What about the Palonium Halos that Dr. Robert Gentry found in the granites. No one has ever been able to refute those! That showed that the granites had to form instantly!
PRATT!
When the sites Gentry obtained his samples of basement granite were visited by other geologists, they found that he had obtained them from igneous intrusions into metamorphic rock. In other words, instead of being original rock instantly called into being at the beginning of the earth's existence, it was rock that had intruded itself via underground lava flow into rock that had pre-existed for so long that it had been transformed from its original form (that is what metamorphic rock is).
When Wakefield investigated Gentry's sites, Gentry was at first cooperative, but as soon as Wakefield started discovering the
truth, Gentry became very uncooperative.
BTW, in the 1981 Arkansas "balanced-treatment" trial the teacher who had been put in charge of creating the "creation science" curriculum testified that the only reference she could find supporting "creation science" was a Reader's Digest article on Gentry's claim (she already had to reject the Institute for Creation Research's materials because they were too blatantly religious). Upon examination, Gentry's claims have also proven to be false.
No one has ever been able to refute those!
Completely and utterly false. Whoever told you that was lying to you. Gentry's claims have been refuted since the 1980's and have had to be refuted another thousand times because creationists refuse to face the truth and continue to spread the exact same lies about his claim.
That's what the acronym PRATT tells you: "refuted a thousand times." Practically the entire body of "scientific evidence" offered up by creationists are nothing but PRATTs.
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{When you search for God, y}ou can't go to the people who believe already. They've made up their minds and want to convince you of their own personal heresy.("The Jehovah Contract", AKA "Der Jehova-Vertrag", by Viktor Koman, 1984)
Humans wrote the Bible; God wrote the world. (from filk song "Word of God" by Dr. Catherine Faber,
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Of course, if Dr. Mortimer's surmise should be correct and we are dealing with forces outside the ordinary laws of Nature, there is an end of our investigation. But we are bound to exhaust all other hypotheses before falling back upon this one.(Sherlock Holmes in
The Hound of the Baskervilles)
Gentry's case depends upon his halos remaining a mystery. Once a naturalistic explanation is discovered, his claim of a supernatural origin is washed up. So he will not give aid or support to suggestions that might resolve the mystery. Science works toward an increase in knowledge; creationism depends upon a lack of it. Science promotes the open-ended search; creationism supports giving up and looking no further. It is clear which method Gentry advocates.("Gentry's Tiny Mystery -- Unsupported by Geology" by J. Richard Wakefield,
Creation/Evolution Issue XXII, Winter 1987-1988, pp 31-32)
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