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The Miller/Morris Debate (1981)

  • January 5th, 2011

On April 10, 1981, at Brown University, Kenneth R. Miller of Brown University and Henry M. Morris of the Institute for Creation Research debated whether “the theory of evolution is superior to the theory of special creation as an explanation for all the scientific evidence related to origins.”

Creation Evidence Museum

Title: 
People & Places: Creation Evidence Museum
Author(s): 
Randy Moore
Issue: 
5
Figure 1: The Creation Evidence Museum is an evangelical organization that claims to have discovered more than 100 human footprints alongside dinosaur footprints in the Paluxy Riverbed at Glen Rose, Texas. (All photos by Randy Moore)
Year: 
2009
Date: 
September–October
Page(s): 
34–35
About the Author(s): 

Randy Moore is coauthor of More Than Darwin (Berkeley [CA]: University of California Press, 2009) and of Chronology of the Evolution- Creationism Controversy (Westport [CT]: Greenwood Press, forthcoming in 2010).

topics: 
Young Earth Creationism
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Going Back to Glen Rose

Title: 
People & Places: Going Back to Glen Rose
Author(s): 
Randy Moore
Issue: 
6

In the last issue of RNCSE, Randy Moore's account of the Creation Evidence Museum gave an overview and history of the facility and its founder. In October 2009, Randy wrote that he was going to have the opportunity to visit the museum again, so we asked him to write this follow-up.

Year: 
2009
Date: 
November–December
Page(s): 
38–39
About the Author(s): 

Randy Moore
c/o NCSE
PO Box 0477
Berkeley CA 94709-0477
info@ncse.com

Randy Moore (with Mark Decker) is coauthor of More Than Darwin (Berkeley [CA]: University of California Press, 2009) and (with Mark Decker and Sehoya Cotner) the upcoming Chronology of the Evolution–Creationism Controversy.

HOMO BAUGH-ANTHROPUS?

It is no surprise that the supposed Cretaceous hominid Homo bauanthropus is recognized only by Carl Baugh. The species name, he explains, is in honor of “a physically superior royal tribe in Fiji”(quoting from p 368 of his 1989 dissertation, available on-line at http://www.creationevidence.org/~creatio1/carlbaugh.htm). Discussing Baugh’s claims in 1985, the physical anthropologist Laurie Godfrey identified the footprints as falling into three classes: clear toe impressions of tridactyl dinosaurs, poor dinosaur tracks obscured by infillings of mud, and misinterpreted invertebrate burrow casts of Thalassinoides (see “Foot notes of an anatomist” in Creation/Evolution 5 [1]: 16–35; available on-line at http://ncse.com/cej/5/1/foot-notes-anatomist).
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Young Earth Creationism
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Don't Diss Darwin

  • October 28th, 2009

Introduction

Creationism is coming to a campus near you.

Scientific Inaccuracies at AIG’s Creation “Museum”

  • June 30th, 2009

Parents, educators, scientists, clergy, and other citizens are concerned about scientifically inaccurate exhibits at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, operated by Answers in Genesis, a fundamentalist Christian ministry.

The statement below has been prepared by and for scientists in Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. Please feel free to sign if you are a scientist (faculty or post-doctoral level) from these states. And please circulate this statement among your colleagues.

From the World-Wide Flood to the World Wide Web: Creationism in the Digital Age

Title: 
From the World-Wide Flood to the World Wide Web: Creationism in the Digital Age
Author(s): 
Stephen C Burnett
Issue: 
4

INTRODUCTION

Recent research has shown strong support for science among the public in the US (National Science Board 2006). At the same time, this research shows that this same public is generally not well-informed about scientific issues (National Science Board 2006). In fact, the NSB report concludes that “the public’s lack of knowledge about basic scientific facts and the scientific process can have far reaching implications” (National Science Board 2006). This problem is not limited to adults, as tests of scientific literacy rate US students below the level of their counterparts in many other countries (National Science Board 2006). In particular, understanding of evolutionary biology is especially poor among Americans (Miller and others 2006), and it seems to be an issue from grade school (Michigan House Civics Commission 2006) to college (Holden 2006a). While this issue exists in other countries, the United States is the arguably the developed nation where the problem is most severe (Lazcano 2005; Miller and others 2006). Clearly, public perception of evolutionary biology is out of line with the actual state of science, and efforts to correct this should be a high priority.

