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Hanzi characters are characters in Chinese writing which represent words. Numerous Young earth creationists (YECs) claim that several such characters indicate that the Chinese were aware of the events of Genesis long before their exposure to Christianity. (And if any problems with pre-Christian chronology arise, one can always dredge up one or more of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Handy, that.) However, the development of Chinese characters pre-dates the writing of the Book of Genesis (but obviously only just, otherwise you might have had Chinese running around before the actual Creation as recorded in Genesis). Thus, the Chinese characters seem to provide an 'independent' record of the events in Genesis.

YEC groups who make this claim include Answers in Genesis,[1] Creation Ministries International,[2][3] Institute for Creation Research,[4] CreationWiki,[5] and other creationists[6][7][8][9][10][11]).

The following is a response to CMI's original article on the subject.

Bear in mind that there's something like 50,000 hanzi characters, so the chances are good that when you're pattern-matching, you will find something that looks just like you want it to. Further, given the number of languages in the world and the number of words in each language, it would be very surprising if there were no coincidences available to support any number of linguistic theories. The Hanzi/Genesis "connection" is a typically pseudoscientific claim to be expected from people on par with myth-mongers like Erich von Däniken who get all agitated when they find similarities between unconnected things.

## Contents

* 1 Initial problems with the hypothesis
* 2 Supposed examples
* 2.1 船 - "Large boat"
* 2.2 婪 - "Covet"
* 2.3 造 - "Create"
* 2.4 完 - "Complete"
* 2.5 禁 - "Forbidden"
* 2.6 園 - "Garden"
* 2.7 魔 - "Tempter"
* 3 The icing on the cake
* 4 Irony
* 5 The likelihood of coincidences
* 5.1 Examples we've pulled out of thin air to support other views that are just as convincing as CMI's examples
* 5.1.1 變 \- "Change", used to support the theory of evolution
* 5.1.2 滋 \- "Grow", used to support abiogenesis
* 5.1.3 餅 \- "Flatbread", used to support the Eucharist
* 5.1.4 駱 \- "Camel", used to support Islam
* 6 See also
* 7 External links
* 8 Notes
* 9 References

## Initial problems with the hypothesis[edit]

Looking at the 7 characters in question and analysing them CMI's way, it becomes apparent that CMI has made the beginner's mistake of seeing a semantic-phonetic compound as an element-indicative compound. The vast majority of Chinese characters are compounds that include a phonetic element, as well as a semantic element.

In addition, the examples listed are taken from modern traditional Chinese hanzi. Modern hanzi are vastly different from the oracle bone script and bronze inscriptions, which date from an era closer to that of the supposed Genesis and which would be even more likely to contain elements indicating a knowledge of the events of Genesis.

## Supposed examples[edit]

### 船 \- "Large boat"[edit]

This is actually the Chinese word for a simple "boat" or "ship" (chuán), not some particularly large variant. The correct term and hanzi for "large boat" is 舸 (gě). Japanese, notorious for its homophones,[note 1] refers to both symbols as fune, which is possibly where this mistake arose.

CMI attempts to break this character down into its components in order to establish a connection to the great Flood:

* 舟 does, when taken on its own, indeed mean "boat" (zhōu);
* 八 is indeed the number "eight" (bā), if used in isolation;
* 口 means "mouth" or "opening" (kǒu). CMI translates it as "people", to which it only has a very tangential relation, as 口 is the measure word for people.[note 2] The actual character for "person" is 人 rén, another common component that obviously does not appear in this character.

An alternative would be to use the character 舩, which also means "boat/ship/vessel" and is pronounced the same (chuán, Jpn. fune), but much less common. Its radicals are:

* 舟 "boat", same as above;
* 八 "eight", same as above;
* 厶 (sī) "personal/private", a variant of 口.[12]

The idea behind this setup is to suggest that the character refers to the eight people that were on the Ark: Noah, his wife, their three sons and their wives. However, CMI is making a crucial mistake in disassembling the character completely. What they ignore is the fact that Chinese characters are not made up exclusively of components that provide a meaning, but also of phonetic radicals that are supposed to offer a clue as to how they're pronounced. In both of the cases above, they simply skip this part in order to extract the meaning they want from it. The first character does not feature 八 and 口 as separate components, but rather as the combination 㕣 yǎn, with the (irrelevant) meaning of "marsh". Likewise, the second one features 公 gōng, "public" as the additional component.

