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Dr_Tazimus_maximus
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Message 64 of 74 (32813)
02-21-2003 10:10 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by truthlover
02-12-2003 5:35 PM


Thought that I would reply to a few that seem to be dangling. I will have to space them out because of time constraints.
1) Moon Dust. There are many refutations to this one, all based on the same misinterpretations of the data. One good one is at this site
How Good are those Young-Earth Arguments: Hovind's 'Proofs'
another is in Penrocks "Tower of Babel".
Essentially, the amount of dust was initially estimated by a totally inappropriate method and the number presented in your post was actually the upper limit by the original estimate, which was thought by the author to be at least 3 fold too high if not more than that. A few years before the launch of the moon landing mission a meeting in Hawaii was held by astrophysicists and it was concluded that dust was NOT going to be a problem. The original cites frome the meeting are in both the site I gave above and in Penrocks book.
The fact that Morris and Gish continue to present this arguement, along with a number of other misrepresntations and outright lies, only goes to show the lack of moral standards at the ICR. If you want to look for support for creationism I would steer clear of the ICR if I were you.
Anyway, I hope that this helps with that one, I will try some of the other ones later. Oh, and for the record, I am an anostic; however, my wife is a Baptist, was a scientist and understands that evolution has occured and that the earth is ~ 4.5 Byr old.
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"Chance favors the prepared mind." L. Pasteur
Taz

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