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This study was presented earlier today at the International Conference on Creationism: Feathered dinosaurs reconsidered: insights from baraminology and enthnotaxonomy Since the author (Matthew McLain) is a creationist, he can't accept that birds actually are descended from dinosaurs, but I'm...

About a year ago, the creationist paleontologist Marcus Ross agreed to review my book in Creation Research Society Quarterly. It was my suggestion for him to review it, since virtually all pro-evolution books are eventually reviewed in the professional creationist literature, and I wanted to...

I recently wrote this article as a guest post for the Panda's Thumb blog. I think the other people here might find it interesting: http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2016/11/creationist-class.html I don't recall having seen anyone on this forum making the "all clearly feathered dinosaurs are...

This paper was published in Answers Research Journal around a month ago, and as far as I can tell there hasn't been any mainstream response to it yet. According to the paper (by Nathaniel T. Jeason), when one compares the diversity of mitochondrial DNA in non-African people to the mutation...

For the past several years, when creationists have argued that mutations can't result in an increase of information, by "information" they seem to really mean "protein specificity". For example, in this article, Answers in Genesis says: and What are some cases where mutations have been...

Does anyone here know of a way to obtain papers published in the Journal of Creation that are less than a year old, without having to subscribe to the journal? Most of this journal's papers are eventually made available for download as PDFs, but not until more than a year after they were...

There's something I'm curious about this forum's Christian theistic evolutionists: do you consider Adam to have been a specific person? As I understand it, there are two points of view about this, and I'm curious which of the two is more popular. The first view is that Adam was not a...

Archaeopteryx, the best-known transitional animal between dinosaurs and birds, now has a twelfth known specimen. The first article about it anywhere was published the day before yesterday, although the article is in German. A few minutes ago my friends Emily Willoughby and Michael "Xane"...

When I was watching the debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham, every time Ken Ham made the distinction between "observational science" and "historical science", there was a point that I wished Bill Nye had made in response. But he never did. So I'm going to mention it here, for everyone who...

Those of you who've been here for a long time might remember that for a little over five years, I've been working on a book to debunk AiG's Creation Museum. This is the same project I mentioned here, although in the intervening time the overall structure of the project has been changed quite a...

People who's been at this forum for long enough to recognize me might remember that I stopped participating here a few years ago, because I felt like the quality of discussion here began going downhill after Erwin left as the head admin. I suspect the closing of the General Apologetics forum...

In the “When I am Wrong, I am Still Right” thread (and several others), AV has mentioned that his main reason for considering the Bible a reliable authority is that it’s been able to predict certain things before they happened, such as the recreation of Israel in 1948. I thought it was worth...

This is an offshoot of something that was discussed in this thread, but I’d like to examine one particular aspect of the topic that was discussed there. In that thread, Marktheblake made the assertion that Enrst Haeckel’s drawings of embryos are still commonly cited as accurately...

Those of you who remember who I am have probably noticed that I haven’t been around here for a while. There are two reasons for that, and the first is the same reason why a lot of other people have left: I’m not happy with the direction this board has taken since Erwin stopped being the...

People who were here at the beginning of this year might remember that around then I decided to leave this forum for a little while, for reasons which I described in this thread. There’s no need to explain all of my reasons for it in detail again, since I described them there. But the best way...

I’m not sure if someone has reported this already, but around half the time when I access any part of this forum, a large portion of the images and borders around parts of the page don’t show up. I’ve attached a screenshot of what this looks like. I haven’t specified for the anything here to...

I’m currently debating with an “Intelligent Design” proponent at another forum, and I think I need to ask here about one of the arguments he’s using. The thread in question is http://forums.christianity.com/m_3311999/mpage_1/tm.htm , and I’m debating with the...

This is mostly a response to NathanCGreen’s request here for a convincing piece of physical evidence for evolution, but it’s also something I was wondering what the creationists here would have to say about in general. I posted this challenge at another creationism/evolution forum recently, and...

This is the essay that I offered to post here. I wrote it for the introduction to a booklet I’m working on, which is intended to serve as a counter-argument to the claims made by Answers in Genesis’s “Creation Museum”. A large portion of its displays are intended to...

Lately I’ve been getting more and more dissatisfied with the sloppy manner in which supporters of evolution at this forum are handling the creationists who post here. For a little while the problem was just that when a creationist comes to this forum with an honest question, they would often...