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...findings indicate that the magnitude of the improbability of proteins and self-replicating DNA mole- cules forming by chance is so great as to be virtually impossible in the time we now know was avail- able. The probability calculated by Yockley and confirmed by Sauer’s experiments—1 chance in 10 to the power of 65—is an event so improbable that it could be compared to winning the state lottery by finding the winning ticket in the street, and then continuing to win the lottery every week for a thousand years, finding the winning ticket in the street each time—possible, in principle, if you have eternity at your disposal, but improbable, in practice, if all you have is a negligibly short time. (p. 19) ...an Earth of immense age is indispensably necessary to the neo-Darwinists theory because genetic mutation and natural selection are processes that are conceived of as working very slowly over hundreds of millions of years. If the Earth was only a few million years old, then there simply would not have been enough time for natural selection to work. Whether we liked it or not, we would be compelled to seek a fresh explanation for the origins of living species. (p. 19) The important point to note here is that it was the imperative need for great antiquity that deposed cata- strophism, rather than any new scientific discoveries or observations; it was a new way of looking at things, not a new piece of knowledge. But, superficially the change in view seemed to be a shift away from naive belief in biblical tales of creation and flood, and toward a newly established scientific view- point. (p. 28) Invented by Willard Libby and first applied in 1949....radioactive dating techniques are far less reliable than was previously thought; the Earth could be much younger than has been supposed by Darwinists; and nothing like the billions of years required by evolution have elapsed since the Earth’s formation. (p. 30) Cook showed for example that if you used the uranium-decay method on the rocks of the crust you got the conventionally accepted age of over four thousand million years. But if you used the selfsame method on the atmosphere, you got an age of only a few hundred thousand years. He also showed that the entire amount of “radiogenic” lead in the world’s two largest uranium deposits could be entirely modern. Clearly, something was wrong. (p. 18) Funkhouser and Naughton at the Hawaiian Institute of Geophysics used the potassium-argon method to date volcanic rocks from Mount Kilauea and got ages up to 3 thousand million years—when the rocks are known to have been formed in a modern eruption in 1801. McDougall at the Australian National University found ages of up to 465,000 years from lava in New Zealand that is independently known to be less than 1,000 years old. (p. 18) In 1878, miners at Bernissart, a small village in the Mons coalfield of Southwest Belgium, made a spec- tacular discovery when they uncovered a fissure in the coal seam packed full of intact dinosaur skele- tons, at a depth of 322 meters. Thirty-nine skeletons of the dinosaur iguanodon were recovered, from a fissure 100 feet high, many of them complete...The most striking thing about these creatures is that they measured 10 meters in length, stood several meters high, and weighed in the region of 2 tons each. For their bodies to be rapidly buried would require rates of deposition thousands or even millions of times greater than the average 0.2 millimeters per year proposed by uniformitarians. (p. 84) 177 Appendix B: Book Abstracts Radiocarbon Dating Note: The amount of carbon 14 in the world erroneously thought to be constant. Dr. Melvin Cook Coal — True Revealer of the Past Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation