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HalfMooner
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Philippines
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 Posted - 07/16/2007 : 00:17:06
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There are a few scientists (assuming a loose definition of what a "scientist" is) who are proponents of Intelligent Design and/or Young Earth Creationism ("YEC"). Some of them are have expertise in fields not directly related to the evolution-Creationism debate. Some of them are elderly gentleman of a questionable state of mind. A few were already Creationists when they went to the trouble of obtaining a scientific degree so they could use that sheepskin as "authority" to fly a false flag of science while promoting their mystical, anti-science agenda. Jonathan Wells of the Discovery Institute is one such vivid example. The wacko Moonies funded this theologian's doctorate degree in Molecular Cell Biology from the University of California.
Another such example is Tasman Bruce Walker, a YEC from Australia, who is on the full-time staff of Creation Ministries International (formerly the Australian branch of Ken Ham's Answers in Genesis).
Tasman Walker
Already a YEC, and holding a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering, late in life Walker obtained a bachelor degree in Earth Science. Yet Walker is a firm supporter of "Biblical Geology," which insists that the earth is less than ten thousand years old, and that Noah's world-wide flood actually happened, and is responsible for all sedimentary geological evidence. YECs (including Walker) also reject radiometric dating techniques, as these produce Biblically inconvenient results.
Of course, geologists know full well that "Biblical Geology" is not geology at all, but merely fundamentalist pseudoscience. As we'll see, it's quite possible that Walker knows this, too.
Walker writes:| Giant's Causeway is said to be 60 million years old, based on radiometric dating. But radiometric dating depends on assumptions and is not the absolute certainty we are led to believe it is. Even geologists will accept radiometric dates only if they agree with what they already think the age should be. |
An ancient earth is as obvious and basic to geology as evolution is to biology. Scientific geological evidence utterly contradicts any literal interpretation of the Bible's creation myth.
So how did Tasman Walker get his degree in Earth Science from the University of Queensland in 1998, if he so strongly holds such bizarrely pseudoscientific beliefs in his chosen subject?
Not by being honest. In total contradiction to the YEC beliefs he has expressed both before and after getting his degree in geology, Tasman Walker wrote a straightforward, scientific bachelor's thesis. Here is an excerpt: | The age of the complex is 225 +- 4 Ma. All members have the same age. The individual ages determined using the 40Ar/39Ar (224.2 +- 4.8 Ma) and the Rb-Sr (225.5 +- 2.3 Ma) methods are within error of each other and in remarkable agreement. The results also agree within error of the previous K-Ar determinations (Webb and McDougall, 1967). |
Significantly, the use of "Ma" above refers to "millions of years before the present." In order to get his sheepskin (and to thus set himself up to become CMI's pet "geologist"), Walker actually argued for the accuracy of radiometric dating of geological material that is hundreds of millions of years old.
In other words, either Tasman Walker was lying in his thesis, or he's been lying all along about a "Young Earth." Read more about this pious fraud in No Answers in Genesis.
[Edited to insert more relevant quotes from Walker than those I first used, and to generally punch up the posting.]
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 07/16/2007 09:47:01
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pleco
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Posted - 07/16/2007 : 09:24:41 [Permalink]
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Thou shall not bear false witness...unless you are "bearing" to infidels, or you think it is justified by God (see Thou shall not kill).
See! No problemo! |
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The Rat
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Canada
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Posted - 08/11/2007 : 17:44:45 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
There are a few scientists (assuming a loose definition of what a "scientist" is)... |
They are quite plainly NOT scientists. In order to be scientists they must be working from a naturalistic basis. Since they work from a supernaturalistic basis they cannot be doing science, therefore they cannot be scientists.
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Another such example is Tasman Bruce Walker, a YEC from Australia,... |
Why does it seem that Australia is a breeding ground for these whackos? Must be all the Fosters. |
Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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Creationism caught in the act!
