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Most of this web site is available in book form as The Counter-Creationism Handbook , from Greenwood Publishing Group. The book also contains an introduction on countering creationism, illustrations, and an index. Other Links: CreationWiki rebuttal A Wiki is being assembled to respond to this Index from a Young-earth perspective. Creationist claims are numerous and varied, so it is often difficult to track down information on any given claim. Plus, creationists constantly come up with new claims which need addressing. This site attempts, as much as possible, to make it easy to find rebuttals and references from the scientific community to any and all of the various creationist claims. It is updated frequently; see the What's New page for the latest changes. Since most creationism is folklore, the claims are organized in an outline format following that of Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature . Sections CA through CG deal with claims against conventional science, and sections CH through CJ contain claims about creationism itself. This collection is intended primarily as a guidepost and introduction. The explanations are not in depth (with a few exceptions), but most responses include links, references, and sources for more information. These are not just added for show. Readers are strongly encouraged to pursue additional reliable sources. We hope that readers will put in the effort to gain enough understanding of the subject so that they will not just parrot the information here, but will be able to explain it to others. The Complete List Links to Main Sections CA : Philosophy and Theology CB : Biology CC : Paleontology CD : Geology CE : Astronomy and Cosmology CF : Physics and Mathematics CG : Miscellaneous Anti-Evolution CH : Biblical Creationism CI : Intelligent Design CJ : Other Creationism Expanded Outline CA : Philosophy and Theology CA000 : Ethics CA100-CA499 : Epistemology CA100 : Foundation of Knowledge CA200 : Theory of Science CA300-CA499 : Scientific Method CA600 : Theology CB : Biology CB0 : Abiogenesis CB100 : Genetics CB200 : Molecular Biology CB300 : Physiology and Anatomy CB400 : Behavior and Cognition CB500 : Botany CB600 : Ecology and Population Biology CB700 : Developmental Biology CB800 : Systematics CB900 : Evolution CC : Paleontology CC0 : Physical Anthropology CC200 : Transitional fossils CC300 : Fossil Record CC400 : Methodology CD : Geology CD0 : Geochronology CD100 : Geological Column CD200 : Sedimentation CD300 : Evaporation CD400 : Glaciation CD500 : Mountain Building CD600 : Erosion CD700 : Geophysics and Plate Tectonics CD800 : Climate Change CE : Astronomy and Cosmology CE000 : Earth CE100 : Moon CE200 : Planets and Solar System CE300 : Sun and Stars CE400 : Cosmology CF : Physics and Mathematics CF000 : Second Law of Thermodynamics and Information Theory CF100 : First Law of Thermodynamics CF200 : Radiometric Decay CG : Miscellaneous Anti-Evolution CG000 : History CG100 : Linguistics CG200 : Folklore CH : Biblical Creationism CH000 : Biblical Creationism Generally CH100 : Biblical Accuracy CH200-CH799 : Young Earth Creationism CH200 : Age of the Universe CH300 : Death and the Fall CH350 : Created Kinds CH400-CH599 : Flood CH700 : Miscellaneous Young Earth Creationism CH800 : Day-Age Creationism CH900 : Geocentrism CI : Intelligent Design CI000 : ID as Science CI100-CI199 : Detecting Design CI200 : First Cause. CI300 : Anthropic Principle. CI400 : Meta-arguments CJ : Other Creationism CJ000 : Vedic Creationism CJ200-CJ499 : Native North American Creationism CJ500-CJ699 : Islamic Creationism Authors

