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Greetings from France, I have just finished reading "True Science Agrees with the Bible", and like Dr. Gish, I found it "hard to put down". I have the distinct impression that your motivation for writing the book had nothing to do with seeking popularity or adulation, but I do want to just take the time to thank you for the countless hours of research and hard work that must have gone into the writing of this fascinating book.

I finished many chapters with a deep feeling of "relief" - just one example is the chapter on Geocentricity. I have often had a niggling difficulty at the back of my mind with several verses, particularly in the Psalms, which would seem to indicate that the sun revolves around the earth and not the other way around, and I had no satisfactory explanation for that. To discover that there is extra-biblical evidence in support of this is a great relief to me. I won't keep you any longer other than to say again, thanks for all the hard work. The book has given my wife and I much to think about. Keep up the good work!

Blessings, S.B.

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ADDENDUMS TO THE ORIGINAL TEXT The following information has been found after the printing of the book.

[1] In the chapter “Early British Christianity”, on page 124.6, Brutus was joined by Corineus in Spain. In the Daily Telegraph 30 June 2012 p11 it noted “Ancient DNA shows the British were Spaniards”. It begins “The oldest DNA recovered shows that our English ancestors came from Spain according to scientists.”

This is surely yet another confirmation of the accuracy of these old records that have been wilfully dismissed by anti-Christian historians for generations.

[2] Shankland’s collusion with Einstein in destroying the work of Dayton C. Miller is given on p.520-521.

Shankland should be added to the index under “Shakespear” on page 521.

"TRUE SCIENCE AGREES WITH THE BIBLE" SOME SUBJECTS IN THE BOOK First Section – Bible Summary 1. A SURVEY OF GENESIS. A critique of "Long Age" theories. Astronomical evidence for creation. Were the planets aligned at creation? The Water Vapour Canopy; evidence for and against its early existence. The frozen mammoths enigma - a solution? Flood stories in folk tales from around the world. Jonah - the "Bartley" story. Dinosaurs - their recent decline.

2. Early British Christianity c 60 AD. The British royal family (Linus and Claudia) mentioned in 2 Timothy 4:21. The censoring of British Christian history.

3. The young age of the earth - 16 scientific areas demonstrating this.

4. Three books critical of creation evidence shown to be flawed and misleading.

5. A MISCELLANY: Humorous quips in the science laboratory. The machinations behind the Scopes trial. Lady Hope; evidence for and against her account of Darwin's return to faith. The irrationality of Rationalism. Why science could only arise from the Christian faith.

Second Section - Appendices 6. The decrease in the speed of light. The scientific evidence. A reply to critics.

The results that support creation.

7. The evidence that the universe was created for man's existence. An important secular book's "Omega point" interpretation of the evidence criticised.

A critique of all non-Christian philosophies 8. Geology. A proposed new source for the strata. Problems facing creationists.

9. The sharp tilt of the earth's axis about 2345 BC. 10. The gospel in the God-given names of the stars.

11. Numbers in the Bible. Gematria; the mathematical evidence that the Bible is inspired by God. A critique of "Bible Codes".

12. A critique of Relativity. Why Einstein produced his theory. Why he and his theory received massive media "hype". The censoring of critics.

13. Geocentricity (the earth the centre of the universe) - the supporting

evidence that has been ignored. The mental barriers to accepting it examined.

14. Full Index and References

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TRUE SCIENCE AGREES WITH THE BIBLE

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Jesus said: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" John 8:32

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TRUE SCIENCE AGREES WITH THE BIBLE by Malcolm Bowden

Sovereign Publications 92 Bromley Common Bromley Kent BR2 9PF

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Copyright - M. Bowden (1998) Copyright of the text and illustrations are retained by the author.

However, short passages may be quoted and any of the illustrations may be copied without charge or obtaining permission, provided that for each item used there appears alongside it an acknowledgement of the title and author. As well as this book, this applies to all the other four books by the author, namely Ape-men; Fact or Fallacy?, The Rise of the Evolution Fraud, Science vs. Evolution and Breakdowns are good for you (On counselling from the Bible alone)

First Edition 1998 This E-book version May 2016 ISBN 0 9506042 4 0 Published by Sovereign Publications, 92 Bromley Common, Bromley, Kent, BR2 9PF, England

May 2016 - Publishing as an e-book In view of the high praise that readers have kindly expressed regarding the wide ranging contents of this book and the inclusion of many subjects not covered in other creation books, it was felt that to ensure the availability of the information in the book when printed stocks have been exhausted, the full contents should be converted to .pdf and published as an E-book. The page numbers and index remain basically the same as in the original book.

