James A. Hopson`s reply of Dec. 10 to B.B. Krok`s letter of Nov. 25 trots out standard evolutionist objections to any evidence that the world is younger than 10,000 years.
It is correct that scientists are not guessing about their measurements of radiometric dating and the speed of light. The measurements are highly accurate. The problem is the underlying assumptions that radioactive decay and the speed of light are constant.
These processes are connected to different atomic constants that evidence from Australia and the Soviet Union show are not necessarily constant. Here is a crude analogy: A bucket is placed underneath a faucet and filled up and left there. The faucet drips slowly; another person comes and measures the rate of the dripping and declares that this bucket has been there for 3 weeks when it is only 30 minutes.
The underlying presuppositions of both creationists and evolutionists are, more or less, based on faith. For the evolutionist it is that
uniformitarianism is true; for the creationist it is catastrophism (which is making a comeback in parts of geology).
As for the thought that the atom does not exist, that is ludicrous. As for quoting scientists, Professor Louis Bounoure, Director of Research at the French National Centre of Scientific Research, said ”Evolutionism is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless.”