Index to Creationist Claims: Authors of Responses, and Acknowledgments The editor of the Index to Creationist Claims is Mark Isaak, who is ultimately responsible for any errors. Individual authors are listed below. In addition, many, many posters to the talk.origins newsgroup have contributed useful information. CA001: Mark Isaak CA001.1: Mark Isaak CA002: Mark Isaak CA002.1: Mark Isaak, Michael Suttkus II CA002.2: Mark Isaak CA005: Mark Isaak CA005.1: Mark Isaak CA005.2: Mark Isaak CA005.3: Mark Isaak CA006: Mark Isaak CA006.1: Mark Isaak CA006.2: Robin Hilliard, Mark Isaak CA008: Mark Isaak CA009: Mark Isaak CA010: Mark Isaak CA012: Mark Isaak CA040: Mark Isaak CA041: Mark Isaak CA041.1: Mark Isaak CA042: Mark Isaak CA045: Mark Isaak CA100: Mark Isaak CA100.1: Mark Isaak CA110: Mark Isaak CA111: Derek Mathias, Mark Isaak CA111.1: Mark Isaak CA112: Mark Isaak CA113: Mark Isaak CA113.1: Mark Isaak CA114: Mark Isaak CA114.1: Mark Isaak CA114.2: Mark Isaak CA114.4: Mark Isaak CA114.10: Mark Isaak CA114.22: Mark Isaak CA114.28: Mark Isaak CA115.1: Mark Isaak CA118: Mark Isaak CA120: Mark Isaak CA131: Mark Isaak CA201: Mark Isaak CA202: Mark Isaak CA210: Mark Isaak CA211: Mark Isaak CA211.1: Mark Isaak CA212: Mark Isaak CA215: Mark Isaak CA220: Mark Isaak CA221: Mark Isaak CA230: Mark Isaak CA230.1: Mark Isaak CA240: Mark Isaak CA250: Mark Isaak CA301: Mark Isaak CA301.1: Mark Isaak CA310: Mark Isaak CA320: Mark Isaak CA320.1: Mark Isaak CA320.2: Mark Isaak CA320.3: Mark Isaak CA321: Mark Isaak CA321.1: Mark Isaak CA325: Mark Isaak CA340: Mark Isaak CA341: Mark Isaak CA342: Mark Isaak CA343: Mark Isaak CA350: Mark Isaak CA500: Mark Isaak CA510: Mark Isaak CA510.1: Mark Isaak CA520: Mark Isaak CA601: Mark Isaak CA601.1: Mark Isaak CA602: Mark Isaak CA602.1: Mark Isaak CA602.2: Mark Isaak CA603: Mark Isaak CA610: Mark Isaak CA611: Mark Isaak, John Wilkins CA612: Mark Isaak CA620: Mark Isaak CA622: Mark Isaak CA630: Mark Isaak CA640: Mark Isaak CA650: Mark Isaak CA651: Mark Isaak CA652: Mark Isaak CA660: Mark Isaak CA662: Mark Isaak CB000: Mark Isaak CB010: Mark Isaak CB010.1: Mark Isaak CB010.2: Mark Isaak CB015: Mark Isaak CB020: Mark Isaak CB025: Mark Isaak CB026: Mark Isaak CB030: Mark Isaak CB030.1: Mark Isaak CB035: Mark Isaak CB035.1: Mark Isaak CB035.2: Mark Isaak CB035.3: Mark Isaak CB040: Mark Isaak CB050: Mark Isaak CB090: Mark Isaak CB100: Mark Isaak CB101: Mark Isaak CB101.1: Mark Isaak CB101.2: Mark Isaak CB102: Mark Isaak CB102.1: Mark Isaak CB110: Mark Isaak CB120: Mark Isaak CB121: Mark Isaak CB130: Mark Isaak CB141: Mark Isaak CB144: Mark Isaak CB150: Mark Isaak CB180: Mark Isaak CB200: Mark Isaak CB200.1: Nicholas Matzke, Mark Isaak CB200.1.1: Mark Isaak CB200.2: Mark Isaak CB200.3: Mark Isaak CB200.4: Mark Isaak CB200.5: Mark Isaak CB211: Mark Isaak CB300: Mark Isaak CB301: Mark Isaak CB302: Mark Isaak CB303: Mark Isaak CB310: Mark Isaak CB310.1: Mark Isaak CB311: Mark Isaak CB311.1: Mark Isaak CB325: Mark Isaak CB326: Mark Isaak CB340: Mark Isaak CB341: Mark Isaak CB350: Mark Isaak CB360: Mark Isaak CB360.1: Mark Isaak CB361: Mark Isaak CB361.1: Mark Isaak CB365: Mark Isaak CB370: Mark Isaak CB381: Mark Isaak CB400: Mark Isaak CB400.1: Mark Isaak CB401: Mark Isaak CB402: Mark Isaak CB403: Mark Isaak, Elf M. Sternberg CB411: Mark Isaak CB420: Mark Isaak CB421: Mark Isaak CB430: Mark Isaak CB440: Mark Isaak CB501: Mark Isaak CB510: Mark Isaak CB601: Mark Isaak CB601.1: Mark Isaak CB601.2: David Wilson CB601.2.1: David Wilson CB601.2.2: David Wilson CB601.2.3: David Wilson CB601.2.4: David Wilson CB601.2.5: David Wilson CB601.3: Mark Isaak CB601.4: Mark Isaak CB610: Mark Isaak CB620: Mark Isaak CB621: