Creation "Science"?

[Vance]

In a post from last year, someone described Real Science as:

"Science is not taking one of these wild ideas that suits you personally and then going to to purposely try to find evidence for it. Science is finding evidence before you even know its evidence and then making ideas based on that."

The poster was using this to bash evolution, but it really effectively does away with Creation Science altogether.

Creation Science starts with the presumption of a series of facts (young earth, no evolution, global flood, etc) and then purposefully goes out to find evidence which supports these ideas, and purposefully goes out to find evidence *against* what they don't believe. What's more is they fully ADMIT that this is what they are doing! Right in the ICR creed, as well as over at AIG, they say that they start with these certain truths and go forward from there to establish "scientifically" that they must be true and the opposite must be false.

They definitely do NOT start with the evidence and "make ideas based on that".

So, an anti-evolutionist just defined Creation Science as *not* being True Science.

 

[lucaspa]

In a post from last year, someone described Real Science as:

"Science is not taking one of these wild ideas that suits you personally and then going to to purposely try to find evidence for it. Science is finding evidence before you even know its evidence and then making ideas based on that."

Science is proposing an idea and then purposefully trying to find evidence against it.

However, that last sentence describes perfectly what Darwin did in formulating the theory of evolution! He collected the birds from the Galapagos thinking they were different families of birds. It was only 4 years later, back in England, that an anatomist he had given the samples that they were all finches! Darwin had not idea, at the time that he was collecting evidence for evolution.

Later, Darwin formulated the theory and then conducted experiments himself and wrote dozens of scientists all over the world looking for evidence to show it to be wrong.