The good news is that the peer review process is not at the heart of the scientific process. Peer review refers to the review of an article by an author’s peers before it is submitted to a journal. The reviewers do not duplicate the work or corroborate it. They evaluate it on the basis of proper […]
America The Doubtful America is a world leader in doubting the theory of evolution, perhaps second only to Turkey. For the last 12 years, Gallup polls have shown that somewhere between 40% and 46% of the American adult population believe that humans did not evolve from less-advanced forms of life over millions of years. In […]
Ray Comfort is still busy producing his science-denying videos even after his monumental embarrassment on the evolution of bananas. This time he mounts a more comprehensive attack on science that he does not understand. One irony that people are pointing out is that Comfort has chosen a medium of communications for his work that is made […]
What is Information? In the mid 2oth century this was an important question because of the rapidly growing radio, television, and telephone systems all around the world. The problem facing the telephone company was a logistical one of figuring out how the fewest numbers of wires and other resources could be shared for maximum […]
Molecular Genetics and Primate Evolution By David Layzell and Graeme Finlay Background This paper came out of two lectures run on 14th and 21st August 2010 by Graeme Finlay, Senior Lecturer in Scientific Pathology, University of Auckland, as part of the Continuing Education Programme of the University of Auckland. The lectures were entitled “The Human […]
This is the second part of a series of articles addressing the questions of a Bible college student. The student asked the following four questions and a series of follow-up questions of a facebook page Theistic Evolution and a facebook group named Celebrating Creation through Natural Selection. I compiled the answers given by many members […]
The robotic explorer Curiousity just touched down on Mars within the last few weeks. The touchdown ended a 350 million mile journey from the Earth’s surface to the Martian surface with each inch of its journey planned out using Newtonian Mechanics. All the calculations involving rocket thrust, insertion into Earth orbit, navigating from Earth to […]
A prominent Christian website promoting Biblical Creationism has asked its followers to challenge teachers, professors and anyone else with 15 Questions about the Theory of Evolution. Their campaign is called Question Evolution. Although the questions do not actually challenge the Theory of Evolution, they are questions that certainly deserve carefully thought out answers. We hope to provide a […]
The eminent astronomer and cosmologist Sir Fred Hoyle was a proponent of a theory called Panspermia, where his belief was that life on earth was deliberately seeded by organic molecules by an alien intelligence. It is an interesting theory, and since we have already seen the absorption spectra of organic molecules in outer space, […]
A prominent Christian website promoting Biblical Creationism has asked its followers to challenge teachers, professors and anyone else with 15 Questions about the Theory of Evolution. Their campaign is called Question Evolution. Although the questions do not actually challenge the Theory of Evolution, they are questions that certainly deserve carefully thought out answers. We hope to provide a […]
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