The Case for a Creator: Ancient Wings
The Case for a Creator, Chapter 3 Up until now, Jonathan Wells' critiques of evolution, although misguided, have been fairly sophisticated, touching on topics such as abiogenesis, the Cambrian...
View ArticleThe Case for a Creator: Meet Your Ancestors
The Case for a Creator, Chapter 3 In the final section of chapter 3, Strobel and Wells turn to the evidence that creationists loathe above all else: the fossil hominids that make up the human family...
View ArticleThe Case for a Creator: Dysteleology
The Case for a Creator, Chapter 4 In the last section of his interview with Stephen Meyer, Lee Strobel brings up the dysteleological argument, asking how intelligent design can account for the faults...
View ArticleAnother Branch on the Human Family Tree
I haven't written about any new transitional fossils in a while, so it's a great pleasure for me to mention this one: a hominid skeleton nicknamed "Ardi", a specimen of Ardipithecus ramidus. This...
View ArticleThe Case for a Creator: The Ultimate 747
The Case for a Creator, Chapter 6 In his frequently-maligned (but less-frequently read and understood) book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins offers what I think is an underappreciated argument against...
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A Sense of Kinship
This past summer, I was visiting the New York Botanical Gardens when serendipity struck: this beautiful little creature alighted on a stone railing around the edge of a pool, staying just long enough...
View ArticleThe Case for a Creator: Complexity Is Scary!
The Case for a Creator, Chapter 8 In the previous installment, I discussed how creationists steer well clear of doing any real science. We can see another example of this in, ironically, the way...
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Movie Review: Creation
Last night I had a chance to see Creation, the independent film by British director Jon Amiel that presents an account of the life of Charles Darwin and his struggle to write his great work, On the...
View ArticleEvolution Isn't a Moral Theory (Except When It Is)
A Review of When Atheism Becomes Religion, Part I At the beginning of chapter 2, Chris Hedges says that science is a "morally neutral discipline" (p.45) which offers potential for both good and evil....
View ArticleThe Language of God: Micro vs. Macro
The Language of God, Chapter 5 By B.J. Marshall Before tackling the gritty details using DNA evidence to support human evolution, Collins addresses Darwin, mutations, and the "rather arbitrary"...
View ArticleDarwin's Long Regret
Since we've been reading a lot lately about scientists pandering to religion, it's worth remembering that there's nothing new under the sun. As long as there's been science, there have been believers...
View ArticleLink Roundup and Facial Hair Update
As regular readers may remember, when our team of underdog bloggers triumphed last month in a fund-raising contest for Camp Quest, I vowed to grow a beard so as to prove that PZ Myers wasn't the only...
View ArticleSand Grains on a Distant Shore
In his book Unweaving the Rainbow, Richard Dawkins opens with an arresting analogy: “We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never...
View ArticleEvolution Is Still Happening: Beneficial Mutations in Humans
One of my all-time most popular posts on Daylight Atheism, “The Scars of Evolution“, lists some of the kludges, hacks and jury-rigs left behind in the human genome, the telltale signature of evolution....
View ArticleTV Review: Cosmos, Episode 2
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Episode 2, “Some of the Things That Molecules Do” If I had to pick one word to describe this episode, it’d be “overstuffed”. Granted, the series has a huge amount of...
View ArticleTV Review: Cosmos, Episode 6
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Episode 6, “Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still” After the last two strong episodes, there was bound to be a clunker sooner or later, and I’m sorry to say this was it. Although it...
View ArticleRepost: The Age of Wonder
[Author's Note: I'm reposting some old favorites while I'm away on vacation this week. This post was originally from November 2008.] If you search the internet, it’s not hard to find New Agers and...
View ArticleTheology and Honesty
By James A. Haught My far-flung family is quite diverse. Dr. John F. Haught is a renowned Catholic theologian who has produced a flood of erudite books. A Haught woman in the Southwest wrote several...
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