Dave Matson Young Earth Carbon 14 Constant Rate
Dr. Hovind (R2): The C-14 decay rate is not constant. Several factors, including the 11-year sunspot cycle, affects its rate of decay. It is painfully obvious that Dr. Hovind knows next to nothing about carbon-14 dating! Changes in the sunspot cycle do have a noticeable, short-term effect on the rate of C-14 production inasmuch […]
Dave Matson Young Earth Carbon 14 Accurately Measure
Dr. Hovind (R5): The C-14 cannot be accurately measured. It makes up less than one part per million in the atmosphere, and claiming to be able to measure accurately to 7 decimal places is not reasonable. This is similar to an argument put out by Harold Slusher (1981, p.45). Dr. Hovind adds the bizarre […]
Dave Matson Young Earth Carbon 14
The following material has been taken from a sheet entitled Several Faulty Assumptions Are Used in all Radiometric Dating Methods. Carbon 14 is used for this example:, which was put out by Dr. Hovind. The Atmospheric C-14 is Only 1/3 of the Way to Equilibrium Radiometric Decay Rates are Not Constant The Initial C-14 Content […]
Dave Matson Young Earth Biblio
References Alfven, Hannes, and Gustaf Arrhenius. 1976. Evolution of the Solar System NASA SP345, National Space and Aeronautics Administration, Washington, D.C. Aller, M. F. 1971. “Promethium in the star HR465” Sky & Telescope, vol.41, pp.220-222 Anderson, J. L. 1972. “Non-Poisson distributions observed during counting of certain carbon-14-labeled organic (sub) monolayers” Physical Chemistry Journal, vol.76, pp.3603-3612 […]
Dave Matson Young Earth Additional Topics Supernova
A6. The Distance to Supernova SN1987A and the Speed of Light When supernova SN1987A exploded, its light soon struck a ring of gas some distance from the star and illuminated it. As viewed from Earth, the ring appeared around the supernova about a year after it exploded. Its angular size combined with the time […]
Dave Matson Young Earth Additional Topics Problems
A5. A Couple of Ice Age Problems Dr. Hovind believes that there was only one ice age which began sometime after Noah’s flood ended, that being around 4300 years ago by his reckoning. Thus, the world moved from a warm, tropical climate to an ice age only a few thousand years ago. There are […]
Dave Matson Young Earth Additional Topics Mammoths
A4. Mammoths: Were They QuickFrozen? The claim that mammoths were quickfrozen goes back at least several decades as an old Reader’s Digest article will testify. It has no merit whatsoever. To begin with, mammoths were adapted for severely cold weather as their heavy fur, complete with a thick, insulating underwool, and a thick layer […]
Dave Matson Young Earth Additional Topics Flood
A2. Water and Vapor and Noah’s Flood Attempting to supply the water for Noah’s flood is a much greater problem than one might realize. True, one can simply say that God did it and leave it at that. However, that argument will support the cosmological views of any and every religion, and they all […]
Dave Matson Young Earth Additional Topics Coal And Oil
A3. Coal and Oil The amount of coal and oil existing today greatly exceeds what could have been produced by decaying plants and animals in a few thousand years. It is naive to think that today’s coal and oil came from the buried remains of Noah’s antediluvian world. Most creationists simply have no idea how […]
Dave Matson Young Earth Additional Topics Bad Dates
A1. Woodmorappe’s Collection of Bad Dates Eat one of those and your tummy will curl right up! Seriously speaking, a favorite attack on radiometric dating involves dangling "horror stories" about gross errors before the reader, thus giving the impression that radiometric dating is totally unreliable. Woodmorappe (1979), with his collection of some 350 bad radiometric […]
Dave Matson Young Earth Additional Topics
We will now look at several arguments, which may or may not be supported by Dr. Hovind, that enjoy a wide circulation. I will also present a couple of arguments indicating that the earth is much older than a few thousand years. Woodmorappe’s Collection of Bad Radiometric Dates Supplying the Water for Noah’s Flood Coal […]
Dave Matson Hanlon
Rejoinder to Cliff Hanlon’s “Three R’s” Dave E. Matson August 3, 1998 Cliff Hanlon, President The Berea Foundation Dear Mr. Hanlon, Your rebuttal of my article relating to the speed of light was forwarded to me via the Internet Infidels, a fine organization which carries a web copy of my book “How Good Are […]
Dan Barker Kalamity
Cosmological Kalamity Dan Barker "Daddy, if God made everything, who made God?" my daughter Kristi asked me, when she was five years old. "Good question," I replied. Even a child sees the problem with the traditional cosmological argument. The old cosmological argument claimed that since everything has a cause, there must be a first […]
Dan Barker Barker Horner
“Did Jesus Really Rise From The Dead?” Debate between Michael Horner and Dan Barker. This debate transcript is copyrighted. © Copyright 1996 by Dan Barker and Michael Horner. All rights reserved. Please do not make copies of this transcript for distribution in any form without permission from the copyright owners. The debate was transcribed by […]
Dan Barker Babinski Index
