The Atheist Directory

Creationism

• 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing down real science, but their arguments don’t hold up
• A Mathematical Proof That The Universe Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing Cosmologists assume that natural quantum fluctuations allowed the Big Bang to happen spontaneously. Now they have a mathematical proof.
• Answers to Creationist Attacks on Carbon-14 Dating This article will answer several of the most common creationist attacks on carbon-14 dating, using the question-answer format that has proved so useful to lecturers and debaters.
• Evidence against a recent creation This article collects evidences that place a lower limit on the age of the universe beyond the 6,000 years asserted by most Young Earth creationists (YECs) and the literalist Ussher chronology.
• First detection of sugars in meteorites gives clues to origin of life An international team has found sugars essential to life in meteorites.
• Genesis – Hebrew Creation Myths in Context This essay will examine, compare and contrast the cosmogonies of three civilizations: the ancient Egyptians, the ancient Mesopotamians, and the ancient Israelites.
• How Do We Know the Earth Is 4.6 Billion Years Old? The Earth is very old. But how old, exactly? And how can we know with any degree of confidence?
• Paper Used in Creationist Teaching Retracted After 30 Years Criticism of the paper first surfaced in 1994, and its author was accused of scientific misconduct.
• Tests of Big Bang Cosmology – NASA The Big Bang Model is supported by a number of important observations, each of which are described in more detail on this site.
• The Beginning of Time Professor Stephen Hawking – In this lecture, I would like to discuss whether time itself has a beginning, and whether it will have an end.