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1st Place: "My Uncle Is A Man Named Steve (Not A Monkey)"
Cassidy (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.
1st Place: "Life Doesn't Come From Non-Life"
Patricia (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.
2nd Place: "Women Were Designed For Homemaking"
Jonathan (grade 7) applied findings from many fields of science to support his conclusion that God designed women for homemaking.
1st Place: "Using Prayer To Microevolve Latent Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria"
2nd Place: "Maximal Packing Of Rodentia Kinds: A Feasibility Study"
Jason (grade 12) project was to show the feasibility of Noah's Ark using a Rodentia research model (made of a mixture of hamsters and gerbils) as a representative of diluvian life forms.
This is also the first year that Muslim students from the Al-Jannah Islamic school have been invited to participate; two of their students presented a project on human anatomy entitled "Allah (SWT) Created Me" which, while it was found ineligible for a prize due to a number of Biblical inconsistencies, did win a special Interfaith Outreach ribbon.
Originally posted by Scurvy
I think a better thread title would be "If Creationism Was Our Future, We'd Be In Trouble". The kids (for the most part) came up with original ideas and followed the scientific method.
I'm sure some of these kids are quite clever, and I guess that's the saddest thing about it...if they were free to let their imaginations and logical abilities run to their full extent, unconfined by an imposed belief system, they could have some amazing potential. Science is about questioning and testing EVERYTHING in order to find out how the world works, but if your religion tells you supposedly everything you need to know, then any experiment bound by that belief system is inherently only seeking evidence to prove a pre-determined conclusion.