Portal:Chemistry
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Chemistry is the branch of science concerned with the composition, properties, and structure of matter, and how different substances react together and the transformations they can go through.
There are a number of Creation scientists involved in the study of chemistry. One of the founding fathers of chemistry was creationist Robert Boyle to whom Modern chemistry owes enormous gratitude for his work, writings and research. Boyle loved God’s truth, which helped him see the grand errors of alchemical theory that were hindering the development of what is now scientific chemistry.
Radiometric dating utilizes the decay rates of certain radioactive atoms to date rocks or artifacts. Uniformitarian geologists consider this form of dating strong evidence that the Earth is billions of years old. However, research by creationists has revealed a large number of problems with radiometric dating. In some cases such as Carbon-14 dating, radioactive dating actually gives strong evidence for a young Earth, while other methods such as K-Ar dating and Isochron dating are based on faulty assumptions and so unreliable as to be useless.
Dr. Donald Chittick received a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, and a Bachelor of Science from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. His resume includes the following: Chairman of the Division of Natural Sciences at George Fox University in Oregon, adjunct professor of chemistry at the Institute for Creation Research in California, and Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Puget Sound in Washington, as well as being an active lecturer for thirty years. Chittick is also an active inventor and has received several patents for alternative fuels and "programmed instruction," i.e. homeschooling. He has a member of the American Chemical Society, and the Creation Research Society.
Acid • Actinides • Alkali metals • Alkaline earth metals • Biochemistry • Biotechnology • Chemical nomenclature • Chemical series • Compound • Electron Shells • Elements • Halogens • Isotope • Lanthanides • Metalloids • Mineral • Noble gases • Nonmetals • Organic compound • Periodic Table • Physical science • Poor metals • Reaction • Salt • Transition metals • Unit of measure
A Accelerated decay, Actinide, Adenosine triphosphate, Alkali metal, Alkaline earth metal, Amine, Amino acid, Atom, Atomic mass, Atomic name, Atomic number, Atomic orbital, Atomic symbol, B Boiling point, C CAS registry number, Carbon-14 dating, Carboxylic acid, Chemical compound, Chemical element, Chemical series, Chemistry, Chirality, Concordance of dates, Concordia dating, Covalent bond, D DNA, E Electron, Electron configuration, F Fission-track dating, G Glucose, H Halogen, I Ion, Isochron dating, Isomer, Isotope, L Lanthanide, M Matter, Messenger RNA, Metalloid, Mineral, Monosaccharide, N Neutron, Noble gas, Non-correlating and inconsistent dates, Nonmetal, Nucleotide, O Organic compound, P Periodic table, Periodic table block, Poor metal, Protein, Proton, Pure substance, R RNA, Radioactive decay, Radiometric dating, Radiometric dating problems, Resonance structure, Ribose, S Synthetic element, T Temperature, Transition metal,
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An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that, in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle. - Francis Crick (Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine), Life Itself, Its Origin and Nature (1981), p. 88.
- RATE Book available Online! Available now for FREE download: the 676-page hardbound technical book with a dark blue cover, Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth: A Young-Earth Creationist Research Initiative.
- A cool solution to waste disposal A group of physicists in Germany claims to have discovered a way of speeding up radioactive decay that could render nuclear waste harmless on timescales of just a few tens of years. Physicsweb. July 31, 2006
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