Mark Isaak CB621.1: Mark Isaak CB630: Mark Isaak CB701: Mark Isaak CB701.1: Mark Isaak CB704: Mark Isaak CB710: Mark Isaak CB731: Mark Isaak CB732: Mark Isaak CB751: Mark Isaak CB801: Mark Isaak, John S. Wilkins CB805: John Harshman CB810: Mark Isaak CB811: Mark Isaak CB821: Mark Isaak CB822: Mark Isaak CB901: Mark Isaak CB901.1: Mark Isaak CB901.2: Mark Isaak CB901.3: Mark Isaak CB902: Mark Isaak CB902.1: Mark Isaak CB902.2: Mark Isaak CB904: Mark Isaak CB910: Mark Isaak CB910.1: Mark Isaak CB910.2: Mark Isaak CB920: Mark Isaak CB921: Mark Isaak CB921.1: Mark Isaak CB921.2: Mark Isaak CB922: Mark Isaak CB925: Stanley Friesen, Mark Isaak CB926: Derek Mathias, Mark Isaak CB928: Mark Isaak CB928.1: Mark Isaak CB928.2: Mark Isaak CB929: Mark Isaak CB930: Mark Isaak CB930.1: Mark Isaak CB930.2: Mark Isaak CB930.3: Mark Isaak CB930.4: Mark Isaak CB932: Mark Isaak CB940: Mark Isaak CB940.1: Mark Isaak CB941: Mark Isaak CB950: Mark Isaak CB951: Mark Isaak CB952: Mark Isaak CB990: Mark Isaak CC001: Mark Isaak CC001.1: Mark Isaak CC002: Mark Isaak CC003: Mark Isaak CC004: Mark Isaak CC021: Mark Isaak CC030: Mark Isaak CC040: Mark Isaak CC041: Mark Isaak CC050: Mark Isaak CC051: Mark Isaak CC051.1: Mark Isaak CC052: Mark Isaak CC054: Mark Isaak CC061: Mark Isaak CC080: Mark Isaak CC101: Mark Isaak CC102: Mark Isaak CC110: Mark Isaak CC111: Mark Isaak CC112: Mark Isaak CC120: Mark Isaak CC130: Mark Isaak CC131: Mark Isaak CC150: Mark Isaak CC200: Mark Isaak CC200.1: Mark Isaak CC201: Mark Isaak CC201.1: Mark Isaak CC202: Mark Isaak CC211: Mark Isaak CC212: Mark Isaak CC213: Mark Isaak CC214: Mark Isaak, Jon Barber, John Harshman CC214.1: Mark Isaak CC214.1.1: Mark Isaak CC214.2: Mike Hopkins CC215: Mark Isaak CC216.1: Mark Isaak CC216.2: Mark Isaak CC220: Mark Isaak CC220.1: Mark Isaak CC250: Mark Isaak CC251: Mike Hopkins, Mark Isaak CC300: Mark Isaak, John Harshman CC301: Mark Isaak CC310: Mark Isaak CC331: Mark Isaak CC332: Mark Isaak CC332.1: Mark Isaak CC332.2: Mark Isaak CC335: Mark Isaak CC340: Mark Isaak CC341: Mark Isaak CC351: Mark Isaak CC352: Mark Isaak CC360: Mark Isaak CC361: Mark Isaak CC361.1: Mark Isaak CC361.2: Mark Isaak CC361.3: Mark Isaak CC362: Mark Isaak CC363: Mark Isaak CC363.1: Mark Isaak CC364: Mark Isaak CC365: Keith Littleton, Mark Isaak CC365.1: Keith Littleton, Mark Isaak CC371: Mark Isaak; acknowledgements to Gary Hurd CC371.1: Mark Isaak CC373: Mark Isaak CC381: Mark Isaak CC401: Mark Isaak CD001: Mark Isaak CD002: Mark Isaak CD004: Sverker Johansson, Mark Isaak CD010: Mark Isaak CD011: Mark Isaak CD011.1: Mark Isaak CD011.2: Mark Isaak CD011.3: Keith Littleton CD011.4: Keith Littleton CD011.5: Mark Isaak CD011.6: Mark Isaak CD012: Mark Isaak CD013: Keith Littleton CD013.1: Mark Isaak CD014: Mark Isaak CD014.1: Mark Isaak CD015: Mark Isaak, Tom Baillieul CD016: Jon Fleming CD020: Mark Isaak CD031: Mark Isaak CD101: Mark Isaak CD102: Mark Isaak CD102.1: Mark Isaak CD103: Mark Isaak CD110: Mark Isaak CD111: Mark Isaak CD200: Mark Isaak CD202: Mark Isaak CD203: Mark Isaak CD210: Mark Isaak CD211: Mark Isaak CD220: Mark Isaak CD220.1: Mark Isaak CD221: Mark Isaak CD221.1: Mark Isaak CD222: Mark Isaak CD230: Mark Isaak CD231: Mark Isaak CD232: Sverker Johansson CD240: Mark Isaak CD241: Mark Isaak CD250: Mark Isaak CD301: Mark Isaak CD302: Mark Isaak CD303: Mark Isaak CD410: Mark Isaak CD501: Mark Isaak CD502: Mark Isaak CD510: Mark Isaak CD610: Mark Isaak CD620: Mark Isaak CD701: Mark Isaak CD701.1: Mark Isaak CD740: Mark Isaak CD741: Mark Isaak CD750: Mark Isaak CD821: Mark Isaak CE001: Mark Isaak CE010: Mark Isaak CE011: Mark Isaak CE011.1: Mark Isaak CE020: Mark Isaak CE101: Mark Isaak CE110: