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A Closer Look at Me: MyDailyShe Guest Post
I know I’ve been away from my blog far too often recently, but this whole dissertation-thing kinda sucks it out of you. But worry not – I’ve already started working on new content (now that I’m post-quals – yay!). In the meantime, check out my story on MyDailyShe – You get a close-up look at why…
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Common Creationist Complaint: How did biochemical pathways originate?
Common Complaint: How did new biochemical pathways, which involve multiple enzymes working together in sequence, originate? Every pathway and nano-machine requires multiple protein/enzyme components to work. How did lucky accidents create even one of the components, let alone 10 or 20 or 30 at the same time, often in a necessary programmed sequence. Evolutionary biochemist…
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Common Creationist Complaint: How do evolutionists know that living things weren’t 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: Where are the scientific breakthroughs due to evolution?
Common Complaint: Where are the scientific breakthroughs due to evolution? Dr. Marc Kirschner, chair of the Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, stated: “In fact, over the last 100 years, almost all of biology has proceeded independent of evolution, except evolutionary biology itself. Molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, have not taken evolution into account at…
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Common Creationist Complaint: Why is a fundamentally religious idea taught in science classes?
Common Complaint: Why is a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes? Karl Popper, famous philosopher of science, said “Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical [religious] research programme ….” Michael Ruse, evolutionist science philosopher admitted, “Evolution is a religion. This was true…
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Common Creationist Complaint: Why is evolutionary ‘just-so’ story-telling tolerated?
Common Complaint: Why is evolutionary ‘just-so’ story-telling tolerated? Evolutionists often use flexible story-telling to ‘explain’ observations contrary to evolutionary theory. NAS(USA) member Dr Philip Skell wrote, “Darwinian explanations for such things are often too supple: Natural selection makes humans self-centered and aggressive—except when it makes them altruistic and peaceable. Or natural selection produces virile men who…
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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…