4.38 Polar ice caps.  There is no  widely held mechanism
                        for the formation of ice caps.  Antarctica   is a
                        desert.   The canopy flood  theory offers  a
                        possible  explanation.    Other  ice  age features
                        are  better  explained by the  flood  also (frozen
                        mammoths, Spokane gravels).

     5.   Age  of  the  earth.   Lines  of  evidence indicating  a  young
age of the earth  far  outweigh evidence  for  an old age of the  earth.
The  best scientific  methods  produce ages  which  correspond with
Biblical ages of the earth.

         Evidence for the Age of the Earth

               Young Age

          1.  Volcanism (continental accretion)
          2.  Water Formation
          3.  Meteoric Dust (earth and moon)
          4.  Soil Formation
          5.  Human Population Statistics
          6.  Decay of Earth's
          7.  Scarcity of Helium
          8.  The Earth-Moon System
          9.  Tree Ring Dating
          10. Comets
          11. Pleochroic Halos
          12. Rotation of Earth
          13. Revolution of Planets
          14. Salt in the Sea

               Old Age

          1. Radiometric Dating
          2. Size of Universe

     6.  What is evolution?

          6.1.   Evolution  is  a  philosophy  which affects  all  areas
                 of life. 

                 The  key  philosophic question  is  "Where  did
                 we come from?" The  two currently  popular  models  of
                 evolution stand in absolute contradiction  with each
                 other.  From the ancient  ideas through the modern models
                 only the major concept -origin and propagation of life
                 forms without God -remains unchanged.  Evolution provides
                 the humanist with an answer to this apart from God.

               6.1.1.  Many specialists work in  the context  of assuming
                       evolution to be true while they are not really aware
                       of why they believe evolution.

               6.1.2.   This leads to turmoil (Marx, Hitler) and
                        dehumanizing man (Ps 8.4).

                 6.2.   What are the ideas of the origin of life?

               6.2.1.   God  stated that He  created life  forms that
                        reproduce after their own kind (Gen 1.11,21,24,29).

               6.2.2.   Ancient Greeks had attributed life to processes that
                        work apart from God:   Thales (600 BC), life arose
                        from the sea;  Heraclitus, life was  transposed;
                        Aristotle  ( 300 BC)  proposed  an evolutionary
                        scale.

               6.2.3.   Paul  recognized that people ascribed  God's
                        creative power to idols  (Rom  1.23) and god's of
                        animism.

               6.2.4.   Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1790) - evolution  through
                        inherited  characteri