CRSQ Volume 18

Creation Research Society Quarterly Haec credimus: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is and rested on the seventh. — Exodus 20:11 VOLUME 18 JUNE, 1981 NUMBER 1 CREATION RESEARCH SOCIETY QUARTERLY Copyright 1981 © by Creation Research Society VOLUME 18 JUNE, 1981 NUMBER 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page EDITORIAL BOARD Dedication to Wilbert Henry Rusch, Sr. 3 Wayne Frair Harold L. Armstrong, Editor Design in Nature: the Fiery Skipper Butterfly 4 Couper Street Hylephila Phyleus (Drury) as an Efficient Feeder on Kingston, Ontario, Canada Flowers of Lantana Camara L. 4 Walter E. Lammerts, Research Editor Joseph M. Rea The Episteme is the Theory . 8 Thomas G. Barnes ......................... University of Texas at El Paso, Texas Randall Hedtke Duane T. Gish ................................... Institute for Creation Research, San Diego, Calif. A Physicist Looks at Evolution . 14 H. S. Lipson George F. Howe ........................... Los Angeles Baptist College, Newhall, Calif. A Pre-Main-Sequence Stellar Model John W. Klotz. ............................ Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, MO. Applied to Close Binary Star Systems . 15 Jon K. West John N. Moore ...................................... Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan Alleged Evolution of the order Primates, Henry M. Morris ........................ Institute for Creation Research, Including Monkeys and Apes. 20 San Diego, Calif. W. Mehlert William J. Tinkle ................................ Anderson College (retired) “Punctuated Equilibrium” and the North Manchester, Indiana Macro-Micromutation Controversy . 22 John C. Whitcomb ......................... Grace Theological Seminary, A. James Melnick Winona Lake, Ind. Let Us Reason Together . 25 Emmett Williams ....................... Continental Telephone Laboratories, William J. Tinkle Norcross, Georgia The Sun’s Luminosity and Age . 27 Notices of change of address, and failure to receive this publication James Hanson should be sent to Wilbert H. Rusch, Sr. 2717 Cranbrook Road, Ann Time and Ancient Records . 30 Arbor, Michigan 48104. David C. C. Watson Creation Research Society Quarterly is published by the Creation Satellite Observations Confirm the Research Society, 2717 Cranbrook Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan Decline of the Earth’s Magnetic Field . 39 48104. © by Creation Research Society. Thomas G. Barnes Creation Research Society Quarterly is indexed in the Christian Creationism and Continental Drift. 42 Periodical Index. G. Robert Morton The Essential Nonexistence of the Evolutionary- Uniformitarian Geologic Column: A Quantitative Assessment . 46 John Woodmorappe Popgen I: Computer Simulation of Population Genetics . 71 Lane P. Lester COVER ILLUSTRATION Panorama of Science . 73 The illustration on the front cover shows the but- Book Reviews (1) . 75 terflies Hylephila phyleus, a male on the left and a Letters to the Editor (5) . 76 female on the right, on flowers of Lantana camara. Study shows that these butterflies exhibit a very con- siderable degree of efficiency in their foraging, avoiding useless stops and unnecessarily long flights. A Creation- ELECTION RESULTS ist can view this as another provision of the Creator, Who made these creatures well suited to their way of In the annual election, held earlier this year, the life. following persons were elected to the Board of Director, Mr. Joseph M. Rea provided this picture, and carried for a term of three years, 198l-1983. out the studies during which it was taken. His work is Clifford L. Burdick John R. Meyer described in an article elsewhere in this issue of the Wayne Frair John N. Moore Quarterly. George F. Howe George Mulfinger, Jr. VOLUME 18, JUNE, 1981 3 DEDICATION TO WILBERT HENRY RUSCH, SR. The Creation Research Society is pleased to dedicate its 18th Annual Issue to its most recently-elected fellow, Wilbert Henry Rusch, Sr., who is the only person who has been serving continuously as an officer of the society since its inception in 1963. His tenure began when John Grebe handed him a check for $500. From 1963 through 1967 he served as treasurer-membership secretary of the C.R.S.; and since 1968 when respon- sibilities of his office were divided, he remained as membership secretary. His extensive duties in this capacity have included maintaining the membership roll, receiving dues and membership applications and mailing the quarterlies. Also, since his name and address are listed prominently on applications, he serves as the main interface of the C.R.S. officers not only with C.R.S. members, but also with those outside the society. Consequently he receives most of the mail to the society and over the years has had to deal with numerous dif- ficult questions and problems. Son of a River Forest, Illinois, college professor, Bill Rusch was born in Chicago, 19 February 1913. He was educated at Grace Lutheran School and Concordia High School, River Forest (1929 graduate); Concordia Teachers College, River Forest (diploma, 1931); Illinois Institute of Technology (B.S., 1934); U. of Michigan (M.S. in biology, 1952); Eastern Michigan