The General Anti-Creationism FAQ

by Jim Meritt

Originally formatted for the web by Tedd Hadley

Topics:

Age (see also The Young Earth FAQs)

• Methods of dating the earth are inaccurate.
• Radioactive dating can't be calibrated.
• Radioactive decay rates did not remain constant.
• K-Ar dating of Hawaiian lava is wildly inaccurate.
• Helmholtz's contraction theory says the sun is < 20,000,000 years.
• Sun is shrinking by ~5 feet per hour.
• Lunar dust--only 1 to 3 inches, not 54 feet.
• Deterioration of earth's magnetic field
• Atmospheric helium should have built up.
• Receding moon would have been touching earth.
• All comets would have disintegrated after 10,000 years.
• 3000 years was time enough for all languages, religions to develop.
• Erosion should've dumped at least 30 times more sediment in the sea.
• Top soil
• Mississippi delta would have formed in 5000 years.
• Niagara Falls-the rim is wearing back
• Deterioration of earth's magnetic field
• Not enough dissolved minerals in oceans.
• Other "geological clocks" that suggest a "young" earth
• Polonium halos
• Oldest living things
• Exponential population growth
• "No people of English descent are more distantly related..."
• The animals couldn't have distributed themselves all over the globe.
• Geographic distribution of quadrupeds
• Lewis Overthrust, Northern Montana, Glacier Nat'l Monument.
• The are no layers which require more than 6000 years to build up

Chaos and Complexity

• Life is too complex to have happened by chance.
• Complexity from simplicity
• Evolution violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
• The creation of matter or energy is not now taking place
• Various conceivable patterns fail to emerge
• Half of the amino acids should be right-handed
• Mathematical probability
• Changes calling for numerous coordinated innovations
• Chaos theory & biology
• The fundamental principle of evolution contradictory to established laws
• We have never seen any natural processes which result in a complexity increase.
• The great complexity of nature shows it was designed.
• There is no evidence of biological life anywhere else in the universe
• Odds too great

The Bible (see also God and Evolution FAQ)

• Biblical cosmology.
• The Bible says so.
• The Bible is accurate on other points, so it must be accurate on creation.
• Referring to a genesis "day"
• Later Biblical characters (Moses & Paul) refer to the fact of creation
• Even Jesus Christ believed in the Genesis record of creation.
• It is impossible to believe the Bible and to believe in evolution.
• Place of man's origin: Evidence confirms origin in one locality.
• Order of events in creation matches what an observer would have seen:
• Earth is unsupported (Job 26:7)
• Earth is round (Isaiah 40:22)
• Water cycle is described (Eccl. 1:7)
• History is accurate.
• The Bible is harmonious throughout.
• Numerous prophecies fulfilled.
• The Bible is always right
• Fall of man: Records say civilization was man's original condition.
• Mitochondrial DNA showes that mankind arose from one female.
• Man and dinosaurs coexisted.
• The Bible Has Two Creation Stories
• Religion's views on creationism:
• Religion's views

The Flood (see also The Flood Faqs)

• Evidence of rapid removal of soil, forest in arctic.
• No more fossils being made
• Folded rocks show that it was done when they were soft
• Sea shells on mountains: evidence of flood
• Noah's Ark - the construction problems
• Noah's Ark - What to leave behind
• Noah's Ark - The issue of marine animals being left behind
• Hydraulic sorting
• Timing problems
• The Noah's Ark Myths
• Parallel myths

Science and Evolution

• Creationism deserves equal time
• Evolutionists themselves admit they have no proof
• Evolutionists themselves have admitted to flaws in their argument.
• Some scientists don't agree
• Evolution isn't a science
• Rift between mathematicians & biologists
• The doctrine of evolution is atheistic and therefore immoral.
• Competition for survival implies "strife, hatred, war, and death."
• Many evil social doctrines it has spawned.

Evolution (see also The Evolution FAQs)

• Mutations are rare and harmful.
• Complex organs couldn't have arisen from a single mutation
• Vestigial organs are probably the results of mutational changes
• The puzzle of how organs, once evolved, come to be lost (degeneration).
• Vestigial organs
• Pre-adaptation: Organs appear before they are needed.
• Why did man lose his hair and tail?
• No new species (alternately, "kinds") are evolving today.
• Slight variation can't turn one kind into another.
• Just because two animals LOOK similar does not mean there is "common ancestor
• Mendelian inheritance says that recessive characters reappear
• Hybrids are infertile, so a newly evolved individual couldn't breed.
• The failure of some organisms to evolve at all.
• No new phyla, classes, or orders have appeared.
• The occurrence of parallel evolution, in which similar structures evolve
• Many species have remained absolutely fixed throughout geologic time.
• A great many modern species are very evident degenerate.
• All the great phyla appear quite suddenly in the fossil record.
• The suddenness with which major changes occurred
• Many extinctions lack obvious reasons.
• Selection cannot change the frequency of variants.
• Impossible gulfs between living organisms
• Galaxy formation.
• Evolution doesn't explain personality, emotion, reason, conscience, etc.
• Embryology
• Evolution doesn't explain abiogenesis or how genes are expressed.
• The existence of long-term trends (orthogenesis).
• "Overshoot" or evolutionary "momentum" occurs.
• Over-specialization with no adaptive value.
• Embryology offers testimony to a great Designer
• What is known to be true about evolution?
• Why are men alone so murderous of their own species?
• There are gaps in the fossil record
• Heart Mountain, north of Cody WY
• Unexplained by uniformitarian model on which the evolutionary model is based
• A near planetary collision
• Shifting the poles rapidly over Hapgood's waveguide zone
• Can this all be just mutation and natural selection?
• Evolution doesn't make sense

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