Mark Isaak CE130: Mark Isaak CE210: Mark Isaak CE230: Mark Isaak CE231: Mark Isaak CE240: Mark Isaak CE260: Mike Dworetsky CE260.1: Mark Isaak CE261: Mark Isaak CE261.1: Mark Isaak CE280: Mark Isaak CE281: Mark Isaak CE301: Mark Isaak CE302: Mark Isaak CE310: Mark Isaak CE310.1: Mark Isaak CE311: Mark Isaak CE351: Mark Isaak CE380: Mark Isaak CE401: Mark Isaak, Adam Crowl CE410: Mark Isaak CE411: Mark Isaak, acknowledgement to Kari Tikkanen CE411.1: Mark Isaak CE412: Mark Isaak CE420: Mark Isaak CE421: Mark Isaak CE425: Mark Isaak CE440: Mark Isaak CE441: Mark Isaak CF001: Mark Isaak CF001.1: Mark Isaak CF001.2: Mark Isaak CF001.3: Mark Isaak CF001.4: Mark Isaak CF001.5: Mark Isaak CF002: Mark Isaak CF002.1: Mark Isaak CF003: Mark Isaak CF005: Gordon Davisson CF010: Mark Isaak CF011: Mark Isaak, RBH CF011.1: Mark Isaak CF011.2: Mark Isaak CF101: Mark Isaak CF201: Mark Isaak CF210: Mark Isaak CF220: Mark Isaak CG001: Mark Isaak CG010: Mark Isaak CG020: Mark Isaak CG030: Mark Isaak CG040: Mark Isaak CG041: Mark Isaak CG101: Mark Isaak CG110: Mark Isaak CG111: Mark Isaak CG201: Mark Isaak CG202.1: Mark Isaak CG202.2: Mark Isaak CH001: Mark Isaak CH010: Mark Isaak CH010.1: Mark Isaak CH030: Derek Mathias, Mark Isaak CH050: Mark Isaak CH055: Mark Isaak CH100: Mark Isaak CH100.1: Mark Isaak CH101: Mark Isaak CH101.1: Mark Isaak CH102: Mark Isaak CH102.1: Mark Isaak CH102.2: Mark Isaak CH102.2.1: Mark Isaak CH102.5: Mark Isaak CH103: Mark Isaak CH110: Mark Isaak CH120: Mark Isaak CH130: Mark Isaak CH131: Mark Isaak, Reynold Hall CH132: Mark Isaak CH133: Mark Isaak CH134: Mark Isaak CH135: Mark Isaak CH135.1: Mark Isaak, Reynold Hall CH135.2: Mark Isaak, Reynold Hall CH181: Mark Isaak CH182: Mark Isaak CH183: Mark Isaak CH184: Mark Isaak CH190: Mark Isaak CH200: Mark Isaak CH210: Mark Isaak CH220: Mark Isaak CH301: Mark Isaak CH310: Mark Isaak CH311: Mark Isaak CH320: Mark Isaak CH321: Mark Isaak CH350: Mark Isaak CH370: Mark Isaak CH401: Mark Isaak CH410: Mark Isaak CH420: Mark Isaak CH430: Mark Isaak, Reynold Hall CH500: Mark Isaak CH501: Mark Isaak CH502.1: Mark Isaak CH502.2: Mark Isaak CH503: Mark Isaak CH503.1: Mark Isaak CH503.2: Mark Isaak CH504.1: Mark Isaak CH504.2: Mark Isaak CH504.3: Mark Isaak CH505.1: Mark Isaak CH505.2: Mark Isaak CH505.3: Mark Isaak CH505.4: Mark Isaak CH505.5: Mark Isaak CH505.6: Mark Isaak CH505.7: Mark Isaak CH505.8: Mark Isaak CH508: Mark Isaak CH511: Mark Isaak CH512: Mark Isaak CH512.1: Mark Isaak CH512.2: Mark Isaak CH513: Mark Isaak CH514: Mark Isaak CH514.1: Mark Isaak CH520: Mark Isaak CH521: Mark Isaak CH541: Mark Isaak CH542: Mark Isaak CH550: Mark Isaak CH561.1: Mark Isaak CH561.2: Mark Isaak CH561.3: Derek Mathias CH561.4: Mark Isaak CH570: Mark Isaak CH580: Mark Isaak CH581: Mark Isaak CH581.1: Mark Isaak CH590: Mark Isaak CH710: Mark Isaak CH710.1: Mark Isaak CH710.2: Mark Isaak CH711: Mark Isaak CH711.1: Mark Isaak CH712: Mark Isaak CH712.1: Mark Isaak CH801: Mark Isaak, John Harshman CH901: Mark Isaak CH910: Mark Isaak CI001: Mark Isaak CI001.1: Mark Isaak CI001.2: Mark Isaak CI001.3: Mark Isaak CI001.4: Mark Isaak CI002: Mark Isaak CI009: Mark Isaak CI010: Mark Isaak CI100: Mark Isaak CI100.1: Mark Isaak CI101: Mark Isaak CI102: Mark Isaak CI110: Mark Isaak CI111: Mark Isaak CI111.1: Mark Isaak CI111.2: Mark Isaak CI113: Mark Isaak CI120: Mark Isaak CI130: Mark Isaak CI130: Mark Isaak CI131: Mark Isaak CI141: Mark Isaak CI141.1: Mark Isaak CI190: Mark Isaak CI191: Mark Isaak CI200: Mark Isaak CI301: Mark Isaak CI302: Mark Isaak CI401: Mark Isaak CI402: Mark Isaak CI410: Mark Isaak CJ001: Mark Isaak CJ311: Mark Isaak CJ530: Mark Isaak CJ531: Mark Isaak CJ533: Mark Isaak

