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Creation Scientists Answer Their Critics
Book by Duane T. Gish
439 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1993
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Duane T. Gish
35 books16 followersDuane Tolbert Gish is an American biochemist and a prominent member of the creationist movement. Gish is a former vice-president of the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) and the author of numerous publications on the subject of scientific creationism. Gish has been called "creationism's T.H. Huxley" for the way he "relished the confrontations" of formal debates with prominent evolutionists, usually held on university campuses."
He holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
He spent 18 years in biochemical and biomedical research at Cornell University Medical College, the Virus Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley, and The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is the author or co-author of numerous technical articles in his field and a well-known author and lecturer on creation/evolution.
He holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
He spent 18 years in biochemical and biomedical research at Cornell University Medical College, the Virus Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley, and The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is the author or co-author of numerous technical articles in his field and a well-known author and lecturer on creation/evolution.
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August 18, 2024
THE FAMED "YOUNG EARTH" CREATIONIST RESPONDS TO CRITICISMS
Duane Tolbert Gish (born 1921) is an American biochemist and a prominent member of the "young earth" creationist movement (as well as a former vice-president of the Institute for Creation Research/ICR, with whom he has long been associated). He was probably the most well-known creationist debater, as well as the author of key creationist books such as 'Evolution: The Fossils Still Say No!,' 'Speculations and experiments related to theories on the origin of life: A critique,' etc.
He wrote in the Introduction to this 1993 book, "In response to the highly effective lectures, seminars, and debates (almost always won by creationists, according to evolutionists), and the many books and publications produced by the creation scientists, evolutionists finally awakened and reacted vigorously to this challenge... they poured forth an avalanche of journal articles and books attacking creation scientists and creation science. For the most part, these attacks have been vicious... This book is a response to these attacks."
He states, "one can readily cite several instances in which evolutionary theory has retarded progress in science. For decades much research in embryology had been mis-directed by the now thoroughly discredited theory of embryological recapitulation... For many years research on the true importance and function of such organs and structures as the pineal gland... were neglected because, according to evolutionists, these were useless vestiges... One also wonders at the cost... of devising evolutionary phylogenies which not only serve no practical purpose but all of which are eventually discarded." (Pg. 43-44)
He is critical of Kenneth Miller [Finding Darwin's God], who will "create ridiculous caricatures of several of the creation scientists' theories and then ... poke fun at them. Miller does have a unique ability to reel off, in rapid succession, one argument after another, and this no doubt impresses many in the audience, regardless of whether or not they grasp much of what he is talking about." (Pg. 88)
He admits his mistake about the bombadier beetle: "As soon as I learned of this little hitch [the beetle's chemicals were NOT 'explosive'] in the story... I modified the story I related in my lectures. I had to wait until the publisher was ready to publish a revised edition of Dinosaurs: Those Terrible Lizards, however, to correct the story there." (Pg. 103)
He declines to discuss the age of the earth, since "the scope of this book is limited to the HOW of origins... [and] significant numbers of both conservative theologians and creation scientists hold to an old age of the earth and long time intervals between the many acts of creation. Thus creationists take both sides of the controversy..." (Pg. 260)
This is one of Gish's most significant books (along with 'The Fossils STILL Say No'), and will be of great interest to anyone studying the Evolution/Creation controversy.
Duane Tolbert Gish (born 1921) is an American biochemist and a prominent member of the "young earth" creationist movement (as well as a former vice-president of the Institute for Creation Research/ICR, with whom he has long been associated). He was probably the most well-known creationist debater, as well as the author of key creationist books such as 'Evolution: The Fossils Still Say No!,' 'Speculations and experiments related to theories on the origin of life: A critique,' etc.
He wrote in the Introduction to this 1993 book, "In response to the highly effective lectures, seminars, and debates (almost always won by creationists, according to evolutionists), and the many books and publications produced by the creation scientists, evolutionists finally awakened and reacted vigorously to this challenge... they poured forth an avalanche of journal articles and books attacking creation scientists and creation science. For the most part, these attacks have been vicious... This book is a response to these attacks."
He states, "one can readily cite several instances in which evolutionary theory has retarded progress in science. For decades much research in embryology had been mis-directed by the now thoroughly discredited theory of embryological recapitulation... For many years research on the true importance and function of such organs and structures as the pineal gland... were neglected because, according to evolutionists, these were useless vestiges... One also wonders at the cost... of devising evolutionary phylogenies which not only serve no practical purpose but all of which are eventually discarded." (Pg. 43-44)
He is critical of Kenneth Miller [Finding Darwin's God], who will "create ridiculous caricatures of several of the creation scientists' theories and then ... poke fun at them. Miller does have a unique ability to reel off, in rapid succession, one argument after another, and this no doubt impresses many in the audience, regardless of whether or not they grasp much of what he is talking about." (Pg. 88)
He admits his mistake about the bombadier beetle: "As soon as I learned of this little hitch [the beetle's chemicals were NOT 'explosive'] in the story... I modified the story I related in my lectures. I had to wait until the publisher was ready to publish a revised edition of Dinosaurs: Those Terrible Lizards, however, to correct the story there." (Pg. 103)
He declines to discuss the age of the earth, since "the scope of this book is limited to the HOW of origins... [and] significant numbers of both conservative theologians and creation scientists hold to an old age of the earth and long time intervals between the many acts of creation. Thus creationists take both sides of the controversy..." (Pg. 260)
This is one of Gish's most significant books (along with 'The Fossils STILL Say No'), and will be of great interest to anyone studying the Evolution/Creation controversy.
January 10, 2012
Semi-technical and full of detail, this would have probably been better to read after I had am better introduction to the main tenants of creation science. The direct answer format of answering questions/criticisms of creation science by evolutionists is interesting. Good reference book overall.
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