Sep 24, 2010
Common Scientific misconceptions corrected with stick figures
Florida Citizens for Science has just announced the winners of their 2nd annual “Stick Science Contest.”
From the contest description…
Your job is to create a cartoon that can be used to educate the general public…about the truth behind one false science argument. Choose an argument…and create a cartoon that corrects the record.
But wait! I can’t draw!
Don’t worry. The name of the contest is “Stick Science” for a reason. All entries must be drawn using stick figures.
Here are several of this year’s top 10:
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I wonder what methods are used to measure how far away another galaxy is. It does pose an interesting problem for young Earth creationism thought…
though
Typical answer from Young Earthers –
God created humans, not just babies – trees, not just seeds – the chicken not just the egg.
So, why wouldn’t he create with light from distant galaxies already spanning across the universe? That is, he created the light from the stars already spanning the distance across the galaxy.
His creative act doesn’t require everything to start at “zero” – he created an already “mature” creation, the same way that Adam and Eve were adults, not infants (or embryos).
It’s not as difficult as trying to explain the resurrection of Christ :)
Ultimately both use the same explanation: faith.
…or creation itself, for that matter
One way is Redshift
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift
Not to mention that the universe is still moving. It may be 2.5M LY’s away now, but that doesn’t mean it always was.
Does anybody else who believes (as I do) in a special creation think that the whole “Young Universe” argument is beside the point? My belief is God is not about my winning an argument.
When I am approached with the argument that we need to posit an “Old Universe” for the math to work out, I say, “Go to it!” Whether the universe is old because it took that long for it to get here, or weather God created it old doesn’t change the math.
When I am asked about my belief in re: 6000-year-old Earth or the Flood, or Evolution, I answer that that is jumping too far ahead. I cannot answer questions of existential importance until I answer “Who is Jesus?”
Beliving in Jesus doesn’t answer all my intellectual questions. He is, in fact, the most stubborn of all the inconvienient facts. I am constantly challenged to see meaning in an otherwise meaningless universe.
I’m guessing if I asked you if you were male or female, you could figure that out without answering anything about Jesus. It works the same for historical questions — they are answerable without religion having anything to do with it.
God has everything to do with it. Where do you think the knowledge that you were male or female came from? Did you make it up, or was it taught to you by someone else? Did they make it up. No, all truth has been created by God, and is truth because He says it is. The truth that you are a male is known to us because God has made it known, and such God has had everything to do with you knowing that you are in fact a male. In fact He made you a male. My point is that God has everything to do with anything, and everything no matter how small or inconsequential it looks to us.
So atheists can’t know if people are male and female?
=) Well God in His graciousness reveals knowledge, and truth to non believers as well. Just because they are atheists does not mean God is not involved in their lives. Every breath, movement, and beat of an atheist’s heart is a direct result of God’s will. Why would thoughts be any different? Sure atheists know their gender. There are plenty non believers that are far more intelligent than myself that is for sure! However atheists/ non believers have not found a way to learn truth, and information on their own outside of God’s will. Just as much as the Lord graciously gives a non believer a beating heart for 60 years, He is in the same way graciously giving knowledge to an unbeliever whether that’s the cure to polio, or whether it;s simple like determining one’s gender. God is not absent from anything that ever happens on the planet. It all brings Him glory.
. . . Also, what I believe Beryl (above)was trying to say is this: When we come into contact, and have these kind of creation vs. evolution discussions with non believers, what could be more profitable is to not talk about evolution vs. creation. What is most important is bringing the conversation to a point where their greatest need is being addressed: their need for the Lord Jesus to save them from their sin. Everything else including the origin of the earth needs to be viewed from the lens of the gospel. When a man’s greatest need is met, the Lord will grow his worldview into a right perspective with the Gospel at the center.
If you bring every subject you talk about with a nonbeliever back to Jesus, they’re not going to talk to you very long. There is merit in discussing and debating things of history and science outside of trying to hammer someone with the romans road.
I just want to know where I can find more of these stick-person comics. Please.
A day after looking at these it dawned on me that the family tree/evolution comic cheats on its own premise! “Grandfather-father-you” *is* a valid family tree, though a simple one. To be consistent with the other half of the comic, the family tree analogy would have to go “second cousin-cousin-you”, and of course *no one* thinks that. Plenty of people who believe in evolution (to the extent that they get it) probably *do* think that apes evolved directly into man, and a whole lot of us “stupid” creationists have a perfectly clear grasp of how evolution is supposed to work and reject it for reasons that cannot be waved away with a patronizing comic.