Category: Intelligent Design

Bishop Ussher famously calculated that the universe was created on October 23, 4004 BC.  I do not hold this or any other young earth creationist (YEC) position.  The evidence that the universe is several billion years old seems fairly compelling to me.  In particular, certain celestial objects (stars, galaxies, supernovas, etc.) are billions of light… more

Once again science contradicts evolution. This time it is the now common-place finding that incredible similarities show up in otherwise distant species. Specifically, whales and bats share some uncanny similarities in how they track prey using, believe it or not, super-sophisticated sonar technology. But if evolution is true, we would have to believe that their… more

In an astonishing example of anti intellectualism four biology professors at Emory University, joined by hundreds of faculty, researcher and student signatories, wrote an incredible letterto the editor full of blatant scientific misrepresentations. Here are the more blatant misrepresentations.  Read more more

Sometimes our commenters’ excellent insights need their own OP.  This is one of those times.  In the thread to the “naked, normal Darwinism” post Timaeus writes this regarding BioLogos’ Darrel Falk’s response to Bill Dembski’s BioLogos post: Falk concluded his column with the words: “Darwin’s views on teleology, human exceptionalism, and miracles were not compatible… more

It has long been known, and even longer been suspected, that organisms not only can adapt rapidly to environmental challenges, but that such adaptations can be passed on to subsequent generations. Evolutionists have resisted such findings, but they now are beyond dispute. Whereas the evolutionary dogma had been that populations undergo change via selection acting… more

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Richard Owen is best known for naming the Dinosauria and for opposing Darwin’s “On the origin of species“. For the former, he is (usually) celebrated, as the name is in common usage around the world. For the latter, he is reviled as a bigot and his stance allowed subsequent generations of evolutionists to tar him… more

Remember how evolutionists said random mutations created all the species? Then when their genes were compared that random mutation model didn’t always work so well. Those random mutations must have varied considerably both over time and over the genomes. Evolutionists even had to say that evolution had actually created machines and mechanisms to control the… more

The resolution of the debate about the creative powers of natural selection is dead simple and utterly trivial to figure out. 1) Natural selection throws stuff out. Throwing stuff out has no creative power. 2) Existing biological information, mixed and matched, can be filtered by natural selection, as in sexual reproduction, but nothing inherently new… more

A friend of mine pointed me to a new, free ebook on viruses from University of Chicago Press. Looks interesting! A Planet of Viruses Enjoy! more