The Daily Science Update for Tuesday was Skin Sample Is Two Million Years Old? In it we have a return to the topic of soft tissues which were so popular back in July. Back in July, along with a number of DpSUs on the subject, Mr Thomas created a list of “Published Reports of Original [...]
Archive for the ‘ICR Archives’ Category
25 Sep
Ideological Indoctrination
It’s been several weeks now, but I still can’t find the new K-12 blog promised by this month’s Acts and Facts magazine to appear sometime this “Fall” – a season which I understand is roughly equivalent, time of year wise, to NZ’s Spring. But not to worry – the ICR has been in the indoctrination [...]
14 Aug
Biblical Predictions
I can’t believe I missed this. Near the bottom of the Institute for Creation Research’s “Evidence for Creation” topics page is a page entitled Accurate [Biblical] Predictions. Predictions! The cornerstone of Science! And they’ve already come to pass! Let’s see what they’ve got.
5 Jun
The Global Catastrophic Model
Yes, the flood is coming soon… But give them a moment to build up to it. Basically, in order to provide basis for the occurrence of the Great Flood, the creationists are attempting to revive the old model of Catastrophism. The history is this: in the good old days (ie before Darwin and the like) [...]
4 Jun
The Earth Was Uniquely Created
I reckon I can swallow this category whole. It’s not really much, and I’ve covered much of it before. Article I: Earth Was Created For Life “It has been suggested that this page be merged into Earth Was Created in a Wonderful Location” (actually, if this was on wikipedia it wouldn’t last long for other [...]
4 Jun
Elements Are Dependable across the Universe
….and this is “evidence for creation” how? Arguably this is just evidence for the reliability of scientific methods of dating the universe. The ICR gave up on c-decay as an explanation for the starlight problem some time ago, hence their current rejection of the possibility of everyday changes in physical laws. Basically, this is just [...]
31 May
Available Energy Decreases Over Time
Another quick one. The reason? I almost agree with it. This is the part that I agree with, more or less: There is less available energy today then there was yesterday. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the entropy of an isolated system, such as the universe, that is not in equilibrium will tend to [...]
31 May
More Turtles on the Menu, Folks!
According to the Law of Conservation of Energy, and now the ICR, Energy Cannot Naturally Be Created Or Destroyed. You’ll note that they differ from the usual phrase by the word ‘Naturally’. The author contends that the universe contains energy, and energy cannot be created, therefore God (or in this case, “our supernatural Creator”). This [...]
24 May
The Universe Has a Centre (apparently)
I shall begin with their existing “Evidence for Creation”. I’ll skip “Evidence for God” and “Truth”, as I’m not interested in that kind of argument (it should be evident that the ICR, unlike the Discovery Institute, make no attempt to hide their fundamental reliance on scripture) and I’ll leave “from Nature” for later. First and [...]
