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KnightWhoSaysNi
04-10-2008, 03:57 PM
AiG offers a series of online creationist courses for secondary students:

APO 101 — Foundations in Creation Apologetics

APO 201 — Creation Apologetics and the Bible

APO 202 — Creation Apologetics and Biology

APO 203 — Creation Apologetics and Geology

APO 204 — Creation Apologetics and Astronomy

Here's a course description of APO 203:

APO 203 Overview
Topics

* Flood geology vs. Uniformitarianism
* The “geologic column” and geologic time
* Fossil evidence
* Radiometric dating techniques
* Grand Canyon formation
* Mount Saint Helens evidences
* Plate tectonics
* Ice Age

Activities

* Discussion forums where instructors and students can interact
* Online quizzes with immediate feedback
* Online videos with integrated study guides
* Live chats with the instructors
* Independent projects that apply what you have learned
* Reading assignments that will engage and equip you

Goals

Upon completing the course, students will be able to:

* Relate the origin of the concept of millions years as a Christian compromise position.
* State the basic concepts behind radiometric dating methods.
* Describe major differences between Catastrophism and Uniformitarianism.
* Describe the layers of the geologic column and the fossils they contain as a result of the original Creation events and the Flood.
* Use specific examples of geologic anomalies to discredit Uniformitarianism.
* Describe how plate tectonics and the Flood have played an important role in shaping the earth.

No doubt Dave would highly recommend the courses to secondary students and perhaps to his kids. I would like to recommend another course for the creationist curriculum:

APO 301: Creationist Apologetics Rhetorical Argumentation

Topics:

- Quotemining
- Goalpost shifting
- Rehashing

Activities:

- Comb through a selected evolution publication to pluck out isolated quotes that can be made to look like they refute evolution
- Quizzes [answering "Goddidit" to each question will earn the student a grade of 100%]
- Go to an evolution forum at an atheist website and repeat the same creationist argument at least 10 times

I'll leave it up to someone more imaginative than me to come up with a more extensive curriculum. :)

This reminds me of an oldie but goodie (one of the contributors was our very own lpetrich):

Mark Harpt's Secrets to Rhetorical Success (http://www.ediacara.org/harpt.html)

Does anybody here think a certain creationist present may have taken Harpt's advice to heart? :p

Wolfhound
04-10-2008, 04:08 PM
Will they also offer a course in anatomical comparisons between unicorns and leviathans?

Ray Moscow
04-10-2008, 04:14 PM
Will they also offer a course in anatomical comparisons between unicorns and leviathans?

Creationism 302: Cladistics for Christ -- Commonalities of Design

Creationism 303: Fools for the Flood

Creationism 354: Sticks and Stripes -- Genesis based heredity inducement
[obscure Jacob reference]

Creationism 401: Better Living through Incest, or the Riddle of Cain's Wife

Creationism 402: Shekina -- How God Speeds Up Radioactive Decay without Killing Everyone

Wolfhound
04-10-2008, 04:18 PM
Will they also offer a course in anatomical comparisons between unicorns and leviathans?

Creationism 302: Cladistics for Christ -- Commonalities of Design

Creationism 303: Fools for the Flood

Creationism 354: Sticks and Stripes -- Genesis based heredity inducement
[obscure Jacob reference]

Creationism 401: Better Living through Incest, or the Riddle of Cain's Wife

Creationism 402: Shekina -- How God Speeds Up Radioactive Decay without Killing EveryoneWhere's the friggin' rep tab?! :notworthy:

Ray Moscow
04-10-2008, 04:24 PM
OK, an appropriate classic, too:

http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/9224/creationismsv2.gif

David B
04-10-2008, 04:26 PM
Will they also offer a course in anatomical comparisons between unicorns and leviathans?

Creationism 302: Cladistics for Christ -- Commonalities of Design

Creationism 303: Fools for the Flood

Creationism 354: Sticks and Stripes -- Genesis based heredity inducement
[obscure Jacob reference]

Creationism 401: Better Living through Incest, or the Riddle of Cain's Wife

Creationism 402: Shekina -- How God Speeds Up Radioactive Decay without Killing EveryoneWhere's the friggin' rep tab?! :notworthy:

Down by the report post button. New today.

David B

Wolfhound
04-10-2008, 05:55 PM
Down by the report post button. New today.

David BYaaaaay! Rep for Ray and rep to you for pointing this out to me!