List of creationist claims

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This '''list of creationist claims''' contains statements ostensibly made to support [[creationism]], but which nearly always attack [[evolution]] ([[false dichotomy|assuming the only alternative is creationism]]), and their associated counter-arguments. They without exception contain [[Logical fallacy|logical fallacies]] and mistakes of fact.

==General==
*[[Last Thursdayism|The world is young]], [[Omphalos hypothesis|but made to look old]].
*[[Goddidit]]/[[Flooddidit]]/[[Falldidit]]/[[Satandidit]]!

==[[Antiscience]]==
*[[Bumblebee argument|Science can't explain how a bee flies]].
*[[Science was wrong before]].
*[[Science doesn't know everything]].

==[[Astronomy]]==
*Against the [[starlight problem]]:
**[[White hole cosmology|The Earth was created in a black hole, causing time on Earth to run vastly slower and allowing the light to reach Earth]].
**[[C-decay|The speed of light has decreased over time]].
**[[Anisotropic synchrony convention|The speed of light is infinite towards an observer and half of c when away]].
*Against the cratered surface of the [[moon]]:
**[[Lunar bukkake hypothesis|The Flood expelled comets into the moon]].
*[[Leap second|The addition of leap seconds and the slowing of the Earth's rotation necessitates a young Earth]].

==[[Biblical literalism]]==
* Scientific theory/hypothesis/result X contradicts Holy [[Scripture]];<ref>
And there exist voluminous texts of Holy Scripture (sometimes vague or [[Biblical inconsistency | self-contradictory]] or pre-scientific in their worldview, sometimes requiring contorted interpretation), against which to calibrate/correlate scientific theory/hypothesis/result X.</ref> therefore: 
** (a) we reject scientific theory/hypothesis/result X (it [[Argument from incredulity | "just doesn't make sense"]] - within the assumptions of the scriptural viewpoint). Or:
** (b) we find some small inconsistency in it, and go to option (a). Or:
** (c) we just ignore it.

That's [[logic]]! [[Quod erat demonstrandum | QED]].

==[[Biology]]/[[Evolution]]==
*[[Irreducible complexity|Irreducible complexity requires an intelligent designer]].
**[[Orchidaceae|Orchids require an intelligent designer]].
*[[Banana argument|The banana requires an intelligent designer]].

===[[Abiogenesis]]===
*[[Peanut butter|Because life didn't come into existence in my peanut butter, it can't come into existence at all]].

==[[Geology]]==
*[[Geomagnetism]]:
**[[Geomagnetism#Decay only|Geomagnetic decay proves a young Earth]].
*[[Omphalos hypothesis|God put fake fossils in the ground for some reason]].
*[[Polonium halos|The presence of "polonium halos" proves a young Earth]].
*Against [[Plate tectonics|the slow geological formation of the continents]]:
**[[Flood geology|Flood geology explains it]].
**[[Catastrophic plate tectonics|Plates can move fast, because magnetism]].
*[[Out-of-place fossils|Certain fossils appear in the "wrong" place in the geological record]].
**[[Grand Canyon#Pollen|The Hakatai Shale pollen appears in rock radiometrically dated as Precambrian, yet pollen is post-Cambrian]].
**[[Roraima pollen paradox|The Roraima pollen  appears in rock radiometrically dated as Precambrian, yet pollen is post-Cambrian]].

==[[Global flood]]==
*[[Noah's Ark#Archaeological search|Noah's Ark has been found]]!
:*[[Noah's Ark sightings#Turkey hoax|The government of Turkey recognized Noah's ark as an archaeological site]].
*Against [[Global flood#Physical scale|the impossibility of having enough water for the flood]]:
**Comets brought the water.
**[[Hydroplate theory|The continents floated on the water until the Flood]].
*Against [[caring for the animals in Noah's ark]]:
**[[Baraminology|The "kinds" (not species) of animals could fit on the ark and later rapidly evolve into current species]].

==[[Intelligent design]]==
*[[Wedge strategy|Intelligent design is unrelated to creationism]].
*[[Intelligent design and academic freedom|Intelligent design is being censored]].

==[[Mathematics]]==
*Against [[improbable things happen]] in evolution:
**[[Creationist mathematics|''X'' has a 1 in [BIG NUMBER] chance of ocurring]].
**''X'' is extremely unlikely. [[Borel's Law|A probability of less than 10<sup>-50</sup> is a probability of 0]].

==[[Morality]]/[[Appeal to consequences|Consequences]]==
*[[Evolution and morality|Acceptance of evolution prevents morality]].
**[[Evolution and morality#Crime|Acceptance of evolution causes crime]].
*[[Evolution and morality#Purpose|If man arose by chance, life would have no purpose or meaning]].
**[[Evolution and morality#Animal|Evolution says humans are just animals, with no purpose or meaning]].
*[[Common descent|Evolution says you are descended from a monkey]]. [[Do you want to be descended from a monkey?]]

==[[Religion]]==
*[[Evolution and religion|Evolution is incompatible with religion, so we should reject evolution]].
**[[Evolution and religion#Fall|Without a literal Fall, there is no need for redemption, and thus no need for Jesus or Christianity]].
**[[Evolution and religion#Evil|If evolution is true, then billions of years of suffering before humans evolved have no logical justification]].
**[[Evolution and morality#Animal|Evolution says humans are just animals, which means they can't have religion]].

==Lists==
#[[101 evidences for a young age of the Earth and the universe]]
#[[12 Arguments Evolutionists Should Avoid]]
#[[Ask Darwinists]]
#[[Scientific Facts in the Bible: 100 Reasons to Believe the Bible is Supernatural in Origin]]

==See also==
*[[Evolution#Broad anti-evolution arguments|Broad anti-evolution arguments]]
*[[Scientific theory#Creationism is not a theory|Creationism is not a theory]]
*[[Creationist escape hatches]]
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==External links==
A [http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/ very comprehensive list of claims] is compiled on [[talk.origins]].

== Notes ==
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