I recently came across the Creation Science Fair 2001 website... It's a collection of 'science' projects carried out by grade-school students.

In the winner's circle were such gems as

• "Life doesn't come from non-life":

  Patricia Lewis (grade 8) did an experiment to see if life can evolve from non-life. Patricia placed all the non-living ingredients of life - carbon (a charcoal briquet), purified water, and assorted minerals (a multi-vitamin) - into a sealed glass jar. The jar was left undisturbed, being exposed only to sunlight, for three weeks. (Patricia also prayed to God not to do anything miraculous during the course of the experiment, so as not to disqualify the findings.) No life evolved. This shows that life cannot come from non-life through natural processes.



• "Women Were Designed for Homemaking":

  Jonathan Goode (grade 7) applied findings from many fields of science to support his conclusion that God designed women for homemaking: physics shows that women have a lower center of gravity than men, making them more suited to carrying groceries and laundry baskets; biology shows that women were designed to carry un-born babies in their wombs and to feed born babies milk, making them the natural choice for child rearing; social sciences show that the wages for women workers are lower than for normal workers, meaning that they are unable to work as well and thus earn equal pay; and exegetics shows that God created Eve as a companion for Adam, not as a co-worker.



• "My Uncle is a Man Named Steve (Not a Monkey)":

  Cassidy Turnbull (grade 5) presented her uncle, Steve. She also showed photographs of monkeys and invited fairgoers to note the differences between her uncle and the monkeys. She tried to feed her uncle bananas, but he declined to eat them. Cassidy has conclusively shown that her uncle is no monkey.

I also happened to click on this link (an expedition to Africa to find evidence of man living alongside dinosaurs). I'm not even going to start to rant about the problems with this article... ("thankfully, prayer to the Lord kept Malaria at bay"... and had nothing to do with the anti-malaria medication, I'm sure).

I wish this was a hoax, but I don't think it is...