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[[Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg -->|100px|right|Archaeologist Ron Wyatt]]
- ...that self-styled archaeologist Ron Wyatt (pictured) claimed in 1984 that he found the actual remains of Noah's Ark in the mounstains of Ararat?
- ...Young Earth creationists use the current lunar recession rate to extrapolate that the Earth is not older than a few million years despite the paleontological evidence of ancient tidal levels that the moon is currently receding from the Earth at an anamolously rapid rate as predicted from theoretical models?
- ...that according to a 2006 Gallup poll,[1] about 46% of Americans believe that "God created man pretty much in his present form at one time within the last 10,000 years" and 36% believe that God guided the process of evolution?
- ...that many of the current manifestations of creationism, particularly Young Earth creationism, were created to defend the literal interpretation of the biblical account of creation in genesis, when evolution started to become scientific consensus?