It’s easy to make someone look foolish when you make false claims about them, and then show how foolish they are. Today, it’s popular to set up such straw men, and knock them down, when talking about Christians who believe in a young earth and a world-wide flood.

   Public museums, newspapers, science textbooks, and TV science shows sometimes falsely claim that creationists believe God made all animals as they are today, that dinosaurs never existed, that every species of land animal had to fit into a 450 foot boat to survive the flood, that men have one less rib than women, that all fossils resulted from the flood, that plants could not die before Adam sinned, or that the world-wide flood covered today’s tallest mountains. 

   These false “straw man” positions are not taught in the Bible. It is possible that a some Christians have believed such things, but that would be the exception, not the accepted position of creationists.

   In debate, knocking over straw men is considered a “false” method of making a point. It’s like cheating. Watch out for attacks against your faith in Jesus. There are many kinds of attacks against Jesus, and some are of the straw man type.