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It is a very worrying trend,’ he said, ‘and I think a lot of it has come over from [[United States|America]] and [[Australia]].’<ref>http://creation.com/growth-of-creation-science-in-uk-worries-prof-dawkins</ref>}}
 
It is a very worrying trend,’ he said, ‘and I think a lot of it has come over from [[United States|America]] and [[Australia]].’<ref>http://creation.com/growth-of-creation-science-in-uk-worries-prof-dawkins</ref>}}
  
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== Creationist Grassroots activism - Question evolution! campaign ==
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== Young earth creationist grassroots activism - Question evolution! campaign ==
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[[File:Question-evolution.jpg|300px|thumbnail|right|There has been some enthusiastic student response to the [[Question evolution! campaign]] as can be seen [[Enthusiastic student response to the Question evolution! campaign|HERE]].]]
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As noted earlier, the [[Question evolution! campaign]], launched by [[Creation Ministries International]], is a worldwide "[[grassroots|grass-roots]] movement to challenge the anti-[[Christianity|Christian]] [[dogma]] of evolution".<ref>[http://creation.com/question-evolution Question evolution! campaign]</ref> The focus of the Question evolution! campaign is on 15 questions that evolutionists cannot adequately answer.<ref>[http://creation.com/question-evolution Question evolution! campaign]</ref> The ''15 Questions that evolutionists cannot satisfactorily answer'' can be found [http://creation.com/15-questions HERE].
  
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''For more information please see:'' [[Question evolution! campaign]]
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=== Enthusiastic student response to the Question evolution! campaign ===
  
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The [[Question evolution! campaign]], launched by the [[Bible|biblical]] [[creation]] organization [[Creation Ministries International]], is a worldwide "[[grassroots|grass-roots]] movement to challenge the anti-[[Christianity|Christian]] [[dogma]] of [[evolution]]".<ref>[http://creation.com/question-evolution Question evolution! campaign]</ref> The focus of the Question evolution! campaign is on 15 questions that evolutionists cannot answer.<ref>[http://creation.com/question-evolution Question evolution! campaign]</ref> The ''15 Questions that evolutionists cannot answer'' can be found [http://creation.com/15-questions HERE]. The campaign will be primarily conducted in the [[United States]], the [[United Kingdom]], [[Canada]], [[Europe]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[Singapore]] and [[South Africa]].<ref>http://creation.com/question-evolution</ref>
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''See also:'' [[Enthusiastic student response to the Question evolution! campaign]]
  
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In May of 2011, [[Creation Ministries International]] and the [[Traditional Values Coalition]] decided to jointly initiate a question evolution campaign which encourages to students and others to "question the evolutionary [[pseudoscience]] peddled to them" and to wear anti-evolution clothing and pass out Question evolution! tracts within their schools and community. The Traditional Values Coalition is a [[church]] [[lobby|lobbying]] organization that lobbies for over 43,000 [[United States|American]] churches.  
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Since the 1960s particularly, evolutionary [[pseudoscience]] has been force fed public students which many students resent.  
  
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=== Question evolution! campaign and Texas ===
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The Question evolution campaign has received some enthusiastic student response.
  
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''See also:'' [[Question evolution! campaign and Texas]]
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Below are two students comments in the popular Christian YouTube channel [[Shockofgod]] about the [http://creation.com/15-questions 15 Questions that evolutionists cannot satisfactorily answer]:
  
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[[File:286px-Map of USA TX.svg.png|right|thumbnail|400px|[[Texas]] is a very influential state in the [[United States]] when it comes to [[biology]] textbooks.<ref>http://www.utne.com/Politics/Right-Wing-Activists-Rewrite-US-Textbooks-6418.aspx</ref>  A supporter of [[Creation Ministries International]] with a large Christian YouTube audience has declared he is going to aggressively promote the [[Question evolution! campaign]] in Texas.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbmAn3M8r0I</ref>
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Amanda2324 writes at YouTube: "LOVE THESE QUESTIONS!!! Like I'm in Physical Geography and Logic & Critical Thinking classes, and the teachers always mention something that either directly or indirectly refers to evolution. I may bring a copy of these with me to my classes from now on..."[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofNcpTKpNZM]
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<small>(graphic obtained from [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_USA_TX.svg Wikimedia commons],  username:Huebi  , Title of picture:Map of USA with Texas highlighted, see: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_USA_TX.svg license agreement])</small>]]
 
