Creationism - National Center for Science Education

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University of Phoenix (in an unpublished paper by Burdick, “Documentation of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