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The creationist movement boasts a number of adherents who have been trained in science. Significantly, few are biologists. Creationists have done almost no original research. In launching their attacks on evolution they tend to pick over data accumulated by science. Among their most frequent points:
Creationist arguments about evolution are scientifically flimsy, to say the least. But they are based on a sincere, though often appallingly distorted and overstated, conviction that evolutionary doctrine, as it has come to affect modern society, deprives man of a sense of individual and moral responsibility for his own acts...
Put in that way, however, the question is one of theology, not science. Though the growth of scientific knowledge has unquestionably undercut faith, creationists tend to ignore the fact that the awe-inspiring complexity of the universe, its grand design, has been made known to man mainly through the free...
At least half a dozen top scientific organizations have issued statements warning that scientific creationism is not scientific. Should school boards and legislatures yield to the creationists' innocuous-sounding request for equal time? The answer seems to be no-not if they want pupils to learn biology, as the...
Some quasars have even larger red shifts and perhaps are older and more distant. But quasars, which resemble stars in some ways and in some ways do not, are still so puzzling that astronomers prefer to turn to more familiar phenomena, like galaxies, in their explorations of the universe'...