Published in: Origins, volume 11, number 2, pp. 90–98, 1984.

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The most popular theories for the origin of the form of the earth's surface features suppose that they have been sculptured during vast time periods by erosive processes similar in rate, scale and intensity to modern processes. The theory that dominates modern geomorphology was formulated nearly a hundred years ago by William Morris Davis,¹ a Harvard geologist.

After reviewing evolutionists' speculations on the origin of life, Clemmey and Badham say, "... the dogma has arisen that Earth's early atmosphere was anoxic,..."¹ By "anoxic" they mean an atmosphere without free oxygen gas (O₂), very different from the oxidizing mixture we breathe.

A CHALLENGE

INTRODUCTION