Friday, January 25, 2008

OMG, you are going to love this one! A 'science' experment in Creationism

The Creation Ministries has a little web page they call "Creation Based Science Projects" I've listed the first one here.

What you need for the experiment:
a large wing flight feather (find at a hobby store or on the ground at a park where ducks live)
a tack or small nail
a wooden stick
a clay base
a portable hair dryer

What you do:
Tack or nail the feather to the stick with the shorter barbs pointing down. Ensure that the feather can swivel around on the nail/tack. Push the stick into the clay base. Use the hair dryer to blow air toward the feather from different angles.
What are the results of the experiment?
You now have a working model of how a feather aids flight. When the air moves over the feather, in the normal position, it will lift upward.

The instructions to form a bird's feather are found in their DNA. This information is different from genetic information which forms fingernails on people or scales on snakes. Feathers are extremely complex. For a great Science project research and discuss the extreme complexity of the feather's structure, various types of fliers (birds, insects, mammals, reptiles); the DNA code barrier; and the mathematical impossibility of these different kinds of flying motions "evolving" by random chance.

Talk about intelligent design!!


OK, Now I hope you read it carefully. It's a cute little experiment that shows a little of how air moving over a feather is part of what makes a bird fly. You can repeat the same experiment with your hand out a car window, just cup and angle your hand to feel the different forces acting on it. But that's not the good part. I am trying to figure out how this is project is Creation-Based? Then I read the second to last line: "For a great Science project research and discuss the extreme complexity of the feather's structure, various types of fliers (birds, insects, mammals, reptiles); the DNA code barrier; and the mathematical impossibility of these different kinds of flying motions "evolving" by random chance." Can you believe this? The Creation Ministries leaves it to the person doing the experiment to go forward and do a "Great Science Project". How incredibly stupid is this? Here we have the Creation-Based science project for you to do that really has nothing to do with Creation, but Aerodynamics, and then we tell you to go off and do the research yourself to turn this into something Creation-based! If I paid money for this, I would be looking for a serious refund!!!!

Read the rest of them, you will find they are all like that. Simple experiments that have nothing to do with Creation. But at the end they make a leap and tell you to go forth and preach the gospel according to the Creation Ministries. It's hilarious!

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