This has allowed some minor corrections to be made and a short review of the hostile reception by holders of the theory of Relativity to Miller's results has been added on page 521.

Typesetting The 10 point Times New Roman text was set using GST Pressworks Desk Top Publisher 2.03 programme. The illustrations were drawn with GST Designworks 2.02 Graphics programme. The front cover used CorelXara 1.5 graphics programme.

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DEDICATION to Barry Setterfield Barry Setterfield has laboured long and hard in several areas of importance to Christians, in matters doctrinal, theological, geological, astronomical and others. But this dedication is for his original pioneering work in the decrease in the speed of light. For this, he has had little recognition of his wide scientific abilities, his industry and input, and this book attempts, in some small measure, to correct this situation.

VIDEOS In addition, the author has made a number of videos on several subjects, mainly creation, geocentricity and True Biblical Counselling.

The full list can be seen on his website Go to www.mbowden.info - go to the indexx page and the list is near the bottom of that page.

Alternatively, go into YouTube and in the "Search" enter "Malcolm Bowden" when links to all videos will be listed.

In view of the changing features of the internet, if the website is difficult to find because of address changes, Google "Malcolm Bowden" and the website should be located.

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NOTES Unless otherwise noted, all emphasised words or passages within a quotation are made by the author of this book.

Powers of numbers are given as 10^2 and not the more familiar 102.

Figures are given in numerical order in each subsection. Where other figures are referred to in different sections these are given with their specific section and subsection - e.g. Fig. 2.3.5 is in Section 2, Subsection 3, Fig. 5.

REFERENCES Sufficient letters of an author’s name are given to identify him in the reference section. The page number follows a colon. Where he has more than one reference, the particular work is indicated by the year of publication; e.g. [Asp69:123]. Where he has more than one reference in the same year this is indicated by A, B etc.

BA = Biblical Astronomer; Journal of the Association for Biblical Astronomy (See ref. Bouw, G. 1992) CSM = Creation Science Movement, Box 888, Portsmouth PO6 2YD E or CENTJ = Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal, followed by volume(number):page. P.O. Box 6302, Acacia Ridge, D.C., Qld, 4110, Australia.

EB = Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th Ed., 1985 - followed by volume:page.

NBD = New Bible Dictionary 2nd Ed., Inter Varsity Press 1982.

Q or CRSQ = Creation Research Society Quarterly. Followed by volume/number:page. P.O. Box 8263, St. Joseph, MO 64508-8263, U.S.A. As a guide, the first volume was produced in July 1964.

Volume 34 no.1 in June 1997.

Impact Articles are produced by the Institute for Creation Research, P.O. Box 2667, El Cajon, CA 92021, U.S.A. SF = Science Frontiers: Issue number. Published by W. Corliss (see Appendix 9).

... AND ABBREVIATIONS c is the symbol used in physics for the speed of light.

CDK stands for “c decay” - the decrease in the speed of light.

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CONTENTS VOLUME 1 - Bible Survey

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Foreword Introduction

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1. Long-age theoriesA) The Gap Theory B) The “day-age” theory C) Wiseman’s “days of revelation” theory General difficulties The translation of “day” (yom) The Early Fathers’ views of Genesis The rise of long age theories 2. Astronomical anomalies 3. Were the planets aligned at creation?

4. The creation of Eve from Adam’s rib

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1. The Water Vapour Canopy theory and the age of the Patriarchs 2. The frozen mammoths enigma 3. The first rainbow 4. Noah’s drunkenness 5. Flood stories in folk tales 6. The dispersal from Babel 7. Early British Christianity 8. Israel and Egypt; archaeological confirmations 9. A Biblical chronology 10. Jonah and the “whale” 11. Dinosaurs

SECTION 1 - A SURVEY OF GENESIS 1-11 Genesis 1 - 2:3 - The creation of the universe Genesis 2:4 - 25 - The second account of creation.

