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Review Exercise IIb:
Scientific Creationism
Identify the fallacies that occur in the following long passage.
 

 
        No matter what scientists claim to have discovered, I simply refuse to believe that human beings are descended from monkeys. I'm sure that, when all the evidence is in, it will be clear that all species were created individually by God about six thousand years ago. Some physicists have claimed, based on radiometric dating, that the world is much older. However, radiometric dates showing an earth billions of years old can be explained by the hypothesis that the rate of radioactive decay used to be much faster in the past and has recently slowed to its present rate. Furthermore, Creation scientists have performed the same radiometric tests with very different results, since Creation scientists did not systematically exclude from their data rock samples believed to be affected by other factors.
        The theory of evolution cannot explain either human life or life in general. The emergence of human beings in particular cannot have occurred just by chance. Some force must have guided the process. Evolution means a gradual increase in complexity occurring by chance, but this is like expecting a rock to roll up a hill all by itself without help! As for why life began in the first place, we can only say that the ways of the Creator are beyond human comprehension.
        People who insist that the theory of evolution should be taught in schools are really only interested in promoting atheism. Fortunately most Americans still reject evolution, as a recent survey of students a Bob Jones University shows. In the end, fair-minded scientists will accept the truth that life on earth was created by God, since they will reject the false belief that life arose spontaneously from purely natural causes.

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