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 […]
Why I am a Darwinist – by Mary Catherine Watson Believe it or not I used to be a die-hard six-day creationist. I had read all the books, collected articles, bookmarked all the websites proving that all this “evolution” stuff was a hoax, promoted by the media and government to eliminate our need for God. […]
How is it that many people insist that there is no evidence for the theory of evolution or the Big Bang theory, yet scientists will insist that there is massive evidence for these theories? The controversy comes from a misunderstanding of what constitutes scientific evidence. Laymen tend to think that unless we can […]
The Higgs is Bigg! I think the problem is too abstract for people to realize that the work that led up to detecting the Higgs and the importance of its detection is bigger than landing someone on the moon. It probably has something to do with the fact that the CERN LHC project is not […]
How can anything creative happen through a ranodm process operating over a long period of time? This is a question frequently asked by those who are learning about the theory of evolution. And indeed, when you throw a pair of dice over and over again, you find that different numbers just come up randomly all […]
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