How Useful is the Bacterial Flagellum for the Creationist?
The design checklist is finally used for what it was designed for, the bacterial flagellum. The results are in, and the flagellum gets a perfect score! But it needs a second opinion.
View ArticleTest Yourself: Sifting Natural from Designed Is Harder than You Might Think
How would a Creationist decide if life on earth was designed by a supernatural Designer? Let’s reconsider those eight attributes of designed things. The list needs some work.
View ArticleReal Examples to Puzzle Over: the Natural vs. Designed Checklist
A checklist designed to find the fingerprints of a celestial Designer in biology needs to be tested against lots of tricky examples. Here are a bunch, a few of which might stump you, too.
View ArticleSifting Natural from Designed Is Harder than You Might Think (2 of 2)
Sorting examples into Natural and Designed can be hard. Here are a few more sorting problems that we deal with all the time. Let’s review them to lose any cockiness that Natural vs. Designed is an easy...
View ArticleFinal Thoughts on the Problem of Sifting Natural from Designed
Let’s tally the problems with the natural vs. designed checklist: it’s biased, it’s untested, it’s not quantitative, and it doesn’t acknowledge how radical a supernatural conclusion is. God’s...
View Article5 Ways the Design Argument Fails
A list from a popular Christian apologist doesn’t let us detect design in biology. Let's move on from that to make our own attack on the Design Argument. Creationists like to say that DNA alone proves...
View ArticleA response to evolution deniers: how complex comes from simple
We find complexity in lots of places. Must we invoke God to explain that, or does complexity emerge from the simple?
View ArticleChristians’ secret weapon against evolution
Christian Creationists can’t win the scientific argument against evolution, so they fall back on bluster and unwarranted confidence.
View ArticleHas evolution breathed its last?
Has evolution breathed its last? That depends on whom you talk to. Some Christian apologists are certain evolution's death is any day now, and so far they're about as successful as with their "any day...
View ArticleSaving Haeckel: why “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” isn’t so wrong
Haeckel’s theory about embryos was wrong. This long-understood fact, which never was part of evolution’s foundation, is a popular complaint from Creationists.
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