U., Ypsilanti (Sp.S., 1969). He has studied at a number of universities including Purdue and U. of Nebraska, the latter for graduate work in geology. In 1975 Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis awarded him the Doctor of Laws degree. member of the Nebraska Academy of Science and serv- Dr. Rusch’s teaching career began in 1932 when he ed as a member of the Board of Directors 1960-1963. was instructor of music and mathematics at Concordia From 1964-1980 he was a member of the National Teachers College, Seward, Nebraska. He has a stint in Association of Geology Teachers. the U.S. postal service, graduate studies in chemistry, Dr. Rusch has published in the Creation Research and taught at the Junior Military Academy, Chicago, Society Quarterly three book reviews and six papers in- 1936-1937. For the next 20 years he was on the faculty cluding: “Analysis of So-called Evidences of of the old Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Evolution”, “The Revelation of Palynology”, “Recapi- teaching mathematics, physical sciences and biology. tulation”, “Human Footprints in Rocks”, “Poor Bill’s During this time he moonlighted at the Purdue Univer- Almanac”, and “Darwin’s Last Hours”. Also he has sity Extension Services and Lutheran Hospital School of written chapters on creation (Darwinism, Human Nursing, Fort Wayne. After another six years at Con- Fossils, and Analysis of Evidences) for three Concordia cordia in Seward, this time as a biology, physics and books. He published his Tree Key for the Great Lakes geology professor, he transferred to what now is Con- States (2 editions). cordia College in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where since its He has presented talks on creation in many places in- beginning in 1963 he has served as a professor of cluding campuses of the U. of Michigan, U. of Arkan- biology and geology and as head of the Science and sas, South Dakota State, U. of South Dakota, and U. of Mathematics Division. Also he has been alternately Ac- Oklahoma. Also he has participated in large public ting President and Academic Dean there for several United States creation conventions including the first in years in the 1970’s. In 1980 he became Professor Los Angeles in 1963 as well as subsequent ones in Emeritus. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1972; Anaheim, California, in In 1937 Dr. Rusch married Margaret Kogge of 1979; and River Forest, Illinois, in 1980. Chicago; and they have five children and eleven grand- People talk about the days when one man could children. understand the totality of science. This kind of person Bill Rusch’s activities have included membership in becomes rarer with passing years, but Bill Rusch is one the National Association of Biology Teachers of the best examples I know of who exemplifies this type 1952-1979; and he was their Nebraska State Member- of person today. His interests are broad, his knowledge ship Chairman 1959-1963. He was a member of the Na- encyclopedic, and his administrative and scholarly cap- tional Science Teachers Association 1958-1963 and abilities noteworthy. Currently Dr. Rusch is serving as served on the planning committee for a regional con- editor for a revised C.R.S. high school biology textbook. vention in 1961. Also while in Nebraska he was a Contributed by Wayne Frair 4 CREATION RESEARCH SOCIETY QUARTERLY DESIGN IN NATURE: THE FIERY SKIPPER BUTTERFLY HYLEPHILA PHYLEUS (DRURY) AS AN EFFICIENT FEEDER ON FLOWERS OF LANTANA CAMARA L. JOSEPHM. REA* Received 1 August, 1980 The Fiery Skipper butterfly Hylephila phyleus Drury forages efficiently on flowers of Lantana camara L. Hylephila phyleus feeds preferentially from florets of L. camara likely to contain nectar. While foraging on a small artificial patch of flowers of L. camara. H. phyleus chooses the closest flowers 80% of the time. Analysis of foraging bouts on the artificial patch of 3 flower visits in sequence revealed a frequency of revisitation lower than that expected from a random foraging model. This small butterfly demonstrates a neurological program, endowed at the creation, for efficient foraging. Biolclrical literature is replete with examples of mor- that yellow flowers of Lantana contain nectar, but by phological features of animals that contribute to sur- the time the flowers turn reddish-orange (a different vival. However, structural features alone do not insure variety of Lantana camara than the present study) they survival. Appropriate animal behavior, within each contain no nectar. ecological context is also essential for survival. The Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus feeds at high Since the biosphere was created by an infinitely wise densities on Lantana camara plants, hence is suitable God we can expect that he has programmed the nervous for a study of foraging behavior. Lantana camara has system (via genes) of His creatures with the ability to an indeterminate panicle inflorescence with many make decisions that result in incurred benefit. This salverform, slightly zygomorphic florets per flower seems obvious with respect to man, but perhaps not so head.

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