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	Table of Contents
Introduction
CA: Philosophy and Theology
 Ethics, CA000
 Epistemology, CA100-CA499
 Foundation of Knowledge, CA100
 Theory of Science, CA200
 Scientific Method, CA300-CA499
 Theology, CA600
CB: Biology
 Abiogenesis, CB0
 Genetics, CB100
 Molecular Biology, CB200
 Physiology and Anatomy, CB300
 Behavior and Cognition, CB400
 Botany, CB500
 Ecology and Population Biology, CB600
 Developmental Biology, CB700
 Systematics, CB800
 Evolution, CB900
CC: Paleontology
 Physical Anthropology, CC0
 
 Transitional Fossils, CC200
 Fossil Record, CC300
 Methodology, CC400
CD: Geology
 Geochronology, CD0
 Geological Column, CD100
 Sedimentation, CD200
 Evaporation, CD300
 Glaciation, CD400
 Mountain Building, CD500
 Erosion, CD600
 Geophysics and Plate tectonics, CD700
CE: Astronomy
 Earth, CE000
 Moon, CE100
 Planets and Solar System, CE200
 Sun and Stars, CE300
 Cosmology, CE400
CF: Physics and Mathematics
 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and Information Theory, CF000
 1st Law of Thermodynamics, CF100
 Radiometric Decay, CF200
 
CG: Miscellaneous Anti-Evolution
 History, CG000
 Linguistics, CG100
 Folklore, CG200
CH: Biblical Creationism
 Biblical Creationism Generally, CH000
 Biblical Accuracy, CH100
 Young Earth Creationism, CH200-CH799
 Age of the Universe, CH200
 Death and the Fall, CH300
 Kinds, CH350
 Flood, CH400-CH599
 Miscellaneous Young Earth Creationism, CH700
 Day-Age Creationism, CH800
 Geocentrism, CH900
CI: Intelligent Design
 ID as Science, CI000
 Detecting Design, CI100-CI199
 First Cause., CI200
 Anthropic Principle., CI300
 Meta-arguments, CI400
CJ: Other Creationism
 Vedic Creationism, CJ000
 Native North American Creationism, CJ200-CJ499
 Islamic Creationism, CJ500-CJ699
	Expanded Table of Contents
Introduction
 The Breadth of Creationism
 How To Argue Creationism (And How Not to)
 If You Can't Find the Claim Here
 A Note to Creationists
 What We Are Arguing For
CA: Philosophy and Theology
 Ethics (see also CH010: Creationism is good.)
 Evolution is immoral, CA001. crime rates, CA001.1.
Might makes right implied, CA002. Social Darwinism, CA002.1. Marx admired Darwin, CA002.2, CA002.2.1.
 Evolution is racist, CA005, CA005.1, CA005.2.
 Evolution encourages eugenics, CA006, CA006.1.
Promiscuity and lust, CA008. Animal behavior taught, CA009. Homosexuality approved, CA010. Intellectual snobbery, CA012.
Fairness and equal time, CA040. Teach the controversy, CA041. Santorum Amendment, CA041.1. Biology taught without evolution, CA042.
 Epistemology
 Argument from incredulity, CA100. Lots unexplained, CA100.1.
 
 Argument from Authority
Evolution soon to be rejected, CA110. Current scientists reject evolution, CA111, CA112.
 Quote-mining, CA113. Darwin on eye evolution, CA113.1.
Famous scientists were creationists, CA114.
 Are you qualified?, CA118. An evolved mind is fallible, CA120.
 Theory of Science
Evolution is only a theory, CA201. It hasn't been proved, CA202. It doesn't make predictions, CA210. It can't be falsified, CA211. It is ambiguously defined, CA212. It can't be replicated, CA220. Were you there?, CA221.
Interpreting evidence vs. observation, CA230. Preconception bias, CA230.1. (see also CI402: Evolutionists refuse to see design.)
 Ockham's Razor favors creation, CA240.
 Scientific findings are always changing, CA250.
 Scientific Method
Science is naturalistic, CA301, CA301.1. (see also CA601: Methodological naturalism; CI401: Science's method rules out design.)
 Scientists find what they expect, CA310.
 Scientists won't challenge dogma, CA320, CA321.
Creationists prevented from publishing, CA325. Evolutionists won't debate, CA340, CA341, CA342.
 No evolution models of biochemical systems, CA350.
 
