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Do anti-creationists have a scientific case?

• Eviscerating Eldredge (Semi-technical, refutation of Niles Eldredge’s anti-creationist book The Triumph of Evolution and the Failure of Creationism)
• Response to all-comers on the Washington Post Online Forum, 28 September 2001

How do skeptics answer creationists’ design arguments? How do creationists respond?

• Dawkins’ weasel revisited (Semi-technical)
• The problem of information for the theory of evolution: have evolutionists really solved it? Technical refutations by Dr Royal Truman (on True Origins website) of the antitheists:
  • Dr Richard Dawkins
  • Dr Tom Schneider
• That depends on what your definition of “information” is (Semi-technical)
• Behe rebuts critics (Technical — posted on True Origins, originally from the Discovery Institute)
• Rebuttals to common criticisms of Michael Behe’s book Darwin’s Black Box
  (Semi-Technical — by Dr Robert DiSilvestro, published on Leadership University)
  
• A scientific critique of evolution [mutations and information]
  Dr Lee Spetner refutes Dr Edward Max; on True Origins website (Technical):
  • Part 1
  • Part 2)
  
  
• See also:
  • Get Answers: Design
  • Get Answers: Thermodynamics & Order

Are there really vestigial or badly designed structures in living organisms?

• Is Our “Inverted” Retina Really “Bad Design”? (Technical)
• The panda thumbs its nose at the dysteleological arguments of the atheist Stephen Jay Gould (Technical)
• Get Answers: “Vestigial” Organs

What about skeptics’ arguments for billions of years and against the biblical time-scale and Noah’s Flood?

• The Karoo vertebrate non-problem
• Problems with a Global Flood? ((Semi-Technical) by AiG scientist, published on the True Origins site)
• Church leader “aghast” at belief in a worldwide Flood?
• Rapid Cave Formation by Sulfuric Acid Dissolution (Technical)
• Limestone Caves . . . a result Of Noah’s Flood?
• National Geographic magazine joins the dating game
• Rapid Stalactites?
• Stalactites in Kelly Caves grow at rates of up to 1/2 inch four years
• Russell Humphreys refutes atheistic apostate Kevin Henke’s verbose attack on RATE group helium diffusion paper (True Origins site)
• Russell Humphreys refutes atheistic apostate Kevin Henke’s claim about the effect of pressure on helium diffusion rates in zircon (True Origins site)
• Anti-creationist Glenn Morton’s misuse of John Woodmorappe’s list of discrepant isotopic dates—Woodmorappe’s refutation (True Origins site)
• See also:
  • Get Answers: Flood
  • Get Answers: Geology
  • Get Answers: Radiometric Dating
  • Get Answers: Young Age Evidence

Anti-creationist lobby, Skeptics, etc.

Are evolutionists/anti-creationists really as unbiased as they claim? Are they really “neutral towards” Christianity?

• Critique of John Stear’s “No Answers in Genesis” Website (by AiG scientist, published on the True Origins site)

How reliable are skeptics’ personal attacks on creationists? What does this teach about skeptics’ integrity?

• Do Creationists Publish in Notable Refereed Journals?
• Skeptics choke on Frog: Was Dawkins caught on the hop?
• Aussie press does major beat-up on AiG’s Super Camp
• Critique of John Stear’s “No Answers in Genesis” Website (by AiG scientist, published on the True Origins site)
• Are some prominent creationists racists? (Refutation of scurrilous accusations against demonstrably staunchly anti-racist creationists, Revolution Against Evolution website)
• Pseudonyms: A Long, Honorable Tradition (True Origins website)

Bible “contradictions” and “errors”

What Biblical errors do skeptics claim to have found? How can these claims be answered?

• Contradictions in the Bible (Alleged)
• Biblical “Contradictions” Refuted (Tekton Apologetics Ministries)
• Chronology Conundrums
• Harmonization: The Issue of Complimentary Accounts (Tekton Apologetics Ministries)
• Lenny Flank (Refuting an anti-creationist nuisance writer’s village-atheist–style attacks on Biblical inerrancy — Tekton Apologetics Ministries)
• Does the Bible Wrongly Call the Bat a Bird? (Tekton Apologetics Ministries)
• Did Jesus tell His disciples to take a staff or not? (Christian Think Tank)
• Is the raqiya‘ (firmament — KJV) a solid dome? (Technical)
• Daniel: Defence of its Historical Reliability (Tekton Apologetics Ministries)
• Evidences Relating to the Date of the Book of Daniel (by David Conklin (long!), posted on Tekton Apologetics Ministries)
• Does Genesis 30:25–31:13 teach magical genetics? (Tekton Apologetics Ministries)
• Where did Cain find his wife?
• Get Answers: Genesis: Do Genesis 1 and 2 contradict each other?

Anti-Christian/anti-Bible authors: how can they be answered?

• Are “The Jesus Seminar” criticisms of the gospels and Jesus Christ valid? (Christian Answers Network)
• The Seventy-Four “Scholars”: Who Does the Jesus Seminar Really Speak For? (Christian Research Journal)
• Essays on a Jewish “Anti-Missionary” site (Tekton Apologetics Ministries)
• The Case Against Christianity by Michael Martin (More detailed critique in several parts—Tekton Apologetics Ministries; scroll down)
• Refuting the Skeptics’ Annotated Bible (Tekton Apologetics Ministries)

How can the bloodshed afflicted upon the Israelite’s enemies in the OT be reconciled with an all-good God? What about slavery? Or atrocities committed by professing Christians?

• Extermination of the Amalekites (Christian Think Tank)
• Extermination of the Canaanites (Christian Think Tank)
• Does God condone slavery in the Bible? (Christian Think Tank)
• Can Christianity Be Faulted for Opposing the Use of Lightning Rods? (Tekton Apologetics Ministries)
• An Inquiry on the Inquisition (Tekton Apologetics Ministries)

Does the Bible really teach a flat earth?

• Did Bible writers believe the Earth was flat?
• Did Bible writers believe the Earth was flat? (Christian Answers Network)
• Flat-Earth Hey Day came with Darwin
• The Myth of the Flat Earth (Summary by Jeffrey Burton Russell, author of the book Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus & Modern Historians (ISBN 027595904X), off-site)
• The Bible refers to “the four corners of the earth”. How can a spherical earth have corners? (Christian Answers Network)
• What Shape is the Earth In? An Evaluation of Biblical Cosmology (Tekton Apologetics Ministries)
• Is the ’erets (earth) flat? Equivocal language in the geography of Genesis 1 and the Old Testament: a response to professing evangelical Paul Seely (Semi-technical)
• Seely’s response to above, plus author’s reply
• Who Invented the Flat Earth? (Flat earth myth revisited)
• Creation and the Flat Earth (Dr Danny Faukner, Creation Matters, 1997)
• Is Earth Really Round? (ICR Dr. John’s Q&A article)

See also:

• Get Answers: Geocentrism