Qms:Questioning Mainstream Science

QMS: is our place for arguments against Evolution and other mainstream science on scientific grounds.
For the decision to have this separate place in the wiki see this discussion.

Definition

"Mainstream Science" — a working definition
"Mainstream Science" is what's taught in the relevant faculties of Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, Sydney, Melbourne and Gulargambone universities, as seen in the textbooks used for their undergraduate courses. Questioning that is questioning mainstream science. Note that Science can say nothing about the supernatural.

(Why did we need a definition? To avoid exasperating arguments about whether speculations based on religious dogma were "just as scientific" or even "true science"!)
QMS:the "conflict thesis"
QMS:"true science"

Ron Abel's "Wrested Scriptures"

The last section of the late brother Ron Abel's book Wrested Scriptures, online here, dealt with scientific concerns. We are reproducing his arguments here, with an opportunity to respond to them and defend them.

Science

Wrested Scriptures — the Miraculous

Wrested Scripture

• Genesis 1:6 - And God made two great lights
• Genesis 3:1 - The serpent
• Joshua 10:13 - The sun stood still and the moon stayed

Links to contributors' own pages

• Personal pages of contributor Jacaf
  • Objections to Evolution
    • Evolution - fact or fantasy?
    • Dating Methods
    • The Earth 6000 years old
    • The Geologic Column
    • Fossils
    • Mutations (DNA)
    • Laws already operating
    • Irreducible Complexity
    • Credibility Lost
    • Conclusion of the Matter
    • Doctrine & Fellowship

• Questions by contributor Colin here and here

QMS Summary Pages

• QMS:News and Developments
• QMS:Objections to Science itself
• QMS:Objections to Evolution
• QMS:Misunderstandings about Evolution
• QMS:Disproving the Science
• QMS:Arguments even professional creationists don't use

Relevant Discussion

• Pseudoscience — the problem of demarcation between "true" science and pseudoscience
• QMS:Contesting the Scientific View of Human Origins
• QMS:Lists of "scientists who reject evolution"
• Scientific American's "Fifteen Answers to Creationist Nonsense"
• QMS:Literalist Bible Reading in Conflict with Science

The Case for respecting Mainstream Science

• The Case for Considering the Science
• Should Christadelphians reject the sciences, become biblical literalists, or teach ‘young earth creationism’? — an essay by Bro Alan Eyre
• The Irony of Christadelphian YEC — comments from a letter to The Testimony, June 2002, by Bro Alan Fowler
• QMS:Pseudoscience can become a challenge to faith

See also this essay about the usefulness of dating methods.