I’ve mentioned before that creation “science” follows a reversed scientific method. All other fields of science begin with a question, formulate a hypothesis, search for evidence and finally draw a logical conclusion. But if you read the so-called research done by creationists, you’ll notice that they begin with the conclusion. This is not science.

Finding evidence to fit a conclusion is not a difficult task, and is certainly not a form of scientific research. Has anyone read The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown? I wouldn’t consider Brown a spectacular author, but I do give him credit for writing a work of fiction that is so convincing, he almost manages to pass it off as the truth. His book is based on the idea that Jesus was married and had a child, and he provides concrete historical evidence to back up this conclusion.

But Brown is not a scientist, and The Da Vinci Code is not a true story. The fact is that anyone with an average IQ and access to Google could pull off this feat. Sitting here at my computer, I could take any work of fiction and provide you with solid scientific evidence to back it up. I could walk you through the step-by-step process in which the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park came into existence, using my knowledge of animal cloning. Everything from extracting DNA from the fossilized mosquito to implanting the DNA in reptile eggs is more than plausible with our current technology. I could suggest a means by which nuclear waste could alter the DNA of a lizard, turning him into Godzilla. Perhaps the regulatory sequence in the growth hormone operon was damaged, and he just kept getting bigger and bigger?

If I were to write those “science” papers, would you believe that Jurassic Park or Godzilla were true stories? Probably not... and yet that’s what creationists follow so blindly. Just because the Bible can be backed up with science, that doesn’t make it true. Creation science isn’t anymore scientific than a Dan Brown novel. Anything can be backed up with scientific and historical evidence if you try hard enough, and anyone is capable of doing it.