Toronto Star review

Science teacher attacks straw man

One of my geology talks in Toronto, Canada, in September 2007, stimulated Joseph Wilson, a science teacher with a degree in astronomy. I’m glad he came to the meeting, which was shared with Richard Fangrad, CEO of CMI Canada. Wilson published an article about the meeting in the Toronto Star.

In his article Wilson tries to discount creation by mocking things that I did not say. E.g., I did not say that the earth was created on 23 October 4004 BC. Nor did I say that the Flood was the only explanation for the vertical petrified logs at Joggins, Nova Scotia. I did say that the logs point to a large catastrophe, and are evidence consistent with a global Flood. It’s those who believe in long ages who have the time problem—where do they propose putting the time?

Actually, I recall mentioning this time problem for long-agers during question time, and explaining that they put the millions of years in the geological cracks—the contacts between the different geological units. Geologists now accept that the evidence within the rocks points to rapid processes. It's where there are no rocks that they put the time. Perhaps if there is no evidence then there is no time.

There was a great response from people at that meeting. Some young people especially were excited and told me their thinking had been turned around within just a few hours. One young lady said she subscribed to Creation magazine that night, and said she was definitely going to tell all her friends all about it. I don't recall meeting Joseph, but it would have been good to chat with him.

Joseph Wilson's article was published in the religion section of the Toronto Star on Oct 13, 2007 and is called Blinding them with 'science', Creationism's curious blend of cherry-picked facts and biblical literalism comes to Canadian churches. It's interesting how the scientists are putting their so-called 'science' into the religion department, but telling Christians to keep religion out of the science department. Hmmm.

You can find his article at the Toronto Star website here. I'm glad he decided to tell his friends.

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