Another point which they ignore completely is that there are specific kanji/hanzi for an ark -- 方舟 (fāngzhōu) in Chinese or the Japanese 箱舟 hakobune which translates roughly as "square-boat", or "box-boat".[13] Noah's Ark would be ノアの箱舟 -- Noa no Hakobune.

The number eight has significance in Chinese culture (e.g., Eight Immortals, Eight Trigrams of the I Ching). Finding yet another eight is unsurprising.

Creationists use this claim to bolster the idea that the Chinese, along with all other cultures, are descended from Noah and his family. Creationists fail to realize that of the two deluge legends from Chinese mythology, one myth involves the flood being averted twice, and the other features a brother, Fuxi, and a sister, Nuwa, survive the flood in a gourd, with all non-divine life perishing.

It may be tempting to argue that the top of 㕣 is actually 几, as that is how it tends to be rendered in Modern Chinese. However, the 几 in the phonetic component 㕣 is actually a 八 in older versions of the character. [14]

### 婪 \- "Covet"[edit]

Another mistranslation, this one's not a verb, but the adjective "greedy" (lán). Here we have the combination of "two trees" (林 -- which is actually the symbol for "grove" or "forest", lín) with the symbol for woman (女 nǚ). I assume the straw they're grasping at here has to do with Eve (yes, it's all her fault, of course). Anyway, they once again ignore the phonetic aspect of the character -- here, it's 林 lín, which is again not supposed to provide meaning. It is, unfortunately, not uncommon for Chinese characters with negative connotations to feature the symbol for "woman", so this can't simply be taken as any reference to Eve. Sexism comes in many other forms than just the Christian concept of original sin and the woman who allegedly started it all. Here are some examples from Japanese that feature 女 onna in a less-than-complimentary sense:

* 妃 -- queen (technically, King's concubine(s) consort (specifically not wife) or consort/wife for princes)
* 妄 -- delusion
* 妛 -- ugly
* 佞 -- flattery
* 委 -- committee
* 萎 -- wither

We quite like "wither" -- it's "committee", with the radical for "grass" added. And "ugly" appears to be "woman from the mountain".

### 造 \- "Create"[edit]

Here, the authors would have you believe that the symbol 造 zào is a combination of the symbols for "speak", "dust", "life" and "walk", obviously referring to the creation of Adam. They break the character down as follows:

* 告 -- gào, specifically "to tell", not "to speak";
* 土 -- tǔ is indeed "soil", or "earth", but that's not a component here;
* 丿 --piě is supposed to mean "life"; which is completely false (see below);
* 辶 -- chuò, "go"

Oh, boy, this makes it obvious that whoever came up with this nonsense had no clue of Chinese characters whatsoever. First off, they're resorting to a transparent trick here: 告 is once being counted as a component of its own, and then they're trying to extract additional meaning from its supposed parts 土 and 丿. Unfortunately, that's not how it works. 告 on its own does mean "tell", but its components, in turn, are 牛 niú ("ox", strangely) and 口 kǒu ("mouth"). You can't separate ⺧ into 土 and 丿, it's a fixed component, and anyone with even just elementary knowledge of Hanzi would immediately recognize it as such. 丿 on its own would be meaningless anyway, because it's simply one of the elementary strokes used to write characters (like one of the lines in Latin letters). So the character for "create" is simply made up of 告 and 辶, "tell" and "go". Using CMI's standards, we can deduce that the ancient Chinese intended this to be a secret message to creationists: go and tell others.

Unlike many of the other characters presented in "Hanzi of Genesis", 造 historically had many variants, some of which did not include the radical 辶 (e.g. 艁)[15] and others of which did not include 告. The oldest versions of the character from the late Western Zhou era did not include 辶.[16] We would expect the older characters to correspond more with Genesis, not less.