Year: 
2008
Date: 
July–August
Page(s): 
17–18, 23–27
About the Author(s): 
Stephen C Burnett
Department of Natural Sciences
Clayton State University
2000 Clayton State Blvd.
Morrow GA 30260
sburnett@clayton.edu

Stephen Burnett is an associate professor of biology at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia. He teaches courses in evolution, vertebrate anatomy, animal behavior, and general biology. His research interests include public education and various aspects of animal behavior.
topics: 
Intelligent Design Creationism
Old Earth Creationism
Young Earth Creationism
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Review: Creation's Tiny Mystery

Year: 
1988
Number: 
2
Quarter: 
Spring
Page(s): 
30–33
Reviewer: 
Philip Osmon
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Title: 
Creation's Tiny Mystery
Author(s): 
Robert V. Gentry

For many years, creationist Robert Gentry has claimed that he's uncovered scientific evidence of a miraculous event. Gentry says that this evidence, halos of a very short-lived isotope (Polonium 218) which lack the inner halo of a longer-lived radioactive parent, undermines the uniformitarian principle. He believes that these halos, "God's fingerprint," demonstrate that natural laws were suspended in the past. He also claims that other miracles occurred in four "singularities," or sets of miraculous events, which are described in the Bible.

Knoxville, TN: Earth Science Associates, 1986. 316 pages.
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About the Author(s): 
Philip Osmon is an associate editor of Creation/Evolution and has worked as a science writer.
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Young Earth Creationism
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Tracking Those Incredible Creationists

Title: 
Tracking Those Incredible Creationists
Author(s): 
R.J. Hastings
Number: 
1
Year: 
1985

The following correction was subsequently made to this article in issue 17 (volume 6.1):

ERRATA

Dr. Ronnie Hastings would like to correct two errors that appeared in Creation/Evolution XV.

Quarter: 
Winter
Page(s): 
5–15
Media Type: 
Creation/Evolution Journal
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Review: Ride to Glory

Year: 
2000
Title: 
Ride to Glory: The People v. Charles Robert Darwin
Issue: 
3
Author(s): 
Warren LeRoi Jones
Date: 
May–June
As a matter of principle, I finish any book I start reading. Some books are easy to finish - anything by John Irving, and John Kennedy Toole's masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces, for example. Others are more difficult. No book in recent memory, or distant memory for that matter, challenged this principle more than Ride to Glory by Warren LeRoi Johns, a lawyer and novelist wannabe.
Brookeville (MD): General Title Inc., 1999. 416 pages.
Page(s): 
36–37
Reviewer: 
Skip Evans
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About the Author(s): 
Skip Evans has been active in theater for over 10 years, as actor, director, and playwright. He performed improvisational comedy in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1995 to 1998, and has written 5 full-length plays as well as numerous short stories and essays. His first play, The Psychopathic Librarian, was the Best New Play at Eola Theater Company in Orlando, Florida, 1994. He currently lives in New York City.
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Young Earth Creationism
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Common Creationist Attacks on Geology

Title: 
Common Creationist Attacks on Geology
Author(s): 
Christopher Gregory Weber
Number: 
2

In the last issue of this journal, my article "The Fatal Flaws of Flood Geology" attacked the flood geology model of the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) by citing a number of geological formations the creationists can't explain without inventing hundreds of convenient ad hoc miracles. However, creationists have attacked orthodox geology by citing geological formations they feel geologists are equally hard pressed to account for with the evolutionary model. This article answers several of their most common arguments, those relating to

Year: 
1980
Quarter: 
Fall

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Desmond, Adrian J. The Warm-Blooded Dinosaurs. Warner Books: N.Y., 1977.

Dietz, Robert L. "Astroblemes". Scientific American. Vol. 205 (Aug., 1961), pp. 50-58.

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Farrand, William R. "Frozen Mammoths and Modern Geology". Science. Vol. 83 (March 16, 1961), pp. 729ff.

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Whitcomb, John C., and Henry M. Morris. Genesis Flood. Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co.: Philadelphia, PA, 1961.

About the Author(s): 

Chris Weber, one of the editors of this journal, is a computer programmer and an amateur geologist. He's followed the creation/evolution controversy for many years.

Copyright 1980 by Christopher Gregory Weber

Page(s): 
10–25
Media Type: 
Creation/Evolution Journal
topics: 
Young Earth Creationism
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