| IT IS AN OBJECTIVE, NOT A SUBJECTIVE, RESEARCH METHODOLOGY. THIS IS PARTLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT THEIR PRIMARY THEORIES ARE METAPHYSICAL AND THEREFORE OUTSIDE OF EMPIRICAL SCIENTIFIC REVIEW. THE CREATION SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY'S PRIMARY THEORIES OF ORIGINS ARE ALSO METAPHYSICAL AND OUTSIDE EMPIRICAL SCIENTIFIC REVIEW. IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THESE PRIMARY THEORIES ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO VERIFY OR FALSIFY, THE EMPIRICAL SCIENTIFIC METHOD CAN BE USED TO VERIFY OR FALSIFY WHAT THESE THEORIES PREDICT SHOULD BE FOUND IN THE REAL WORLD REGARDING THEIR VIEWS. IN CONTRAST IS THE METAPHYSICAL EVOLUTIONARY CLAIM THAT DINOSAURS WERE EXTINCT FOR 65 MILLION YEARS BEFORE ANY ANCESTOR OF MAN WALKED ON TERRA FIRMA AND THEREFORE COULD NEVER HAVE COEXISTED. IN WHAT IS NOW TEXAS, SOMETIME IN THE PAST. WHAT IT DOES NOT TELL US IS "WHEN" THESE TRACKS WERE MADE. IT NEITHER FALSIFIES NOR VERIFIES THEIR CLAIM "IN THE RECENT PAST." CONVERSELY, THIS FOSSIL "FALSIFIES" THE EVOLUTIONARY CLAIM THAT DINOSAURS AND MAN NEVER COEXISTED. BUT, IT TOO DOES NOT FALSIFY NOR VERIFY THEIR CLAIM OF 3-65 MILLION YEARS WHEN THESE TRACKS COULD POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN MADE.
| WHY DO THEY PUBLICLY CONDEMN AND RIDICULE THIS EVIDENCE AS WELL AS THE SCIENTISTS AND INDEPENDENT RESEARCHERS WHO HAVE INVESTIGATED, EXAMINED AND VERIFIED ITS AUTHENTICITY? COULD SOME CREATIONISTS BE "SELECTIVELY" COMPROMISING THEIR PAST COMMITMENT TO THE EMPIRICAL SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN THE FLAWED BELIEF THAT EVOLUTIONARY ACADEMICS WOULD BE MORE LIKELY TO LEGITIMIZE THEIR ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS? ARE CREATION ACADEMICS BEGINNING TO USE SECULAR INSTITUTIONAL POLITICS TO PRESSURE OR EVEN THREATEN TO LEAVE AN ORGANIZATION IN ORDER TO STOP IMPORTANT RESEARCH THAT MIGHT DIRECT FUNDS AND ATTENTION AWAY, TO SAY PALEONTOLOGY, INSTEAD OF THEIR OWN FIELD OF, SAY GEOLOGY? OR ARE CREATION ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS AND SCIENTISTS BEGINNING TO SUCCUMB TO WHAT THEY KNOW IS "THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD" AND "THE DEEDS OF THE FLESH?" "Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error." Return to Contents |