Well, James T., you've spotted my not-very-well-hidden agenda!

Still, I come back to my idea of historical artifacts as "evidence" in a
forensic sense.  How many people could look at a display of fossils labelled
simply "lies of Satan" and agree that that's a useful and logical
interpretation of the evidence?  How many would think that sounds, er,
scientific?

For all I know, putting myself in a creationist's shoes for a moment, the
fossil record MIGHT be a "lie of Satan," but I don't know of any "scientific"
test you could perform on an artifact to yield such a conclusion.  That would
appear to be an external idea imposed upon an object rather than anything
inherent in the object or which the object could reveal through testing.

If I were a creationist, I don't think I would try to advance the concept of
a creationist "science" at all.  It seems to me that I would consider
creationist science an oxymoron and would be saying that, philosophically,
scientific method yields illusions and is an inappropriate way of
apprehending the world.

Well, I'm rambling... But if anyone knows of any full-blown texts (or
exhibitions!) on creationist science, I'd be very interested in hearing of
them.  There may well be extensive critiques and denunciations of scientific
studies as inconsistent or otherwise flawed, but are there any real studies
which purport to use scientific method to prove the creationist theory?  In
the newspaper accounts in which creationists refer to the work and
conclusions of creation science, I never see specific references--but of
course that doesn't prove they don't exist.

David Haberstich

David Haberstich

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