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Contradictions, Irony, and Appeals to Authority Permeate The Language of Science and Faith

Giberson and Collins appeal to authority but admit the evidence is all that matters, claim that anti-Darwin literature uses "outdated" arguments when their own book uses outdated arguments for evolution, and Giberson lacks the same qualifications of those Darwin-doubting scientists whose qualifications he attacks. Why are they making these weak, non-scientific, and self-contradictory arguments? Read More ›
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Writing set with a pen in the Middle Ages
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New Book Sheds Light on the “Dark Age”: The Religion vs. Science Myth Exposed

The alleged "ignorance" of the medieval Church whose cherished dogmas included the belief in a flat earth, geocentric theory of the universe, and a hidebound biblical literalism is all challenged with insight and skill by this Oxford/Cambridge graduate and PhD in the history of science. Read More ›

Louisiana Preserves Science Education Act That Encourages Academic Freedom to Discuss Criticisms of Darwinism

The Louisiana State Senate Education Committee decisively rejected a proposed repeal of the Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA), which encourages academic freedom for teachers to cover divergent scientific views on issues such as Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
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Retrovirus Replication A retrovirus in the process
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Do Shared ERVs Support Common Ancestry?

In my previous article, I discussed the background of one of the most commonly made arguments for primate common ancestry. In this article, I want to examine the first of the three layers of evidence offered by a popular-level article written about this subject. Read More ›
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A close up of a virus in a greenish blue color
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Revisiting an Old Chestnut: Retroviruses and Common Descent (Updated)

One common argument for common descent which one hears very frequently in the evolutionary literature concerns the placement of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) in orthologous loci in primate genomes. Read More ›
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Trust
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At Forbes, John Farrell Joins in “Ayala’ing” of Jonathan Wells

Farrell thinks the myth of junk DNA is itself a myth -- that "scientists never dismissed junk DNA in the literature." In other words, Wells has set up a straw man. Of course, not having looked at the book, Farrell can't have consulted Dr. Wells's fifty pages of notes documenting his argument. Read More ›

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