Because the universe is beautiful enough without having to lie about it

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

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Presentation – Part 2
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3. Astronomy

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Presentation – Part 2
Presentation – Part 3
Slides and Transcript

4. Planetary Science

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5. Radiometric Dating

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Presentation – Part 2
Presentation – Part 3
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6. Abiogenesis

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Presentation – Part 2
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7. Fossils

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8. Transitional Fossils

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9. Dinosaurs and Man

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Presentation – Part 2
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10. Hominids

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11. Archaeology

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12. Geology

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13. Physics

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14. Genetics

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15. Botany

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16. Anatomy

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17. Speciation

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18. Fish

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19. Populations

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20. Health

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21. The Flood

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22. Longevity

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23. Education

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24. Morality

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25. Miscellaneous

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——– 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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2. Bayes Theorem

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3. Scientific Method

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4. Pseudoscience

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5. The Burden of Proof

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6. Conspiracy Theories

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7. Intuition

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8. Logical Fallacies

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9. Science And Scientists

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10. The Supernatural

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11. Special Pleading

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12. The Galileo Gambit

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13. Significance

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14. Scientific Skepticism

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15. Random Noise

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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.

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