What's up with this creationist argument?

I've seen them say that Venus spins the wrong way - I guess they got their pseudo-science mixed up. The argument is that if everything came from the big bang, then all the planets should be spinning in the same direction and that the idea of a rogue planet or meteor slamming into Venus causing the rotation to go the other way is preposterous.

Surely they've changed their tune - the Bible says the earth is fixed - and doesn't move at all.

According to NASA:

"Of the nine planets, a bare majority (Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune) rotate in a way we consider 'normal'. Mercury and Venus are slow, Venus, Uranus, and Pluto are retrograde, Uranus and Pluto are highly inclined. Mars' inclination varies chaotically over long (billion-year) time scales, so it is not always 'normal' either. It is only parochialism that makes us point and laugh at the zany antics of the other planets. "

"How a planet rotates is related to how it was formed from the accretion of planetesimals. If more impacts occur on one side than the other, then it will tend to rotate accordingly. But the impacts are largely random. Tidal effects can also change the rotation."

This would seem to suggest there is no "right way" for a planet to rotate.

There is a fallacy based on conservation of angular momentum that all the planets have to spin the same way. It ignores that net angular momentum is conserved for the entire system, but there can be two directions generated from one source. Anyone who has pulled a canoe paddle through water has seen the two opposite-spinning eddies.

This is part of the Creationist approach of using scientific terms in fallacious arguments.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that a spontaneous, natural process can only lead to an increase in the entropy of a system. Entropy is roughly a measure of disorder or complexity. So the second law implies that natural processes can only cause things to become more disordered and less complex over time. But evolution asserts that natural processes have caused organisms to grow more complex over time. This is a contradiction, and since no one is inclined to abandon the second law, evolution must not be correct.

I googled this when I saw that and couldn't find any such claim. I mean, there are articles about Venus spinning the "wrong" way, and about how Uranus "rolls" instead of spins, but I didn't see anything about the earth.

The wrong way?

The only planet that I'm aware of which could be said to spin "the wrong way" is Uranus, because its axis is tilted sideways. Yes I'm talking about the planet. This is most likely because of a colossal collision it had with an another planet-sized object in the distant past.

I read a book years ago postulating that the earth's rotational spin changes periodically (like the axis tilt) and this was the cause of the Ice Age. Maybe they were extrapolating from that?

I believe in intelligent design, i.e., creation, and the earth doesn't spin the "wrong" way. There are other planets and moons that spin backwards from the rest of the solar system. That can't be explained with evolution due the law of angular momentum. If every exploded (actually, evolution teaches "nothing" exploded) and started spinning, everything should spin in the same direction. Evolution can't explain why some planetary objects have a retrograde rotation.

From a biblical veiw point the earth does not move at all. The earth is the center of the Universe. It is God's central phocus point and Israel is his central area on the earth he is interested in.

The belief that the earth spins makes the earth out to be a second rate planet in a second rate galaxy. The science works as far as making calculations and that is all it needs to do for us to get into space. Most creationists try to placate evolutionary theory rather than read, study and understand the bible and all its hard to believe truths.

I beleive the earth does not move and at the same time It confounds me that it is taking place. It is easier to believe that the earth spins.

Gee whiz, first of all I got confused trying to figure out why god made 10,000 species of ants, and now i have to figure out why earth spins the wrong way.

This "designer" has got some problems.