Branches of science you have to ignore to believe in young Earth creationism
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| “ | The fact that young earth creationists have to form a committee for six years to argue against a scientific principle, is evidence in and of itself that the earth is old. | ” |
| —Greg Neyman, old-earth creationist[1] | ||
A number of wikis have sprung into existence which attempt to present "facts" which are in accordance with the YEC world-view. These include CreationWiki and Conservapedia. In the case of CreationWiki they explicitly forbid editors to insert a scientific viewpoint. Conservapedia claims not to do this but manipulates its rules to the same end. In March 2009 a disgruntled CP editor, Philip J. Rayment, created his own wiki similarly dedicated to ignoring the truth, A Storehouse of Knowledge, from which science is similarly excluded.
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[edit] What do you need to ignore?
Let us consider the areas these wikis need to distort in order to shoehorn science into YEC. To be completely honest, you pretty much need to ignore the entire realm of science, but if "all of them" is too broad for you:
- Anthropology
- Astronomy
- Chemistry
- Biochemistry
- Reaction kinetics
- Biology
- Botany (particularly Dendrochronology)
- Genetics
- Immunology
- Molecular biology
- Morphology
- Pharmacology (Germs developed MRSA drug resistance? Oh noes!)
- Zoology
- Cosmology
- Computer Science
- Automata theory and cellular automata applications: self-reproducing molecules are cellular automata which combine themselves using a few simple rules to cause emergent properties. If cellular automata (which are Turing-complete) are ignored, the entire corpus of computability theory has to be ignored.
- Geology
- Geomorphology
- Plate tectonics
- Petrology
- Stratigraphy
- Vulcanology
- Materials Science
- Meteorology
- Paleontology
- Physics
- Mechanics (Including Newtonian mechanics with gravity)
- Nuclear physics (due to the decay rates of certain isotopes)
- Fluid mechanics (Where did all that water go?)
- Thermodynamics
[edit] Humanities
The following are more humanities than science, but they are included for the sake of completion, and to emphasize how retarded YEC is.
Is there anything left?
