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[[File:Images.jpg|thumbnail|325px|right|A prominent creation science organization is the [[Creation Research Association]] which a professional organization of trained scientists and interested lay persons committed to scientific study of special creation as given in the book of [[Genesis]]. ]]
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[[File:Images.jpg|thumbnail|375px|right|The [[Creation Research Society]] is a a professional organization of trained scientists and interested lay persons committed to scientific study of special creation as given in the book of [[Genesis]]. They publish a quarterly peer-reviewed [[Creation Research Society Quarterly Journal|creation science journal]].<ref>[http://www.creationresearch.org/index.html The Creation Research Society]</ref> ]]
 
'''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.<ref>[http://creation.com/its-not-science It's not science] by [[Creation Ministries International]]</ref><ref>[http://creationrevolution.com/2011/05/naturalism-doesn%E2%80%99t-work/ Naturalism Doesn’t Work]</ref><ref>[http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/ee/what-is-science What is science?]</ref>  Most advocates of creation science believe the [[young earth creationism|earth is approximately 6,000 years]] old. In addition, scientists in the discipline of creation science state that the [[First Law of Thermodynamics|first law of thermodynamics]] and [[Second law of thermodynamics|second law of thermodynamics]] argue against an eternal universe.  They also claim that these laws point to the universe being created by [[God]].<ref>[http://godevidences.net/space/lawsofscience.php Evidences for God From Space&mdash;Laws of Science]</ref><ref>Thompson, Bert, [http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2329 So Long, Eternal Universe; Hello Beginning, Hello End!], 2001 (Apologetics Press)</ref><ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/AstroPhysicalSciences14.html</ref> Creation scientists also assert that naturalistic processes alone cannot account for the [[origin of life]] and that the [[Evolution|theory of evolution]] cannot account for the various kinds of animals and plants. Both evolutionary scientists and [[Young earth creationism|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.<ref>[[Creation Ministries International]], [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3036/ Speciation: Questions and Answers]</ref>  
 
'''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.<ref>[http://creation.com/its-not-science It's not science] by [[Creation Ministries International]]</ref><ref>[http://creationrevolution.com/2011/05/naturalism-doesn%E2%80%99t-work/ Naturalism Doesn’t Work]</ref><ref>[http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/ee/what-is-science What is science?]</ref>  Most advocates of creation science believe the [[young earth creationism|earth is approximately 6,000 years]] old. In addition, scientists in the discipline of creation science state that the [[First Law of Thermodynamics|first law of thermodynamics]] and [[Second law of thermodynamics|second law of thermodynamics]] argue against an eternal universe.  They also claim that these laws point to the universe being created by [[God]].<ref>[http://godevidences.net/space/lawsofscience.php Evidences for God From Space&mdash;Laws of Science]</ref><ref>Thompson, Bert, [http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2329 So Long, Eternal Universe; Hello Beginning, Hello End!], 2001 (Apologetics Press)</ref><ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/AstroPhysicalSciences14.html</ref> Creation scientists also assert that naturalistic processes alone cannot account for the [[origin of life]] and that the [[Evolution|theory of evolution]] cannot account for the various kinds of animals and plants. Both evolutionary scientists and [[Young earth creationism|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.<ref>[[Creation Ministries International]], [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3036/ Speciation: Questions and Answers]</ref>  
 
[[Image:Carl weiland.jpg|thumbnail|175px|right|Dr. [[Carl Wieland]] is the Managing Director of [[Creation Ministries International]] ]]
 
[[Image:Carl weiland.jpg|thumbnail|175px|right|Dr. [[Carl Wieland]] is the Managing Director of [[Creation Ministries International]] ]]
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== Creation evangelism - 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].
 
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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Since the 1960s particularly, evolutionary [[pseudoscience]] has been force fed public students which many students resent.
 
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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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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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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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For more responses to the Question evolution campaign please see: [http://creation.com/question-evolution Question evolution! campaign]
 
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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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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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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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== Creation Science and Genetic Programs and Biological Information ==
 
== Creation Science and Genetic Programs and Biological Information ==
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*[http://creation.com/ Creation Ministries International]
 
*[http://creation.com/ Creation Ministries International]
 
*[http://www.creationscience.com/ In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood] the website of Dr. [[Walt Brown]]
 
*[http://www.creationscience.com/ In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood] the website of Dr. [[Walt Brown]]
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*[http://www.creationresearch.org/ Creation Research Society]
 
*[http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq.html Creation Research Society Quarterly Journal]
 
*[http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq.html Creation Research Society Quarterly Journal]
 
*[http://www.answersingenesis.org/ Answers in Genesis]
 
*[http://www.answersingenesis.org/ Answers in Genesis]

Revision as of 12:41, November 11, 2013

The Creation Research Society is a a professional organization of trained scientists and interested lay persons committed to scientific study of special creation as given in the book of Genesis. They publish a quarterly peer-reviewed creation science journal.[1]

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.[2][3][4] 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.[5][6][7] 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.[8]

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.’[9]

”

Creation evangelism - Question evolution! campaign

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".[10] The focus of the Question evolution! campaign is on 15 questions that evolutionists cannot adequately answer.[11] The 15 Questions that evolutionists cannot satisfactorily answer can be found HERE.

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.[12][13][14]

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.[15]

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.”[16]
  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.[17] 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.[18]
  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.[19]
  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).[20]
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.[21] 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."[22]

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[23][24] ”

See also:

Biblical creation publications

See also: Biblical creation journals

Some prominent biblical creation publications are given below:

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".[25] [26] However, Dr. Walt Brown argues that the field of creation science is scientific[27] 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.[28] Also, Karl Popper, a leading philosopher of science and originator of falsifiability as a criterion of demarcation of science from nonscience,[29] stated that Darwinism is "not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme."[30] 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."[31] 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 science and Creationism

See Also

External Links

Notes and References

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