Re: The Answers in Genesis list of arguments Creationists shouldn't use
- From: "rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx" <rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 17 Sep 2005 13:23:31 -0700
VBM wrote:
> For those interested, I thought I would repost the list of former YEC
> arguments that Answers in Genesis is now saying should *not* be used to
> support Creationism. As they say "some [of these] arguments are definitely
> fallacious, while others are merely doubtful or unsubstantiated".
>
> We still see some Creationists using them, so I thought it was worthwhile to
> show them that even the most ardent Creationist organization has
> acknowledged these ones are not good arguments.
>
> . Here is the list:
>
> 1. Darwin recanted on his deathbed
>
> 2. Moon-Dust thickness proves a young moon
>
> 3. NASA computers, in calculating the positions of planets, found a missing
> day and 40 minutes, proving Joshua's "long day" and Hezekiah's sundial
> movement of Joshua 10 and 2 Kings 20.
>
> 4. Woolly mammoths were snap frozen during the Flood catastrophe
>
> 5. The Castenedolo and Calaveras human remains in "old" strata invalidate
> the geologic column
>
> 6. Dubois renounced Java man as a "missing link" and claimed it was just a
> giant gibbon
>
> 7. The Japanese trawler Zuiyo Maru caught a dead plesiosaur near New Zealand
>
> 8. The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics began at the Fall
>
> 9. Archaeopteryx is a fraud
>
> 10. There are no beneficial mutations
>
> 11. No new species have been produced
>
> 12. Earth's axis was vertical before the Flood
>
> 13. Paluxy tracks prove that humans and dinosaurs co-existed
>
> 14. Darwin's quote about the absurdity of eye evolution from Origin of
> Species
>
> 15. Earth's division in the days of Peleg (Gen. 10:25) refers to
> catastrophic splitting of the continents
>
> 16. The Septuagint records the correct Genesis chronology
>
> 17. There are gaps in the genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 so the Earth may
> be 10,000 years old or even more
>
> 18. Jesus cannot have inherited genetic material from Mary, otherwise He
> would have inherited original sin
>
> 19. The phrase "science falsely so called" in 1 Timothy 6:20 (KJV) refers to
> evolution
>
> 20. Geocentrism (in the classical sense of taking the Earth as an absolute
> reference frame) is taught by Scripture and Heliocentrism is anti-Scriptural
>
> 21. Ron Wyatt has found Noah's Ark
>
> 22. Canopy theory
>
> 23. There was no rain before the Flood
>
> 24. Natural selection as tautology
>
> 25. Evolution is just a theory
>
> 26. The speed of light has decreased over time
>
> 27. There are no transitional forms
>
> 28. Gold chains have been found in coal
>
> 29. Plate tectonics is fallacious
>
> 30. Creationists believe in microevolution but not macroevolution
>
> 31. The Gospel is in the stars
For amusement, I started to read AiG's response to Kent Hovind's
critique of the list, and I noticed some that aren't in your copy, such
as "Women have one more rib than men." (No they don't.) I have been
told that the man in the street in mediaeval times or thereabouts was
quite sure that women did have one more rib-bone, opportunities to
count 'em being relatively rare. Conversely, a modern translation
isn't sure it was a rib at all.
I presume http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/dont_use.asp is
the current edition, and
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2002/1011hovind.asp is the
Ham-Hovind deathmatch.
.
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