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Apolipoprotein AI Mutations and Information is a great new reasource.  It documents a clear case of a beneficial mutation in human populations.  It also debunks claims by Answers in Genesis that mutation is a loss of information and AiG's suggestion that the mutation is lethal when...

In an his article Thermodynamics vs. Evolutionism   Timothy Wallace quotes Ilya Prigogine  who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in thermodynamics.  This quote was entered into the Feedback of The Talk.Origins Archive. Chris Ho-Stuart made a reply in...

Here is a 200 year old illustration of the Hutton Unconformity: The Grand Canyon threads note such an angular unformity in the Grand Canyon.  Such structures immediately falsify any Flood Geology that requires the Earth (or the fossil bearing formations) be under 10 thousand...

The National Center for Science Education got over 200 scientists to agree the following statement. That is not many scientists you say?  Well it gets better.  Every scientist who was asked to support the statement was named Steve (or an equivalent).  As they represent about...

Progymnosperms are a major taxon of extinct plants.  But there is utterly no evidence that they even existed since Answers in Genesis says they are imaginary evolutionary ancestors!  See Kingdom of Plants  for all the nonsense.  This is discussion on this article...

...or is it just misrepresentation? Folks I direct your attention to this TheologyOnline thread where the latest nonsense from the ICR has been debunked.  Basically Humphreys is claiming that helium will not be retained by a mineral called zircons if it is warmer than -196 C.  He...

Hot off the press (August 6)... http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0208117 (For free full text, most people's best bet is to click on "PDF.") Basically Napier, one of the pro-quantized red-shifts guys that Nick cited realized that a new data set could definatively support or refute...

I don't think that I have mentioned it here on this board yet, but The Talk.Origins Archive has now has an index page on Hovind:   http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hovind/  

Dmanisi, Georgia (the country) has become a major site for human fossils and one that deserves a lot of attention from the evolution deniers.   The fossils from it are damning to the current creationist mantra of erectus is human and habilis is ape.  The previous mantra of...

I am surprised you don't explicately mention what their assumption is. When it is explicately stated, no fair minded person could possibly agree with it. What Woodmorappe, Nick, and the rest have assumed is that mainstream geologists expect there to exist areas on the planet that for the...

Craters are the result of impacts. They are something that is completely at odds with YEC timescales. With the exception of were geologic activity is obvious (i.e. erosion, volcanism, etc.) every planetary body with a solid observable surface is just plain litered with craters...

Been a way for a bit... Talk.Origins: Deception by Omission Jorge A. Fernandez keep in line with the rampant dishonesty found at The True.Origin Archives. Lets look at how it starts: I dare anyone to find a single place in The Talk.Origins Archive that mentions it is "forum for...

Why are lemurs only found in Madagascar? And how did they get there?

A simple question for the creationists is why is it that several types of animals (like certain whales) do teeth form during development that never cut through the gums and which are reabsorbed never beeing used?

I have a question for the YEC/Flood people. In your model after the flood the following would have been the number of survivors after the flood: Humans - 8 survivors Non-clean terrestrial mammals - 2 survivors / species. What would your prediction be to the relative amount of genetic...

That one is pathetically easy. The egg came first be a few hundred million years.

This is another strawman. Why is only a single generation needed? No one is proposing that a land creature became a deep sea whale in a single generation. When this silly assumption is removed the objection falls apart.

This one is simple ignorance of biology. "Simple" organisms can absorb molecules that provide energy directy. This sounds like Teno is imagining a modern mamal without a digestive system needing to evolve one. This would be a strawman.

These questions from Teno Groppi again are all variations of the same theme so I will deal with them in the same post: I claim to be descended from the Danish. This must be false because the Danish are still around. For that matter, my mother and father still are too. Just because a new...

The following two questions are basically the same. Assume everything must have formed at once, the only one thing can have the function, and ignore the possiblity of more than one function. Hense I think it is reasonable to deal with these two of Teno's questions in a single post: This...