 "Survival of the fittest" a tautology, CA500.
 Only 2 models: creationism and evolution, CA510, CA510.1.
 Theology (see also CH: Biblical Creationism)
Evolution requires naturalism, CA601, CA601.1. Evolution is atheistic, CA602, CA602.1, CA602.2. Allows only Deist god, CA603. (see also CA301: Science is naturalistic; CI401: Science's method rules out design.)
Evolution is a religion, CA610. has become sacrosanct, CA611. requires faith, CA612.
Random causes imply no purpose or meaning, CA620. Without a Fall, no need for Jesus, CA622.
 Animals are not spiritual, CA630. Do you want to be monkey relative?, CA640.
Suffering before humanity implies unmerciful God, CA650, CA651. Christ's death would have been unjust, CA652.
CB: Biology
 Abiogenesis
Law of biogenesis; life only from life, CB000. Odds of life are tiny, CB010. Simplest life is complex, CB010.1. Cells couldn't form by chance, CB010.2.
 DNA needs proteins; Proteins need DNA, CB015.
No new life generated today, CB020. Some amino acids not formed experimentally, CB025. Abiogenesis experiments produce toxins, CB026.
 Early molecules decay, CB030, CB030.1.
 Invalid assumption about early atmosphere, CB035, CB035.1, CB035.2, CB035.3.
 
 Life uses only left-handed amino acids, CB040.
 Abiogenesis is speculative, CB050. Evolution baseless without abiogenesis, CB090.
 Genetics
Mutations rare, CB100. Mutations harmful, CB101, CB101.1, CB101.2. Mutations don't add information, CB102, CB102.1.
 Only existing variation selected, CB110.
 Genetic load, CB120. Haldane's dilemma, CB121.
 "Junk" DNA not junk, CB130.
 Chromosome counts differ greatly, CB141.
 Molecular Biology
Irreducible complexity, CB200. Bacterial flagella, CB200.1. Blood clotting, CB200.2. Protein transport, CB200.3. Immune system, CB200.4. AMP synthesis, CB200.5. (see also CA350: No gradualistic biochemical models published.)
 Protein same in camels and sharks, CB211.
 Physiology and Anatomy
Complex organs can't evolve, CB300. Eye, CB301. Ear, CB302. Brain, CB303. Bombardier beetle, CB310, CB310.1. Butterfly metamorphosis, CB311. Giraffe neck, CB325. Woodpecker tongue, CB326. Organ systems need all parts in place, CB340. (see also CB921.1: What use is half an eye?; CB400: Behavior and Cognition.)
 Sex can't have evolved, CB350. (see also CB610: no mate for 1st of a species.)
Vestigial organs have functions, CB360. Human appendix, CB360.1. Vestigial organs are decay, not evolution, CB361. (see also CB130: Junk DNA not really junk.)
 Endorphins at death indicate a beneficent creator, CB370.
 Behavior and Cognition
Evolution can't explain consciousness, CB400. Human intelligence, CB400.1. Instincts, CB401. Language ability, CB402. Homosexuality, CB403. Altruism, CB411. Religion, CB440.
 Botany
 Dendrochronology problems, CB501.
 Photosynthesis, CB510.
 Ecology and Population Biology
Peppered moth story, CB601. don't rest on tree trunks; photos faked, CB601.1. occur in uncamouflaged colors, CB601.2. mutagenesis a better explanation, CB601.3. fraud in recapture data, CB601.4. (see also CB910.2: Peppered moths remain same species.)
 No mate for first of a species, CB610.
Population growth indicates young earth, CB620. An African Eve for humanity, CB621, CB621.1.
 Mutually dependent species, CB630.
 Developmental Biology
Haeckel falsified embryo pictures, CB701. Recapitulation theory, CB701.1. Humans don't have gill slits, CB704.
 Genes for development are conserved across phyla, CB710.
 Systematics
Science can't define "species", CB801. Evolution predicts no discrete kinds, CB805. (see also CC201: smooth continuum through the fossil record.)
 Homology is defined, not predicted, CB810.
 Phylogenies are inconsistent, CB821. Single ancestor discredited, CB822.
 Evolution (see also CB102: Mutations don't add information.)
Macroevolution not observed, CB901. Variation limited within kinds, CB901.1. No new orders, CB901.2. Darwin's finches show only microevolution, CB901.3. Microevolution is not macroevolution, CB902, CB902.1, CB902.2. No new features, CB904. No new species, CB910, CB910.1, CB910.2. (see also CB101.2: mutations don't produce new features.)
No new body parts, CB920. Partly evolved structures would be useless, CB921. Half an eye?, CB921.1. Half a wing?, CB921.2. No 2-celled life, CB922. Don't see various stages of completion, CB925. (see also CB300: complex organs can't evolve.)
Preadaptation, CB926. Why not more beneficial traits?, CB928, CB928.1. Use of 1/10th our brain, CB929.
Some fossil species are still living, CB930. coelacanth, CB930.1. plesiosaur, CB930.2. dinosaurs in the Congo, CB930.3. Some modern species are degenerate, CB932.
Chance can't create new structures, CB940, CB940.1. How do things know to evolve?, CB941.
 Non-adaptive over-specialization, CB950.
 Just-so stories, CB990.
CC: Paleontology
 Physical Anthropology
Questionable fossils: Piltdown man, CC001. Nebraska man, CC002. Lucy's knee, CC003. All human fossils fit on a table, CC030. Anthropologists disagree, CC040. Homo habilis is invalid, CC041.
Hominid fossils either human or ape, CC050. Neandertal a disfigured human, CC051, CC051.1. Laetoli footprints human, CC052. KP 271 human, CC054. Peking Man "monkey-like", CC061. Australopithecus fully ape, CC080.
Human fossils out of place: Human and dinosaur tracks at Paluxy, CC101. Sandal footprints with trilobites, CC102. Moab man, CC110. Malachite man, CC111. Castenedolo, Olmo, and Calaveras skulls, CC112. Fossil finger from the Cretaceous, CC120. Petrified hammer from Cretaceous, CC130.
 Why are there still apes around?, CC150.
 
