This thread is intended to move an off-topic discussion from the Evolution vs Creationism forum to a more appropriate place. The story so far:
It has been claimed that secularisation leads / has led to moral decline (in the US at least, for which allegedly supporting statistics have been...
Not the most original topic for this forum, I admit; but I'm starting this thread to transfer to a more appropriate area an argument I've been conducting in the Evolution vs Creationism forum with another poster about the validity of biblical prophecy. Entertaining though the exchange has been...
*edit* In recent years at least creationists have been forced to admit, however reluctantly, that what they call "microevolution" is a reality; it is at the level of "macroevolution" that they dig in their heels, demanding (like the poster above) to be shown the process happening before they'll...
Reified evil seems to be the topic of several threads in this forum right now, making me wonder why there is such a strong compulsion to see evil as a thing in its own right rather than just a far extreme of human behaviour.
I suggest that one reason at least is that having recourse to the...
How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren.
In the interests of balance, here is the reply from the President of the Child Evangelism Fellowship.
Posters in the UK may have seen the first episodes of the BBC's new human evolution series, Origins of Us. The first dealt with the fossil record, the second with the influence of diet; next week the third and last episode will look at brains.
For those elsewhere, you can (I presume) view the...
We are told repeatedly by creationists, in this forum and elsewhere, that evolution is not true science because it is untestable; it hasnt been observed, they say, thus is pure speculation.
In this thread I want to develop the idea that in fact the entire history of biology has been one...
I'm referring to the Old Testament accounts of the Israelites' struggle against the followers of Baal. If we assume for the moment that these accounts have some basis in history, then we have the OT authors' word that the righteous and heroic followers of the true god Yahweh overcame the evil...
There are, no doubt, some left-wing biblical fundamentalists, and some on the political right who regard Genesis as myth or allegory; but I would suggest that overall the correlation between fundamentalist religious views (including creationism) and right-wing political opinion is too strong to...
Believers in Noah's flood place its date at around 2400 - 2300 BCE. To give them the advantage of any errors in what follows, I am going to opt for the former.
We start, then, with a world population of eight human beings in 2400 BCE. (Again I shall give believers the advantage of assuming that...
Creationists' role in palaeontology is invariably reactive and defensive: an important new fossil is described, its place in evolution discussed, and only then do creationists weigh in, their denials and disputations all purely reactionary.
But surely, by all logic, creationists should be the...
This is a well known piece of evidence for evolution, cited by Dawkins, Coyne and others.
For those unfamiliar with it, it concerns the bizarre route taken by the laryngeal nerve: from the brain down the neck into the thorax, around an aortic ligament, and back up the neck to its destination...