Genesis 3-6:4 - The Fall and its effects Genesis 6:5 - 9 - The Flood Genesis 10 - 11 - The Table of Nations

SECTION 2 - THE CREATION EXAMINED

SECTION 3 - GENESIS 6-11 - THE FLOOD

SECTION 4 - THE AGE OF THE EARTH AND UNIVERSE 194 198 200 205 206 209

1. Radiometric dating 2. Carbon 14 dating 3. The decrease in the earth’s magnetic field 4. The shrinkage of the sun 5. The earth’s rotation 6. The cooling of the earth vii

Page 210 214 217 218 219 221 222 223 225 226

Contents 7. Polonium haloes 8. Spiral arms of galaxies 9. The age of stars and planets 10. The micrometeoric dust on the earth or moon 11. Short-term comets 12. Helium in the atmosphere 13. Continental erosion 14. The population increase 15. Trapped gas, oil and water 16. Other evidence

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1. A secular critic: Moore’s article 2. A critique of Portraits of Creation 3. A critique of Hayward’s Creation and Evolution

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1. The decrease in the speed of light 2. The anthropic cosmological principle 3. The unique properties of water 4. Geology 5. The tilt of the earth’s axis 6. The Gospel in the stars 7. Numbers in the Bible 8. A critique of relativity 9. Is today’s “science” true?

10. Geocentrism - a heresy?

Some concluding thoughts The Final Curtain References Index

SECTION 5 - REPLIES TO CRITICS

SECTION 6 - INTERLUDE - A MISCELLANY OF ITEMS Poor Bill’s almanac Mendel’s results “too good to be true” Alice in Wonderland and evolution How the Scopes Trial was “fixed” The barriers to mass publicity The Lady Hope “story” - a re-examination God’s hidden presence The irrationality of Rationalism The Christian basis of science

VOLUME 2 SECTION 7 - APPENDICES

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List of Illustrations

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VOLUME 1 1.1 The creation of the universe 11 13 27 31

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Water Vapour Canopy Classification groups The dimensions of the Ark A typical ziggurat

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1 Electromagnetic spectrum 2 Planetary data 3 The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

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1 Possible planet alignments in 4001 BC?

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1 The Beresovka mammoth 2 The sites of the frozen mammoths and rhinoceros 3 The baby woolly mammoth

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1 The production of rainbows

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1 The Flood stories in folklore 2 Chinese pictograms and the Bible

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The Indo-European language group The dispersal of the nations from Babel Noah’s descendants and the races of man Possible migrations in Europe after Babel Abraham’s descendants The orthodox “archaeological ages” of civilisations The Acheulian “hand axe” and its spinning flight

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The “Brutus Stone” at Totnes The “Tunic” cross at Feoch, Truro The British-Roman relationships Early British chronology

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1 The chronology of Israel 2 The Nile delta 3 Is this the damaged head of Joseph’s statue?

2.2 Astronomical anomalies

2.3 Were the planets aligned at creation?

3.1 The Water Vapour Canopy theory The life spans of the patriarchs The present day radiation hazards Cosmic ray deflection by the earth’s magnetic field The approach of radiation

3.2 The frozen mammoths enigma

3.3 The first rainbow 3.5 Flood stories in folk tales 3.6 The dispersal from Babel

3.7 Early British Christianity

3.8 Israel and Egypt: Archaeological confirmations

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Illustrations

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4 Jericho - Garstang’s trench section 5 Jericho - Kenyon’s Trench 1 section 6 The Great Pyramid at Giza

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1 Dates of creation 2 The original Biblical chronology (Israelites 215 yrs in Egypt) 3 The revised Biblical chronology (Israelites 430 yrs in Egypt)

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1 Two pictures of the fish-god “Oannes”

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1 The poor correlation of radiometric dates 2 Non-stabilised rise of C14 at ground level 3 C14 correction curves 4 Decrease in the earth’s magnetic field 5 Tidal bulges due to the moon 6 The earth’s theoretical rate of rotation in the past 7 Decay of Uranium 238 and the resulting haloes 8 Typical spiral galaxies 9 How galaxies “wind up” 10 Graph of population increase

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1 The decrease of the sun’s diameter

3.9 A Biblical chronology

3.10 Jonah and the “whale” 3.11 Dinosaurs Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus - Job’s Behemoth?

The Babylonian “Sirrush” The Japanese carcase - side view The Japanese carcase - rear view The biologist’s drawing A Plesiosaur’s skeleton A Basking shark The carcase on the deck showing the horny fibres on the front paddle

4. Age of the earth and universe

5.2 A critique of “Portraits of Creation” 7 - APPENDICES - VOLUME 2 7.1 The decrease in the speed of light 292 293 294 295 297 299 300 301 311

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The toothed wheel method of measurement of the speed of light Pulkova aberration measurements The decrease in the speed of light - 1740 - 1883 The decrease in the speed of light - 1860 - 1983 The increase of two “constants” The decrease in the charge to mass ratio The expected trend of experimental results if “c” was constant Graph demonstrating error of “weighting” curves The ancient sport of “Dino jumping”

