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Author Topic:   Why prefer the Biblical creation account over those of other religions?
dwise1
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12-05-2006 8:22 PM
Reply to: Message 3 by Dr Adequate
12-05-2006 11:05 AM


Re: Creation Myths
Teach the controversy, that's what I say.
But that would need to involve presenting creation science claims and then examining and discussing them. Which would necessarily include why they are so incredibly false.
It's been done. Drs. Thwaites and Awbrey ran a two-model class at San Diego State University in which they gave half the lectures and ICR creationists gave the other half. That was where Gish's false bombadier beetle claim was exposed. After several semesters, the class had to be cancelled due to student protests led by Christian clubs on campus. Seems the last thing they wanted was to have the controversy actually taught.
My own experience in discussions with creationists is that the surest way to anger them was to take their claims seriously and to try to discuss those claims with them.
Lastly, when the "controversy" has been taught completely by creation science's rules (eg, without any actual examination of their claims), it has been found to change elementary-grade students into atheists. Ray Baird's "two-model" class, Livermore, Calif, 1981: No webpage found at provided URL: http://members.aol.com/dwise1/cre_ev/Livermore.html

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