Dissecting Creationist memes!

It is incredible that after over six decades Young Earth Creationists (YEC) are still arguing for an earth of a few thousand years old and that evolution has not happened.

At first YEC seems very plausible and sciency, with a plethora of quotations from scientists to support their complete rejection of geology and evolution.

One common approach on social media is to use a meme, which apparently plausible (at times) but apparently designed to mislead . This is one of the more banal ones.

May be an image of text that says "IF MAN WAS MADE FROM CLAY, WHY IS THERE STILL CLAY?"

Or this

May be an image of text that says "Stegosaur relief carving at Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia, built between 1110-1150, predating scientific knowledge of dinosaurs by nearly 700 years. Whoever carved this must have seen one."

Others can seem quite plausible, especially if one is not au fait with science. However to any familiar with the science they are feeble and misleading as Dr Joel Duff explains on recent meme which claims that geckos have not evolved in 50 million years.

Geckos are noisy beasts and when in India we could here them on our bunglaow calling “gecko, gecko”!!!

Anyway far better is to listen to and read Joel on the subject

Dissecting Bad Memes: Gecko in Amber Shows No Evolution?

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