Gondring, thanks for the link. I bookmarked it for future reference, making a mental note that much of it at first glance appears to be arguments FOR, rather than evidence OF.
There is an important difference. Liars can make false assertions continually. Those are arguments for, and prove nothing.
I’m pinging a few more to your post and making a note of a couple of useful sites, asking for others.
www.AnswersInGenesis.org
www.ICR.org (Institute of Creation Research)
Don't you realize those are apologetics sites, and that they are not reliable sources for science information? In fact, when it comes to science they will outright lie to you.
The reason is that they can't admit to the findings of science when those findings contradict scripture. They even state specifically that "No apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record." When there is a contradiction they have to come up with some other answer, even if it means distorting science, twisting facts, or outright misrepresentation.
They simply cannot accept a lot of the evidence science has come up with. So, it's fingers in the ears and "I can't hear you!" They are science-deniers; given their beliefs they have to be.
Here is the Statement of Faith found on the Answers in Genesis website. Does this statement sound like it has anything to do with science?
Summary of the AiG Statement of FaithFor a slightly more detailed copy of the Statement of Faith, please make your request in writing.
(A) PRIORITIES
(B) BASICS
- The scientific aspects of creation are important, but are secondary in importance to the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
- The doctrines of Creator and Creation cannot ultimately be divorced from the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
(C) THEOLOGY
- The 66 books of the Bible are the written Word of God. The Bible is divinely inspired and inerrant throughout. Its assertions are factually true in all the original autographs. It is the supreme authority in everything it teaches.
- The final guide to the interpretation of Scripture is Scripture itself.
- The account of origins presented in Genesis is a simple but factual presentation of actual events and therefore provides a reliable framework for scientific research into the question of the origin and history of life, mankind, the Earth and the universe.
- The various original life forms (kinds), including mankind, were made by direct creative acts of God. The living descendants of any of the original kinds (apart from man) may represent more than one species today, reflecting the genetic potential within the original kind. Only limited biological changes (including mutational deterioration) have occurred naturally within each kind since Creation.
- The great Flood of Genesis was an actual historic event, worldwide (global) in its extent and effect.
- The special creation of Adam (the first man) and Eve (the first woman), and their subsequent fall into sin, is the basis for the necessity of salvation for mankind.
- Death (both physical and spiritual) and bloodshed entered into this world subsequent to and as a direct consequence of man's sin.
(D) GENERAL
- The Godhead is triune: one God, three Persons--God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
- All mankind are sinners, inherently from Adam and individually (by choice) and are therefore subject to GodÕs wrath and condemnation.
- Freedom from the penalty and power of sin is available to man only through the sacrificial death and shed blood of Jesus Christ, and His complete and bodily Resurrection from the dead.
- The Holy Spirit enables the sinner to repent and believe in Jesus Christ.
- The Holy Spirit lives and works in each believer to produce the fruits of righteousness.
- Salvation is a gift received by faith alone in Christ alone and expressed in the individual's repentance, recognition of the death of Christ as full payment for sin, and acceptance of the risen Christ as Saviour, Lord and God.
- All things necessary for our salvation are either expressly set down in Scripture or may be deduced by good and necessary consequence from Scripture.
- Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.
- Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead, ascended to Heaven, and is currently seated at the right hand of God the Father, and shall return in person to this Earth as Judge of the living and the dead.
- Satan is the personal spiritual adversary of both God and man.
- Those who do not believe in Christ are subject to everlasting conscious punishment, but believers enjoy eternal life with God.
- The only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman. God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of marriage.
- Scripture teaches a recent origin for man and the whole creation.
- The days in Genesis do not correspond to geologic ages, but are six [6] consecutive twenty-four [24] hour days of Creation.
- The Noachian Flood was a significant geological event and much (but not all) fossiliferous sediment originated at that time.
- The "gap" theory has no basis in Scripture.
- The view, commonly used to evade the implications or the authority of Biblical teaching, that knowledge and/or truth may be divided into "secular" and "religious," is rejected.
- No apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.
Again, where is the science there?
Where is the commitment to scientific accuracy?
Exactly. For many years, I defended so-called Scientific Creationism as being another explanation of data...until I began to attend lectures, examine the evidence myself, etc., and realized these so-called "scientists" were just charlatans misleading people.
There are many good Christians who believe them, and I have nothing against them...but I don't believe the leaders in these deceptions are even Christian--they bear false witness to the evidence.
Perhaps some are well meaning, thinking that misleading people is a lesser evil to people believing what they think is wrong, but I have a hard time with that. (I also have a hard time believing that Young Earth Creationism is the only possible fit with Christianity.)
I also try very hard to apply Heinlein's Razor, but still, my personal experience with some of these Scientific Creationists gives me the same feeling as listening to Bill Clinton. >shudder!<