List of creationist claims

This list of creationist claims contains statements ostensibly made to support creationism, but which nearly always attack evolution (assuming the only alternative is creationism), and their associated counter-arguments. They without exception contain logical fallacies and mistakes of fact.

The divine comedy Creationism

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Biblical literalism Young/Old Earth Intelligent design Creation scientists

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Geomagnetism History of the Earth List of transitional forms Punctuated equilibrium

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Answers Research Journal volume 1 Not Circular Reasoning Salem Hypothesis Y-chromosomal Adam v - t - e

A very comprehensive list is compiled on talk.origins.

General

• The world is young, but made to look old.
• Goddidit/Flooddidit/Falldidit/Satandidit!

Antiscience

• Science can't explain how a bee flies.
• Science was wrong before.
• Science doesn't know everything.

Astronomy

• Against the starlight problem:
  • The Earth was created in a black hole, causing time on Earth to run vastly slower and allowing the light to reach Earth.
  • The speed of light has decreased over time.
  • The speed of light is infinite towards an observer and half of c when away.
• Against the cratered surface of the moon:
  • The Flood expelled comets into the moon.
• The addition of leap seconds and the slowing of the Earth's rotation necessitates a young Earth.

Biology/Evolution

• Irreducible complexity requires an intelligent designer.
  • Orchids require an intelligent designer.
• The banana requires an intelligent designer.

Abiogenesis

• Because life didn't come into existence in my peanut butter, it can't come into existence at all.

Geology

• Geomagnetism:
  • Geomagnetic decay proves a young Earth.
• God put fake fossils in the ground for some reason.
• The presence of "polonium halos" proves a young Earth.
• Against the slow geological formation of the continents:
  • Flood geology explains it.
  • Plates can move fast, because magnetism.
• Certain fossils appear in the "wrong" place in the geological record.
  • The Hakatai Shale pollen appears in rock radiometrically dated as Precambrian, yet pollen is post-Cambrian.
  • The Roraima pollen appears in rock radiometrically dated as Precambrian, yet pollen is post-Cambrian.

Global flood

• Noah's Ark has been found!

• The government of Turkey recognized Noah's ark as an archaeological site.

• Against the impossibility of having enough water for the flood:
  • Comets brought the water.
  • The continents floated on the water until the Flood.
• Against caring for the animals in Noah's ark:
  • The "kinds" (not species) of animals could fit on the ark and later rapidly evolve into current species.

Intelligent design

• Intelligent design is unrelated to creationism.
• Intelligent design is being censored.

Mathematics

• Against improbable things happen in evolution:
  • X has a 1 in [BIG NUMBER] chance of ocurring.
  • X is extremely unlikely. A probability of less than 10^-50 is a probability of 0.

Morality/Consequences

• Acceptance of evolution prevents morality.
  • Acceptance of evolution causes crime.
• If man arose by chance, life would have no purpose or meaning.
  • Evolution says humans are just animals, with no purpose or meaning.
• Evolution says you are descended from a monkey. Do you want to be descended from a monkey?

Religion

• Evolution is incompatible with religion, so we should reject evolution.
  • Without a literal Fall, there is no need for redemption, and thus no need for Jesus or Christianity.
  • If evolution is true, then billions of years of suffering before humans evolved have no logical justification.
  • Evolution says humans are just animals, which means they can't have religion.

Lists

1. 101 evidences for a young age of the Earth and the universe
2. 12 Arguments Evolutionists Should Avoid
3. Ask Darwinists
4. Scientific Facts in the Bible: 100 Reasons to Believe the Bible is Supernatural in Origin

See also

Русскоязычным вариантом данной статьи является статья Список утверждений креационистов

• Broad anti-evolution arguments
• Creationism is not a theory
• Creationist escape hatches

ru:Список утверждений креационистов