The historical bronze inscription form of 造 is a hut inside which there is a boat on the left side and the sound radical 告 on the right. The traditional explanation for this character is that it originally depicted the act of constructing a boat while inside a house. The character's meaning was later extended to include the act of creation.[17]

### 完 \- "Complete"[edit]

Both The Genesis Site and CMI make the same mistake here, by first breaking down the character 元 (yuan meaning "first" or the basic unit of currency) into 二 èr (two) and 儿 rén (person). The second one is correct (儿, meaning "children", is an adaption of 人 and pronounced "ér"), but 二 is actually not the character for "two" itself, but rather derived from 上 shàng ("up/above", "superior").

CMI and GS then claim that "Complete" is formed by taking what they think is "two people" (元) and giving them a "home" (宀). However, 宀 mián is not strictly the hanzi for home -- it does form a part of that character, 宅 zhái, but on its own, it means "roof". However, this is another example of mistaking the phonetic element for the indicative element -- in this case 元 yuan is simply the phonetic element of the symbol 完 wán.

What this interpretation is supposed to reveal isn't detailed, but a reasonable guess is that they probably think people can only be "complete" as a couple living together under the same roof. Unfortunately, the same word has a similar range of meanings to English "finish", including "end", "to exhaust" or "use up" (make of that what you will). If this is supposed to invoke "family values", the actual Chinese character for family, 家 jiā is composed of a roof (宀) sheltering pigs (豕). Nice!

### 禁 \- "Forbidden"[edit]

Once again, we have the combination of "two trees" (林 lín, "grove" or "forest") with what they say is the abbreviated symbol for "God" (示). Actually, the Chinese and Japanese character for "god" is 神 shén / kami. The radical on the left-hand side of that symbol is indeed 示, but it is only a part of the character, this time the one supplying meaning. Here, its phonetic counterpart is 申 shēn. You can't just pull a character apart and treat single components as if they had the same meaning as the whole character, only "abbreviated". That would result in total confusion, because the same components appear again and again in lots of characters with totally different meanings. 示 does not have anything to do with god per se, but it does appear in several characters related to religion and rites. Its modern meaning is "to show, indicate, or point out", but its ancient one might have been "altar". This one is the closest CMI gets to a correct interpretation, and it's still way off the mark.

It's also quite possible that the early symbol for forbidden, with its "pointing out" and "grove of trees", was probably more akin to a farmer saying "You dishonorable children keep your hands off my lychees, or I shall disembowel you myself." Actually, while we're having fun with pulling apart these kanji/hanzi, here's two more fun additions to play with:

* If 禁 means "to forbid', isn't it fun to know that 噤 (forbid + mouth) = "Shut up"?
* Likewise, (宗) is religion, which could be said to be a "place of instruction" (or to use the theory above, "God's house" or something). However, the first thing I thought when seeing it was "put a lid on it."

The mainstream explanation for this character is that the radical 示 represents an altar and represents gods and spirits, and the radical 林 represents a forest; the meaning of "to forbid" therefore comes from the belief that forests are forbidden places where spirits roam.[18]

### 園 \- "Garden"[edit]

There might appear to be a slight inconsistency here, as this is obviously a traditional character; this is because the other characters are the same in both simplified and traditional. Anyway, here's their breakdown of the components:

* 囗 -- wéi, "to surround";
* 土 -- tǔ meaning "soil" or "earth";
* 口 -- kǒu as above, "mouth", but they claim it represents breath. This is wrong, although it does feature in two (Japanese) compounds to do with breath -- 口気 and 口臭... both of which refer to halitosis.
* Finally, you know there's something strange going on, when the breakdown includes a hanzi element that does not exist -- in this case the symbol they use for "2 people". The closest one gets to what they used is 仆, which means "to fall", or "lie down". This element is actually derived from 衣, clothing.

As that last part indicates, they're once more playing their strange game of breaking up indivisible components. The component featured in the character's center is the phonetic element 袁 yuán , a rare character in its own right that usually appears as a surname (for example, Yuan Shikai 袁世凯). Apparently, it used to mean "a long robe" and was probably derived from 衣 yī, "clothing".[19]

The oldest versions of the component 袁 (in the form of oracle bone script) were dramatically different from its current form and did not have obvious dirt, mouth, and people components. [20]

### 魔 \- "Tempter"[edit]

In modern Chinese and Japanese, the symbol above -- mó in Chinese, ma in Japanese -- means "demon", "witch" or "evil spirit", rather than "tempter". The closest kanji and simplified hanzi to "tempter" is 诱惑者 (Chin. yòuhuòzhě, Jpn. yuuwaku sha) arrived at from "temptation" (诱惑) + "someone of that nature" (者).

