Creation Science

This topic was presented on May 14, 2000. The presentation was a discussion of the tactics used by Creation Scientists and the threat they pose to modern scientific education. Following is a list of web links about these topics.

Click here to read the presentation that I am using on the show. (MS Word format)

Links to general Creation Science websites:

• The Institute for Creation Research: http://www.icr.org
• "Big Daddy?" - a tract by Jack Chick: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp
  A comic book fairy tale about how a handsome upstanding Aryan boy defeats and humiliates the evil, closed-minded, hot-tempered and stupid evolution professor. Lots of great fantasy, including the startling revelation that God personally holds each individual atom together.
• Kent Hovind's official website: http://www.drdino.com
  Including the infamous "challenge".

Links to general anti-Creation sites:

• Skeptic's Dictionary entry on Creationists and Creation Scientists: http://www.skepdic.com/creation.html
• The General Anti-Creationism FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions): http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-meritt/age.html
  A point by point rebuttal to some of the more common arguments that the earth is 6000 years old, etc.
• Meteorite Dust and the Age of the Earth: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/moon-dust.html.
  A response to the specific argument that moon dust should be a hundred feet thick
• "Debates and the Globetrotters": http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/debating/globetrotters.html
  An interesting discussion of how Creationists debate, and what you can do about it.

Sites about Kent Hovind:

• The Wild, Wild World of Kent Hovind: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple/9917/hovind/wild_hovind.html
  Contains descriptions of Hovind's tactics, answers to Hovind's "unanswerable" questions, recounts of people who have tried to meet his challenge.
• Kent Hovind's Challenge to Evolutionists: http://www.onthenet.com.au/~stear/kent_hovind's_challenge.htm
  More on Hovind's phony challenge.
• 300 Creationist Lies
  http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Pier/1766/hovindlies
  Factually picks apart a Hovind sermon, finding an average of one error on every page.

Books you ought to read:

• Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
  A good beginner book explaining in simple terms the mechanisms that make evolution work.
• Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable
  A somewhat more advanced book discussing the specific development of particular animals and their features. You can probably tell I'm quite partial to Dawkins.

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