John Woodmorappe

John Woodmorappe (born October 1954) is the pen name of an author who has published several articles and books with the creation science groups Answers in Genesis and the Institute for Creation Research. His main works are "Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study" and the "The Mythology of Modern Dating Methods". He has also written several articles in creationist journals.

Controversy and criticism

Noah's Ark

In his critique of Woodmorappe's work "Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study", Glenn Morton notes that Woodmorappe's claim that the animals could be fed in a short time is made by analogy to mass production farming, and points out that the care of thousands of animals that require all the same food is vastly different from the care of thousands of different animals that require vastly different food sources. Morton also argues that Woodmorappe's claim that Noah and his family trained the animals beforehand to assist in ways such as urinating and defecating on-demand into buckets is ridiculous, stating that "This, of course, makes Noah the greatest animal trainer in history," and pointing out the absurd lengths of time that it would take for eight people to train 16,000 animals. [citation |last=Morton |first=Glenn |title=Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study (review) |publication-date=1996-11-22 |publisher=Talk Origins Archive |url=http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/woodmorappe-review.html ] Woodmorappe has offered a rebuttal to the criticism. [citation |last=Woodmorappe |first=John |title=John Woodmorappe's refutation of Glen Morton's review of "Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study" |publisher=Revolution Against Evolution |url=http://www.rae.org/pagesix.htm]

Geologic dating

Woodmorappe published "Radiometric Dating Reappraised" in 1979 attacking geological dating by claiming bad data points, geologists "fudging" radiometric dating results, and criticizing the geologist data of a 4.5 billion year earth date rather than the 6,000 years that Woodmorappe claims.

Steven H. Schimmrich criticized the work, claiming misrepresentation of terms, "highly inflammatory rhetoric," and "superficial treatment of data." [citation |last=Schimmrich |first=Steven H. |title=Geochronology kata John Woodmorappe |url=http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/woodmorappe-geochronology.html |publisher=Talk.Origins Archive |publication-date=1998-2-12] .

Geologist Dr. Kevin R. Henke from the University of Kentucky has written over forty articles which criticize Woodmorappe's statements on geology, various radiometric methods and the overall capabilities of radiometric dating, and accusing him of misquoting sources to support his arguments. [citation |last=Henke |first=Kevin R. |title= |publisher=No Answers In Genesis |url=http://www.noanswersingenesis.org.au/henke_on_woody.htm |accessdate=2008-6-11]

Bibliography

*"Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study." El Cajon: Institute for Creation Research, 1996.
*"Radiometric Dating Reappraised." (originally published in the "Creation Research Society Quarterly" Volume 16, September 1979)
*"Studies in Flood Geology." Institute for Creation Research, 1999.
*"The Mythology of Modern Dating Methods." Institute for Creation Research, 1999

Notes

External links

* [http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/ark/index.htm Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study, Jason D. Browning]
* [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/woodmorappe-review.html Morton's Critique of "Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study"] on Talk.Origins
* [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/woodmorappe-geochronology.html "Geochronology "kata" John Woodmorappe"] on Talk.Origins
* [http://www.answersincreation.org/profiles/john_woodmorappe.htm Answers In Creation - Review of the creationist claims of John Woodmorappe]