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Theistic Evolution (book)

Gunter Bechly
Photo: Günter Bechly in a scene from the documentary Revolutionary, via Discovery Institute.

Bechly: “Life’s Second ‘Big Bang'”

He touches on other biological explosions, including the Avalon explosion, the Triassic explosion, and the origin of flowering plants. Read More ›
trilobites
Photo: Trilobites, by Kevin Walsh [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Bechly: Problems with Universal Common Ancestry Posed by the Fossil Record

Paleontologist Günter Bechly was a proponent of Darwinism until he discovered significant scientific reasons to doubt the evolutionary story. Read More ›
Australopithecus afarensis
human origins
Photo: An artist imagines Australopithecus afarensis, Hall of Human Origins, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History; reconstruction by John Gurche; photographed by Tim Evanson / CC BY-SA.

Ann Gauger Puts Ape-to-Man Evolution Under the Microscope

Among the tenets of theistic evolution is the idea that humans evolved from a large population of ape-like creatures. Read More ›
Soviet flag
Photo: Soviet flag flown in Minsk, Belarus, in 2016, by Adam Jones, via Flickr (cropped).

Zmirak: Redefining “Ex-Communist” in an Evolutionary Context

He raises a psychological question about how people come to adopt their preferred picture of reality. Read More ›
chimp liberation
animal rights
Image credit: Hannes Richter via Unsplash.

Human-Chimp Similarity: What Is It and What Does It Mean?

For years we’ve been told that human and chimp DNA is some 99 percent identical. Is that true? Read More ›
Bechly and Swamidass
Photo source: YouTube (screen shot).

Confronting Joshua Swamidass on Confrontation

Swamidass got it wrong, and it’s perfectly appropriate for me to confront him on that. I wasn’t talking about any approach to human argumentation at all. Read More ›
whale skeleton
Photo credit: t4berlin, via Pixabay.

Is There Discontinuity in Biology — And How Would We Know?

For my part, I think it’s better to approach the data without assumptions and to let the evidence speak for itself. Read More ›
dialogue
Photo credit: Priscilla Du Preez, via Unsplash.

Concluding Thoughts on “Gracious Dialogue” with BioLogos

What a peculiar thing to do. You invite someone for a “dialogue” and then, only once he’s left the building, do you start debating with him. Read More ›

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