Weaknesses of Evolution – Part 6 – The Cambrian Explosion
With this part of our exploration of the ‘weaknesses of evolution‘ we move from origins of life into the fossil record. Fossils present an insurmountable problem for creationists. These are clearly...
View ArticleDarwin’s Doubt – A Prediction
Those of you current on the creationist scene will no doubt know that Stephen “Kansas Hearings” Meyer has a new book coming out. Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for...
View ArticleDarwin’s Doubt – Chapter 1
A few pages into chapter 1 of Darwin’s Doubt and I have little to complain about. It’s almost shocking how good Meyer’s description of Darwin’s actual work is. Of course, we now know that Darwin’s...
View ArticleDarwin’s Doubt – Chapter 1 – Part 4 (or IV if you prefer)
I’ve been piddling on this for a while. Honestly, I find the whole exercise extremely annoying. But I promised I would do this and I’ve been inspired to continue. Thanks to the Thoughts in a...
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Darwin’s Doubt – Chapter 1 – Part 5
Here’s where I start to have serious difficulty with Meyer. You see, we both have bachelor degrees in the same field, Earth Science. Now, I don’t know how Whitworth College (hint: it’s a Christian...
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Darwin’s Doubt – Chapter 2 Part 2
And so we begin our wonderful journey into the world of the Burgess Shale. Meyer entitles this section “The Bestiary”. As any good role-playing gamer will tell you, the Bestiary is where we get...
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Darwin’s Doubt – Chapter 2 – Part 5
This section is called A Puzzling Pattern. Here, Meyer (again) poisons the well by saying that paleontologists have found many puzzling aspects of the Precambrian-Cambrian fossil record. There are a...
View ArticleA Survey of Precambrian Animals
Over the last few days, I’ve been doing some research into Precambrian animals. This is a direct effort to refute the claims of Meyer that all these forms appeared in the Cambrian explosion. This is...
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Darwin’s Doubt – Chapter 2 – Part 6
One of my readers has specifically asked about two of the figures in Darwin’s Doubt. I want to directly address those two figures because they are so vital to understanding the misdirection that Meyer...
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