index to creationist claims

CB301: “The eye is too complex to have evolved”

April 8th, 2009 | Category: index to creationist claims

This is a post refuting part of the CreationWiki response to Talk.Origins’s “Index to Creationist Claims”. Click here for an introduction to this project. Quotes from CreationWiki are in red, while quotes from Talk.Origins are in blue.

Original Creationist Claim

The eye is too complex to have evolved.

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CB360: “Vestigial organs may have functions”

March 28th, 2009 | Category: index to creationist claims

Original Creationist Claim

Practically all “vestigial” organs in man have been shown to have definite uses and not to be vestigial at all.

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Takk Tusen! (Thank You!)

March 25th, 2009 | Category: creationism

So, here I was, coming back to my computer after a rousing night of watching comedy shows on the ABC, specifically Spicks and Specks (with the awesome Tim Minchin), the Gruen Transfer, and Lawrence Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure, when I notice on my WordPress Dashboard, in the Referrals column, a strange link:

http://diskusjon.no/index.php?session=84611531b00fd01b8c64735459eea433&showtopic=1087026&hl=

I click it, and end up in a forum called diskusjon.no, written in a language I don’t speak! It doesn’t take long for me to realise that it’s actually Norwegian, which is given [...]

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CB101.2: “Mutations don’t produce new features”

March 21st, 2009 | Category: index to creationist claims

Original Creationist Claim

Mutations only vary traits that are already there. They do not produce anything new.

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CB130: “Junk” DNA is not really junk

March 12th, 2009 | Category: index to creationist claims

Original Creationist Claim

So-called junk DNA is not really junk. Functions have been found for noncoding DNA which was previously thought to be junk, and we cannot be sure that the rest of the junk DNA is not functional as well.

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CB000: Pasteur proved life only comes from life

March 6th, 2009 | Category: index to creationist claims

Original Creationist Claim

Pasteur and other scientists disproved the concept of spontaneous generation and established the “law of biogenesis” — that life comes only from previous life.

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CA100: Argument from incredulity

March 1st, 2009 | Category: index to creationist claims

Original Creationist Claim:

“It is inconceivable that (fill in the blank) could have originated naturally. Therefore, it must have been created.”

This argument, also known as the argument from ignorance or “god of the gaps,” is implicit in a very many different creationist arguments. In particular, it [...]

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