However, 魔 is a clipping of 魔罗 (moluo), a Buddhist evil entity called "Mara" in Sanskrit that does tempt people, including the Buddha.[21][22] Here, the word appears to be a transliteration from Sanskrit from the era of Buddhism, so it would be implausible for it to be related to Genesis.

Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that it's just their specific way of referring to Satan instead of another mistranslation. Again, they first break this character down into two components:

* 鬼 -- guǐ / oni ("ghost" or "demon");
* 麻 -- má / asa ("hemp", "flax", or "cannabis"/"marijuana")

It's legitimate to break the second radical down further into 林, "forest", and 广, "wide" (though they'll claim it means cover or covered), but once again, 麻 is clearly the phonetic component. It gets more complicated, because they then go on to claim that 鬼 is itself divided into several further parts:

* 厶 -- sī, "private" (they take it to mean "secret");
* 儿 -- ér, from 人 rén, "person";
* 丿 -- piě, the same meaningless stroke featured above, again translated as "life";
* 田 -- tián, "field", which they think means "garden". It does not.

Apart from these interpretations being completely false, 鬼 actually doesn't feature any components; it's an adaptation of a very old depiction of a ghost. The character in question can be traced back to the ancient oracle bone script in much the same form. Apart from that, it's much more fun to just take this as "hemp" and "devil", as we all know why hemp fell into disfavour now, don't we. And a devil who plies you with hemp, probably could be a witch, or evil (and it might be tempting too!) but sadly, it has nothing to do with the word "temptation", or "tempter".

The oldest forms of 鬼 did not include any obvious 厶 or 丿 components. [23].

* Oracle bone script version of 鬼

* Western Zhou version of 鬼

## The icing on the cake[edit]

Conservapedia disagrees with CMI, arguing that their analysis is flawed. [24]

## Irony[edit]

See the main article on this topic: Irony

But then there's more! The book which underlies this all is titled God’s Promise to the Chinese, which would have the perception of targeting perhaps some Chinese audiences, is only written in English.[25] No Chinese translation has been found as of August 2009.

## The likelihood of coincidences[edit]

Thousands of Chinese characters exist. Thus, coincidences are likely, and even with valid breakdowns, it is easy to find meaning that isn't there. The same logic used by CMI could be used to support any number of religious beliefs, especially if we use the sloppy way of dividing the characters that CMI uses.

### Examples we've pulled out of thin air to support other views that are just as convincing as CMI's examples[edit]

#### 變 \- "Change", used to support the theory of evolution[edit]

We divide this character into:

* 言 -- "yán", "speech"
* 絲 -- "sī", "strand"
* 攵 -- part of 敲, "to hit"

We interpret the top part of this character as a representation of DNA. The component meaning "strand" is broken apart in two by the component meaning "speech". This conveys the fact that DNA has a two-stranded double helix structure and carries genetic information.

We further interpret the top part to have a second meaning: the breaking of a single strand (lineage) into two different species.

We interpret the bottom part, "to hit", to mean that change occurs in bursts.

Thus, we interpret this character to mean that DNA changes and that the Chinese have a cultural memory of punctuated equilibrium.

#### 滋 \- "Grow", used to support abiogenesis[edit]

We divide this character into:

* 氵 -- "three dots water"
* 玆 -- "zī", "two strands"; "muddled"; "time/now/year"

滋 is frequently used to refer to growing, spreading, or arising (e.g. 滋生). We interpret the left side, a water radical, as representing the primordial sea, and the right side as a visual representation of DNA strands or as a representation of the muddled appearance of the primordial sea. Thus, the Chinese have a cultural memory of life arising via abiogenesis.

#### 餅 \- "Flatbread", used to support the Eucharist[edit]

This character can be divided into the following radicals:

* 食 -- shí, "to eat; food";
* 并 -- bìng', "to combine";

Of them, 食 can be further divided into 人 （rén -- person) and 良 (liáng -- good).