Ed Babinski [ Author Bio ] Brief Testimony from an Ex-Christian (1995) Babinski’s post to the EX-TIAN mailing list summarizing his own deconversion. Cretinism or Evilution? [ Index ] (Off Site) A periodical edited by Babinski on creationism vs. evolution. Does the Bible Speak of the Brain? (1993) If the authors of the Bible were inspired by an all-knowing God, […]
Curt Heuvel Bom Kjv
The Book of Mormon and the King James Version (1999) Curt van den Heuvel Introduction The King James Version of the Bible is, in all likelihood, the most successful of all the English translations. Volumes have been written on its distinctive and rhythmic style, and it is still regarded as a triumph of modern […]
Corey Washington Craig Washington Question
Question: Yes Dr. Craig, I’m slightly puzzled. You, um, said in the beginning of your argument that the universe cannot be infinite because it leads to, um, logical contradictions, such as, "How can you have inifnity minus infinity?", and I accepted your argument at that point. But then in my mind, God Himself cannot be […]
Corey Washington Craig Washington About
About This Transcript Jeffery J. Lowder This is a transcript of a debate on the existence of God, between Dr. William Lane Craig and Dr. Corey Washington, which took place on 9 February 1995 at the University of Washington, before an audience well over 1500 people. I have taken the time to transcribe this […]
Clifford Greenblatt Personal Soul
David Chalmers’ Principle of Organizational Invariance and the Personal Soul (2014) Clifford Greenblatt David Chalmers argues that conscious experience is a real but nonphysical feature of nature. However, he also believes that all particular facts about any conscious experience supervene (naturally, but not logically) on physical facts, such that physical facts fully determine any conscious […]
Clay Fulks Science V Faith
The War Between Science And Faith Clay Fulks Glancing over that page of the New York Times of Monday, October 13, 1930, which carries reports of “Sermons Preached Yesterday in the Metropolitan District,” my eye caught the headlines: “Science Found Void Compared to Faith — Dr. G.J. Russell Says It Will Never Dethrone God.” What! […]
Clay Fulks Bogard V Darrow
Rev. Ben M. Bogard Fails To Halt Devil Darrow Clay Fulks Aha! Now we know that the whilom doughly warrior of the Lord of Hosts, the Rev. Ben M. Bogard, D.D., LL.D., President of the American Association Agin Evolution (or something of that sort) editor of the Baptist and Commoner, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister […]
Clarence Darrow Why I Am An Agnostic
Why I Am An Agnostic Clarence Darrow An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths. Everyone is an agnostic as to the beliefs or creeds they do not accept. Catholics are agnostic to the Protestant creeds, and the Protestants are […]
Clarence Darrow Lords Day Alliance
The Lord’s Day Alliance Clarence Darrow This veteran of the Courts, who has spent fifty years tearing deserved holes in the law, takes and swings his priceless irony towards these professional Christians. When do we rest and when do we play? Apparently we don’t. What Price salvation? it’s not worth it Among the various societies […]
Clarence Darrow Facing Life Fearlessly
Facing Life Fearlessly Clarence Darrow The Pessimistic Versus The Optimistic View Of Life HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS GIRARD, KANSAS (Report of a lecture delivered at the University of Chicago, under the auspices of the Poetry Club, and the Liberal Club; revised by Mr. Darrow.) I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Mr. A.E. Housman in […]
Clarence Darrow Bible Absurdities
Absurdities of the Bible Clarence Darrow Little Blue Book No. 1637 Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS GIRARD, KANSAS Why am I an agnostic? Because I don’t believe some of the things that other people say they believe. Where do you get your religion, anyway? I won’t bother to discuss just what religion […]
Church State Vouchers
School Vouchers Pro Education Vouchers: America Can’t Afford to Wait (1991) (Off Site) by Tom Tancredo “The shortcomings of government schools in America resemble those of the former Soviet Union.” The Legal Case–and the Fairness Case–for Vouchers (1996) (Off Site) by Clint Bolick “This is not about the establishment of religion. It is about fulfilling a guarantee […]
Church State Scouts
Goverment Endorsement of the Boy Scouts Boy Scouts of America Practices Discrimination (2000) by Annie Laurie Gaylor (Off Site) Boy Scouts of America openly rejects membership applications by nonreligious parents and boys. BSA has never apologized for the pain it has caused youngsters who have been told “any boy can join,” then robbed of the […]
Church State Prayer
School Prayer Perhaps no aspect of the church-state controversy arouses more emotion and discussion than the subject of prayer in the public schools. After all, public schools are supported with taxpayer money. What believer would want his taxes to support an institution that prohibits his children from praying? What nonbeliever would want her taxes to […]
Church State Pledge
The Pledge of Allegiance “Under God” in Pledge of Allegiance [ Index ] (Off Site) A collection of resources from the Pluralism Project. Pledge of Allegiance Restoration Project [ Index ] (Off Site) This is the website of Michael Newdow, the atheist father who sued to have the words, "Under God," declared to be an unconstitutional insertion into the Pledge […]