Creationists Fail Again: Taken For Granite »
Posted By Neophile 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyGeologists scoping out a glacier in Antarctica found a piece of granite there. This granite's structure matched that of granite found in only one other place: North America. Radioactive dating tests using several methods all match the age of the same granites in North America. So how did that rock get to Antarctica?
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CRYMTYPHON2 months, 2 weeks ago
The writer says creationists have an answer for this, called "catastrophic plate tectonics".
This made me consider: the creationist argument is evolving to meet new challenges.
It adapts appendages to new functions, as new proofs of its falsity attack it.
Noah's ark now has dinasoure eggs; the flood moves continents; 'radioactive decay is slowing down' to account for radiometric dating. DNA is the language of God.
I once thought the ultimate argument against a 6000 year old earth was star-light. The stars we see are millions of light-years away.
But creationists developed a fudge-factor: light once went much faster.
Creationism is a meme; it is evolving desperately to survive. Rather impressive, in a dreary way.
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