We interpret "Food", whose components mean "Good person", to be Jesus. This seemingly makes sense both because Jesus is seen in the Bible as the only truly righteous person, and because Jesus calls his flesh "real food" in John 6:55.

We interpret 并 ("to combine") to mean the elimination of separation between God and man.

We interpret 餅 ("flatbread") to be equivalent to sacramental bread, because 餅 in Chinese cuisine refers to a variety of flat, unleavened foodstuffs formed from dry-cooked batter.

We interpret the whole character to mean "Jesus is truly in the sacramental bread and the eucharist has salvific effects."

If the Hanzi of Genesis show that Genesis is literally true, then this Hanzi must show that the eucharist is literally true, and not just a symbol. While one might object that the Chinese collective conscience could not have known about Jesus like they could Noah when the Chinese were making their script, we can handwave this away with "God had planned for this character to form all along".

#### 駱 \- "Camel", used to support Islam[edit]

This character can be divided into the following radicals:

* 馬 -- mǎ, "horse";
* 灬 -- four water droplets;
* 攵 -- part of 敲, "to hit";
* 口 -- "kǒu", interpreted here as "person" per CMI's interpretation;

In Qur'an 88:17, the camel is raised as an example of God's creation in the context of a warning that apostates face punishment. Here, we interpret the radicals 攵 "to hit" and 口 "person" together as an allusion to God's warning to humanity seen in the camel.

We further argue that the four water droplets underneath the horse character represent a camel's urine, with the horse character used to convey the shape of an animal. In Islam, camel urine is seen as beneficial to health.[26]

## See also[edit]

* Simplified Chinese characters

## External links[edit]

* A similar refutation based on similar claims on The Genesis Site
* Claim CG101, Talk Origins
* CMI misrepresents ancient Chinese language?, from CMI
* Genesis hidden in Hanja (Korean name for Hanzi), from Korea Association for Creation Research (한국창조과학회 in Korean). Contains arbitrary interpretations of 52 characters, including all seven aforementioned characters. One of the more absurd interpretations is dividing 生 "life" into three horizontal strikes and two vertical ones — the former supposedly meaning "the sky, earth and sea" and the latter "life". Aside from the character's real origin being a plant sprouting from the ground,[27] one cannot be sure how to connect that interpretation with the purported Creation.
* A tool that can be used to search for the historical forms of Chinese characters

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ This is more or less why kanji (the Japanese equivalent of hanzi) is used in the first place. Sure, it's easier to learn the simpler kana writing systems and write using only that, but it ends up being a pain in the ass trying to figure out what the words mean.
2. ↑ Using a number with a mass noun, such as English "paper" or "cattle", requires a matching measure word, such as "three sheets" or "twelve head". In Chinese, all nouns work this way: "eight mouths of people." When the noun is obvious from context, one can omit the noun and use only the number and classifier: "eight mouths." (See "Dog is a Gender" by Artifexian.)

## References[edit]

1. ↑ Do Chinese Characters Support Genesis? on Answers in Genesis
2. ↑ Chinese Characters and Genesis
3. ↑ Noah’s Ark hidden in the ancient Chinese characters
4. ↑ Genesis in Chinese Pictographs
5. ↑ Chinese characters for Noah's ark
6. ↑ Chinese writing proves Bible is God's Word
7. ↑ Reference to a similar display of calligraphy in Portsmouth's (UK) Creation Museum
8. ↑ https://archive.ph/w1jka
9. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puZUOH0_p9Y
10. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgwytP_0whw
11. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20001102195400/http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/CW_Arnhem/chinchar/chinchar5.html
12. ↑ https://hanziyuan.net/#厶
13. ↑ JA Wikipedia entry for "方舟"
14. ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/船
15. ↑ https://baike.baidu.com/item/艁
16. ↑ http://xiaoxue.iis.sinica.edu.tw/yanbian ; character 1113
17. ↑ http://qiyuan.chaziwang.com/etymology-17878.html
18. ↑ Chapin Online \- source link is in Chinese.
19. ↑ Chaupin Online \- note source link is in Chinese.
20. ↑ http://xiaoxue.iis.sinica.edu.tw/jiaguwen?kaiOrder ; character 377
21. ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/魔
22. ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/मार#Sanskrit
23. ↑ http://xiaoxue.iis.sinica.edu.tw/jiaguwen ; character 1112
24. ↑ https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Hanzi_in_Genesis&oldid=1447903
25. ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/PublicStore/product/Gods-Promise-to-the-Chinese,4610,224.aspx
26. ↑ "The Benefits of Drinking Camel's Urine", Islam Question & Answer, 03 March 2006
27. ↑ https://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/characters/character/29983.html

