The Truth Project Session 5 follow-up 5.4 Introduction to Creation Science

There is a hugh difference between Intelligent Design and Creation Science. Both are approaches to science. ID is "pure science" that allows for the possibility of a designer behind existence and life. Creation Science starts with an assumption of the existence of a Designer who has revealed himself in the Bible. Creation science starts with the premise that what the Bible says is accurate in its description of creation, and therefore functions as a starting point for our building of models of science. Both ID and creation science test their hypotheses, but ID does not take any account for revelation, but only follows empirical evidence for its conclusions.

Here is a sampling from a great article available from Answers in Genesis. In the article, yoyu can see that creation science is a framework of science that makes testable hypotheses and predictions. Click the image above for the complete article:

Cold Material near the Earth’s Core

In the early 1980s, physicist John Baumgardner developed a creationist theory for the rapid motion of the earth’s crust during the Flood. His theory suggested that the “cold” crust, located beneath the pre-Flood oceans, should have sunk the full 1,800 miles (2900 km) to the base of the earth’s hot mantle, where the temperatures are up to 7,232°F (4000°C). This crust would have melted if it had millions of years to reach the base of the mantle, sinking as slowly as today’s rates. On the other hand, if it sank quickly 4,350 years ago, as Baumgardner’s theory suggested, then piles of those plates should still be found at the base of the mantle, cooler than the mantle around them.

Test Result: Mantle Discovery

It took ten more years before scientists developed the technology capable of “seeing” something like that at the base of the mantle. When that technology was developed, the cold material was discovered, just as Baumgardner’s model had expected. This successful prediction suggests that Baumgardner’s model is true. It also suggests that continents moved rapidly during the Flood and that the Flood occurred only thousands of years ago, just as the Bible suggests.

Discover: Catastrophic Plate Tectonics