Claims Contained in A Walk Through History

The video A Walk Through History makes a series of claims which we will not have time to examine in detail. What follows are responses to some of the specific claims. Categorization follows the Talk.Origins Index of Creationist Claims.

• CA002.2. Marx admired and corresponded with Darwin.
• CA006.1. Hitler based his views on Darwinism.
• CA009. Evolution teaches that we are animals and to behave as such.
• CA114.1. Lord Kelvin was a creationist.
• CA114.22. Louis Pasteur was a creationist.
• CA201. Evolution is only a theory.
• CA202. Evolution has not been proved.
• CA220. Evolution can not be replicated.
• CA221. Were you there?
• CA230. Interpreting evidence is not the same as observation.
• CA230.1. Evolutionists interpret evidence on the basis of their preconceptions.
• CA510. Creationism and evolution are the only 2 models.
• CA510.1. Problems with evolution are evidence for creation.
• CA601.1. Evolution's materialism or naturalism denies a role for God.
• CA610. Evolution is a religion.
• CA612. Evolution requires as much faith as creationism.
• CA620. If man comes from random causes, life has no purpose or meaning.
• CA622. Without a literal Fall, there is no need for Jesus and redemption.
• CA650. Death and suffering before humanity implies an unmerciful God.
• CA652. Christ's death was unjust if physical death was not the penalty for sin.
• CB300. Complex organs couldn't have evolved.
• CB701. Haeckel falsified his embryo pictures.
• CB701.1. Recapitulation theory is not supported.
• CB901. Macroevolution has never been observed.
• CB940. Pure chance cannot create new structures.
• CC051. Neanderthal was based on a disfigured human.
• CC051.1. Neanderthals were humans with rickets.
• CC052. Laetoli footprints were human.
• CC080. Australopithecus was fully ape, closer to chimp.
• CC200. Transitional fossils are lacking.
• CC200.1. There should be billions of transitional fossils.
• CC331. Polystrate fossils indicate massive sudden deposition.
• CC332. Yellowstone's Specimen Creek fossil forests were evidently transported.
• CC332.1. Specimen Creek fossil trees grew at the same time.
• CC332.2. Orientations show Specimen Creek fossil trees were transported.
• CC361.1. Coal and oil can form quickly.
• CD001. Radiometric dating falsely assumes rocks are closed systems.
• CD002. Radiometric dating falsely assumes initial conditions are known.
• CD010. Radiometric dating gives unreliable results.
• CD014.1. Isochron date of young Grand Canyon lava is excessively old.
• CE261. Comets would not have lasted in an old universe.
• CE261.1. Oort cloud and Kuiper belt are ad hoc fantasies of astronomers.
• CF001. The second law of thermodynamics prohibits evolution.
• CF001.1. Systems left to themselves invariably tend toward disorder.
• CF001.2. The second law of thermodynamics, and the trend to disorder, is universal.
• CF001.3. Instructions are necessary to produce order.
• CF001.4. The second law is about organized complexity, not entropy.
• CF001.5. Evolution needs an energy conversion mechanism to utilize energy.
• CF210. Radiometric dating falsely assumes that rates are constant.
• CG020. All all languages and religions could develop in 3,000 years.
• CG030. Oldest structures, such as pyramids, are already very complex.
• CG040. Written history is too short.
• CG110. The first known languages are highly complex.
• CG201. There are flood myths from all over the world.
• CH010. Creationism, being Bible-based, is good.
• CH050. Genesis is foundational to the Bible.
• CH100.1. Science must be interpreted in light of scripture.
• CH102.1. Genesis must be literal; it is straightforward narrative.
• CH102.2. Genesis must be literal; later writers refer to it as fact.
• CH102.2.1. Jesus refers to creation and flood as though they were literal.
• CH200. The universe is 6,000-10,000 years old.
• CH210. The earth is 6,000-10,000 years old.
• CH220. The universe was created with apparent age.
• CH301. There was no death or decay before the Fall.
• CH310. The pre-Flood vapor canopy would have made the world Edenic.
• CH311. The pre-Flood vapor canopy would have extended human lifetimes.
• CH350. Organisms come in discrete kinds.
• CH401. Flood from vapor canopy.
• CH501. We can expect to find Noah's ark on Mount Ararat.
• CH502.1. Noah's ark may have been photographed on Ararat in 1949.
• CH520. Pre-Flood animals lived in a uniform climate.
• CH521. Animals' exacting needs could have evolved after the Flood.
• CH550. The geologic column was deposited by the Flood.
• CH580. The Flood shaped the earth's surface in other ways.
• CH581. The Grand Canyon was carved by retreating Flood waters.
• CH581.1. Rapid erosion on Mount St. Helens shows Grand Canyon could form suddenly.
• CH590. The Flood caused an ice age.
• CH710. Man and dinosaurs coexisted.
• CH711. Behemoth, from the book of Job, was a dinosaur.
• CH711.1. Leviathan, from the book of Job, was a dinosaur.
• CH712. Dragons were dinosaurs.
• CH801. Genesis 1 got the order of events right.

Last updated: 2007-02-26 22:11