New claims are linked in bold red . Updates to previously existing files are regular links. 2007-02-20 CB360.1 : The human appendix is functional, not vestigial. 2007-02-18 CB921.1 : What use is half an eye? 2006-12-05 CC300 : The Cambrian explosion shows all kinds of life appearing suddenly. 2006-11-05 CC200 : Transitional fossils are lacking. 2006-11-02 CB300 : Complex organs couldn't have evolved. 2006-10-30 CA510.1 : Problems with evolution are evidence for creation. 2006-09-12 CB200.1.1 : The flagellum has 30 or so unique (non-homologous) proteins. 2006-09-07 CB910 : No new species have been observed. 2006-09-07 CB731 : Finger development disproves birds descended from dinosaurs. 2006-09-06 CA005 : Evolution is racist. 2006-08-29 CC202 : Transitional fossils do not show direct ancestry. 2006-08-29 CA320.3 : Darwinists had Dembski removed from his position at Baylor. 2006-08-04 CA341 : Evolutionists have not met Hovind's challenge to prove evolution. 2006-08-04 CA006.2 : Stalin's policies were influenced by Darwin. 2006-07-24 CH102.1 : Genesis must be literal; it is straightforward narrative. 2006-07-15 CC200 : Transitional fossils are lacking. 2006-06-28 CC371.1 : Soft tissues from a Tyrannosaurus bone indicate recent burial. 2006-06-28 CA343 : Evolutionists refuse Mastropaolo's "Life Science Prize" challenge. 2006-06-08 CB121 : The cost of natural selection is prohibitive (Haldane's dilemma). 2006-05-30 CB150 : Functional genetic sequences are too rare to evolve from one to another. 2006-05-12 CD701 : The earth's magnetic field is decaying, indicating a young earth. 2006-04-23 CB805 : Evolution predicts a continuum of organisms, not discrete kinds. 2006-04-07 CA301.1 : Naturalistic science will miss a supernatural explanation. 2006-04-05 CB921.1 : What use is half an eye? 2006-03-31 CB620 : Human population growth indicates a young earth. 2006-03-03 CA041.1 : Federal law (Santorum Amendment) supports teaching alternatives. 2006-02-25 CC216.1 : There are gaps between land mammals and whales. 2006-02-23 CI131 : Every machine's origin, where determinable, is by intelligent agency. 2006-02-06 CE412 : Gravitational time dilation made distant clocks run faster. 2006-02-02 CD016 : The U-Th-Pb method, properly corrected for neutron capture, gives recent dates. 2006-01-31 CH110 : Prophecies prove the accuracy of the Bible. 2006-01-26 CE420 : The big bang theory is wrong. 2006-01-20 CD410 : World War II airplanes are now beneath thousands of "annual" ice layers. 2006-01-13 CF001.2 : The second law of thermodynamics, and the trend to disorder, is universal. 2006-01-13 CF001.1 : Systems left to themselves invariably tend toward disorder. 2006-01-05 CI001.4 : Intelligent design has been published in peer-reviewed journals. 2006-01-03 CD011.1 : Variable C-14/C-12 ratio invalidates C-14 dating. 2005-12-14 CB010.2 : First cells could not come together by chance. 2005-12-07 CI001.2 : Intelligent design is not creationism. 2005-12-01 CI190 : SETI researchers expect that they can detect design. 2005-11-25 CA114 : Many famous scientists were creationists. 2005-11-24 CA602 : Evolution is atheistic. 2005-11-22 CA114.4 : Babbage was a creationist. 2005-11-19 CA114.4 : Babbage was a creationist. 2005-11-18 CH581 : The Grand Canyon was carved by retreating Flood waters. 2005-11-17 CB921.2 : What use is half a wing? 2005-11-05 CA211.1 : Karl Popper said Darwinism is not testable. 2005-11-04 CB910 : No new species have been observed. 