Discarded Science by John Grant

Author:John Grant
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Discarded Science
ISBN: 9781904332497
Publisher: AAPPL
Published: 2012-09-12T00:00:00+00:00

Giant footprints from the Paluxy River bed.

At least until the past few years. New human tracks have been found! Scientists who’ve examined them say they aren’t in fact human footprints, but scientists aren’t to be trusted. One example came in 1968 when Creationist fossil hunter William (Bill) Meister, while investigating strata in Utah known to be 500 million years old, encountered what looked to him like a human shoeprint. Naturally this was seized upon by the less reputable Creationists as a proof that conventional geologists had it all wrong about the geological timescale; in fact, the “shoeprint” was quickly shown to be the product of the fairly common phenomenon called spalling, whereby pieces of rock flake away from each other along specific fracture lines.

Returning to The Genesis Flood, the Paluxy River data were quietly removed from the third revised printing, after it had become evident that Burdick had been overexcited in making the original report.

None of the arguments in The Genesis Flood are of course science: this is a book of pure pseudoscience, comprising a mixture of wild guesses and straightforward fantasy. But to the uneducated reader it could look sufficiently scientific to disguise the fact that all Whitcomb and Morris were really doing was serving up the same old supper of God-created-theworld-in-six-days-about-6000-years-ago. The authors – and their countless supporters – were able to present this as a turning of the tables on science: where the trend had been to reinterpret the Scriptures in the light of each new wave of scientific discovery, now science was being reinterpreted in order to conform to the Scriptures. Whitcomb and Morris could portray themselves as being twin Davids combating the Goliath of the monolithic scientific edifice . . . and everyone loves an underdog.

A precise definition of the term “Creation Science” is hard to find. In his definitive survey of the topic’s history in the US, The Creationists (1992), Ronald L. Numbers cites a 1981 Arkansas statute concerning the “balanced” teaching of Creationism and Darwinism which probably comes as close as any:

Sudden creation of the universe, energy, and life from nothing.

The insufficiency of mutation and natural selection in bringing about development of all living kinds from a single organism.

Changes only within fixed limits of originally created kinds of plants and animals.

Separate ancestry for man and apes.

Explanation of the Earth’s geology by Catastrophism, including the occurrence of a worldwide Flood.

A relatively recent inception of the Earth and living kinds.

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