Darwin’s Finch: Not the Bible is a parody that I picked up a long time ago. I’ve never found the whole thing on the web, but the Book of Creation seems to be out there. (Actually, since I have the book, I haven’t done all that much looking for the whole thing on the web.) One of my favourite bits (which is on the linked page) is:
The [“Art Thou a Sodomite”[/url quiz is pretty funny too.
Many thanks (hey, it’s Thanksgiving, right?), Johnny L.A.. I did gather that the “Not the Bible” thing was a parody - though I do wonder why they used the same year as Ussher had calculated as “the beginning”, but not the date. Maybe it’s an American thing (we do have the American Jesus, after all).
They used 4004 BC because of Ussher. Fundies (who take the date seriously) tend to be more Conservative Americans. So the joke is that the Earth was created on July 4th, the U.S. Independence Day.
saw a creation video where using arguments about the suns declining diameter and solar dust on the moon the earth could be no older than 10-12 thousand years.
there was a bit about carbon and nitrogen as well…will look this up to refresh my memory.
:rolleyes:
The Sun thing, BTW, was based on a survey of historical naked-eye observations of the size of the Sun that was never published in a peer review journal, but did appear in the magazines Sky and Telescope and Physics Today. What the Creationists don’t bother to mention is that, in response, a study was quickly published in Nature (which is peer reviewed) that used historical observations of transits of Venus and Mercury, which are much more precise, to show that the Sun is not shrinking at the rate that the naked-eye measurements indicated, and in fact may not be shrinking at all.
Of course, the authors of the original studied never implied that the size of the Sun had been decreasing for thousands of years, nor that the shrinking involved anything but the outer layers of the Sun, but the Creationists blithely ignore that, too.
