Creationism

Transcript of today's show:Ken Ham’s Creation Museum planetarium uses blue supergiant stars to prove that the universe is very young — only thousands of years old. Dr. Jason Lisle, astrophysicist for the museum, claims that because blue supergiant stars go supernova after a couple million of years, our Milky Way galaxy could not be billions of years old, since all of its stars would have self-destructed by now. Ken Ham and Dr. Lisle [source: Answers in Genesis]Listen to the 1-minute...Read Full Story

Transcript of today's show:Ken Ham, evangelical creationist and founder of the very popular Creation Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, has just come out with a new book entitled Darwin’s Plantation: Evolution’s Racist Roots. Ken Ham and co-author Dr. Charles Ware reveal a compelling history of the effect of an evolution-based belief system on the history of the United States, touching on abortion, slavery, and the civil rights movement.[source: Answers in Genesis]Listen to the 1-minute broadcast of...Read Full Story

Transcript of today's show:Despite repeated complaints, bookstores at the Grand Canyon are still selling a book that claims the canyon was created by the biblical flood. The National Park Service has stonewalled for 4 years on a promise to pull the book from the shelves. Its officials claim that a broad range of viewpoints should be available to visitors. But park rangers adamantly disagree. They say that selling the book is simply a veiled endorsement of creation theory. [source: San...Read Full Story

By Graeme LoftusAfter completing a degree at Christ’s College, Cambridge, preparing to become a minister, Charles Darwin sailed in 1831 as a passenger aboard the H.M.S. Beagle, setting off on a path that was destined to impact the world.His five-year voyage took him to the western coast of South America, where he observed various kinds of exotic and formerly unknown animals. One set of creatures in particular, the Galapagos finches, caught Darwin’s attention. He studied the birds, collected...Read Full Story

Jason Rosenhouse recently blogged Why Creationists Believe as They Do. Here's an excerpt:"As fundamentalists see it, their confidence in the Bible is the most rational thing in the world. They talk more about facts, logic and evidence than just about anyone else you'll ever meet. It certainly is not the result of blind faith or anything like that."I think there are two distinct species of creationists (and Christian in general) that need to be examined and explained.The first type of...Read Full Story

Despite the presence of several creationists on the Texas State Board of Education, it appears that ID will not enter the science classroom. This is good news for Texas children and defenders of science education. Teaching crap and calling it science does not change the fact that it is still crap. Fortunately, board members appeared to understand this simply truth.Christian extremists have long sought to replace science education with religious indoctrination. If science contradicts biblical...Read Full Story

by Harold G. Coffin" We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization." -- Ralph Waldo EmersonCall it black diamond. Call it basket of power. Or call it coal. It is one of the most useful natural resources found in the earth. It's composed of vegetable matter, modified by heat, pressure, catalytic activity, and decay. But how did the vegetable matter originate? The question has long been a point of controversy. The majority of those who have studied coal believe that...Read Full Story

William H. SheaAn examination of archaeological evidence, linguistics, and literary traditions shows that a local Mesopotamian river valley flood cannot adequately explain the biblical flood.Creationists and evolutionists disagree about the Flood. Creationists argue that the Bible is a divinely inspired document and its record of the Flood describes an actual historical event, a universal deluge. Evolutionists have responded to the biblical narrative in various ways. Some have dismissed it as...Read Full Story

Praise God there is one man in this school district who has the courage to stand up for the truth. It is very obvious that this biology book is bias and discriminates against Christians and hopefully this Knoxville father, who wants the biology book banned, will see it come to pass soon.Story from Fox NewsA Tennessee school board has decided to postpone its decision on banning a textbook after a father told the board, its ‘bias’ against Christians. Kurt Zimmermann is appealing a Knoxville...Read Full Story

by George T. JavorThe study of living matter is at the center of all current scientific efforts.Recent triumphs include the cloning of Dolly the sheep and acquisition of the complete sequence of three billion nucleotides of the human chromosomes.1 But strangely, life itself is not the object of much study. Scientists seem to take the existence of life for granted. It is difficult to find any extended discussion on the essence of life in currently available monographs or textbooks. These...Read Full Story