Intelligent Design Debate Guide
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Young-Earth Creationism
- What is Young-Earth Creationism?
- What is the evidence that the earth is only thousands of years old?
- Why does radiometric dating indicate that the Earth is billions of years old?
- How can stars be billions of light years away in a young universe?
- In a young universe, did the Big Bang actually happen?
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Intelligent Design
- What is Intelligent Design?
- Why does ID deny the mechanism of macroevolution?
- Is there a lack of transitional forms in the fossil record?
- Is life full of irreducible complexity that cannot arise through evolution?
- If there is an Intelligent Designer, why are there so many imperfect forms in nature?
- Does the amount of information known as specified complexity disprove evolution?
- Did dinosaurs and man live at the same time?
- How can hydrodynamic sorting explain the fossil record?
- Why does the fossil record indicate millions of species living millions of years ago?
- Why did God create and then destroy 99% of all species?
- How is the emergence of millions of new species during the Cambrian explosion explained?
- How is the evidence for evolution within embryology explained?
- Why is there evidence of vestigal structures in the fossil record and in living species?
- How is the homology of life forms (animals share similar bone structures) explained?
- Isn't Archaeopteryx a transitional form?
- How is highly-similar genetic coding explained?
- Do Young-Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design negate each other?
- Does a belief in evolution make belief in God impossible?
- Does a belief in evolution make belief in original sin impossible?
- Is evolution directed? Is man the goal of evolution?
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Additional Resources
- Evolution resources from FASEB: http://opa.faseb.org/pages/PolicyIssues/evolutionresources.htm
