Christian (and other forms of) Creationism
Theosophy and Anthroposophy
Alternative History (New Age, Parascience, and
Pseudo-Science)
Christian (and other forms of) Creationism
Theosophy and Anthroposophy
Alternative History (New Age, Parascience, and
Pseudo-Science)
Creationists
make the rather extraordinary claim that the entire geological column,
with the complete fossil record it contains, is an aberration of Noah's
flood! The reasoning goes like this: dinosaurs were slower and clumbsier
than mammals; they could not escape the rushing waters and were quickly
overwelmed; thus their fossils occur in lower (Mesozoic) rocks. The
agile mammals and birds made it to higher ground before they too were swept
away; their remains thus occur in higher (Cenozoic) rocks. And so
on.
Disproof of this thesis is easy and has already been pointed out
by evolutionists like
Stephen Jay Gould and others. Pterosaurs
could fly; some dinosaurs were very agile, some mammals very slow.
Why aren't fossil sloths found with brontosaurs, hypsilophodons (a fast
running dinosaur) with gazelles, and pteranodons with albatrosses?
And what about invertebrates and marine life? A single modern mammal
in 
Cambrian rocks would
be sufficent to disprove evolution - none has been found. And wasn't
Noah supposed to take two of every animal, including the brontosaurus (which
the Creationists claim was alive at the time anyway)?
The
Talk Origins Archive - Exploring the Creation-Evolution Controversy
- gives good arguments refuting Creationism. The arguments can also
applies to other poor alternatives like Anthroposophy and Brahma Kumaris
(Raja Yoga). See especially:
The
Age of the Earth by Chris Stassen - refutation of the Creationist
arguments for a young Earth - from the Talks Origin archive
Rudolph
Steiner claims that radioactivity only began after the time
of Christ. Radiometric dating is therefore useless. So he would
say that dinosaurs and prehistoric monsters may have indeed lived in the
sequence their fossil remains have been found - no anthroposophist denies
that - but the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic were no more than tens
of thousands of years ago; one thousandth, or even one ten-thousandth,
the time allocated by science.
Consider the following passage by Kees Zoeteman, based on one of Rudolph Steiner's lectures (Cosmic Workings in Earth and Man, Steiner Press, London):
Steiner pointed out that the Earth is sleeping now, just as it was 25,920 years ago. The Earth is now dried up and cut off from the cosmos. No more than 15,000 years ago everything on the Earth was soft, the Earth was a sort of plant...In the future, when teh Sun is once again in Libra, the Alps will be dissolved, and man and the animals will return to their original liquid condition. In this way the Earth's biosphere has a cycle of 25,920 years, waking and sleeping, during which the life of the Earth returns...to a higher level of development."The idea of a living pulsing Earth going through cycles makes a lot of sense, it feels right. This is a process that would occur on the subtle physical plane. But to say that each cycle lasts a mere 26,000 years and that all of recorded
[Kees Zoeteman, Gaia-Sophia, Floris Books, Edinburugh, 1991, pp.141-2]
geological
and palaeontological history
is a mere 15,000 years or less is to fall into the Creationist
fallacy (although the Anthroposophists
differ from the creationists in that they uphold a dynamic cyclic esotericmeta-paradigm,
not a static fixed and unchanging exoteric
one).
The problem here is that organic evolution and geological processes (erosion of mountains, continental drift, etc) simply could not have occurred with the rapidity that the miniscule time-scale requires. Tens of millions of years are required, not tens of thousands.
The
Theosophical and Anthroposophical Time scale - varying attempts
have bene made at correlating the Theosophical and Anthroposophical timescales
with the geological column of modern science
Ancient
Mysteries - a very large page - contains
A Personal Quest
Mysterious Origins of Man
Worlds Before our Own
Traditions of Ancient Technology
Jachin and Boaz
A Guide to Our Mysterious Earth
Cosmic Coincidences--A View of the Universe
Welcome to the Multiverse
Lost Human History According to Sheldon Nidle
The Earth Chronicles Time Chart --Zecharia Sitchen
ICA Stones of Peru
Additional Information on the Ica Stones
Everything is Photons
Sensational Find in Russia
Did a planet in our solar system explode in 3 Million
BCE?
Geological Time Scale |
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