In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood

This is the online edition of In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood (8th Edition, Draft) by Dr. Walt Brown.
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Pääbo, Svante 1

Pacific Ocean 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Page, Arizona 1

Page, Don N. 1

Page, Jake 1

Paige, David A. 1

Pakistan 1

paleontologist 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

paleontology 1, 2, 3

Paley, William (1743–1805) 1

Palmer Peninsula 1

Palmer, Craig T. 1

Palmer, Ralph S. 1

Paluxy River 1

Paneth, F. A. 1

pangenesis 1

panspermia 1

Pappas, T. 1

parabolic orbits 1

paradigm shift 1, 2

parallel strata (layers) 1, 2, 3

parasite 1, 2

Parker, Eugene N. 1

Parker, Gary E. 1

Parkes, R. John 1

parsimony 1

Parsons, Thomas J. 1

Pascal, Blaise (1623–1662) 1

Pasteur, Louis (1822–1895) 1

patriarchs 1

Patrusky, Ben 1

Patten, Donald Wesley 1

Patterson, C. Stuart 1, 2, 3

Patterson, Colin (1938–1998) 1, 2, 3

Paunsaugunt Fault 1

peanut-shaped 1

Pearthree, Philip A. 1

Peebles, James 1

Peebles, P. J. E. 1

Peet, Stephen D. 1

Peking man 1

Peleg 1, 2, 3

peleg (Hebrew for divided by water) 1

peneplains 1, 2

Pennisi, Elizabeth 1, 2

Penniston, John B. 1

Penrose, Eric 1

Pentateuch 1

Pepin, O. O. 1

Pepys, Samuel 1

perihelions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Perkins, Sid 1, 2, 3

permineralization 1

Persians, 360-day year 1

personal responsibility 1

Peru-Chile Trench 1

Peruvians, 360-day year 1

pesticide 1

petaFLOPS computers 1

Peter the Great 1

Peterson, Ivars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Petit, Charles 1

petrified forests 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Pettersson, Hans 1

Péwé, Troy L. 1, 2, 3

Pfizenmayer, E. W. 1, 2, 3

phenotype 1

Philippine Trench 1

Philippines 1

Phillips, W. D. 1

Phobos 1

Phoebe 1

phosphate beds 1

photosynthesis 1, 2, 3

phyla 1, 2, 3

pictographs, Chinese 1, 2

Pierce Canyon 1

Pierce, Michael J. 1

piezoelectric effect 1

pig’s tooth in Nebraska “man” 1

Pigeon Canyon 1

pillars in subterranean chamber 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

Piltdown man 1, 2

ping-pong ball analogy 1

Pink Cliffs 1

Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft 1, 2, 3, 4

Piri Re’is map 1, 2

Pithecanthropus erectus 1

Pitman, Michael 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Pitman, Walter 1

Pixie, N. W. 1

placebo 1

placentals 1

Planck’s constant 1

planetary nebula 1, 2

planetary rings 1, 2, 3

planetesimals 1, 2, 3

planets 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

angular momentum of 1

backward orbits of their moons 1

backward-spinning 1

definition 1

difficulty evolving 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Earth 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

formation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

free-floating 1

gaseous 1

giant 1

gravitational attraction 1

hot 1, 2

inclined orbits of their moons 1

Jupiter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Mars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Mercury 1, 2, 3, 4

Neptune 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

nonspinning, if they evolved 1

outside the solar system 1

Pluto 1, 2

rocky 1

Saturn 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

strange 1

unique 1

Uranus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Venus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

plants 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

amino acids in 1

at polar latitudes 1, 2, 3, 4

biblical references to 1, 2

bioluminescence in 1

buried in flood 1, 2

carbon-14 in 1, 2

distinct types 1

DNA 1, 2

edible 1

first 1, 2, 3, 4

flowering 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

fossil gaps 1

fossil record 1

fossilization of 1, 2, 3

found in mammoth’s stomach 1, 2

immune system 1

in rock ice 1, 2

in yedoma soil 1

index fossils 1

left and right handedness 1

marine 1

mutations 1

origin of 1

photosynthesis 1

poisonous 1, 2

pollen-bearing 1

radiocarbon dating 1

reestablished after flood 1

relating to canopy theory 1

sexual reproduction in 1

symbiotic relationships 1

transitional 1, 2

tropical 1

vascular 1, 2

yucca 1

plate tectonic theory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

coal in Antarctica 1

explanation for Grand Canyon 1

explanation for trenches 1, 2

fracture zones 1, 2

heat as basic driving mechanism 1

lacking explanations 1, 2

magnetic anomalies 1

overlapping spreading centers 1

plate movements 1, 2

plate thicknesses 1, 2

push, pull, and drag 1

triple junctions 1

plateaus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Colorado 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