 Transitional Fossils
Transitional fossils are lacking, CC200, CC200.1. Fossil record shouldn't have gaps, CC201. Punctuated equilibrium was ad hoc, CC201.1. (see also CC320: Sudden appearance then stasis in fossil record; CB805: smooth continuum among living creatures.)
Invertebrate-vertebrate, CC211. Fish-amphibian, CC212. Amphibian-reptile, CC213. Reptile-bird, CC214. Archaeopteryx not a bird ancestor, CC214.1., CC214.1.1. Reptile-mammal, CC215. Land mammals and whales, CC216.1. Horse fossils, CC216.2. Arthropods, CC220. Insects, CC220.1. Plants, CC250, CC251.
 Fossil Record
 Cambrian explosion, CC300, CC301.
Fossils dated from strata; strata from fossils, CC310. (see also CD0: Geochronology; CD103: Geologic column assumes evolution.)
Polystrate fossils indicate sudden deposition, CC331. Yellowstone's Specimen Creek fossil forests, CC332. Polystrate fossil whale, CC335.
Out-of-place fossils, CC340. Recent pollen in old rocks, CC341. (see also CC100: Human fossils out of place)
Archaeoraptor faked, CC352. (see also CC000: Hominid fossils faked)
Taphonomy: No new fossils being formed, CC360. Fossils can form quickly, CC361. Coal and oil, CC361.1. Mammoths quickly frozen, CC361.2. Contorted positions of fossil animals, CC361.3. Large fossil collections indicate catastrophism, CC362. Sudden burial required, CC363. Sea fossils on mountaintops, CC364. Coconino footprints made underwater, CC365, CC365.1. Tyrannosaurus blood indicates recent burial, CC371.
 Reconstruction of entire animal from a single bone, CC401.
CD: Geology
 Geochronology (see also CD241: Varves can form quickly.)
Radiometric dating assumptions: closed systems, CD001. initial conditions known, CD002. Cosmic rays, neutrinos affect decay rates, CD004. (see also CF200: Radiometric dating)
 Radiometric dating gives unreliable results, CD010.
Carbon dating inaccurate, CD011, CD011.1. of mammoths, CD011.2. of living snails, CD011.3. of recent seal, CD011.4. of Triassic wood, CD011.5. of ancient coal, oil, CD011.6.
U-Th dating inaccurate for modern rocks, CD012. K-Ar dating inaccurate for modern rocks, CD013, CD013.1.
 Isochron dating unreliable, CD014, CD014.1.
 Zircons retain too much helium, CD015.
 Selective reporting of radiometric dates, CD020.
 Geological Column (see also CH540: Flood effects)
 
