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twf << AiG has actually publically critized Kent Hovind. It’s not appropriate to compare the two. He does resort to pseudoscience. >>
All right, they criticise him. I agree Hovind is kinda “out there.” So the respectable young-earthers are AiG, Ken Ham, and company? All right. I’ve read a good amount of material from AiG, listened to some of the archived radio shows, and see them constantly appeal to Genesis as their main argument the earth is young. That’s not science. But I can print out those articles you linked.
On the 2001 PBS special titled “Evolution” – while there were some minor put downs of religion here and there, they did a whole segment with biologist Kenneth Miller of Brown Univ who was the token “orthodox Catholic” and “orthodox Darwinist” which he called himself. Plus the final segment they did an hour or two on Ken Ham and his young-earth group AiG, and interviewed Christian students from various perspectives. So they were quite fair. I recorded the whole thing (8 hours?) over the week it aired. Great program, and indeed there were various responses to it – Discovery Institute (intelligent design folks), Reasons to Believe (old earth creationism), and the articles by AiG (young earthers) all tried to answer it. I saw the show and was impressed myself. It was an overview of the evidence for evolution.
twf << yet organizations like TalkOrigins continue to refute old and archaic forms of creationism >>
Ah, so there are really good “new forms” of creationism at AiG? I have printed out their articles in the past, mainly it is an appeal to Genesis as I mentioned. The science is just an afterthought. The old creationism would be ICR (Institute for Creation Research) I guess, who led the way in the 1970s and 80s (the Morris father and son team).
twf << For example, a while back Scientific American had a frontline article on “Refuting Creationist Nonsense” or something along those lines >>
Yeah, it was kinda brief. Didn’t go into the depth that TalkOrigins does in their articles. Reasons to Believe (Hugh Ross) also made a response. Interesting stuff. I’m open-minded, but honestly there is no scientific evidence the earth is young, and plenty of scientific evidence and reasons the earth is old. For the absolute ages, radiometric dating is used, but there are other techniques that corroborate the dates, all explained here
Age of the Earth FAQs
And one of the best articles on radiometric dating, and other techniques for determining the age of the earth, is by a Christian with a Ph.D. in physics here
Radiometric Dating, a Christian Perspective
If you can read Dalrymple’s book The Age of the Earth (1991) and still think the earth is young, I would be very surprised. Though Dalrymple can be somewhat technical. Dalrymple, though an agnostic himself, seems a very honest fellow, and he is the leading expert on the age of the earth. You’d think he would know if the earth were only 10,000 years old.
You can read the transcripts of his deposition and cross-examination in the 1981-2 "Arkansas Creationist Trial" available online. The star young-earther there was Robert Gentry with his ideas on Polonium Halos, and his transcripts are available as well. Dalrymple and Gentry crossed swords a bit.
Phil P
All right, they criticise him. I agree Hovind is kinda “out there.” So the respectable young-earthers are AiG, Ken Ham, and company? All right. I’ve read a good amount of material from AiG, listened to some of the archived radio shows, and see them constantly appeal to Genesis as their main argument the earth is young. That’s not science. But I can print out those articles you linked.
On the 2001 PBS special titled “Evolution” – while there were some minor put downs of religion here and there, they did a whole segment with biologist Kenneth Miller of Brown Univ who was the token “orthodox Catholic” and “orthodox Darwinist” which he called himself. Plus the final segment they did an hour or two on Ken Ham and his young-earth group AiG, and interviewed Christian students from various perspectives. So they were quite fair. I recorded the whole thing (8 hours?) over the week it aired. Great program, and indeed there were various responses to it – Discovery Institute (intelligent design folks), Reasons to Believe (old earth creationism), and the articles by AiG (young earthers) all tried to answer it. I saw the show and was impressed myself. It was an overview of the evidence for evolution.
twf << yet organizations like TalkOrigins continue to refute old and archaic forms of creationism >>
Ah, so there are really good “new forms” of creationism at AiG? I have printed out their articles in the past, mainly it is an appeal to Genesis as I mentioned. The science is just an afterthought. The old creationism would be ICR (Institute for Creation Research) I guess, who led the way in the 1970s and 80s (the Morris father and son team).
twf << For example, a while back Scientific American had a frontline article on “Refuting Creationist Nonsense” or something along those lines >>
Yeah, it was kinda brief. Didn’t go into the depth that TalkOrigins does in their articles. Reasons to Believe (Hugh Ross) also made a response. Interesting stuff. I’m open-minded, but honestly there is no scientific evidence the earth is young, and plenty of scientific evidence and reasons the earth is old. For the absolute ages, radiometric dating is used, but there are other techniques that corroborate the dates, all explained here
Age of the Earth FAQs
And one of the best articles on radiometric dating, and other techniques for determining the age of the earth, is by a Christian with a Ph.D. in physics here
Radiometric Dating, a Christian Perspective
If you can read Dalrymple’s book The Age of the Earth (1991) and still think the earth is young, I would be very surprised. Though Dalrymple can be somewhat technical. Dalrymple, though an agnostic himself, seems a very honest fellow, and he is the leading expert on the age of the earth. You’d think he would know if the earth were only 10,000 years old.
You can read the transcripts of his deposition and cross-examination in the 1981-2 "Arkansas Creationist Trial" available online. The star young-earther there was Robert Gentry with his ideas on Polonium Halos, and his transcripts are available as well. Dalrymple and Gentry crossed swords a bit.
Phil P