As I detailed in Part 1 of “Was Darwin Wrong?”, I somehow found the fortitude to attend a lecture on evolution given by Young Earth Creationist Dr. Harrub last weekend. The first post details his misunderstandings concerning cosmology and Darwin’s The Origin of Species. The following synopsis of his introductory remarks, of course, reveals even more misunderstanding …
Category Archive: Science
Apr 21
Was Darwin Wrong? (Part 1)
This weekend, while most of the people my age were out getting drunk and having sex, I was doing something completely uncharacteristic of my generation. For even though I too was out getting drunk and having sex, I also attended a lecture given by a Young Earth Creationist on Friday and Saturday night. I’m still unsure …
Mar 23
Ten Misconceptions About Evolution
Evolution is one of the most elegant and parsimonious scientific theories ever constructed. It unifies and adds insights to fields as seemingly unrelated as genetics (the mechanism behind inheritance and random mutation in evolution) and geology (the biogeography of fossil organisms that follows from evolution also helps support the theory of plate tectonics). And though …
Feb 23
Science as a “Faith”
Whether through the inane and ridiculous rambling of well-meaning religious scientists or the outright lies and misrepresentations of creationists and other pseudo-scientists, the notion of science being somehow faith-based has become deeply embedded in the public perception of science. As an illustration of this notion, one need only look at Paul Davies’ well-known article “Taking …
Feb 01
The Absence of Evidence
When complex arguments are distilled down to single-sentence maxims or sound bytes, applied liberally and without thought to virtually any situation, one will frequently find the salient point bludgeoned and destroyed through misuse. There are a number of examples of this sort of bastardization. For instance, the famed description of evolution as “survival of the …
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