How Old is the Earth: A Response to "Scientific" Creationism
Added January 10, 2006: A classic and often-referenced 1984 paper by G. Brent Dalrymple. The paper contains short but accurate expositions of radiometric dating methods and discussions of creationist...
View ArticleEvidence for the Big Bang
This article covers the evidence which leads cosmologists to believe the Big Bang happened, deals with common objections to the theory, and discusses alternative models and questions that still remain...
View ArticleJanuary 2006 Co-Post of the Month: Trying to Keep Up With the Joneses
Added February 17, 2006:
View ArticleYoung-Earth Creationist Helium Diffusion "Dates": Fallacies Based on Bad...
Updated July 25, 2006: Young-Earth creationists consider the helium diffusion studies of D. Russell Humphreys and others to be one of their greatest achievements in arguing for a 6,000 year old Earth....
View ArticleJuly 2006 Post of the Month: The Fallacy of Nonfunctional Intermediates
Added August 17, 2006:
View ArticleHendren v. Campbell: Decision Against a Creationist Textbook
Added August 20, 2006: A 1977 decision of an Indiana superior court ruling against a textbook produced by the Creation Research Society. In some respects this case resembles a young-earth creationist...
View ArticleMacroevolution
Updated September 16, 2006: In evolutionary biology today macroevolution is used to refer to any evolutionary change at or above the level of species. It means the splitting of a species into two or...
View ArticleAugust 2006 Co-Post of the Month: An Atheist's Defense of Religion
Added September 18, 2006:
View ArticleAugust 2006 Post of the Month: The Constancy of Constants, Part 2
Added September 18, 2006:
View ArticleThe Discovery Institute Quote Mines Judge Jones
Added September 28, 2006: The Discovery Institute selectively quotes Judge Jones' decision in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District in aid of its "bait and switch" claim of scientific evidence in...
View ArticleAwards, Honors, and Favorable Notices for The Talk.Origins Archive
Updated October 9, 2006: Honors won by the TalkOrigins Archive.
View ArticleThe Discovery Institute Quote Mines Stephen Jay Gould
Added October 9, 2006: The newest addition to the Quote Mine Project shows how Casey Luskin of Discovery Institute misrepresents what Gould and others wrote in a brief for Daubert v. Merrell Dow...
View ArticleSeptember 2006 Post of the Month: Irreducible Complexity as an Evolutionary...
Added October 19, 2006:
View ArticleThe Origin of Life
Added October 31, 2006:A discussion of the main models on the spontaneous origin of life that aims to show how cellular complexity could have gradually emerged from simple systems - in contrast to the...
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