trth_skr:
Yes, I should mention that. Dr. Bennett is co-author of “Galileo Was Wrong”. I am not sure who is publishing it, but I imagin it is Queenship Publications, who publish most of Robert Sungenis’ books.
Good luck on your project.
Thank you. I’m a curious creature by nature trth_skr and am wondering if YOU are by chance Dr. Bennett? Are you?
The url in my messages 101 and 102 doesn’t seem to work any longer. Best to try this url:
www.
kolbecenter.org/presentations/Bennett/RDWeb8.htm
Here are some excerpts from his paper “Radio Dating --Special creation vs. specious creativity --2002” which I have difficulty understanding. It seems to go against positive science which the Catholic Church adhers to.
"The critical premise of the scientific modernist is the Uniformitarian or Cosmological principle, which says that all the laws and processes on earth, indeed throughout the universe, have NEVER CHANGED.
"This fundamental assumption conflicts immediately with the known global Scriptural singularities listed below, along with the branch of science likely impacted :
Creation: Science domain:
Post-Fall corruption: archaeology
Global deluge: sedimentology, stratigraphy
Division of languages/races at Babel: paleontology, genetics
Supercontinent split in Peleg’s time: geology
"We expect from the metaphysics of science that all evolutionary propaganda will hinge on a old earth/universe principle to explain current observations.
[snip]
"What is the track record of science modernists on the subject of time? Credibility should rest on the proven success of modern science in other temporal measurements. Do the underlying premises of universal uniformity and materialism of the scientific modernists affect their objectivity?
"Turn to a topic which should be easy to resolve, certainly easier than the alleged aeons of time since the Big Bang started – the age of humans today. The life expectancy of Americans is said to be ~ 75 years, world-wide 64 years. Measured from birth to death, this statistic is said to be increasing with the improvement in medical care in the USA, reversing for the first time the Biblical trend of decreasing lifetimes, a rosy triumph of the modern agenda and lifestyle!
[snip]
Biology - Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
"We start with a summary of the premises underlying bio-dating:
"Was thought to be inherited only from the mother. No mixing of male (paternal) and female mtDNA from generation to generation
ð all mtDNA changes were the result of non-functional neutral mutations over time
Assumed to occur at a constant rate, faster than nuclear DNA
ð access to a “molecular clock”
"mtDNA is not divided during cell division, but copied
So count the number of mutants between species to find out when they diverged the key assumption presumes divergence from hominids(Chimps), using the fossil record, to get the mutation rate. the first application dated “Mitochondrial Eve” to about 200,000 years ago, the mother of all modern humans (but not necessarily the Biblical Eve).
"then a study by (modernists) Parsons et al. (1997) using the DNA rate of change of modern humans found a rate more than 20 times faster than the fossil record !!
"“… our observation of the substitution rate is roughly 20-fold higher than would be predicted from phylogenetic analyses. Using our empirical rate to calibrate the mtDNA molecular clock would result in an age of only ~6,500 y.a., clearly incompatible with the known age of modern humans. … it remains implausible to explain the known geographic distribution of mtDNA sequence variation by human migration that occurred only in the last ~6,500 years. “ "
[snip]
And it goes on and on. I’m not qualified to really judge the accuracy of the paper. Much of it is way over my head! Reason tells me that it isn’t pro-evolution. Infact, I’m more confused then ever before after reading it. I’m sorry. Best for me to stick with the EVOLUTION I’ve learned to love and understand. Hope you don’t mind trth_skr.
Thanks again for wishing me the best on my project.
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