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The Nature of Science
Science is far more than the collection of facts and data that is often presented as “science” in classrooms; it is the process that is used to gather the information that is then presented as science – it is how we discover that collection of facts and data. Not everything can be studied using science…
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Common Creationist Complaint: How did blind chemistry create mind/intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality?
Common Complaint: How did blind chemistry create mind/ intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality? If everything evolved, and we invented God, as per evolutionary teaching, what purpose or meaning is there to human life? Should students be learning nihilism (life is meaningless) in science classes? [1]Logical Fallacies: Argument from Adverse Consequences (just because the result is…
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Common Creationist Complaint: How do ‘living fossils’ remain unchanged over hundreds of millions of years?
Common Complaint: How do ‘living fossils’ remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years, if evolution has changed worms into humans in the same time frame? Professor Gould wrote, “the maintenance of stability within species must be considered as a major evolutionary problem.” [1] Logical Fallacies: Straw Man: The comment “evolution has changed worms into…
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Common Creationist Complaint: Where are all the transitional fossils?
Common Complaint: Where are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing? Darwin noted the problem and it still remains. The evolutionary family trees in textbooks are based on imagination, not fossil evidence. Famous Harvard paleontologist (and evolutionist), Stephen Jay Gould, wrote, “The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the…
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Common Creationist Complaint: How did sex originate?
Common Complaint: How did sex originate? Asexual reproduction gives up to twice as much reproductive success (‘fitness’) for the same resources as sexual reproduction, so how could the latter ever gain enough advantage to be selected? And how could mere physics and chemistry invent the complementary apparatuses needed at the same time (non-intelligent processes cannot plan…
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The Problem with Intelligent Design
Intelligent Design (ID) is a very popular religious belief and one that can sound attractive for those trying to reconcile science and religion. This philosophy argues that science supports an intelligent designer/creator because anything with order, purpose, or design must have come from an intelligent being, specifically the Christian God. This concept was created by…
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Common Creationist Complaint: How did multicellular life originate?
Common Complaint: How did multicellular life originate? How did cells adapted to individual survival ‘learn’ to cooperate and specialize (including undergoing programmed cell death) to create complex plants and animals? [1] Answer: Remember: Evolution does not mean the origin of life; it means changes in population over time. With that understood, we do have multiple lines of…
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Common Creationist Complaint: How do evolutionists know that living things were not designed?
Common Complaint: Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists know that they were not designed? Richard Dawkins wrote, “biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.”Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA, wrote, “Biologists must constantly keep…
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Common Creationist Complaint: Why is natural selection taught as evolution as if it explains the origin of life?
Common Complaint: Why is natural selection, a principle recognized by creationists, taught as ‘evolution’, as if it explains the origin of the diversity of life? By definition it is a selective process (selecting from already existing information), so is not a creative process. It might explain the survival of the fittest (why certain genes benefit creatures…
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Common Creationist Complaint: How could mutations create all of the information in DNA?
Common Complaint: How could mutations—accidental copying mistakes (DNA ‘letters’ exchanged, deleted or added, genes duplicated, chromosome inversions, etc.)—create the huge volumes of information in the DNA of living things? How could such errors create 3 billion letters of DNA information to change a microbe into a microbiologist? There is information for how to make proteins but…