Creationism - National Center for Science Education
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How to Teach Origins (Without ACLU Interference) (1983). This is a detailed manual in<br />
response to the question, “How do you teach creation in a public educational institution?”<br />
It is fully legal and constitutional to teach scientific creationism in any school, whether it be public or<br />
parochial, secular or sectarian. Because of all that has gone be<strong>for</strong>e in previous chapters, the science teacher<br />
should no longer have any serious doubt that the creation model is a viable, scientifically based alternative<br />
to the evolution model about first origins. [1983:283]<br />
It is educationally unsound and unconstitutional to promote evolution in the schools,<br />
Moore argues; exclusive teaching of evolution is compulsory indoctrination in the<br />
stateendorsed world-view.<br />
George Howe has a Ph.D in botany from Ohio State University, and taught<br />
natural science at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Cali<strong>for</strong>nia. Later, finding<br />
Westmont (a Christian school) too liberal, he moved to head the science department at<br />
Los Angeles Baptist College. Howe has remained on the editorial board of the CRSQ<br />
from the first issue to the present.<br />
Clif<strong>for</strong>d Burdick is a consulting geologist and an early follower of Price’s Flood<br />
Geology. He has an M.S. from the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. from something<br />
called either the University of Physical <strong>Science</strong> in Arizona (Burdick 1974:vi) or the<br />
University of Phoenix (in an unpublished paper by Burdick, “Documentation of<br />
Discrimination Against Creationist Students,” quoted in Bergman 1984:30). He claims<br />
earlier to have been denied a Ph.D. in geology, <strong>for</strong> which he completed all requirements,<br />
by the University of Arizona, due to his creationist beliefs. Burdick converted to<br />
Seventh-day Adventism from a Baptist group (Lang and Lang 1984:57). While a<br />
member of the Creation-Deluge Society in the early 1940s, Burdick was sent to<br />
investigate the supposed human footprints found among dinosaur tracks in the Paluxy<br />
River. It was largely Burdick’s work which led to the sensational creationist claims<br />
about these Paluxy “manprints.”<br />
Burdick also wrote Canyon of Canyons (1974), a Flood Geology explanation of<br />
the Grand Canyon. In 1964 Burdick was hired to analyze pollen samples collected by<br />
University of Arizona students in the Grand Canyon. His anaylsis showed that fossil<br />
pollen was present even in Cambrian and Precambrian strata (strata which far predate the<br />
evolution of flowering plants). Lammerts got similar results when he had some of<br />
Burdick’s samples analyzed at a UC Berkeley lab. Burdick published these findings as<br />
evidence against evolution in the CRSQ, but others dismissed them as resulting from<br />
contamination of the samples. Burdick is also frequently cited <strong>for</strong> his geological surveys<br />
of Mt. Ararat, which prove that Ararat was once submerged under the Flood waters (e.g.<br />
LaHaye and Morris 1976:7-10), and <strong>for</strong> his investigations of overthrust <strong>for</strong>mations—<br />
Many of which he contends are not true overthrusts, thus proving the geological column<br />
wrong.<br />
Thomas G. Barnes has an M.S. from Brown University and was a professor of<br />
physics at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he directed the Schellenger Research<br />
Lab. Later he became dean of graduate study and research at Morris’s Institute <strong>for</strong><br />
Creation Research.<br />
The first major project of the CRS, besides its primary and ongoing work of<br />
publishing its Quarterly, was preparation of a creationist-oriented high school biology<br />
textbook. Barnes was appointed chairman of the CRS Textbook Committee, and work