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Since the printing of this book, the following items have come to light:-

1/ Geologic Column #20 (item 4.4) - The 'whale on its tail' cited there has since been shown to be lying in rock layers tilted to around 90º. The diatomaceous rock in which the fossil was found did not have distinct layers, so its angle of rest was mistaken. It wasn't until a layer of rock underneath the whale was found, that the angle of tilt was shown to be vertical. Despite this error, the fossil is an anomaly because evolutionary uniformatarianism decrees that this diatomite formed at the estimated rate of 5 mm per year. Now, this 26.6 m long whale had a head around 2.3 m thick, which means that it would have taken around 4600 years for it to have been totally buried. Over this period of time scavengers would have well and truly destroyed all the remains above the sediment. Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1995 p:244-258.

2/ The Moon #7 (item 2) - The rate of meteorite dust entering the earth was calculated by Hans Pettersson in 1960 to be 14 mil t/yr (Scientific American, Vol. 202, 1960 p:132). His estimate for Earth was of 182 ft (60 m) in 5 billion years. It is believed that a similar rate would apply to the moon. Apollo astronauts reported about 1/8" (3 mm) of dust on the moon's surface. This estimated rate of cosmic dust has been recalculated following the re-evaluation of the background parameters, but its alteration will not reduce the build-up from 60 m to 3 mm.

3/ Solar System - The Sun #4 (item 2) - The theoretical and experimental knowledge which supports the concept of nuclear fusion as the source of the Sun's energy, rather that by gravitational collapse, does not negate the evidence to the contrary. Independent of which ever theory is found to be acceptable, they are still only theories, not facts.

4/ Earth's Magnetic Field # 11 - The evolutionary concept of long cycles in the earth's magnetic field reversals, is a different concept to the known existence of rapid reversals which are occurring in rocks forming at the present time. Long cycles are an open ended concept which allows for field reversals to fit into any evolutionary time frame involving enormously long spans of time. Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1995 p:13-15

5/ Plate Tectonics #14 & Continental Drift #15 - Despite continental drift being accepted by many creationists because it fits their Catastrophic Plate Tectonics theory, there are still problems involving the theory. It still has not been incontrovertibly proved, nor are the multiple millions of years of time attributed to it by evolution a definite fact. Again, there is still the problem of contradictory data which must be included in the overall analysis. And also, Australia still has to rotate to fit into one of the schemes. Rather than being a proven fact, the theory of continental drift contains notions that make it acceptable to both creationists and evolutionists alike because it fits in with both their preconceived ideas. All up, continental drift still sits in the hypothesis basket. Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1995 p:12-20

6/ The Speed of Light (removed) - There are some who believe that Barry Setterfield's Decay Of Light Speed theory is not sound, and that it does not stand up to statistical analysis. This does not alter it from being considered as an alternative hypothesis, like red-shift, which needs further analysis for it to be confirmed. Then again there is 'statistical analysis' and there is 'statistical analysis'. Creation ex Nihilo Technical Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1995 p:102-105; Russell Humphry's book "Starlight and Time".

7/ Archaeopteryx Fake (removed) - There are some who believe that the examination of archaeopteryx fossils which showed evidence that it was a fraud is not substantiated. Nevertheless, the statements of these noted scientists still stands, and the possibility that it is a fake still remains.

L. D. Smart

(February 1996)

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