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ICC 2013: Creationist Bob Enyart attempts to bribe Darwinist Jack Horner

Bribes are usually offered to get someone to do something dishonest, but in this case a bribe was offered to get someone to do something honest. Shouldn’t a Darwinist be glad to receive a $10,000 donation from a creationist? Creationists offered to donate money to a Darwinist museum if they would merely subject dinosaur fossils to C-14 dating. Darwinists swear by C-14 dating except when C-14 gives them results that overturn their paleontology. As pointed out previously, the presumption the Earth and Universe are billions of years old does not imply fossils are necessarily old. One does not have to be a YEC to appreciate what Bob Enyart is doing in this interview where he offers Darwinist Jack Horner $10,000 Read More ›

Mark Frank’s question on common descent and some responses

[cross posted at TSZ A Question for those that doubt Common Descent] Mark wrote Recent posts by Sal remind me that there are some intelligent educated people who doubt Common Descent. What I don’t understand what they think the alternative is. Put simply I take Common Descent as the position that : * At one time there was only very simple unicellular life on earth (this is not a debate about how that unicellular life originated) * Complex life forms (eukaryotes) are created by slight modifications from other life forms (which are their parents). We have never observed them being created any other way! * All complex life forms are the descended from a very small number of simple life Read More ›