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How reliable is radiocarbon dating? Updated 11 January 2025 (c) 2025 Introduction Radiocarbon dating, which is also known as carbon-14 dating, is one widely used radiometric dating scheme to determine dates of ancient artifacts. In discussions of the age of the Earth and the antiquity of the human race, creationists often assail perceived weaknesses in Continue reading How reliable is radiocarbon dating? Do probability arguments refute evolution? Updated 30 September 2025 (c) 2025 Introduction In the past few decades, modern science has uncovered a universe that is far vaster and more awe-inspiring than ever imagined before, together with a set of elegant natural laws that deeply resonate with the idea of a cosmic lawgiver. Along this line, Continue reading Do probability arguments refute evolution? Are there missing links between ancient primates and modern humans? Updated 10 January 2025 (c) 2025 Introduction One of the issues most frequently raised by both creationist and and intelligent design writers is the question of gaps in the fossil record, and, in particular, of “missing links” between “apes” and humans. In one sense, such Continue reading Are there missing links between ancient primates and modern humans? What do scientists understand about the origin of life? Updated 10 January 2025 (c) 2025 Credit: Walker, Packer, Cody, “Re-conceptualizing the origins of life,” https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2016.0337 Introduction In the past few decades, modern science has uncovered a universe that is far vaster and more awe-inspiring than ever imagined before, together with a set of elegant Continue reading What do scientists understand about the origin of life? Does intelligent design pose a challenge for evolution? Updated 10 January 2025 (c) 2025 Background The “intelligent design” movement was formed in the mid-1990s by a group of scholars whose objective was to present a significantly more tenable body of scholarship opposed to evolution than that promoted by young-earth creationists such as Henry Morris and Continue reading Does intelligent design pose a challenge for evolution? What do fossils say about evolution? Updated 10 January 2025 (c) 2025 Introduction One of the issues most frequently raised by both creationist and intelligent design writers is the question of gaps in the fossil record. These writers assert that there are large, unbridgeable gaps, and that the conventional scientific picture of a smooth sequence Continue reading What do fossils say about evolution? What is the evidence for evolution? Updated 23 July 2025 (c) 2025 Evolution as a “theory” One of the most common misconceptions in the public scientific arena is that evolution is “just a theory.” The Merriam-Webster dictionary lists several definitions for the word “theory” [Merriam2009]. The two that are the most relevant here are: (a) Continue reading What is the evidence for evolution? Can an evolutionary process generate English text? Updated 10 January 2025 (c) 2025 Introduction One central issue in the debate over Darwinian evolution is the question of evolutionary novelty — can evolution produce truly novel features? Creationist and intelligent design writers have insisted that whereas minor changes may occur within an established “kind,” nothing fundamentally Continue reading Can an evolutionary process generate English text? What does DNA reveal about evolution? Updated 23 July 2025 (c) 2025 Introduction In the past few years, modern genome sequencing and computer technology have placed an enormous volume of DNA data only a mouse-click away from researchers worldwide. The first complete human genome sequence was completed in 2000, after a ten-year effort that cost Continue reading What does DNA reveal about evolution? Have species been individually designed? Updated 10 January 2025 (c) 2025 Introduction One of the key tenets of both creationism and intelligent design is that whereas minor variations are possible among different members of a given “kind,” such variations do not extend beyond the boundary of the “kind.” (The term “kind” as used by these Continue reading Have species been individually designed? |
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