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What is a species? Tasmanian Devil Transmissible Tumors
BBC News – Cull ‘cannot save’ Tasmanian devil. Above is a link to a story on the sad case of one of the strangest diseases known. Tasmanian facial tumor disease is called a disease and it is an...
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When is a Horse a Horse? The Species Definition Problem
In my introduction to the origin of horses I suggested that a horse is a horse of course, unless of course it isn’t a horse. But how do we know when we have stretched a horse beyond being a horse?...
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Invoking Super-Speed Evolution: How to Squeeze 10,000+ Bird Species onto...
There are about 10,000 species of birds alive today. Almost 200 additional species have gone extinct since the year 1500 and there are innumerable fossil species of birds in the geological column. One...
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We’re Going on a Fossil Hunt to Find a Herpes Virus
There is a very recent form of fossil hunting that I have gotten to partake in to some small extent, and I can do it while sitting in front of a computer screen! With some computer skills and some...
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Origin of a New Parasite? Tasmanian Devil Transmissible Tumors
Can cancer become an infectious disease? Usually with think of cancer as limited to the individual in whom the cancer formed. But what if cancerous cells could infect other individuals. Here is a...
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The Diversity of Life: An Introductory Lecture
Have you even wondered what students at a public university are taught in a general education biology class about the diversity of life? I can’t promise that what I am going to share is typical but it...
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Dodging Darwin: How Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter is Slowly Embracing Evolution
As the strict young-earth creationists at Answers in Genesis work to complete their Ark Encounter "theme park," they have expended an impressive amount of energy organizing the millions of species of...
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Are Ruminants Derived from a Common Ancestor? Ruminating on the Meaning of...
What do giraffes, cows, sheep, antelope, and deer have in common? Foremost, they all share a specialized digestive system that includes a four-chambered stomach that allows them to obtain nutrients...
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Is Natural Selection the Same Thing as Evolution? Assessing Dr. Purdom’s...
The ministry of Ken Ham’s Answers in Genesis exists, in part, to provide Christians with responses to what they believe are anti-biblical beliefs about the age of the earth and the origin of biological...
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Invoking Super-Speed Evolution: The YEC Post-Flood Big Bang of Bird Speciation
The diversity of birds on earth is remarkable. There are more than twice as many bird species alive today as there are mammal species. A challenge for literal-day creationists is explaining how such...
View ArticleWhat is a “Kind”? Fox News Article Quoted by AiG Speakers Contradicts their...
I have said before that reading young-earth literature or attending one of their seminars can be a confusing experience. Many times they present internally inconsistent arguments seemingly unaware of...
View ArticleWhen is a Horse a Horse? The Species Definition Problem
In my introduction to the origin of horses I suggested that a horse is a horse of course, unless of course it isn’t a horse. But that begs the question, how do we know what the boundaries are of what...
View ArticleThe Ark Encounter’s Hyper-evolutionary Model Underestimates Speciation Rates
How many animals did Noah preserve on the Ark? I often see critics of young-earth creationists (YECs) challenge Noah’s Ark with the question, how could Noah have fit all two million species on the...
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