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Miller vs. Luskin – A Battle over the Blood-Clotting Cascade

It’s a heavily one-sided battle, but a battle nonetheless. If you didn’t already know, Kenneth Miller is doing a spot of guest-posting over at Carl Zimmer’s blog, The Loom, responding to the three...

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The True.Origin Archive: Five Major Evolutionist Misconceptions about...

I continue on with Part 2 of the breakdown of Timothy Wallace’s article from the True.Origin Archive, “Five Major Evolutionist Misconceptions about Evolution”. This part focuses on the second...

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The True.Origins Archive: Five Major Evolutionist Misconceptions about...

I continue on with Part 3 of the breakdown of Timothy Wallace’s article from the True.Origins Archive, “Five Major Evolutionist Misconceptions about Evolution”. This part focuses on the third...

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The True.Origins Archive: Five Major Evolutionist Misconceptions about...

I continue on with Part 4 of the breakdown of Timothy Wallace’s article from the True.Origins Archive, “Five Major Evolutionist Misconceptions about Evolution”. This part focuses on the fourth...

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Marcus McElhaney: A Response

I’m really excited, because a creationist actually wrote a blog post about me. Okay, to be fair, I did comment on one of his posts, sent to me by Dave the Happy Singer, but that’s not really the point....

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Marcus McElhaney: Another Response

Marcus responded to my previous post! Since I asked some questions of him in it, I really shouldn’t be surprised. But, anyway, here’s his response… to my response… to his response: Take Red Pill, Naon...

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The True.Origins Archive: Five Major Evolutionist Misconceptions about...

I conclude this long creationist breakdown of the True.Origins Archive article, “Five Major Evolutionist Misconceptions about Evolution” by Timothy Wallace, with the final installment, Part 5. This...

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Journal of Creation: Does gene duplication provide the engine for evolution?

For those who read my blog regularly, you’d probably know that I love talking about gene duplications. These little beauties are fascinating errors in DNA replication that result in a extra copy of a...

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“The Origin of New Information at the Origin of Life and Beyond”, or “Why...

I’ve been having a few conversations/debates with a friendly person on Twitter by the name of Adam4004, who happens to be, of course, a Young Earth Creationist. Let me just tell you now, debating on...

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If Atheists Ruled the World…

This is one of the funniest YouTube videos I’ve seen in a while. Crafted by the guys over at fstdt.com, it’s a collection of actual things said/typed on Christian fundamentalist forums. While the...

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References preferred when overturning modern biology

The chance to have email debates with creationists is one of the reasons I write this blog – I’m a debate junkie, actually. Nothing’s better than sinking your teeth into a few new arguments that you’ve...

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The Discovery Institute – A Digital Year in Review

The Discovery Institute. Never before has an organisation inspired so much backlash from the online biological community. In some respects, I believe they should win an award for this, for diverting...

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Tabletop Transitional – Creationism debates summed up in 11 minutes

NonStampCollector, a prolific YouTube atheist who creates hilarious videos using Microsoft Paint to illustrate atheism, evolution and all that oppose them, has been busy on a new video. And that video...

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134th edition of the Carnival of the Godless up at Right To Think

Is it Carnival of the Godless time again? Why yes, it is! And over at Right To Think, no less! Head on over there and check it out. A favourite post of mine from this edition was from Bay of Fundie,...

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A Mathematician’s (Highly Flawed) View of Evolution

I recently mentioned Dr. Granville Sewell, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas, El Paso, in relation to a new book of his, filled with essays about intelligent design and evolution,...

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Tabletop Transitional –“65 Million Years With A Creationist”

YouTube regularly churns out some excellent videos that communicate science or principles about critical thinking in a beautiful way, and I’m always on the lookout for them, as I know that they can do...

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The Discovery Institute is correct – intelligent design is not creationism

The title of this post may be controversial, but I assure that I haven’t lost my mind… just yet. What I want to address is a point that needs to be addressed if the scientific community, especially the...

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You’re never too young – a high school student fighting to repeal creationism

Wow. Zack Kopplin is my hero: he is a high school student (!) rallying the troops to help repeal the Louisiana Science Education Act, which was passed in 2008. The act allows for creationist or...

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God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Stephen C. Meyer

It’s not like it needed any extra confirmation, really, but further evidence that the Seattle-based intelligent design think-tank that is the Discovery Institute is actually a stealth traditional...

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Paul McBride reviews “Science and Human Origins”– SPOILER ALERT, it’s not great

Auckland University of Technology PhD candidate Paul McBride has admirably published a 6-part review of the Discovery Institute’s latest self-published book, Science and Human Origins, which I...

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