Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
Topic

Trinity Western University

Adam and Eve
First Couple
Image: Adam and Eve, by Tintoretto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Lessons from the Evangelical Debate About Adam and Eve

The standard evolutionary account of human origins holds that our population has always been in the thousands and humanity did not descend from an initial pair. Read More ›

Adam and the Genome and Whole Genome Duplication Events

Evidence for WGD doesn’t show a Darwinian pathway. There is no evidence here against intelligent design or Michael Behe. Read More ›
Christmas float

A Professor’s Journey Away from Intelligent Design

Readers may wonder who Dennis Venema is and how he came to his crusade against ID. Some background may help explain. Read More ›

Geneticists Debate a First Human Pair — Continued; Where Is Dennis Venema?

Genuine scientific debate on fundamental issues that real people care about is such a rarity that when it happens, you almost want to pinch yourself to make sure you’re not dreaming. Read More ›
first-humans

Ruling Out Originating Human Pair, Theistic Evolutionist Oversteps — Geneticist Chimes In

On Dennis Venema's argument, along comes a second geneticist, no friend to biology that’s open to the design hypothesis. Read More ›
human pair

Is a First Human Pair Possible or Impossible?

Richard Buggs, Reader at Queen Mary University of London, is a well-respected geneticist, with numerous papers published in molecular ecology, genomics, and molecular evolution. Read More ›
sculpture

Does Science Rule Out a First Human Pair? Geneticist Richard Buggs Says No

One of the claims Dennis Venema makes in his book is that the effective population size of our last common ancestor with chimps has never been fewer than 10,000. Read More ›

© Discovery Institute