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Category Archives: Creationism / ID
Building on Previous Work
This came up in a recent conversation. Someone asked why I couldn’t give them a recent peer-reviewed paper that supported the idea of mutation as a driver for evolution. My basic reply is because it’s so basic, everyone knows that … Continue reading
Posted in Creationism / ID, Evolution, Science, Skepticism
Tagged creationism, evolution, Intelligent Design, science
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Whereupon I reply to a commenter
I know I haven’t been posting much. I’ve been working quite a bit lately and most of my work involves writing. I’ve been writing the equivalent of 4 or 5 blog posts a day for work and just don’t feel … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Creationism / ID, Debate, evolution, Science, Skepticism
Tagged creationism, debate, evolution, Intelligent Design, science
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RNA Building
So, my copy of Wired arrived Friday. I finally had a chance to sit down and read it this morning while the boy watched cartoons. One article was pretty cool. It described a ‘game’ in which the players tried to … Continue reading
Posted in Chemistry, Creationism / ID, evolution, Origins of Life, Science, Technology
Tagged biochemistry, creationism, EteRNA, Intelligent Design, mutations, RNA, science
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Can We Do Intelligent Design Better than the Intelligent Designers?
There’s an interesting question. It’s worth exploring. The actual research in intelligent design is essentially zero. The peer-reviewed research is zero. Sure there are lots of books. But what are the doing? Nothing. Can a small group of scientists actually … Continue reading
Complex Specified Information…
or (as the rest of us call it) probability. Simply put, complex specified information is information that is both complex and specified, such that it is highly improbable and specific. The complexity of the information associated with event A is … Continue reading
Confluences of Threads, Posts, and Discussions and the Results Thereof
Once again, I am at a quandary over the title of the post. It is very interesting when a variety of information from a variety of sources all come together into one very interesting post. Let’s start with the source … Continue reading
Posted in Creationism / ID, Religion
Tagged creationism, Discussion, evolution, Flood, science
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The Flood and Mutation Rates
I normally don’t get too involved in this level of discussion. It is so obviously wrong that anyone can find totally unresolvable issues with Noah’s Flood. However, this is a pretty good lesson in genetics and some very interesting requirements. … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Creationism / ID, Religion, Science, Skepticism
Tagged creationism, evolution, Flood, Noah, science, YEC, Young Earth Creationism
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Intelligent Design of an Experiment
Many… many times I have presented a paper that effectively crushes the claims of creationists and Intelligent Design proponents. However, they always have this (IMHO very telling) reply. But the experiment was designed, therefore the experiment supports Intelligent Design. This … Continue reading
Posted in Creationism / ID, Evolution, evolution, Science
Tagged creationism, evidence, evolution, experiment, experimental procedures, Intelligent Design, science
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The Fallacies of Evolution
I was given this list of fallacies that were claimed to be used by science to defend evolution. It was supposed by the person that gave these to me that they would be unanswerable assaults on the premises of science. … Continue reading
Posted in Creationism / ID, Debate, Evolution, Science, Skepticism
Tagged creationism, evolution, Intelligent Design, microevolution, science
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Front Loading Doesn’t Help ID
Forgive the lack of posting, I’ve been having a rough time of late. However, I am once more inspired, so here we go. A few friends and myself are both discussing things with a creationist and helping another person with … Continue reading
Posted in Creationism / ID, Evolution, evolution, Science, Skepticism
Tagged alleles, creationism, diversity, evolution, front-loading, frontloading, genetics, genome, god, Intelligent Design, science
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Cassandra's Tears 