Origin by Design / Coffin, Harold G; Brown, Robert H / (PB/1983-1983/B+/USED)

In search of evidence for design, the authors leave no stone unturned. After surveying the Genesis creation and flood narratives, they examine coal beds, fossil tracks, mass extinctions, glaciation, volcanism, carbon-14 dating, rates of mutation, and Neanderthal man, looking for clues to the age and origin of life on earth.
Analysis of the geologic column reveals anomalies that suggest a catastrophic flood. Thin, flat-lying beds extend without erosion for hundreds of miles. Thick layers supposedly laid down over millions of years are inexplicably graded, bottom to top, from coarse to fine. Beds of perfectly preserved freshwater and saltwater fish lie buried together. What does it mean? What caused giant ripple marks in the sediments 30 feet high with wave lengths of 200 feet? What buried vast fields of dinosaurs in place rapidly enough to avoid disintegration? Why are the world's major river deltas only 5,000 years old? Why have the continents not eroded to sea level many times over?
Origin by Design is an impressive catalog of evidence for creation, a short chronology, and a titanic deluge that once reshaped our planet.

Table of Contents

1. The Beginning
2. The Climax of Creation
3.  The Flood Story
4. Fossil Evidences in Support of Catastrophe
5. The Origin of Coal
6. The Surface of the Earth
7. A Flood Model
8. Sedimentation and the Flood
9. Uniformity and Catastrophe
10. Research on the Classic Joggins Petrified Trees
11. The Yellowstone Petrified Forests
12. The Mountains
13.  Fire in the Earth
14. Land Beneath the Sea
15. Rivers of Ice
16. Climatic Conditions of the Past
17. The Story of a River
18. What Is a Fossil?
19. The Fossils Testify Against Evolution
20. The Dinosaurs
21. Frozen Animals
22. Ancient Man
23.  In the Beginning—God
24. The Biblical Perspective on the Age of the World
25. The Interpretation of Inorganic Radioisotope Age Data
26. The Interpretation of Carbon–14 Age Data
27. Evidences of a Youthful World
28. The Theory of Evolution—History
29. The Theory of Evolution—Science
30. Limitations of the Scientific Method
31. Life is Unique
32. Are New Species Forming Today?
33. Speciation and Survival of the Fittest
34. Animal Adaptation
35. Summary—Is Creation a Viable Theory of Origins?
Glossary
Chapter Notes and References
Index

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