Bears in London Support Young Earth Science (YES)

Polar bears in London have a message for the world:  "The consensus is in, Young Earth Science (YES) deserves a hearing."  How can this planet be super old when history only goes back a few thousand years?  Read YES - Young Earth Science to find out the cold truth and hard facts.

Without a time machine (from star dust to TARDIS?) how can we hope to date the past.  If our hour glass has has sticky sand or leaks you can't get the right time.  In like manner, radiometric dating methods are prone to many errors.

Be sure to check out the website for the latest on Young Earth Science (YES).  Have YOU seen polar bears in London?

All the Other Kids – Froster and Children

Bobby’s stuck in quicksand

He'll look around the Earth, he won't tell you his plan

He's got an OLD Fallacy

Hanging out with his peers, he's an OEF* kid

He found that dissing YES** is fun

In his dad's day the ancient Earth sings

And I don't even know what

But he's coming for you, yeah, he's coming for you

All the other kids with their trumped up tricks

You'd better run, better run, go fast Young One

All the other kids with their trumped up tricks

We'd better run, we can kick but we can’t pull it

Daddy hawks a long age

He gives the rocks a date - it’s an Old Earth date

And he's bringing me a surprise

'Cause winners date the planet and it's packed in ice***

Earth’s waited for a long time

With the sleight of my hand Earth Age is so much bigger

I reason so they all forget

And say, "Your hair's on fire, you must have lost your wits"

*Old Earth Fallacies

**Young Earth Science

***during the Ice Age

Deep Time – Mind Map

Kim Kastens (Columbia Univ.) and Cathryn Manduca (Carleton College, Northfield, MN) have produced a revealing mind map of Deep Time in their book Earth and Mind II which they edited.  Go to this map to see the details.

Note Historical Sciences in the bottom right.  Historical Science is often ignored by evolution advocates, but Butterflies-to-Brainiacs transformation is beyond the combined lifetimes of hundred of observers.  A Chemistry experiment can be repeated often, but not the demise of T-Rex. 

Catastrophism is referred to under Big Ideas of Science, but the implications are lacking.  Derek Ager, former President of the British Geological Association, wrote The New Catastrophism in 1993.  Ager held that most rock formations came about via quick geologic action.  If most of the rock record was formed rapidly and the time between layers is minimal (google “paraconformities”), then the geologic time scale must be shortened drastically.   

Under Pedagogy the assumption is that students are a little slow and can’t understand that a cube as wide as your hand has one thousand cubic centimeters (i.e. 1 Liter).  A thousand thousand make a million and a thousand million make a billion:

The problem is NOT that student can’t get Deep Time, it’s that the real evidence favors Young Earth Science (YES) which is overlooked by mainstream Geology.  A more helpful pedagogy would be debate.  Allow students to defend both sides of the issue.

A trend setting book, YES - Young Earth Science, defends a young earth from History, Geology, Biology and Philosophy.  Michael Crichton (Jurassic World) rightly said, "Consensus is the business of politics.  Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right … The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus."

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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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ROAD SIGNS

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.
     
    **OEF = Old Earth Fallacies

Say YES to YES

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.