The Ostrich Strategy

Apologist after apologist will claim that there is evidence for God. Ya know, if you want to find it. The reasoning for this claim is that those who have found clearly must have wanted it, otherwise they wouldn’t have found it. It’s sort of like how when you find 5 bucks on the ground. You [...]

Awesome sight

Over at Why Evolution Is True, Jerry Coyne has posted one hell of a great image.

This fan of evolution is 4 years old. His mother or father writes in to say:
He can’t seem to get enough of all the pictures and diagrams in the book. He is particularly fond of the diagram near [...]

Infuriatingly silly

Jerry Coyne has a post about why Francis Collins pollutes science with religion. It’s a succinct piece that basically nails Collins for all his silly, childish, superstitious, frankly stupid beliefs.
The most inane and disingenuous part of Collins’s argument is his claim that without religion, the concepts of good and evil are meaningless. (Collins’s slide 5 [...]

Only in the light of evolution 3

Once again I am following a chapter in Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution is True.
There is a pattern within Life that can be seen on oceanic islands. Species which are present are often endemic – only found in that one location. The species common to continents, on the other hand, are often not present on [...]

When faced with evidence

I’ve noticed that when creationists are faced with direct evidence, they fold. They give up the specific argument for generalities and rhetoric. I am thinking of a couple specific instances.
Back when I accepted an invitation to see a screening of Expelled, I presented a few specific arguments. The first one was in response to that [...]

Only in the light of evolution 2

I am again following a specific chapter in Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution is True.
Natural selection molds what it is given. It does not create new features (mutations, however, can create new traits, which can then be molds, ignored, or actively destroyed by natural selection). If this claim is true, then we should expect to see [...]

Only in the light of evolution

Now that finals are over, I can devote more time to my dear, neglected blog. I begin with a series:
I am following a specific chapter in Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution is True.
The fossil record: We should see fossils in a certain order if evolution is correct. They should go from simple to more complex [...]

Marriage is between people, not disparate ideas

There are a couple articles floating around about a new site run by Francis Collins and Karl Giberson
Our Mission: Faith and science both lead us to truth about God and creation. The BioLogos Foundation promotes the search for truth in both the natural and spiritual realms, and seeks to harmonize these different perspectives.
It’s just another [...]

What science is all about

All which is between “~~~” is from Jerry Coyne.
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I have sometimes written that evolutionary biology doesn’t have much practical value in medicine or other areas impinging on humanity’s material well being. Here is one example of what I’ve said. However, my friend and colleague David Hillis at The University of Texas in [...]

Jerry Coyne

I’ve recently been reading Jerry Coyne’s book, Why Evolution is True. The amount of direct information this man delivers is phenomenal. In many cases, creationism-evolution arguments need to rely on a lot of rhetoric – the evolutionary rhetoric being based on reality and the creationism rhetoric being based on what some ignorant pastor or website [...]