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  1. tas8831

    Can a creationist define...

    ..."Survival of the fittest" as it pertains to evolution?
  2. tas8831

    For those presenting things that you claim 'Darwin said' or 'Darwin meant'...

    Here is a searchable database of all (as far as I can tell) of Darwin's published works. Next time you start a thread or post a comment in which you are presenting something you've read on a creationist website purporting to explain Darwin's position on something, check it out. Fact-check your...
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    Example of REALLY bad creationist reporting

    Searching for the false claims made by David Mention re" Tiktaalik, I came across this gem: ‘Missing link’ claim for fossils debunked by creationist group This is from 2006, and written by one "Doug Waters", who studied law and business at Liberty University (of course) - no science...
  4. tas8831

    YEC genotype/phenotype challenge!!

    I posted this as part of another thread last year, and the year before that, and I had no takers. 3rd time a charm? Creationist electrical engineer Walter ReMine wrote: Take an ape-like creature from 10 million years ago, substitute a maximum of 500,000 selectively significant nucleotides...
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    On DNA percent differences between taxa and YEC timelines

    Creationists like to assert that the 4-8% DNA difference between chimps and humans* is just too much to account for in the 5-10 million year divergence time estimate, and thus humans and chimps cannot be related via descent. OK... As it turns out, any 2 humans can differ by as much as 1.6%...
  6. tas8831

    Pro-Ivermectin study retracted due to fraud

    Almost a trend. A big metastudy that was looking like good news for the use of Ivermectin to treat Covid once you already have it was retracted. The main reason was that one of the individual studies used in this metastudy - one that apparently skewed the overall analysis to the pro-Ivermectin...
  7. tas8831

    HINT: it helps to understand how the immune system actually works...

    ... before making absurd claims about 'optimizing' it with social interactions and 'good food.' Perhaps those who appear to be getting their information on the immune system from anti-vaxxer, pro-Trump, David Avocado Wolfe sorts of nonsensical social media gurus could stop reading that garbage...
  8. tas8831

    Quick one on "genetic information"

    'Genetic information' is a concept that IDCs and creationists in general latched onto 10-15 years ago, maybe more, thinking that they had finally found a winning argument (seeing as how none, literally not one, of their previous (and still used) arguments had any bearing on evolution) to beat...
  9. tas8831

    On the Giraffe nervous system

    Or at least a curious part of it. The recurrent laryngeal nerves in humans are branches of of the Vagus nerve(s), which originate in the brain (cranial nerve X), The Vagus exists the skull, split into 2 branches, and provides innervation to almost all thoracic and abdominal organs, including...
  10. tas8831

    What is the Genetic Code?

    What is the genetic code? Seems a simple enough question, and one that a person presenting him or herself as able and informed enough to argue against evolution using genetics should be able to answer without hesitation. After all, if I were going to argue against the historicity of Jesus, who...
  11. tas8831

    Analogies are not evidence

    ANALOGY: Definition of analogy 1a: a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect b: resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike : SIMILARITY 2: inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they...
  12. tas8831

    Your favorite ID/YEC 'science' paper?

    There are so many to choose from. These poor guys try so hard to make their target audience think that there is actually scientific support of ID/creationism, but... there really isn't. Certainly if we are to take the current crop of IDC 'scientists' output, then there is nothing but hot air...
  13. tas8831

    The genotype/phenotype YEC challenge!

    I posted this as part of another thread a year or two ago and I had no takers: Creationist electrical engineer Walter ReMine wrote: Take an ape-like creature from 10 million years ago, substitute a maximum of 500,000 selectively significant nucleotides and you would have a poet philosopher...
  14. tas8831

    YECs STILL misrepresenting 'Haldane's Dilemma'

    This time, it is some Christian movie producer of some sort (Zwayne). I caught a Paulogia clip regarding some sort of creationist Zoom conference (not going to provide a link, although I like Paulogia, I do not want to give the YECs any publicity). He wanted to discuss evolution's "Achilles...
  15. tas8831

    The Rare Creationist

    It is probably good to remind our creationist friends that not all of their hero 'creation scientists' deny reality. Every now and then, one will say the quiet parts of creationism-belief (really, anti-evolution) out loud. Oh, they pay for it, yes they do. This one eventually lost his study...
  16. tas8831

    The strange case of John Sanford, creationist

    An old discussion between @leroy and myself lead me to search the forum for older discussions on the number of mutations between humans and chimps and the like, and in a couple year old post Leroy referred to John Sanford. Sanford is a former legitimate scientist, who had worked as a research...
  17. tas8831

    Evidence for creation in horse embryonic development!

    Did I write 'creation'? Sorry - I meant evolution. It seems that, along with fossil evidence showing the transition from small, multi-toed critters to the modern horses, we now have evidence - not only of horse evolution, but of one principle of evolution; the retention of developmental...
  18. tas8831

    Creationists claiming "not enough beneficial mutations"....

    A Challenge... Creationist electrical engineer WalTer ReMine wrote: Take an ape-like creature from 10 million years ago, substitute a maximum of 500,000 selectively significant nucleotides and you would have a poet philosopher?... Is this enough to account for the significantly improved skulls...
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    Creationists who think that there has "not been enough time"...

    ... for humans to have evolved from an ape-like ancestor, especially those of you that rely on ReMine's claim regarding 'Haldane's Dilemma', you must answer these questions for your assertion to have merit: 1. How many fixed beneficial mutations does it take to get a new trait from an old one...
  20. tas8831

    General conceptual question for any and all

    I just want to see if I am on solid ground here - Scenario 1: Person X: "It is impossible to go 500 miles and arrive at point A." Person Y:"But... where do you start from?" Person X :"You cannot travel 500 miles and get to point A." Person Y:"If you cannot tell me where to start from, how...
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