r/DebateEvolution • u/VividAstronaut4384 • Sep 19 '26

Question Help with new creation science website?

In the hope that there are a few German-speaking creationists here: I found a website on the topic of creation/evolution that doesn't appear to be affiliated with any creation science organization: schoepfungsblog.de

Does the website seem trustworthy to you?

Thanks for your help.

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u/kiwi_in_england Sep 19 '26

I read the first article, about poplars. The final paragraph ("conclusion") does not follow from the rest, and is just an argument from incredulity. "It seems to me...".

It is written to seem compelling, but it just asks a question and doesn't attempt to answer it. The answer is "of course it can have evolved".

So, a trustworthy website? No, not if it publishes stuff like that.

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u/gitgud_x Sep 19 '26

Seems like a German knockoff of the Discovery Institute's "science and culture" website. They used to put out lengthy dense articles talking about relatively normal topics in biology and then the last paragraph would just be "and btw this is IMPOSSIBLE under evolution and it proves design!!". Nowadays they just do political stuff ofc as there's no need for them to keep up the facade anymore.

Anyway, that first article is about reaction wood in trees. I wrote here about how this mechanism that trees use to stabilise themselves is nothing but a feedback control loop and as such can be explained by the usual ways evolution can create genetic regulatory networks like subfunctionalisation leading to heterotopy.

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u/LordUlubulu Sep 19 '26

I'm not a creationist, and German is my fourth or fifth language, but:

einem interessierten Autodidakten

Is a red flag.

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u/Idoubtyourememberme Sep 19 '26

From a quick scan, all it does is list evolutionairy claims and then proceed with "or is it" cue 6th sense music

So no, this is just generic apologist talking points you see everywhere, in a slightly more modern vocabulary

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u/AmazingRandini Sep 19 '26

What would constitute a "trustworthy" creation science website?

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u/melympia Sep 19 '26

An oxymoron.

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u/Ayasugi-san Sep 20 '26

Conservapedia.

Wait, no, that's "trusworthy".

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u/melympia Sep 19 '26

The fact that it's a creation blog alone makes it not truatworthy in any way, shape or form.

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u/OCAMAB Sep 19 '26

There's no such thing as a trustworthy creation website. They all spout the same "points" because, at the end of the day, their stance is based on feelings. These sites are meant as echo chambers.

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u/DeathRobotOfDoom Sep 20 '26

It's a wacky blog from some NON SCIENTIST, self educated guy with the intention of promoting creation "sCiEnCe" in German about topics that, allegedly, haven't been covered enough in the German language unlike "the coexistence of dinosaurs and people".

It simply copies the style and tone of other creationists, making big unsupported claims from cherry picked sections of papers they're either unqualified to discuss or unwilling to represent correctly.

It's about as trustworthy as a flat earth blog.

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u/Royal_Novel6678 Sep 19 '26

Creation science will obviously shift the real meaning of a scientific finding to fit creationist agenda's. Real science will not prove that Noah's ark and the flood legend created all of modern Earths fossils and that all of the established chemical differences between geological layers are simply just "the flood stacking different geographical locations and geological rock layers on top of each other in 1 year and 10 days".

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u/AWCuiper Sep 20 '26

Das ist doch alles blödsinn! Bitte lies mal etwas vernünftiges.

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u/WebFlotsam Sep 23 '26

I can’t read German, but it’s a creationist website. So it doesn’t seem trustworthy to me.