Greater Houston Creation Association
Creation News
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Acquiring and Distributing Knowledge Regarding God's Creation
Webinar and Meeting: January 6 at 7 pm
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Fallacies of Varves, Tree Rings, & C-14 Claims
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These old age uniformitarian claims are presented by two conventional geology professionals in a paper titled “Testing and Verifying Old Age Evidence: Lake Suigetsu Varves, Tree Rings, and Carbon-14” published by BioLogos in 2018. Their claim is that these three processes are independent of one another and confirm one another. These geologists claim that this is a “trifecta” proof of the uniformitarian principle of interpreting evidence of the unobservable past. But, look a little deeper and it becomes rather doubtful and sometimes ugly.
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At the January 6 GHCA meeting we will see that tree ring dating, C-14 dating and varves are not in reality independent of one another. In Fact, each has been used to test and even calibrate the other dating methods. We will look at the strengths and weaknesses of each process and explore some questions the old agers do not seem to think to question.
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World view concepts are a lot like the proverbial man with a hammer. To the man with a hammer in his hand every problem looks like something he can fix with a nail and a few whacks of that hammer. Similarly, the uniformitarians think that everything in the past must have happened by the same processes and at the same speeds we observe operating today.
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In contrast YEC creationist point to a number of events in the past that could not have occurred by the processes we observe in the present. Further, when God’s word tells us that He did something, YECs recognize that we should consider the fact that God can do supernatural things far beyond anything seen today. We then carefully consider the possibility that God did so in the particular case in question.
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We will compare the most probable YEC timeline with the uniformitarian timeline and consider how each timeline influences their proponents. In doing so we will see there is a strong influence on how we do physical science and on how we read and understand the Genesis narratives. It is essential to understand both the uniformitarian and the YEC world view assumptions in order to properly evaluate either.
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This will be a fascinating and informative study! So, join us in the Reception Room of Houston’s First Baptist on January 6 at 7 pm. All are welcome and questions and discussion are encouraged. Park in the senior’s parking lot just behind the big cross, then come in the back door of the Reception Room where there is an awning covering the door and a cross hatched walkway.
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Looking forward to seeing you all again,
Frank Mayo
President, GHCA
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Over the last sixty years, six national scale YEC organization have grown up with a staff of PhD scientists in their leadership. These organizations include:
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Marine fossils dominate in all levels of rocks with fossils including those with land animals or other terrestrial fossils such as dinosaurs!
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Whitmore Coconino Research Team Free Access Publications:
For geologist and other technical people here are links to the most recent free access publications making strong case Coconino SS is deposition by water.
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Sincerely,
Frank Mayo, President
Greater Houston Creation Association
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Houston Science & Culture Network
Houston chapter of the Discovery Institute's division of Science and Culture.
Tour calls out false claims. See also the link to Tour's response to critics.
The Science & Faith Podcast by Dr. James Tour
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San Antonio:
The San Antonio Bible Based Science Association (SABBSA) usually meets the second Tuesday of each month, 7:00 p.m., at Faith Lutheran church just south of the corner of Thousand Oaks and Jones Maltsberger. More info is at www.sabbsa.org.
Dallas-Ft Worth:
The Metroplex Institute of Origin Science (MIOS) meets at the Dr. Pepper Starcenter, 12700 N. Stemmons Fwy, Farmers Branch, TX, usually at 7:30 pm on the first Tuesday of each month.
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Examples of Important YEC Scientific Evidences
Some major examples of physical evidence we point to include:
- Remains of original soft tissue still found in dinosaur bones. Along with that tissue is C-14 that would decay completely away in less than a hundred thousand years, a tiny fraction of the dinosaur fossil's supposed age.
- For many years geologists have found C-14 in fossil carbon throughout the fossil record. So, the entire fossil record is less than 100,000 years old.
- The origin of the information and molecular machinery in the first living self-reproducing cell remains a complete enigma for biologist and biochemists.
- In the origin of the universe, big bang theory is being recognized as a dead end by increasing numbers of secular scientists. The hypothesized inflation has nothing to start it, drive it forward, or stop it. Without inflation fatal flaws appear with the absence of predicted antimatter, magnetic monopoles, or any means for the whole universe to come to the same precise background temperature. Then the formation of the first stars is as enigmatic as the origin of the first biological cell. Dark matter and dark energy are as enigmatic as the galactic motions they are needed to explain.
At the root of all standard science are many assumptions that may be quite incorrect. At the top is that there is no God. Another is that present process can be used to explain everything in the past. When we look at a canyon we are taught to assume the river at the bottom cut the canyon. But perhaps tectonic events made the canyon and there is a river at the bottom because water always flows downhill. At the root of big bang theory is a pure assumption that has been named the "Cosmological Principle". Perhaps inaccuracies there are responsible for the big bang's multitude of problems.
There is more about the role of assumptions in science found on our website here. There are many more resources on young earth and young universe evidences here.
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