2005-11-03 CA210 : Evolution does not make predictions. 2005-11-01 CB921.2 : What use is half a wing? 2005-10-31 CF001.3 : Instructions are necessary to produce order. 2005-10-14 CI001.1 : Intelligent design theory is not religious. 2005-10-14 CA041.1 : Federal law (Santorum Amendment) supports teaching alternatives. 2005-10-14 CA041 : Teach the controversy. 2005-10-07 CI401 : The methodology of science rules out even considering design. 2005-10-07 CA001.1 : Crime rates etc. have increased since evolution began to be taught. 2005-10-05 CG041 : Agriculture is too recent. 2005-10-05 CG040 : Written history is too short. 2005-10-05 CB928.2 : Humans have stopped evolving. 2005-10-05 CB144 : Human and chimp genomes differ by more than one percent. 2005-10-03 CD102.1 : Out-of-order strata occur at the Lewis Overthrust. 2005-09-24 CH102.5 : God's promise of no more floods fails if Noah's flood was local. 2005-09-24 CC381 : There are too few Stone-Age remains for a long history of humanity. 2005-09-24 CB930.4 : A pterodactyl was found alive in Jurassic limestone. 2005-09-24 CB301 : The eye is too complex to have evolved. 2005-09-24 CB200.2 : Blood clotting is irreducibly complex. 2005-09-24 CA115.1 : Design arguments converted atheist Anthony Flew to theism. 2005-09-21 CA602 : Evolution is atheistic. 2005-09-14 CB035.2 : Earth's early atmosphere had no reducing gases. 2005-08-30 CB010.2 : First cells could not come together by chance. 2005-08-24 CI190 : SETI researchers expect that they can detect design. 2005-08-16 CA041 : Teach the controversy. 2005-08-13 CA008 : Evolution encourages promiscuity and lust. 2005-08-12 CE420 : The big bang theory is wrong. 2005-08-09 CC216.1 : There are gaps between land mammals and whales. 2005-08-05 CI301 : The cosmos is fine-tuned to permit human life. 2005-08-02 CA114.2 : Linnaeus was a creationist. 2005-08-02 CA111.1 : Over 300 scientists express skepticism of Darwinism. 2005-07-31 CF011 : Evolutionary algorithms smuggle in design in the fitness function. 2005-07-18 CB922 : No two-celled life exists intermediate between one- and multicelled. 2005-07-13 CH101.1 : If part of the Bible is wrong, none of it can be trusted. 2005-07-04 CA602 : Evolution is atheistic. 2005-07-03 CH110 : Prophecies prove the accuracy of the Bible. 2005-07-01 CA006.1 : Hitler based his views on Darwinism. 2005-06-29 CD031 : KBS Tuff shows the flaws of radiometric dating. 2005-06-29 CB751 : Bilateral symmetry is improbable under evolution. 2005-06-28 CB200.4 : The immune system is irreducibly complex. 2005-06-18 CB822 : Evolution's tree-like pattern is discredited. 2005-06-18 CB035.2 : Earth's early atmosphere had no reducing gases. 2005-06-18 CB035 : Miller's experiments had an invalid assumption of the type of atmosphere. 2005-06-16 CG202.2 : The Chinese Hihking flood myth is very like the story of Noah. 2005-06-16 CG202.1 : The Miao flood myth is very like the story of Noah. 2005-06-16 CA341 : Evolutionists have not met Hovind's challenge to prove evolution. 2005-06-05 CB701 : Haeckel falsified his embryo pictures. 2005-05-26 CB952 : The evolution of specialized diets would not be adaptive. 2005-05-26 CB811 : Homologous structures are not produced by homologous genes. 2005-05-26 CA602 : Evolution is atheistic. 2005-05-25 CG201 : There are flood myths from all over the world. 2005-05-16 CA006.1 : Hitler based his views on Darwinism. 2005-05-12 CC373 : Jurassic shells from mud springs are remarkably preserved.

