Creationist glossary
Creationist glossary
Phrases specific to creationists or used differently than in science
Accurate science - see objective science
Bible college - the only college where it's safe to take science courses
Biblical worldview - prescientific worldview
correlation - proof of causation
creation science - biblical creationism with references to religion removed
creationism - apologetics supporting Genesis 1
critical thinking - rationalizing or propositional logic
Darwin - a 19th century thinker whose ideas should be rejected along with those of Marx and Freud
Discovery Institute - reactionary political organization which promotes intelligent design
education - indoctrination
eminent scientists - Discovery Institute idealogues
evolution - the cause of immorality, a "theory in crisis"
information - a fundamental substance that biologists don't understand
intelligent design - creationism where God is inferred, but not mentioned; horseshit with a large advertising budget
irreducible complexity - biological complexity for which imagination fails to perceive an evolutionary origin
Isaac Newton - a famous creationist
liberal elite - people who read, people who think, worse still people who do both
literal interpretation - ignorance that one is interpreting
macroevolution - complex evolution which requires supernatural intervention
microevolution - most of this is false too, but it's inconsequential and not worth arguing about
National Academy of Sciences - group of the most heavily indoctrinated scientists
naturalism - rejects supernatural explanations (which scientists might consider if they made useful and testable predictions).
neo-creationism - creationism developed since the last time courts excluded it from science classes
not creationism - Discovery Institute claim for intelligent design, in this case a fallacy of classification
objective science - "science" that includes creationism along with evolution
old Earth creationism - creationism that accepts radiometric dating
origins science - speculations on the origin of life, a creation science term
Santorum amendment - an amendment to "No child left behind", constructed by the Discovery Institute, passed by the Senate, but deleted in conference committee.
Satan - the creator of evolutionary doctrine
science - knowledge, including pseudoscience, stuff that scientists are indoctrinated with
scientific creationism - biblical creationism with references to the bible deleted.
scientists - see "eminent scientists"
Second law of thermodynamics - scientific law that's easy to violate rhetorically with little fear of detection by the audience.
teaching the controversy - teaching evolution as if it were scientifically controversial
theory - speculation
two groups of experts - scientists on one hand and Discovery Institute idealogues on the other
viewpoint discrimination - failure to include pseudosciences (especially creationism) in science curricula
young Earth creationism - creationism that takes the age of Earth to be 6000 years.