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1.0 out of 5 stars
This book is filled with creationist crap!, 27 May 1998
By A Customer
In his "The Collapse of Evolution," Scott Huse provides a good survey of nearly every misrepresentation, deception, and outright lie put forth by the promoters of creationism. Sadly, he can pretty much get away with it because the American public in general and his creationist readers in particular are grossly ignorant concerning matters of science. Huse presents so many blatant falsehoods in his book that it is impossible to refute them all in the limited space of this review, but here are a few.On page 25 he states: "[G]eologists during the nineteenth century arranged the earth's strata according to the various types of fossils they contained...Strata with simpler fossils (presumed to have evolved first) were put on the bottom of the column while strata containing more complex forms (presumed to have evolved later) were placed toward the top of the column. Thus the entire geologic column was founded and built on the assumption that organic evolution was a fact." The fact is that the geologic column was not constructed by evolutionists, but rather by creationists long before Darwin came on the scene. The assignment of the fossils in the strata was based on real series of depositions. On pages 38-39 Huse states: "Hans Pettersen has made accurate measurements of this influx [of cosmic dust particles] and has determined that the earth receives about 14 million tons per year." He then goes on to state at that rate the moon would have a layer of dust 182 feet thick if the earth-moon system were 5 billion years old. In fact, Hans Pettersen made his measurement on the top of a mountain in Hawaii in 1959 using a device designed to measure industrial pollution, and he had guess what percentage of particles he collected were a result of influx from outer space. He even stated in his report that there was probably a high percentage of error in his findings. Since then, of course, satellites have provided a much more accurate figure of the amount of dust in space. ! Pettersen's figures were way too high by several orders of magnetude, and the actual amount of dust in space would have caused a layer of dust on the moon very close to that found by the astronauts. On page 76 Huse misrepresents the Second Law of Thermodynamics to disprove evolution. The Second Law actually states: "There can be no net increase in available energy in an isolated system." That in no way disproves evolution. On page 127 Huse states that Lucy's knee "was found more than 200 hundred feet lower in the strata and more than two miles away." He went on to state that there was no evidence of bipedalism in Lucy. In fact, Johansson never claimed that the knee found two miles away was Lucy's, and that knee was never photographed with Lucy's fossils. Moreover, Lucy's pelvis indicated that Lucy was bipedal. On page 136 Huse stated: "Evolutionists insist that the duck-billed platypus is an evolutionary link between mammals and birds." Evolutionists insist no such thing. The platypus is a descendant of an evolutionary link between reptiles and mammals. On page 139 Huse states that fossils of modern birds have been found in the same rocks as archaeopteryx. That is a bald-faced lie, as so much else is in Huse's book. No other bird or bird relative has been found in the same rocks as archaeopteryx. What "modern" bird is Huse talking about? A crow? An Ostrich? A Hawk? A pigeon? In publishing Huse's book, Baker House shows that it has no shame. It is also obvious that Baker House has no intellectual integrity either.
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