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So what did they get wrong? They sound as 'scientific' as any.
First, on the home page the WebMaster (Michael Brown) writes, 'There are many evidences for ... the occurance (sic) of the global flood as described in Genesis'. This is not true; there is no evidence for a world-wide flood at any time during the Earth's history, and the geological and fossil records supply compelling evidence for the Earth's being extremely old.
Most of the seven 'Topics of interest' listed on the home page are matters of biology, which I am not competent to discuss. (I suspect that Mr. Brown is not competent to discuss them either.) However, on the matter of the 'Cambrian Explosion of Life and Comlexity (sic)', I would refer you to Puck Mendelssohn's one-star review on Amazon.com of Stephen Meyer's book Darwin's Doubt. Mendelssohn strongly recommends The Cambrian Explosion: The Construction of Animal Biodiversity by Douglas Erwin and James Valentine. This book gives a very different and much more detailed view of the 'Cambrian explosion' than either Darwin's Doubt or www.mhrc.net/evidence.htm .
On the matter of carbon-14 dating and amino acid dating, Mr. Brown says nothing about other forms of radiometric dating (e.g. U-Pb, Rb-Sr, K-Ar and Ar40-Ar39 dating), nor does he say anything about the geological evidence for the great age of the Earth. Radiometric dating provides compelling evidence that the Cambrian period began 541.0±1.0 million years ago, and that the Earth is 4540±20 million years old. In addition, the sheer thickness of the sedimentary systems (for example, a maximum of 15 km for the Cretaceous and 13 km for the Jurassic) makes it impossible for these systems to have been deposited in less than millions of years, let alone in a single flood lasting for less than one year. There are many books and websites that deal with radiometric dating, geology and stratigraphy in relation to geochronology, and I advise you to read some of them.
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