Qms:Arguments even professional creationists don't use
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Creation Ministries International (CMI) — no friend of evolution! — has published lists of Arguments they think creationists should NOT use classified as
- "should definitely not be used" and
- "doubtful, hence inadvisable to use":
These arguments are listed in the tables below, with links to CMI's web site as of November 2019. They are numbered so that you can link directly to them in this table from elsewhere in this wiki using code like this: [[Qms:Arguments even professional creationists don't use#3]]. Your readers can then click on the link to go to CMI's website if they wish.
| No. | Arguments CMI thinks "creationists should NOT use" | CMI reference |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darwin recanted on his deathbed | Darwin recanted on his deathbed |
| 2 | Moon-Dust thickness proves a young moon | Moon-Dust thickness proves a young moon |
| 3 | NASA computers, in calculating the positions of planets, found a missing day and 40 minutes | NASA computers, in calculating the posit. . . |
| 4 | NASA faked the moon landings | NASA faked the moon landings |
| 5 | The earth is flat [Careful: see here.] | The earth is flat |
| 6 | Woolly mammoths were snap frozen during the Flood catastrophe | Woolly mammoths were snap frozen during . . . |
| 7 | Castenedolo and Calaveras human remains in "old" strata invalidate the geologic column | Castenedolo and Calaveras human remains . . . |
| 8 | Dubois renounced Java man as a “missing link” and claimed it was just a giant gibbon | Dubois renounced Java man as a “mi. . . |
| 9 | The Japanese trawler Zuiyo Maru caught a dead plesiosaur near New Zealand | The Japanese trawler Zuiyo Maru caug. . . |
| 10 | The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics began at the Fall | The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. . . |
| 11 | If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes today? | If we evolved from apes, why are there s. . . |
| 12 | Women have one more rib than men | Women have one more rib than men |
| 13 | Archaeopteryx is a fraud | Archaeopteryx is a fraud |
| 14 | No new species have been produced | No new species have been produced |
| 15 | Earth's axis was vertical before the Flood | Earth's axis was vertical before the Flo. . . |
| 16 | Paluxy tracks prove that humans and dinosaurs co-existed | Paluxy tracks prove that humans and dino. . . |
| 17 | Archaeologists have found skeletons (and footprints) of giant human beings | Archaeologists have found skeletons (and. . . |
| 18 | Darwin's quote about the absurdity of eye evolution from Origin of Species. | Darwin's quote about the absurdity of ey. . . |
| 19 | Earth's division in the days of Peleg (Genesis 10:25) refers to catastrophic splitting of the continents | Earth's division in the days of Peleg (G. . . |
| 20 | The Septuagint records the correct Genesis chronology | The Septuagint records the correct Genes. . . |
| 21 | There are gaps in the genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 so the Earth may be 10,000 years old or even more | There are gaps in the genealogies of Gen. . . |
| 22 | Jesus cannot have inherited genetic material from Mary, otherwise He would have inherited original sin | Jesus cannot have inherited genetic mate. . . |
| 23 | Light was created in transit | Light was created in transit |
| 24 | The phrase "science falsely so called" in 1 Timothy 6:20 (KJV) refers to evolution | The phrase "science falsely so called". . . |
| 25 | Geocentrism (in the classical sense of taking the Earth as an absolute reference frame) is taught by Scripture and Heliocentrism is anti-Scriptural | Geocentrism (in the classical sense of t. . . |
| 26 | Ron Wyatt has found Noah's Ark | Ron Wyatt has found Noah's Ark |
| 27 | Wyatt has found much archaeological proof of the Bible | Wyatt has found much archaeological proo. . . |
| 28 | Many of Carl Baugh's creation "evidences" | Many of Carl Baugh's creation "evidenc. . . |
| 29 | Missing solar neutrinos prove that the sun shines by gravitational collapse, and is proof of a young sun | Missing solar neutrinos prove that the s. . . |
| 30 | Einstein held unswervingly, against enormous peer pressure, to belief in a Creator | Einstein held unswervingly, against enor. . . |
| 31 | Canopy theory | Canopy theory |
| No. | Arguments CMI thinks are "doubtful, hence inadvisable to use" | CMI reference |
|---|---|---|
| 50 | There are living dinosaurs today | There are living dinosaurs today |
| 51 | There was no rain before the Flood | There was no rain before the Flood |
| 52 | Natural selection as tautology | Natural selection as tautology |
| 53 | Evolution is just a theory | Evolution is just a theory |
| 54 | There is amazing modern scientific insight in the Bible | There is amazing modern scientific insig. . . |
| 55 | Laminin: an amazing look at how Jesus is holding each of us together | Laminin: an amazing look at how Jesus is. . . |
| 56 | The speed of light has decreased over time | The speed of light has decreased over ti. . . |
| 57 | There are no transitional forms | There are no transitional forms |
| 58 | Gold chains have been found in coal | Gold chains have been found in coal |
| 59 | Plate tectonics is fallacious | Plate tectonics is fallacious |
| 60 | Creationists believe in microevolution but not macroevolution | Creationists believe in microevolution b. . . |
| 61 | The Gospel is in the stars | The Gospel is in the stars |
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