Is Animal Suffering a Consequence of Adam’s Sin?
I cannot persuade myself,” wrote Darwin, “that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have...
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Tag: Origins
Do Naturalists Consider Chance the Singular Cause of Evolution?
In a word—no! The more sophisticated naturalists readily admit that the chance-alone hypothesis is at best far-fetched. Thus, they posit that natural selection* or some other unintelligent nonrandom mechanism is involved in the...
Read MoreIs Punctuated Equilibrium Legitimate Science?
Harvard’s Stephen Jay Gould posited that “a species does not arise gradually by the steady transformation of its ancestors; rather, it appears all at once and ‘fully formed.’ ” In other words, species remain relatively unchanged...
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What Is the Cambrian Explosion?
The Cambrian Explosion* is biology’s version of the Big Bang. Just as cosmology’s Big Bang undid...
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Can Aliens Account for the Origin of Life?
While panspermia is dispensed in different varieties, the basic notion is that life came to earth...
Read MoreDid God Use Evolution As His Method of Creation?
Under the banner of “theistic evolution,” a growing number of Christians maintain that God used evolution as his method for creation. This, in my estimation, is the worst of all possibilities. It is one thing to believe in...
Read MoreIs It Possible for a Protein Molecule to Come into Existence by Chance?
Evolutionary theory concerning how the first organized form of primitive life evolved hardly corresponds to reality. First, there is not the slightest evidence for an evolutionary sequence among the unimaginably varied cells...
Read MoreIs the Mind Identical to the Brain?
Did God create us as body-soul unities, or are we merely material beings living in a material world in which reason is reduced to a conditioned reflex? First, logically, we recognize the mind and the brain to be different in...
Read MoreAre Ape-Men Fictions, Frauds, and Fantasies?
As has been well said, there is no business like bone business. Pithecanthropus erectus, Piltdown man, and Peking man are prime exemplars. First and perhaps best known among the ape-men icons is Pithecanthropus erectus. What is...
Read MoreDid Hippos Evolve into Whales?
In The Origin of Species, Darwin speculated that bears might well evolve into whales: “I see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered by Natural Selection*, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger...
Read MoreIs It Reasonable to Believe That Scales Evolved into Feathers?
A primary evolutionary contention is that, in the course of merely millions of years, reptilian scales became more and more like feathers until, one day, the perfect feather emerged. Is this reasonable or ridiculous? First, as...
Read MoreIs There a Biblical Distinction Between Dinosaurs and Dragons?
Young-earth creationists* often argue that the Bible is full of references to dinosaurs. Nineteenth-century English paleontologist Sir Richard Owen did not coin the word dinosaur (“terrible lizard”) until 1841, thus the King...
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