A recent story from BBC News emphasizes how difficult it can be to pick out the science from the hype when reading science news reporting. The article, “Woolly mammoth extinction ‘not linked to humans’,” explains some recent research by a Durham University professor based on a computer simulation of climate change over the last 42,000 [...]
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Humans definitely didn’t wipe out the woolly mammoths, maybe
Posted in Ancient World, Creation and Evolution, Great Flood, Pre-Flood World, prehistory, tagged Ancient World, antediluvian world, Archaeology, climate change, computer simulation, creation, deluge, evolution, evolutionism, extinction, flood, fossils, origins, preflood world, prehistory, woolly mammoth on August 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
About Knee-Jerk Evolutionism
Posted in Bible, Creation and Evolution, tagged Bible, creation, evolution, evolutionism, intelligent design, origins on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[Updated 18 June 2010] This post is always going to be a work in progress, as there is a lot to say about it and there seems to be no end to the lunacy of those who adhere to Evolutionist ideology. Normally I steer away from the design-evolution debate, but I think it will be [...]
New Play, ‘The Third Side,’ Explores Darwinist Dogmatism
Posted in Creation and Evolution, tagged creation, evolution, intelligent design on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company of Houston, Texas, is premiering (May 14-30, 2009) a controversial play, The Third Side, written and directed by playwright and screenwriter Tom Vaughan. The play centers on an untenured university biology professor, Henry Darden, who stirs up a hornet’s nest by admitting that he thinks Darwin’s mechanism of natural selection is not a sufficient [...]
Are we really 99% chimp?
Posted in Creation and Evolution, tagged creation, evolution, genetics on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve often read or heard people say that humans and chimps share 99 percent of their genetic makeup. However, I’ve suspected that this was an oversimplification. One reason is that I’ve also read the figure 99.5 percent, as well as 70 percent and 25 percent. I also know that science doesn’t yet know everything there [...]