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| "Intelligent" alternatives: |  Intelligent falling • Scientific storkism • Pastafarianism • Scientific Geoterrapinism • Wedgie strategy •
| Teach the controversy: |  Santorum Amendment • Missouri House Bill 1227 • Indiana Senate Bill 89 • Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District • Academic Freedom Act • Louisiana Academic Freedom Act • Tennessee monkey bill • Edwards v. Aguillard • Thomas More Law Center • School vouchers • Eugenie Scott • Teach the controversy • Truth in Science • McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education •
Creationists: |  Ben Stein • Barry Setterfield • Jonathan Sarfati • Ray Comfort • B.H. Shadduck • Kirk Cameron • Harun Yahya • Wendy Wright • Carl Wieland • John Ankerberg • Jack Cuozzo • William Jennings Bryan • Russ Miller • Lee Strobel • Brother Stair • Paul Nelson • James Nienhuis • Art Robinson • Alan O'Reilly • PPSIMMONS • Hank Hanegraaff • Charlie Wagner • Rush Limbaugh • Roy Spencer • Grover Norquist • Ann Coulter • Christopher Booker • Andrea Minichiello Williams • Tom Bethell • Chuck Baldwin • Rick Perry • Bradley Monton • Christopher Langan • Aimee Semple McPherson • Richard Kent • Ljiljana Čolić • Abuz Zubair • Scott Huse • Barry Arrington • Grant Jeffrey • Janet Porter • Alan Clifford • Kurt Wise • Kenneth McKilliam • Bradlee Dean • Hugh Ross • Geoffrey Simmons • James Le Fanu • Norman Nevin • Shaun Johnston • John C. Sanford • Fazale Rana • Benjamin Wiker • Hugh Dower • Lee Spetner • Mark Ludwig • Alan Hayward • Werner Gitt • William Fix • Maciej Giertych • John C. Landon • Barbara Cargill • Ken Jopp • Frank Tipler • Richard William Nelson • Todd Friel • Bob Sorensen • Eugene Windchy • Berit Kjos • Glenn Beck • Robert McLuhan • George C. Deutsch • Ross McKitrick • Daniel Neiman • Ron Wyatt • Desmond Paul Allen • Jay Wile • Jack Chick • Ian Juby • Anthony Peake • Tim Ball • Sheik Feiz Muhammad • J. P. Holding • Michael Cremo • Chuck Norris • Steve Milloy • Rick Santorum • Christine O'Donnell • Larry Craig • Mike Bara • John Hawkins • Alan Keyes • Chris Carter • Ted Cruz • Bobby Jindal • James Ussher • Larry Pratt • Bob Dutko • Steve Fuller • Denyse O'Leary • Mike Huckabee • Babu G. Ranganathan • Ben Hobrink • Carl Baugh • Humans Are Free • Mary Lou Bruner • Educate-yourself.org • Andrew Schlafly • Ian Paisley • VenomFangX • Todd Akin • Paul Broun • James Manning • Shockofgod • Sye Ten Bruggencate • Brad Stine • Charlton Heston • Pat Toomey • Josh Axe • Ben Carson • William Dembski • Presents Of God Ministry • Jim Allister • Whale.to • Jonathan Otto • Becky Fischer • Roy Moore • David Wilcock • Jerry Falwell Sr. • Mark Dice • Ron Paul • Sam Brownback • Pat Buchanan • Don McLeroy • Marco Rubio • Michele Bachmann • Pat Robertson • John Hagee • Mary Fallin • The Vigilant Christian • Betsy DeVos • WND • Joseph Farah • Media Research Center • Theodore Beale • Encyclopedia of American Loons • Got Questions • R. L. Wysong • ProphecyFilm.com • Kent Hovind • Steven Anderson • Dennis Prager • Bernard d'Abrera • Mohammad Tawhidi • CJ Pearson • Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry • Eric Hovind • Cornelius Van Til • Frank Turek • Sarah Palin • William Lane Craig • Alex Jones (slovensky) • Charlie Kirk • Owen Benjamin • Steven Crowder • Rick Warren • Jerry Falwell Jr. • Ted Holden • Alex Jones • E. Calvin Beisner • Kate Tieje • Michael Denton • New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Movement • Mark Cahill • Jim Inhofe • Gary Birdsong • R. J. Rushdoony • Pat Boone • The Washington Times • Canada Free Press • NewsBusters • Jimmy Swaggart • Miroljub Petrović • Marjorie Taylor Greene • Chuck Colson • Stephen E. Jones • Lew Rockwell • Tom Tancredo • John Kasich • Gary North • E. W. Jackson • Kevin Stitt • Zachary K. Hubbard • Conservapedia • Mike Johnson • National Rifle Association • Butch Hartman • Joshua Feuerstein • Christopher Rufo • Peter Sweden • Alvin Plantinga • Tucker Carlson • Mission: America • American Thinker • Brandon Tatum • Nick Fuentes • Mike Pence • Zakir Naik • Glenn Morton •