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The popular [[Christian]] [[YouTube]] producer, [[Shockofgod]], has vowed to promote the Question evolution! campaign "full throttle" in the state of [[Texas]] due to its large influence on textbooks throughout the United States.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbmAn3M8r0I</ref> Shockofgod is an ex-[[atheism|atheist]] and his channel features many anti-[[atheism]] videos. His YouTube videos have cummulatively received millions of views since his YouTube channel's inception.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/user/shockofgod</ref>
 
  
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On June 20, 2011, Shockofgod said a team of volunteers was going to shortly start calling Texas churches and ask them to get involved in the Question evolution! campaign.<ref>http://shockawenow.blogspot.com/2011/06/question-evolution-campaign-massive.html</ref> On June 23, 2011, it was announced that the volunteer team would start contacting Texas churches on June 24, 2011.<ref>http://shockawenow.blogspot.com/2011/06/question-evolution-campaign-starting-in.html</ref> In addition, a volunteer wrote: "I am so excited. I am going to get the t-shirt, tracts, and walk around my city!"<ref>http://shockawenow.blogspot.com/2011/06/question-evolution-campaign-starting-in.html</ref> On July 3, 2011, it was reported that a Question evolution! campaign volunteer contacted about 65 churches in the state of [[Texas]] in one week. <ref>http://shockawenow.blogspot.com/2011/07/question-evolution-volunteer-reported.html</ref>
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MrCody writes at YouTube: "I wished you told me this back in February when i was being taught about evolution. I wished i could have asked my teacher all those just to make her feel stupid."[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofNcpTKpNZM]
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In 2010, the ''Utne Reader'' declared concerning Texas's influence on national textbooks:
 
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{{cquote|The politicized textbooks would be a problem just inside Texas, but economic factors have given the state a huge influence over textbooks throughout the country. Unlike many other states, Texas makes the decisions on a state level on what books local school districts can buy. So when the state makes a decision on what books to purchase for its 4.7 million high schoolers, publishers take notice. The only bigger market for textbooks in the country is [[California]], a state whose budget is in such disarray, it announced that it won’t be buying new books until 2014. In the meantime, an anonymous industry executive told Washington Monthly, “publishers will do whatever it takes to get on the Texas list,” even if that means caving in to right-wing activists.<ref>http://www.utne.com/Politics/Right-Wing-Activists-Rewrite-US-Textbooks-6418.aspx</ref>}}
 
  
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Texas is expected to purchase $1 billion in textbooks in 2012-13.<ref>http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/texas-influence-on-textbooks-could-wane-336909.html</ref>
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=== 2 million Question evolution! tracts ===
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[[File:Shockofgod.jpg|thumbnail|175px|right|Logo for the [[Shockofgod]] YouTube channel]]
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''See also:'' [[2 million Question Evolution! tracts goal of campaign fan]]
  
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In addition, Shockofgod has challenged Texas YouTube atheists [[Matt Dillahunty]] and [[AronRa]] to answer the 15 questions for evolutionists which are featured in Creation Ministries International's Question Evolution campaign.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbmAn3M8r0I</ref>
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The popular YouTube video producer [[Shockofgod]] is an ex-[[atheism|atheist]] and his channel features many anti-[[atheism]] videos.  His YouTube videos have cumulatively received millions of views since his YouTube channel's inception.
  
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=== Wide coverage planned relating to Christian web properties ===
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On September 18, 2011 Shockofgod released a video entitled ''Evolutionists stumped confused & dumbfounded by 15 questions''. <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofNcpTKpNZM Evolutionists stumped confused & dumbfounded by 15 questions]</ref>
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In that video, Shockofgod indicated he is going to move forward again and again with the Question evolution! campaign until 1,000,000 Question Evolution! tracts are in people's hands and then continue to move forward until 2,000,000 tracts are in people's hands.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofNcpTKpNZM Evolutionists stumped confused & dumbfounded by 15 questions]</ref>
  
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On July 9, 2011, it was declared: ""We have decided to pull out all the stops to advance the
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[http://creation.com/question-evolution Question evolution! campaign] Besides continuing to contact churches in the key biology textbook state of Texas, by the end of September 2011: the major Christian websites, blogs and YouTube channels will be contacted."<ref>http://shockawenow.blogspot.com/2011/07/contacting-major-christian-websites.html</ref>
 
  
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=== Question evolution! campaign and the United Kingdom ===
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*[[Question evolution! group posting about tools to multiply the campaign]]
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*[[Question evolution! campaign and Texas]]
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On July 3, 2011, it was announced that an effort to advance Creation Ministries International's Question evolution! campaign in the [[United Kingdom]] is going to start within a week. <ref>http://shockawenow.blogspot.com/2011/07/question-evolution-volunteer-reported.html</ref> A team of grassroots volunteers indicated that it is important to advance this anti-evolution campaign in the UK since England is the birthplace of Darwinism.<ref>http://shockawenow.blogspot.com/2011/07/question-evolution-volunteer-reported.html</ref> As indicated earlier, the Question evolution! campaign is a worldwide campaign.
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*[[Question evolution! campaign and the United Kingdom]]
  