Entire geological column doesn't exist, CD101. Column sometimes out of order, CD102, CD102.1. Geologic column based on evolution, CD103. (see also CC310: Circular dating of fossils and strata.)
 Meteors never in deeper strata, CD110.
Sedimentation (see also CH540: Flood effects; CC365.1: Coconino sandstone deposited underwater.)
 Uniformitarian assumption, CD200.
 Sandstone, shale, limestone layers too extensive, CD202, CD203.
 Not enough delta sediment for Colorado River, CD210. for Mississippi, CD211.
Not enough sediments in ocean, CD220, CD220.1. Not enough dissolved minerals in ocean, CD221. Juvenile water added to oceans too fast, CD222.
 Natural gas and oil escape too fast, CD230, CD232.
Strata can violate principles of superposition, CD240. Varves can form rapidly, CD241.
 Stalactites can grow rapidly, CD250.
 Evaporation
Evaporites don't need evaporation, CD301. Evaporites too thick, CD302. Evaporites contain no organic matter, CD303.
 Glaciation
 WWII airplanes beneath thousands of ice layers, CD410.
 Mountain Building
Mountains erosion too fast, CD501. Volcanic mountains built too fast, CD502. Folded rocks must have been soft, CD510.
 Erosion (see also CH540: Flood effects)
 
Erosion rate of Niagara Falls, CD610. Average soil depth implies young earth, CD620.
 Geophysics and Plate tectonics
 Earth's magnetic field is decaying, CD701.
 Plate tectonics is wrong, CD740, CD741. Catastrophic plate tectonics, CD750.
CE: Astronomy
 Earth
 Atmospheric helium implies young earth, CE001.
 NASA's "missing day", CE010. Earth's rotation slowing, CE011, CE011.1.
 Not enough meteoric dust on earth, CE020.
 Moon
Not enough moon dust, CE101. Moon receding too fast, CE110. Active lunar geology indicates its youth, CE130. (see also CF220: Short-lived U-326, Th-230 found on moon.)
 Planets and Solar System
 Venus' high temp should have eroded surface features, CE210.
 Io's volcanic activity, CE230. Jupiter and Saturn cooling rapidly, CE231.
 Saturn's rings unstable, CE240.
 Planets, moons revolve backwards, CE260.
 Comets would have decayed, CE261.
 Solar system should be clear of microparticles, CE280, CE281.
 Sun and Stars
 Lack of solar neutrinos, CE301. Sun's slight angular momentum, CE302.
 
 Shrinking sun, CE310. Faint young sun paradox, CE311.
 Sirius was red 2000 years ago, a white dwarf now, CE351.
 Galaxies should lose spiral shape, CE380.
 Cosmology (see also CI300: Anthropic principle)
 Too few supernova remnants, CE401.
Physical constants only assumed constant, CE410. Speed of light changed, CE411. Gravitational time dilation and distant clock rate, CE412. (see also CF210: Radiometric dating assumes constant rates.)
 Big bang is wrong, CE420, CE421.
 Where did everything come from?, CE440, CE441.
CF: Physics and Mathematics (see also CE400: Cosmology)
2nd Law of Thermodynamics and Information Theory (see also CB102: Mutations don't add information; CE441: Big Bang doesn't produce information.)
2nd law of thermodynamics prohibits evolution, CF001, CF001.1, CF001.2, CF001.3, CF001.4, CF001.5.
Complexity from simplicity, CF002. Tornadoes in junkyards, CF002.1. Information assembles itself?, CF003.
 Cybernetic simulations, CF010.
Evolutionary algorithms smuggle in design, CF011. WEASEL program prespecified, CF011.1. NFL theorems and blind search, CF011.2.
 1st Law of Thermodynamics
 
The universe's energy can't come from nothing, CF101. (see also CE440: Origin of everything; CI200: First cause)
Radiometric Decay (see also CD000: Radiometric dating; CE410: Physical constants only assumed constant.)
 Polonium haloes indicate young earth, CF201.
 Radiometric decay rates not constant, CF210.
 Short-lived isotopes on the moon, CF220.
CG: Miscellaneous Anti-Evolution
 History
Darwin recanted, CG001. Oldest living thing is young, CG010.
 Linguistics
 Chinese glyph for "ark", CG101.
 First languages are complex, CG110.
 Folklore
 There are flood myths from all over the world, CG201.
CH: Biblical Creationism
 Biblical Creationism Generally
 Creationism has explanatory power, CH001.
 Creationism is good, CH010, CH010.1.
 Genesis is foundational, CH050. Non-creationist compromisers, CH055.
 
