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April 8th, 2009 | Category: index to creationist claims This is a post refuting part of the CreationWiki response to Talk.Origins’s “Index to Creationist Claims”. Click here for an introduction to this project. Quotes from CreationWiki are in red, while quotes from Talk.Origins are in blue.
Original Creationist Claim
The eye is too complex to have evolved.
This is a post refuting part of the CreationWiki response to Talk.Origins’s “Index to Creationist Claims”. Click [...]
» Continue reading “CB301: “The eye is too complex to have evolved””
March 28th, 2009 | Category: index to creationist claims This is a post refuting part of the CreationWiki response to Talk.Origins’s “Index to Creationist Claims”. Click here for an introduction to this project. Quotes from CreationWiki are in red, while quotes from Talk.Origins are in blue.
Original Creationist Claim
Practically all “vestigial” organs in man have been shown to have definite uses and not to be vestigial at all.
This is a post refuting part of [...]
» Continue reading “CB360: “Vestigial organs may have functions””
March 21st, 2009 | Category: index to creationist claims This is a post refuting part of the CreationWiki response to Talk.Origins’s “Index to Creationist Claims”. Click here for an introduction to this project. Quotes from CreationWiki are in red, while quotes from Talk.Origins are in blue.
Original Creationist Claim
Mutations only vary traits that are already there. They do not produce anything new.
This is a post refuting part of the CreationWiki response to Talk.Origins’s “Index [...]
» Continue reading “CB101.2: “Mutations don’t produce new features””
March 12th, 2009 | Category: index to creationist claims This is a post refuting part of the CreationWiki response to Talk.Origins’s “Index to Creationist Claims”. Click here for an introduction to this project. Quotes from CreationWiki are in red, while quotes from Talk.Origins are in blue.
Original Creationist Claim
So-called junk DNA is not really junk. Functions have been found for noncoding DNA which was previously thought to be junk, and we cannot be sure that the rest of the junk DNA is not functional as well.
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» Continue reading “CB130: “Junk” DNA is not really junk”
March 6th, 2009 | Category: index to creationist claims This is a post refuting part of the CreationWiki response to Talk.Origins’s “Index to Creationist Claims”. Click here for an introduction to this project. Quotes from CreationWiki are in red, while quotes from Talk.Origins are in blue.
Original Creationist Claim
Pasteur and other scientists disproved the concept of spontaneous generation and established the “law of biogenesis” — that life comes only from previous life.
This [...]
» Continue reading “CB000: Pasteur proved life only comes from life”
March 1st, 2009 | Category: index to creationist claims This is a post refuting part of the CreationWiki response to Talk.Origins’s “Index to Creationist Claims”. Click here for an introduction to this project. Quotes from CreationWiki are in red, while quotes from Talk.Origins are in blue.
Original Creationist Claim:
“It is inconceivable that (fill in the blank) could have originated naturally. Therefore, it must have been created.”
This argument, also known as the argument from ignorance or “god of the gaps,” is implicit in a very many different creationist arguments. In particular, it [...]
» Continue reading “CA100: Argument from incredulity”
February 26th, 2009 | Category: index to creationist claims CreationWiki, the “Encyclopedia of Creation Science”, is one of my favourite websites to visit. This is not because of its stellar content, quite on the contrary, as most of what is said there is completely false, but because it allows me to gain an understand of what creationists are thinking and saying about evolutionary theory. The reason why it is better than Answers in Genesis or Creation Ministries International in this respect is that it is a community of people who have come together as one to fight what they [...]
» Continue reading “Index to Creationist Claims Introduction”
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