 
== Creation Science and Genetic Programs and Biological Information ==
 
== Creation Science and Genetic Programs and Biological Information ==

Revision as of 10:32, September 26, 2011

Creation science is science which sets out to show that supernatural creation of the material universe by God is consistent and compatible with the available scientific evidence. Being in the realm of origins science, creation science is a historical science.[1][2][3] Most advocates of creation science believe the earth is approximately 6,000 years old. In addition, scientists in the discipline of creation science state that the first law of thermodynamics and second law of thermodynamics argue against an eternal universe. They also claim that these laws point to the universe being created by God.[4][5][6] Creation scientists also assert that naturalistic processes alone cannot account for the origin of life and that the theory of evolution cannot account for the various kinds of animals and plants. Both evolutionary scientists and young earth creation scientists believe that speciation occurs; however, young earth creation scientists state that speciation generally occurs at a much faster rate than evolutionists believe is the case.[7]

Dr. Carl Wieland is the Managing Director of Creation Ministries International

Creation Ministries International, a leading biblical creation science organization, declared:

“ Creationist research is having a global effect that is worrying the atheists and secularists of this world. They have had it all their own way for over a century but things are slowly changing. For almost twenty five years now, Journal of Creation has been publishing cutting-edge creationist research that has been fueling the war against evolution, creating little fires all around the world, including Great Britain.

Atheist evangelist, Prof Richard Dawkins, speaking at the 20th anniversary of the Edinburgh International Science Festival in April 2008, said the rise of creationism in British schools raised a serious problem for science teachers.

It is a very worrying trend,’ he said, ‘and I think a lot of it has come over from America and Australia.’[8]

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Young earth creationist grassroots activism - Question evolution! campaign

There has been some enthusiastic student response to the Question evolution! campaign as can be seen HERE.

As noted earlier, the Question evolution! campaign, launched by Creation Ministries International, is a worldwide "grass-roots movement to challenge the anti-Christian dogma of evolution".[9] The focus of the Question evolution! campaign is on 15 questions that evolutionists cannot adequately answer.[10] The 15 Questions that evolutionists cannot satisfactorily answer can be found HERE.

Enthusiastic student response to the Question evolution! campaign

See also: Enthusiastic student response to the Question evolution! campaign

Since the 1960s particularly, evolutionary pseudoscience has been force fed public students which many students resent.

The Question evolution campaign has received some enthusiastic student response.

Below are two students comments in the popular Christian YouTube channel Shockofgod about the 15 Questions that evolutionists cannot satisfactorily answer:

Amanda2324 writes at YouTube: "LOVE THESE QUESTIONS!!! Like I'm in Physical Geography and Logic & Critical Thinking classes, and the teachers always mention something that either directly or indirectly refers to evolution. I may bring a copy of these with me to my classes from now on..."[1]

MrCody writes at YouTube: "I wished you told me this back in February when i was being taught about evolution. I wished i could have asked my teacher all those just to make her feel stupid."[2]

2 million Question evolution! tracts

Logo for the Shockofgod YouTube channel

See also: 2 million Question Evolution! tracts goal of campaign fan

The popular YouTube video producer Shockofgod is an ex-atheist and his channel features many anti-atheism videos. His YouTube videos have cumulatively received millions of views since his YouTube channel's inception.

On September 18, 2011 Shockofgod released a video entitled Evolutionists stumped confused & dumbfounded by 15 questions. [11] In that video, Shockofgod indicated he is going to move forward again and again with the Question evolution! campaign until 1,000,000 Question Evolution! tracts are in people's hands and then continue to move forward until 2,000,000 tracts are in people's hands.[12]

See also:

Creation Science and Genetic Programs and Biological Information

Main article: Intelligent design
Dr. Werner Gitt

Scientists in the area of creation science and intelligent design advocates state the genetic code, genetic programs, and biological information argue for an intelligent cause in regards to the origins question.[13][14][15]

Dr. Werner Gitt, former director and Professor of Information Systems at the prestigious German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), wrote that human beings are the most complex information processing systems on earth. Dr. Gitt estimated that the human body processes thousands of times more information than all the world's libraries contain.[16]

Dr. Gitt has written several points regarding the origin of biological information:

  1. In his work In the Beginning Was Information Dr. Gitt stated that “There is no known law of nature, no known process and no known sequence of events which can cause information to originate by itself in matter.”[17]
  2. Dr. Gitt argued that the density and complexity of DNA information is millions of times larger than mankind's current technology and this means a supremely intelligent being was the author of this information.[18] Similarly, Dr. Stephen C. Meyer in his 1996 essay The Origin of Life and the Death of Materialism, wrote that "the information storage density of DNA, thanks in part to nucleosome spooling, is several trillion times that of our most advanced computer chips.[19]
  3. Gitt stated that the author of the information encoded into the DNA molecule, who constructed the molecular biomachines to encode, decode and run the cells was supremely intelligent.[20]
  4. Dr. Gitt asserted that because information is a nonmaterial entity and does not originate from matter, the author of biological information must be nonmaterial (spirit).[21]
Dr. Walt Brown

Dr. Walt Brown concurs in regards to the supernatural origin of biological information and states that the genetic material that controls the biological processes of life is coded information and that human experience tells us that codes are created only by the result of intelligence and not merely by processes of nature.[22] Dr. Brown also asserts that the "information stored in the genetic material of all life is a complex program. Therefore, it appears that an unfathomable intelligence created these genetic programs."[23]

To support his creation science view regarding the divine origin of genetic programs, Dr. Walt Brown cites the work of David Abel and Professor Jack Trevors who wrote the following:

“ No matter how many "bits" of possible combinations it has, there is no reason to call it "information" if it doesn't at least have the potential of producing something useful. What kind of information produces function? In computer science, we call it a "program." Another name for computer software is an "algorithm." No man-made program comes close to the technical brilliance of even Mycoplasmal genetic algorithms. Mycoplasmas are the simplest known organism with the smallest known genome, to date. How was its genome and other living organisms' genomes programmed? - David L. Abel and Jack T. Trevors, “Three Subsets of Sequence Complexity and Their Relevance to Biopolymeric Information,” Theoretical Biology & Medical Modelling, Vol. 2, 11 August 2005, page 8[24][25] ”

Creation Science and the Evolutionary Science Community

Creation science is considered as pseudoscience by the majority of the scientific community. Liberals reject Creation Science with the spurious pretext that it cannot be disproved and therefore cannot be considered "science".[26] [27] However, Dr. Walt Brown argues that the field of creation science is scientific[28] and the evolutionists' objections to creation science are due to their worldviews and preconceptions, rather than on the basis of scientific evidence or the scientific validity of the idea.[29] Also, Karl Popper, a leading philosopher of science and originator of falsifiability as a criterion of demarcation of science from nonscience,[30] stated that Darwinism is "not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme."[31] Michael Ruse, a leading Darwinist and philosopher of science, conditionally acknowledged Popper's statement: "Since making this claim, Popper himself has modified his position somewhat; but, disclaimers aside, I suspect that even now he does not really believe that Darwinism in its modern form is genuinely falsifiable."[32] However prominent evolutionist JBS Haldane, when asked what would falsify the theory of evolution, said "Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."

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Creation vs. evolution
Evolution
Hoaxes, Controversies, and Debates
Creation science and Creationism

See Also

External Links

Notes and References

  1. ↑ It's not science by Creation Ministries International
  2. ↑ Naturalism Doesn’t Work
  3. ↑ What is science?
  4. ↑ Evidences for God From Space—Laws of Science
  5. ↑ Thompson, Bert, So Long, Eternal Universe; Hello Beginning, Hello End!, 2001 (Apologetics Press)
  6. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/AstroPhysicalSciences14.html
  7. ↑ Creation Ministries International, Speciation: Questions and Answers
  8. ↑ http://creation.com/growth-of-creation-science-in-uk-worries-prof-dawkins
  9. ↑ Question evolution! campaign
  10. ↑ Question evolution! campaign
  11. ↑ Evolutionists stumped confused & dumbfounded by 15 questions
  12. ↑ Evolutionists stumped confused & dumbfounded by 15 questions
  13. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html
  14. ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/infotheory.asp
  15. ↑ http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=118
  16. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html
  17. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1484094
  18. ↑ http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm
  19. ↑ http://www.arn.org/docs/meyer/sm_origins.htm
  20. ↑ http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm
  21. ↑ http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm
  22. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html
  23. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html
  24. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1467742
  25. ↑ http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1208958
  26. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/19991013122341/http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/evolutionviews990816.html
  27. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ13.html#wp2727001
  28. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ13.html#wp2727001
  29. ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/news/scientific_american.asp
  30. ↑
  31. ↑ http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html
  32. ↑ http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html
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