Presentations
On this page you can find a free repository of powerpoint presentations and text files for use in supporting science education. There are two main sets of presentations here. Firstly, there is my set of presentations countering the arguments of young-Earth creationist Kent Hovind. And secondly there is my lecture series entitled “Understanding Science”.
——– Countering Hovind ——–
The subjects in these slides were initially taken from a reading of Kent Hovind‘s enormous 6,016 slide Powerpoint corpus. Yes, I actually read them all. I believe you can get most of them from this web page, though be warned that they’re huge files!
For those who are interested in the old versions of these files, which were first published in 2008, they are available inone big zip file here.
The first step should be downloading and reading the Overview files below, but then feel free to download any of the other files in any order. Each presentation comes with a complete transcript of the talk, as well as the original Powerpoint file. I have provided these in .ppt format, for compatibility with older versions of Microsoft Office.
1. General Overview
Presentation – Part 1
Presentation – Part 2
Slides and Transcript
2. Cosmology
Presentation – Part 1
Presentation – Part 2
Slides and Transcript
3. Astronomy
Presentation – Part 1
Presentation – Part 2
Presentation – Part 3
Slides and Transcript
4. Planetary Science
Presentation
Slides and Transcript
5. Radiometric Dating
Presentation – Part 1
Presentation – Part 2
Presentation – Part 3
Slides and Transcript
6. Abiogenesis
Presentation – Part 1
Presentation – Part 2
Slides and Transcript
7. Fossils
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Slides and Transcript
8. Transitional Fossils
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Slides and Transcript
9. Dinosaurs and Man
Presentation – Part 1
Presentation – Part 2
Slides and Transcript
10. Hominids
Presentation – Part 1
Presentation – Part 2
Slides and Transcript
11. Archaeology
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Slides and Transcript
12. Geology
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Slides and Transcript
13. Physics
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Slides and Transcript
14. Genetics
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Slides and Transcript
15. Botany
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16. Anatomy
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Slides and Transcript
17. Speciation
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18. Fish
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Slides and Transcript
19. Populations
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20. Health
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Slides and Transcript
21. The Flood
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Slides and Transcript
22. Longevity
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Slides and Transcript
23. Education
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Slides and Transcript
24. Morality
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Slides and Transcript
25. Miscellaneous
Presentation
Slides and Transcript
——– Understanding Science ——–
These slides are taken from my series entitled “Understanding Science”.
This is an 8 lecture series posted on YouTube covering the principles and practical application of Science for non-technical listeners.
1. Proof
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Slides and Transcript
2. Bayes Theorem
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Slides and Transcript
3. Scientific Method
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Slides and Transcript
4. Pseudoscience
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Slides and Transcript
5. The Burden of Proof
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Slides and Transcript
6. Conspiracy Theories
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Slides and Transcript
7. Intuition
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Slides and Transcript
8. Logical Fallacies
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Slides and Transcript
9. Science And Scientists
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Slides and Transcript
10. The Supernatural
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Slides and Transcript
11. Special Pleading
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Slides and Transcript
12. The Galileo Gambit
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Slides and Transcript
13. Significance
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Slides and Transcript
14. Scientific Skepticism
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Slides and Transcript
15. Random Noise
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Slides and Transcript
Spreadsheet (compatible version for Excel 2003 or earlier)
——– Legal Stuff ——–
The images used in all the presentations are public domain and can be reproduced without prohibition. The majority are from the Wikimedia foundation. See their terms of use here.
Copyright : You are permitted to use any of these presentations free of charge, but please bear in mind that the original copyright for the text and slides rests with me, Colin Frayn. Copyright of the images rests with the original copyright owner. You are allowed to take this material and modify it as much as you like with three caveats: (1) please acknowledge that I am the original author and (2) if you write anything new or fix errors in my slides, feel free to send it back to me and I’ll incorporate it into the archive and (3) none of my work, nor derivative versions based on it, may be sold on or in any way used to generate profit for you or any other party without my permission.
Disclaimer: I’m sure there are errors in these slides. If you use my work then you agree not to hold me responsible for any loss/damage/embarrassment caused by errors or omissions in my work. Also, if you’re going to completely mash everything in here and misrepresent it, then please don’t tell your audience that I said it all, or I’ll get some really irritating emails.