It is inconceivable that (fill in the blank) could have originated naturally. Therefore, it must have been created. This argument, also known as the argument from ignorance or "god of the gaps," is implicit in a very many different creationist arguments. In particular, it is behind all arguments against abiogenesis and any and all claims of intelligent design.

Really, the claim is "I can't conceive that (fill in the blank)." Others might be able to find a natural explanation; in many cases, they already have. Nobody knows everything, so it is unreasonable to conclude that some...

Behe, Michael. 2003. A functional pseudogene?: An open letter to Nature. http://www.arn.org/docs2/news/behepseudogene052003.htm

Linnaeus was a creationist.

...of the major pieces of evidence for evolution. He was criticized by the creationists of his day for placing humans in the same order as monkeys. Linnaeus was very pious and believed that God created all things, but he was, foremost, an objective scientist. He wrote with contempt of a pastor...

...Ecology and Systematics 28: 359-389. Previous Claim: CA114.10 | List of Claims | Next Claim: CA114.22 created 2001-2-18, modified 2005-8-2

Nicolai Stenonis, known also as Nicolaus Steno, made important advances in anatomy and stratigraphy; he is credited with founding geology as a scientific field. He was a creationist.

Steno (1631-1686) lived long before the theory of evolution was proposed, when the Bible was universally accepted as history. Steno was a man of his times. Still, his little writing on geography was noncommital on the ag...

...n the Mountaintop . New York: Dutton. Previous Claim: CA114.22 | List of Claims | Next Claim: CA115.1 created 2005-2-18

Charles Babbage (1792-1871), a pioneer in the field which became computer science, was a creationist.

...n (Babbage 1838, v-vii). In this, he was in direct opposition to today's creationists. The general arguments against authority apply. The validity of evolution is based on evidence, not on what Babbage or anyone else says, and Babbage did most of his work before Origin of Species was publishe...

...e_texts/bridgewater/babbage_intro.htm Previous Claim: CA114.28 | List of Claims | Next Claim: CA115.1 created 2005-11-22

Creationists cannot get their views accepted by mainstream science because they are prevented from publishing in mainstream scientific journals.

...are politics and religious evangelism. Science is not very important to creationists in the first place. The main reason that they do not get published in reputable science journals is that they do not try to publish there. In a survey of editors of sixty-eight journals, only eighteen out of...

...Quarterly Review of Biology 60: 21-30. Previous Claim: CA321.1 | List of Claims | Next Claim: CA340 created 2003-6-23, modified 2004-1-13

...it required God to create it originally. Both of these Christian men of science were creationists. Philosophical Origins of Evolution by David Skjaerlund http://r2rministries.com/science/X0203_Philosophical_origin.html Pasteur's experiments confirmed that life reproduces only after its own kind and that even micro-organisms, at that time unsee...

...ff, no maggots appeared, even though fly eggs were on the screen. But it remained for creationist Louis Pasteur, in 1861, to describe his simple, yet elegant, experiment that finally proved that life came only from life. . . . Pasteur's experiment is still accepted as proof against abiogenesis. But this leaves evolutionists with no source for s...

...ply is not acceptable. Other Links: Quote Mine Project: George Wald Quote A look at a creationist misusing the words of George Wald and what Wald actually believed. "Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation,...

Generated Claims Index Index to Creationist Claims generated from claim entries. This list is rebuilt from the managed claim routes under /indexcc/ . As claim pages, keyphrases, bibliographic records, and workbench metadata mature, this page should derive those relationships instead of being...

...t site inventory. CA CB CC CD CE CF CG CH CI CJ CA 90 Philosophy, theology, and broad creationist assertions CA001: Evolution is the foundation of an immoral worldview. /indexcc/CA/CA001.html CA001.1: Evolution and crime /indexcc/CA/CA001_1.html CA002: Survival of the fittest implies might makes right. /indexcc/CA/CA002.html CA002.1: Social Dar...

.../indexcc/CA/CA113.html CA113.1: Evolution of the eye. /indexcc/CA/CA113_1.html CA114: Creationist scientists /indexcc/CA/CA114.html CA114.1: Lord Kelvin and creationism /indexcc/CA/CA114_1.html CA114.10: J. H. Fabre and creationism /indexcc/CA/CA114_10.html CA114.2: Linnaeus a creationist. /indexcc/CA/CA114_2.html CA114.22: Pasteur and creation...

...own to have come from the Paluxy riverbed. In reality, the Burdick print (named after creationist Clifford Burdick,[1] who first publicly promoted it) is considered by most researchers to be one of several loose "man tracks" carved by Glen Rose residents during the 1930's. Besides being very large (over 15 inches heel to toe) it shows severe an...