| Fundie schools: |  Brigham Young University • Cedarville University • Patrick Henry College • Regent University • Patriot Bible University • Fundie school • The Master's University • San Diego Christian College • Columbia Pacific University • Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools • Pensacola Christian College • Bob Jones University • Hyles-Anderson College • University of South Los Angeles • Cambridge Theological Seminary • Haven University • Liberty University • Louisiana Baptist University and Seminary • New Eden School of Natural Health • Andersonville Theological Seminary • Ambassador Baptist College • Hillsdale College • Illegal schools in the United Kingdom •
| Discovery Institute: |  Teach the controversy • Of Pandas and People • Wedge Strategy • Text of The Wedge Strategy • Explore Evolution • David Berlinski • Biologic Institute • Jonathan Wells • Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed • Michael Egnor • Douglas Axe • Academic Freedom Day • Casey Luskin • What is intelligent design? • Behe: The Edge of Evolution, Interview • Science and Human Origins • Wedgie strategy • Project Steve • BIO-Complexity • Texas Board of Education • Richard Weikart • Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District • Human exceptionalism • Darwin's Predictions • Stephen Meyer • Howard Ahmanson • Melvin Mulder • Lists of creationist scientists • Discovery Institute • Complex Specified Information • Michael Behe • Phillip Johnson • Joel Brind • Non-materialist neuroscience • Academic Freedom Act •
| Answers in Genesis: |  Answers in Genesis Dawkins interview controversy • Bodie Hodge • Andrew Snelling • Affirmations and Denials Essential to a Consistent Christian (Biblical) Worldview • Answers in Genesis/Creation Ministries International's Statement of Faith • Atheists Outline Their Global Religious Agenda • 12 Arguments Evolutionists Should Avoid • Creation Ministries International • Lists of creationist scientists • Answers Research Journal • Ark Encounter • Jason Lisle • Answers in Genesis • Ken Ham • Creation Museum • Buddy Davis • Bill Nye debates Ken Ham • Ham Hightail • Cedarville University •
|  | Answers Research Journal: |  Answers Research Journal volume 2 • Answers Research Journal volume 3 • Answers Research Journal volume 5 • Answers Research Journal volume 1 • Answers Research Journal volume 6 • Answers Research Journal volume 4 • Answers Research Journal • Answers Research Journal volume 7 • Answers Research Journal volume 8 • Answers Research Journal volume 9 • Answers Research Journal volume 10 • Answers Research Journal volume 11 • Answers Research Journal volume 12 • Answers Research Journal volume 13 • Answers Research Journal volume 14 • Answers Research Journal Volume 15 •
| Institute for Creation Research: |  Nathaniel Jeanson • Jeffrey Tomkins • Lawrence Ford • Henry Morris • Brian Thomas • Duane Gish • RATE • Your Origins Matter • John Morris • Jerry Bergman • San Diego Christian College • Timothy LaHaye • Russell Humphreys • Lists of creationist scientists • Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools • Andrew Snelling • Alpha Omega Institute • Jason Lisle • Institute for Creation Research • Danny Faulkner • David DeWitt •