Treasure in the Genetic Goldmine: PZ Myers Fails on "Junk DNA"
Readers may recall my encounter with developmental biology professor PZ Myers earlier this year. In that brief interaction, I came to appreciate Myers's ability to charm his adoring fans and ...
Christopher Hitchens: Evidence of a Divine Being
I am greatly saddened that Christopher Hitchens is gone. There is no one with whom I disagreed more who I admired so much.
I emailed Christopher several times since his diagnosis with ...
Frank Turek Interviews William Lane Craig
During the National Conference on Apologetics at the end of October, I had the chance to sit down with Dr. William Lane Craig before an audience of about 1,700 and ask him about his recent trip ...
The Face of a Frog: Time-Lapse Video Reveals Never-Before-Seen Bioelectric Pattern
Jonathan Wells has already drawn our attention to a recent paper by Vandenberg et al. in the journal Developmental Dynamics. The authors make the startling and innovative discovery that ...
How Good is Phil Johnson's Biology?
We’ve recently been discussing whether Berkeley law professor Phil Johnson (author of Darwin on Trial) is ill-informed on biology.
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An Eye-Opening Discovery: The Remarkable Vision of Anomalocaris
Readers may recall the Illustra Media production Darwin’s Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record. The documentary opens with an animation of the hideous Anomalocaris, undisputed ...
Maligning Phil Johnson, with Lots of Rhetoric but Little Substance
We recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the publication of Phillip Johnson's groundbreaking book, Darwin on Trial. Phillip Johnson's meticulous skill in scrutinizing the metaphysical ...
Why I Will Not Support Same Sex Marriage
Same sex marriage has been a very topical subject in Scotland over recent weeks, with the launch of a consultation by the Scottish National Party (SNP) -- which closes this Friday -- on whether ...
On Signature in the Cell, Robert Saunders Still Doesn’t Get It
At his Wonderful Life blog, geneticist Robert Saunders has responded to my recent take down of his “critique” of Stephen Meyer’s arguments for intelligent design, offered and defended in ...
Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Observed Natural Selection
A few weeks ago, I published the fourth part of my series on Wikipedia and common descent, in which I discussed the purported evidence for common ancestry based on biogeographical ...
From the Darwinist Blogosphere, Stephen Meyer's Trip to London Elicits a Typical Reaction
As we have already reported, Discovery Institute's Stephen Meyer recently paid a visit to London to present and defend the thesis of Signature in the Cell at a dinner party attended by ...
The Finely Tuned Genetic Code
Francis Crick regarded the genetic code found in nature as a "frozen accident." Yet more and more it is looking to be the case that this code is exquisitely finely tuned -- with features ...
Does Luke Have The Date Of The Nativity Wrong?
In reading -- as one does -- the popular atheist material on the Internet with regards New Testament scholarship, I recently came across a very old argument which is often trotted out by people ...
Why the "Onion Test" Fails as an Argument for "Junk DNA"
Briefly stated, the often cited "onion test" observes that onion cells have many times more DNA than human cells do. And since the onion is considered to be relatively simple as compared to us, ...
Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Biogeographical Distribution
We have now reached the fourth part of my series on Wikipedia and the evidence for common descent. In previous entries, I discussed Wikipedia's arguments for common descent based on ...
Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Paleontology
Previously in this series, I have discussed the arguments for common descent presented by Wikipedia in the areas of comparative physiology/biochemistry and comparative anatomy. In this third ...
Kortney Blythe Gordon: Short Life, Timeless Impact
The measure of a life is not its length but its impact. Kortney Blythe Gordon made a timeless impact in her 28 years here on earth. In fact, she did more in 28 years than most people even ...
A Whale of a Problem for Evolution: Ancient Whale Jawbone Found in Antartica
MSNBC.com is reporting on the discovery of a jawbone of an ancient whale in Antarctica: the oldest fully aquatic whale yet discovered. The news story reports,
The jawbone of an ancient whale ...
Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Comparative Anatomy
In my previous article, I presented a critique of the first of Wikipedia's eight lines of evidence for common descent: the evidence from comparative physiology and biochemistry. In this ...
If God, Why Suffering? Thoughts on Theodicy
Anyone who has been doing Christian apologetics, for any significant period of time, knows that the most frequent objection to the Christian faith is the problem of evil and suffering. Indeed, ...
