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Oh boy! Creation science papers!

Sweet Jesus on a pogo stick! It's like The Onion gone religious.

Earthquakes and the End Times: A Geological and Biblical Perspective

Patterns of Ocean Circulation Over the Continents During Noah's Flood

Toward the Development of an Instrument for Measuring a Christian Creationist Worldview


~~ Paul
 
Oh I just don't know where to start - it all looks so good.

A bounty of barminess, a plethora of piffle, a surfeit of silly pseudo-science, an abundance of absurdity, a feast of fabulous fallacies...

Thank you for this link, it wil provide amusement for quite some time. :)
 
I'm thinking about writing a sci fi story based on Creation science. There's a city in a hyperbaric chamber where everybody grows to be 10 feet tall and lives for hundreds of years. There have to be regulators in the plumbing so the water doesn't travel fast enough to eat through the pipes. Scientists communicate with Jesus through an electron microscope. Oh, and nobody is allowed to have angry thoughts, because those will trigger an earthquake which will destroy the city.
 
Wow! The very first paper I start to read begins thusly:
Recently an anti-creationist geochemist, a part-time instructor at the University of
Kentucky named Kevin Henke,1 posted on the Internet a 25,000-word rejection 2 of
scientific evidence that the world is only about 6,000 years old, the helium-leak age of
zircons (radioactive crystals) from deep underground. In politics, his procedure would be
called “mud-slinging,” which in this case tries to bury truth under a mountain of
minutiae. I normally don’t reply to Internet posts from skeptics because I want them to
try to publish their criticisms in peer-reviewed scientific journals, the proper place to
carry out scientific debates.
However, in this case I want to take the opportunity to share updated information about
our research which will appear later this year in the RATE 3 “results” book 4 and in the
accompanying book for laymen.5 I also plan to submit technical details of this reply to a
peer-reviewed scientific journal, the Creation Research Society Quarterly (CRSQ). If
Henke chooses to sling yet more mud, let him try to do so in a scientific journal. The
RATE helium research has been peer-reviewed and published in several different
scientific venues. Critics like Henke must gird up their loins and undergo the same kind
of scientific discipline—if they want people to take them seriously. If they refuse to do
that, I plan not to reply to them further.
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Have we agreed on that word beyond 'irony' yet?

Those damn sceptics - always trying to avoid publishing in proper scientific journals like "the Creation Research Society Quarterly ".

Is this 'peer reviewed' in the sense that only like-minded colleagues are allowed to review anything in it?

Just... wow...

ETA: It is from this article
 
A logical(?) extenson of the "all ideas are equally valid' concept...anything can be a 'peer reviewed journal', and anyone can write a 'scientific paper'.
 
I can't decide what is more pathetic: these papers or that they'll bamboozle Joe and Jane Klewless.
 
c4ts said:
I'm thinking about writing a sci fi story based on Creation science. There's a city in a hyperbaric chamber where everybody grows to be 10 feet tall and lives for hundreds of years. There have to be regulators in the plumbing so the water doesn't travel fast enough to eat through the pipes. Scientists communicate with Jesus through an electron microscope. Oh, and nobody is allowed to have angry thoughts, because those will trigger an earthquake which will destroy the city.
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Aw, that's just a rip-off of "Hamlet."
 
Some of the papers are well writen

With a little effort, it should be possible to find contridictory papers.

I haven't read many yet, but some of the papers are actually well written.

I like this one on THE CURRENT STATE OF CREATION ASTRONOMY.
I shows weakness that creationists need to work on.
 
Weaknesses like the theory that the Grand Canyon was made in a day, because an obscure engineering disaster somehow proves that it's possible...

Wait, that's not in the paper.
 
I urge everyone to read
THE CURRENT STATE OF CREATION ASTRONOMY

only because the author “Danny Faulkner PHD” seems like a person
torn between his genuine understanding of science, and his Christian faith.
 
Re: Some of the papers are well writen

Rocky said:

I like this one on THE CURRENT STATE OF CREATION ASTRONOMY.
I shows weakness that creationists need to work on.
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That's an old paper; it has "rebuttals" to mainstream science which are (shocker!) quite wrong. I may tackle that paper someday. It'll be a hoot.
 
Re: Re: Some of the papers are well writen

The Bad Astronomer said:
That's an old paper; it has "rebuttals" to mainstream science which are (shocker!) quite wrong. I may tackle that paper someday. It'll be a hoot.
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I bet. I look forward to reading it.
 
Re: Re: Some of the papers are well writen

The Bad Astronomer said:
That's an old paper; it has "rebuttals" to mainstream science which are (shocker!) quite wrong. I may tackle that paper someday. It'll be a hoot.
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I know, I posted a link to in here years ago. It's still probably the best written paper of that type I've ever read. Very wrong, but far better than par.
 
Psi Baba said:
Hypercanes??? Hurricanes with winds over 300 mph. On Earth. Right.
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Yep, they're going in my Creationist "sci-fi" story, where they all fly around in spaceships powered by Jesus. Not that there's anywhere to go, seeing how life can't possibly exist anywhere but the Earth...
 
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