{"id":1442,"date":"2011-12-13T07:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T11:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2011-12-13T07:31:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T11:31:35","slug":"creationist-featured-in-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1442","title":{"rendered":"Creationist featured in article"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida-based creationist Gary Parker has been featured in many newspaper articles over the years. The latest one in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune<\/a> is pretty much standard feature-article fare. But it does offer voices that take his creationist beliefs to task, including former Florida Citizens for Science board member Joe Meert.<\/p>\n

University of Florida geologist Joe Meert says he is still waiting for creationists to get young-Earth research published in refereed science journals.<\/p>\n

“But where the rubber really meets the road is when you look at oil and mining companies who use radiometric dating to find major deposits, because it works,” Meert says. “They don’t use Noah’s flood models, because they have to make profits.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The National Center for Science Education also takes a shot at creationist museums in general.<\/p>\n

“The whole existence of creationism belongs to the counterestablishment trend of opting out of government-supported education and insulating themselves from secular influences,” said Glenn Branch of the National Center for Science Education, Inc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is the kind of thinking we are fighting against.<\/p>\n

Parker says creatures annihilated by the Old Testament flood, like most dinosaurs, were victims of geography, not chronology.<\/p>\n

“There were some dinosaurs that got off the Ark,” he says. “Where they migrated to depended largely on their source of food, which caused a lot of them to make a wrong turn, like to the north slope of Alaska.” The remains of extinct species found in the Peace River, he says, were likely deposited by “post-flood” forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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