 Biblical Accuracy
 Bible is ultimate authority, CH100.
 Bible is inerrant, CH101, CH101.1.
 Bible is literal, CH102, CH102.1, CH102.2.
 Bible claims inspiration, CH103. Prophecies prove Bible, CH110.
 Archaeology supports Bible, CH120.
Bible accurate on science, CH130. (see also CB621: Humanity traced to an African Eve.)
Bible is harmonious, CH190.
 Young Earth Creationism
 Age of the Universe
Universe 6000-10000 years old, CH200. Earth 6000-10000 years old, CH210. apparent age, CH220.
 Death and the Fall
 No death before the Fall, CH301.
 Vapor canopy affected earth, CH310. extended lifetimes, CH311.
 Life is deteriorating, CH320. Parasites are degenerate, CH321.
 Kinds
 Organisms are discrete kinds, CH350. Stars, galaxies unchanging, CH370.
 Source of Flood
Flood from vapor canopy, CH401. Hydroplate theory, CH420. Runaway subduction, CH430.
 The Ark
 
Noah's Ark has been found, CH500. Look on Mt. Ararat, CH501. Ark near Dogubayazit, Turkey, CH503, CH503.1.
 Animals on the Ark
Insects float outside, CH511. Fitting animals, CH512, CH512.1, CH512.2. Care and feeding, CH514, CH514.1. Exacting needs evolved, CH521.
 Flood Effects
 Aquatic organisms survived, CH541. Plants survived, CH542.
Geologic column deposited, CH550. Fossil order, CH561.1, CH561.2, CH561.3, CH561.4. (see also CC361: Fossils form quickly; CC364: Seashells on mountains.)
High mountains raised, CH570. Other geologic shaping, CH580. Grand Canyon, CH581, CH581.1.
 Ice age, CH590.
Miscellaneous Young Earth Creationism (see also CC100: Human fossils out of place; CB930.3: Dinosaurs in the Congo.)
Man and dinosaurs coexisted, CH710. Ica stones, CH710.1. Acambaro figurines, CH710.2. Behemoth, CH711. Leviathan, CH711.1. Dragons were dinosaurs, CH712, CH712.1.
 Day-Age Creationism
 Genesis 1 order of events, CH801.
 Geocentrism
 Sun goes around the earth, CH901, CH910.
CI: Intelligent Design. (see also CH000: Creationism Generally; CF000: 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and Information Theory)
 ID as Science
ID is scientific, CI001. not religious, CI001.1. not creationism, CI001.2. mainstream, CI001.3. (see also CA041.1: Santorum Amendment.)
 ID has explanatory power, CI002.
 Design disproves evolution, CI009.
Law of conservation of information, CI010. (see also CF011: Evolutionary algorithms.)
 Detecting Design (see also CA100: Argument from incredulity.)
 Design is detectable, CI100, CI100.1.
Complexity indicates design, CI101. Irreducible complexity, CI102. Complex specified information, CI111, CI111.1, CI111.2.
Genetic algorithms require designer, CI113. (see also CF011: Evolutionary algorithms.)
 Purpose indicates design, CI120. Functional integration, CI130.
 Similarities in life due to common design, CI141, CI141.1.
 SETI researchers can detect design, CI190. Archaeologists can detect design, CI191.
 First Cause.
 There must have been a first cause, CI200.
 Anthropic Principle.
 Cosmos is fine-tuned for life, CI301. for discovery, CI302.
 Meta-arguments
 
Science rules out considering design, CI401, CI402. (see also CA301.1: Science rules out supernatural explanations; CA230.1: Evolutionists interpret per their preconceptions.)
 Design requires a designer, CI410.
CJ: Other Creationism
 Vedic Creationism
 Mankind unchanged for billions of years, CJ001.
 Native North American Creationism
 Kennewick Man was Umatilla ancestor, CJ311.
 Islamic Creationism
 Qur'an accurate on science, CJ530.

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Creationism.
Creation.