Here I come again with another request for ideas.
I am teaching a Christian high-school "paleontology" class. I would like to
have the students do a little bit of tough research. They will be looking
at some statements of "fact" made by the more zealous advocates of
naturalistic evolution and YEC which turn out to be either dead wrong or
badly misrepresented. This is not to belittle well meaning Christians, or
besmirch all scientists, rather it is to increase the students willingness
to think on their own and to carry more salt in their pockets.
I want to select an equal number of topics from both sides. Some of my
first thoughts are below, but I would like to hear your best ideas.
Poor Evolutionary evidences - "as found in your biology book"
1. Peppered moths
2. Piltdown man/Nebraska man
3. Haekel's (sp.) embryos
4. National Geographic's bird/dino fossil
Poor YEC evidences - "as taught by your Sunday School teacher"
1. the plesiosaur and the Japanese trawler
2. moon dust - NASA worries about sinking Apollo astronauts
3. dating fossils by geologic column and the geologic column by the fossils
4. earth's dying magnetic field
Al McCarrick
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