Columbia 1, 2, 3

Deccan 1, 2

definition of 1, 2

formation of 1, 2, 3, 4

Kaibab 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

problems forming 1

Tibetan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Platt, Rutherford H. 1

platypus 1, 2

plesiosaur 1, 2

plumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

plumes, liquefaction

forming mechanism 1

Pluto 1, 2, 3, 4

Poinar, George O. Jr. 1

Poinar, Hendrick N. 1

Poirier, Jules H. 1

polar moment of inertia 1, 2, 3

Poliakov, Alexei N. B. 1

pollen 1, 2, 3

polls 1, 2

Polynesian Islands 1

polystrate fossils (trees) 1

pooled water under mountains 1

Popov, A. I. 1

Popov, Y. N. 1

population II stars 1

population III stars 1, 2, 3

Porfir’ev, V. B. 1

porpoise 1

Portugal 1

positrons 1

postflood

carvings 1

continents 1, 2

geography 1

lakes 1, 2, 3

mountains 1

rivers 1

potassium-argon dating 1, 2

potential energy 1

potholes 1

Powell, Corey S. 1

Powell, James Lawrence 1, 2

Powell, Jerry A. 1

Powell, John Wesley (1834–1902) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Powers, Pam 1

Poynting-Robertson effect 1, 2, 3

Precambrian 1, 2

fossils 1

rocks 1, 2

precession 1, 2, 3, 4

precipitation 1

precision 1, 2, 3

precision vs. accuracy 1

predator 1, 2

predictions as test of scientific theory 1, 2

predictions of evolution

abundance of elements 1

background radiation 1

based on the big bang theory 1

evolving new features 1

fracture zones 1

genetic distances 1

helium to hydrogen ratio 1

life on Mars 1

moon dust 1

no fossil gaps 1, 2

no soft-bodied fossils 1

planetary formation 1

too much beryllium 1

predictions of hydroplate theory

1. pooled water under mountains 1

2. salty water in very deep cracks 1

3. hidden canyons 1

4. decelerating plates 1

5. fracture zones 1

6. hydrothermal vents 1

7. granite layer under Pacific floor 1

8. fossils in and near trenches 1

9. inner core decelerating 1

10. age of Hawaiian islands 1

11. wide varves not under lakes 1

12. chemistry of lake basins 1

13. slot canyons, deep cracks 1

14. the inner gorge is a crack 1

15. fault under monocline 1

16. loess at bottom of ice cores 1

17. muck on Siberian plateaus 1

18. rock ice is salty 1

19. bubbles in rock ice 1

20. muck particles in rock ice 1

21. no fossils below mammoths 1

22. radiocarbon dating mammoths 1

23. ice age can be demonstrated 1

24. salt on Mars 1

25. moons around some comets 1

26. mass of solar system 1

27. strange comet pairs 1

28. heavy hydrogen in deep water 1

29. salt and bacteria in comets 1

30. no Oort cloud 1

31. no incoming hyperbolic comets 1

32. argon only in comet crust 1

33. asteroids are rock piles 1

34. asteroid rocks are magnetized 1

35. mining asteroids too costly 1

36. air deposit of Mars’ sediments 1

37. heavy hydrogen in space 1

38. carbon-14 in “old” bones 1

39. bacteria on Mars 1

preflood

atmosphere 1, 2, 3, 4

canopy 1

crust 1

earth 1

forests 1

hilltops 1

mountains 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

patriarchs 1

rain 1

rivers 1

Prevot, M. 1

Price, George McCready (1870–1963) 1

Price, Huw 1

Pride, Mary 1

Priest, F. G. 1

Prigogine, Ilya 1

primates 1, 2, 3

principles of evolutionary geology

superposition 1

uniformity 1

Prior, G. T. 1

Prochaska, Jason X. 1

Proctor, Richard A. (1837–1888) 1, 2

prograde orbits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

programs in genetic material 1

progressive creation 1

prokaryotes 1, 2

propellers in bacterial motors 1

proteins 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Protoavis 1

Ptolemy, Claudius Ptolemaeus (ca. A.D. 100–175) 1

public opinion 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

public schools 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

punctuated equilibrium 1