Creation Science example essay topic

It is interesting to note how "Creation Science" is being propagated as a "Science" (as what we have so far understood "Science" to mean) and how it attempts to establish itself by debunking Evolution. Creation Scientists, are actually science professionals with accredited Science degrees, but who claim that all Creation of matter is by an act of a Creator and that: - All basic plants and animal types were created in their completeness from scratch, meaning the theory of life evolving from inanimate matter is false. Man did not descend from apes and natural selection (the evolution mechanism, along with mutations is false). The problem is not if Darwin's theory of evolution is scientific in nature or that it can debunk "Creation Science" or the "Creation Science" can disprove evolution, but that I believe Creationists practice no Science at all. Creationists adhere to what they define to be a "scientific method" by which they draw conclusions. Upon examination, this proves to be a form of na " ive inductivism, meaning observation preceding hypothesis and theory.

But Popper says agreement with known data is insufficient to make a theory scientific and advocates falsifiability (testability), and not verifiability (confirm ability) as the demarcation criterion for distinguishing Science from Pseudoscience. Instead of establishing the basis for their "Science", Creationists attempt to debunk and replace the theory of evolution with their own. The bizarre fact is that, in spite the claimed adherence to a "scientific method", in the whole body of creation-science literature, there is a virtual absence of ANY experimental or observational work by creationists. Creationists, work exclusively with the claims of evolutionists, twisting arguments to their own ends.

Arguments proceed by showing evolution as wrong, rather than Creationists as right. A clear example is the case of the "missing link" between man and apes. Creationists state that there are no plausible bridging organisms whatsoever. Thus, this super-gap between man and all other animals (alive or dead! ?) supposedly underlines that man and apes have separate ancestry. BUT what about australopithecines (organisms that paleontologists have claimed, for most of the 20th Century to be plausible human ancestors)?

Creationists argue, australopithecines are NOT links, because, they had ape-like brains, walked like apes and used their knuckles for support, just like gorillas!! Hence, the gap remains. However, such conclusion can be maintained only by blatant disregard of empirical evidence. Australopithecus afarensis had a brain the size of an ape but walked upright. Yet, creationists did not concede defeat but argued that Australopithecus afarensis is like an orang utan! In short, nothing apparently makes the creationists change their minds, or allows their views be tested, lest they be falsified.

"Creation Science" is an insult to the scientist as well as to the believer of religion who sees this "Science" as a blasphemous distortion of God-given reason. "Creation Science", is not, Science.