...r I and others published extensive evidence of these findings in the mid-1980's, most creationists abandoned the Paluxy claims. Baugh, however, began claiming that the prints were dinosaur tracks with human tracks within them--an assertion as empty as the original "man track" claims.[8,9,10] Other alleged human tracks near Glen Rose that have b...

...ith the dinosaurs many millions of years ago, whereas Baugh, Patton, and other strict creationists do not believe this. Instead, they ironically use the same objects to argue that both humans and dinosaurs lived together in the recent past. Not only are Baugh and Patton's claims usupported by the evidence and rejected by mainstream scientists,...

Creationist Arguments: Duane Gish and Wadjak Man It is perhaps worth examining the history of Duane Gish's claims on Wadjak Man in some detail. Gish originally claimed, in his first book on the fossil record, that "Dubois concealed the fact that he had also di...

...the same claim in the next update of his book. In 1986 Brace published an article on creationist claims about Homo erectus ( Brace 1986 ) in which he listed his references for Dubois' early publications on Wadjak Man. (Gish should surely have seen this article, which was published in a journal devoted to defending evolution against creationism...

...tionism: bad science or immoral pseudoscience? Skeptic, 4.4:88-93. Brace C.L. (1986): Creationists and the pithecanthropines . Creation/Evolution, Issue 19:16-23. (discusses creationist arguments about Java Man and Peking Man) Fezer K.D. (1993): Creation's incredible witness: Duane T. Gish, Ph.D. Creation/Evolution, Issue 33:5-21. Gish D.T. (19...

Creationist Arguments: Java Man Many creationists have claimed that Java Man , discovered by Eugene Dubois in 1893, was "bad science". Gish (1985) says that Dubois found two human skulls at nearby Wadjak at about the same level and had kept them secret; that D...

Creationist Arguments: Java Man Many creationists have claimed that Java Man , discovered by Eugene Dubois in 1893, was "bad science". Gish (1985) says that Dubois found two human skulls at nearby Wadjak at about the same level and had kept them secret; that Dubois later decided Java Man was a gi...

...im that Java Man was " a gigantic genus allied to the gibbons ", but this was not, as creationists imply, a retraction of his earlier claims that it was an intermediate between apes and humans. Dubois also pointed out that it was bipedal and that its brain size was "very much too large for an anthropoid ape", and he never stopped believing that...

Creationist Arguments: Monkeys and Peking Man Some creationists, such as O'Connell (1969) and Bowden (1981), have claimed that the Peking Man fossils were actually those of monkeys. So that you can judge for yourself, here is the first ever, I believe, compara...

Creationist Arguments: Monkeys and Peking Man Some creationists, such as O'Connell (1969) and Bowden (1981), have claimed that the Peking Man fossils were actually those of monkeys. So that you can judge for yourself, here is the first ever, I believe, comparative photo of a monkey and Peking Man: The skull on...

...intelligence? No scientist has ever claimed the Peking Man skulls came from monkeys . Creationist claims to the contrary rely upon misrepresentations of work by scientists such as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Marcellin Boule . Boule was always of the opinion that Peking Man was intermediate between apes and humans. Bowden and O'Connell both c...

Creationist Arguments: Semicircular Canals A number of creationists (Gish 1995; Lubenow 1996; Mehlert 1996; Wieland 1994) have cited studies of the semicircular canals as evidence of a lack of transitional forms leading from apes to humans. These claims are ba...

Creationist Arguments: Semicircular Canals A number of creationists (Gish 1995; Lubenow 1996; Mehlert 1996; Wieland 1994) have cited studies of the semicircular canals as evidence of a lack of transitional forms leading from apes to humans. These claims are based on the work of Fred Spoor and his colleagues (Spoor...

...rtly bipedal. They did not conclude that australopithecines were quadrupedal, as most creationists imply or claim. For example: Also, CAT scans of australopithecine inner ear canals (reflecting posture and balance) by anatomist Dr. Fred Spoor and his colleagues at University College, London, showed they did not walk habitually upright. ( Catchp...

Creationist Arguments: The Lost Peking Man Skeletons The initial reports of 10 skeletons Where did the reports come from? Bowden's explanation The conspiracy of silence Conclusions Creationist author Malcolm Bowden (1981) discusses a curious episode in the his...

...did the reports come from? Bowden's explanation The conspiracy of silence Conclusions Creationist author Malcolm Bowden (1981) discusses a curious episode in the history of Peking Man , and argues that scientists committed a colossal fraud by hiding the existence of ten skeletons. The initial reports In the middle of December 1929, some newspap...

...re headless". The prominent journal Nature (Anon. 1929b) made similar but more modest claims, referring only to "the fossilized fragments of ten more examples of Sinanthropus ", and "remains of ten individuals". On December 28th 1929 [1] , a conference was held at the offices of the Geological Survey of China. There were no skeletons, let alone...