THIS IS THE SECOND OF A CONTINUING SERIES examining what is being passed off as science on creationist websites.
The topic of this essay is “baraminology,” as discussed in the article Baraminology–Classification of Created Organisms, by Wayne Frair, which appeared in the Creation Research Society Quarterly Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 82-91 (2000), and appears on the christiananswers.net website.
RUSH LIMBAUGH DEVOTED HIS JULY 11 “Morning Minute” to an attack on Rachel Carson and her 1962 book, Silent Spring. According to Limbaugh, Carson is responsible for more human death and misery than Stalin or Mao, claiming that the environmental backlash generated by her book led to the banning of DDT, which until then had been used to eradicate Malaria-bearing mosquitoes. Malaria, Limbaugh claimed, now infects upward of 400 million people every year, and claims some 2 million souls each year (a death rate of 500 per 100,000 — or about 0.5% of those infected).
COMMONLY, IN THE UNENDING Creo-Evo debates, we are confronted with those who (when they’re not denying that any evidence for evolution exists) claim that it’s the “interpretation” of the evidence that counts. That, given the same evidence, one can interpret it to come to differing conclusions, and therefore come up with a “theory” that is of equal validity. They then go on to explain that this “equally valid” theory should also be taught.
This tactic fails on multiple levels.