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7.2 The anthropic cosmological principle 315 317 318 319 327 333

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A graph of mass and size The “Inverse square law” ratio Bode’s law predictions The “Square-cube” law “Prisoner’s dilemma” table of options The life spans of some prominent men

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The volume of water as it freezes The tetrahedron shape of the water molecules in ice The hexagonal pattern of snowflakes The unexpected melting and boiling points of water The separation of salt (NaCl) in water The capillary forces of water and the reverse effect of mercury The shaping action of water molecules Repeated patterns in a dripping tap

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1 A typical evolutionary geological column 2 Coverage of the earth by the ten geological periods 3 Crack propagation in crystallised silica producing sand grains 4 The “interfingering” of different strata 5 The rising pockets of material through chalk 6 How unconformities are produced 7 Sudden death at dinner time!

8 Proposed formation of coal seams 9 The fit of the continents 10 Crustal plates and mountain ranges 11 “Benard cells” of circulation 12 The depths of the continents 13 Oronteus Finaeus's 1532 map of the South Pole with the correct location of the continents 14 The eccentricity of the earth’s magnetic axis 15 The possible “Eddy current” production of magnetic reversals 16 A “Black smoker” 17 Rapid deposition of stratified layers in flowing water

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7.3 The unique properties of water

7.4 Geology

7.5 The tilt of the earth’s axis The principle of gnomons The predicted tilt and the gnomon records The changing tilt shown by the ancient gnomon records The varying alignments of Karnak Temple

7.6 The gospel in the stars 420-1

The figures of the Zodiac

7.7 Numbers in the Bible 429 429 431

1 The numerical values of Hebrew and Greek letters 2 The gematria of Genesis 1:1 3 The pyramid of letters in Gen. 1:1 when arranged alphabetically xi

Illustrations Page 439 4 The “Equidistant Letter Sequences” pattern of Rabin’s assassination

7.8 A critique of relativity 446 446 449 451 459 460 461

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The Michelson-Morley experiment The basis of the Michelson-Morley experiment The deflection of starlight passing the sun The varied plots of two stars The moving train and the two lightning flashes The passing rockets Kantor’s experiment

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1 Disturbance of pendulums during an eclipse 2 The spinning disc and magnet anomaly

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1 The various planetary systems 2 The moving and stationary tubes (telescopes) 3 Aberration and parallax 4 Fresnell drag 5 The Coriolis effect 6 The elliptical curve of the Foucault pendulum 7 The balance of forces on the geostationary satellite 8 The Michelson-Gale experiment 9 Sagnac’s experiment 10 Varshni’s “shells” of galaxies 11 The Barr “effect” in binary stars

7.9 Is today’s “science” true?

7.10 Geocentrism - a heresy?

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Acknowledgements I would like to thank several friends who commented upon certain sections on which they had specialist knowledge. Three in particular, Bill Cooper, Gerardus Bouw and Brad Sparks, are also acknowledged in those sections that are founded on their work. Pete Williams, a Hebrew scholar, helped with several points regarding translations. Michael Oard, David Cox and Paul Garner commented on parts of Appendix 4 - Geology, but did not necessarily agree with my final conclusions.

Acknowledgements for publications Fig.3.2.3 - “The frozen mammoths sites” - is based on Walter Brown's In the Beginning Fig. 65 with his kind permission.

Fig. 3.5.1 - “Flood stories in folklore” - is based on Byron C. Nelsons chart in The Deluge Story in Stone by permission of Bethany House Publishers.

Poor Bill’s Almanac in Section 6 is reprinted with the permission of the editor of the Creation Research Society Quarterly.

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Foreword The book True Science Agrees with the Bible by Malcolm Bowden is another of his thoroughly researched, highly readable books on the vitally important subject of the Bible and science. When I started to read it, I found it hard to put down since he has included so many fascinating and important subjects in his book, many of which are not discussed in other works.

As the reader will discover, Bowden covers a wide range of material, including a survey of Genesis, archaeological discoveries, the age of the earth, early British Christianity and the founding of Britain, and a critique of Einstein’s theories of relativity, just to name a few. Bowden’s position on a few subjects may be controversial, but he provides a careful, thorough defense of his acceptance or rejection of the subject in question.

This book contains a wealth of material that will be of interest to scientists, pastors, students, and the average layman. We owe a great debt of gratitude to Malcolm Bowden for the countless hours he has spent in researching this material and assembling it in an enjoyable and easily readable form.

Duane T. Gish, PhD Senior Vice President Institute for Creation Research El Cajon, California 92021

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