The Creation Guys

Episode #004 : Intelligence, Bones and Chromosomes

It's often said that Intelligent Design is simply "creationism repackaged" - is that true? After all, they both think we are the result of intelligence, don't they? What about "vestigial bones" found within whales that, according to Creationists, never used to walk on land - doesn't this completely debunk the "creation myth"? And what on Earth would a Creationist say if you showed them "undeniable biological evidence" clearly showing a "connection" between men and chimps?

Tune in to this episode to see how a couple of "anti-science bible-thumpers" hold up under direct scrutiny!

Snelling OWNS a Scamming Evolutionist

Answers in Genesis recently started their online peer-reviewed journal, Answers Research Journal (ARJ). Current papers online include the following:

Anyway, to make a long-story short, a blog apparently hosted a contest to see who could scam the journal first, by getting a shoddy paper published. One fellow took up the challenge, and submitted his paper "A New Method for Determining the Maximum Age of Mostly Single-Phase Rocks".

The ARJ editor spotted the attempt quickly, and proceeded to steam this fellow pretty badly. A couple of Dr. Snelling's criticisms follow:

  • "[Y]ou state you are a materials scientist, but your knowledge of the geological subject you are supposedly writing about is highly deficient. . . . For example, feldspar is not silica, but a complex aluminosilicate. Granites are not just composed of feldspars, but 20-30% quartz. No granite I'm aware of from the literature contains >85 wt % SiO2, least of all alkali granite."
  • "Your paper . . . is deficient as a serious scientific paper. Any reputable journal would require a geologic map showing exactly where you obtained your samples. The western region of Norway is composed largely of high grade metamorphic rocks."
  • "I find your methodology highly suspect at best. The water content of rocks cannot be an indicator of age since formation, since water can be introduced at any time in a rock's history depending where it lies in the earth's crust. Then you claim you crushed the rocks to obtain x-ray spectrums of just feldspar, but to disaggregate the rocks like that doesn't allow for the spatial analysis you are claiming for individual grains, as per your claimed model. Besides, water diffuses into a grain from the edges, not from the centres."

This is all rather ironic, isn't it? Evolutionists claim that Creationists are incompetent and outright dishonest, and then evolutionists are the ones sponsoring contests to submit false research to peer-reviewed journals? Dr. Snelling stated the following after catching this scam attempt:

"I was absolutely amazed that the perpetrator could have thought he would be successful with such an obviously bogus paper with such ridiculously poor methodology and clearly erroneous geologic and mineralogic details. What is sad is that this failed attempt demonstrates that evolutionists are prepared to sacrifice their scientific integrity to try to discredit creationists. However, we shouldn't be surprised, as their is no basis for moral behavior and integrity in the evolutionists’ worldview, which has spawned many recent examples of outright fraud in the scientific literature, even perpetrated by high-profile academics!"

I recommend reading Caught in the Act! over at Answers in Genesis.