I've had a bunch of friends email me this story about an 8th grader disproving evolution in a science fair project in which he built stalactites using paper towels and Epsom salts. This is complete nonsense for a number of ways; as described in this post at http://greensboring.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=5414;
1. Evolution has nothing to do with stalactites; it deals with the diversity of life as we see it.
2. Epsom salt isn't made of limestone, and therefore would, obviously without experimentation, form faster. This is immeasurable difference, it's like building an elephant out of paper mache and claiming that you reenacted creation.
3. We know, irrefutably, the age of many stalactites, and they sure aren't 6000 years old. This kid isn't testing science, he's building fake stalactites and these teachers that approved this should be reentered into basic earth science classes and have their teaching licenses revoked.
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