On 10/10/2023 12:04 AM, Mark Isaak wrote:
ICR's latest _Acts & Facts_ publication is a special issue giving
one-page summaries of the various research projects they are or have
been engaged in. Their projects concern the Genesis Flood,
radioactivity and the age of the earth, human-ape DNA similarity,
cosmology in a young universe, planetary magnetism, ice ages,
Milankovich cycles, organic tissues in fossils, and "continuous
environmental tracking" as a replacement for evolutionary adaptation.
"Research" is their word; some of what they describe is mere
speculation, but other projects really do involve research. Even there, though, it is not hard to spot programs designed to attack strawmen or
to achieve success by ignoring contrary data. Some of the projects are decades old (and have gone nowhere); others are new.
If you want an idea of what creationists think creation science looks
like, it's a good summary.
https://www.icr.org/aaf (probably for a limited time), or https://www.icr.org/article/14303/
The RATE project pretty much destroyed the ICR creation science. I
recall the initial reports for the project, and those involved had to
admit that the theory of radioactive dating was sound. If the rocks
were as old as believed they would have accumulated the decay products
that were found in them. Their solution was that their god made the
decay products when the rocks were created, but this would have
obviously had to keep occurring as volcanic activity since the creation
would have to have just the right combination of decay products to fit
in with when that volcanic activity occurred with respect to other such activity. It looks like they have decided on some cut off of 500
million years worth of radioactive decay that could have happened since creation, and they have some model where radioactive decay was occurring
at a much faster rate. My guess is that they have the half billion year
limit because if they sped up all the radioactive decay for the last 4.5 billion years to within a 10,090 year time period they would have cooked
the creation. Just think of how many half lives for all the isotopes
have occurred in the last 4.5 billion years. Half of the U238 that
existed 4.5 billion years ago would have had to decay within the last
10,000 years, and that is just one radio isotope. Many others have
shorter half lives.
Ron Okimoto
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