I grew up in an ultra-conservative, 4 1/2 point Calvinist, expository Bible teaching church. When I was in high school, my church in Lincoln Nebraska brought in a special speaker, the Young Earth Creationist and Bible teacher John C. Whitcomb. He gave a series of talks about science and the Bible. It was FASCINATING. Ten…

Revolutionary scientific paradigms were first opposed with great force. Gregor Mendel’s genetics was ignored for 20+ years. Ignaz Semmelweis was thrown out of the Vienna General Hospital for insisting that hand-washing could stop fatal childbirth infections. His colleagues mocked him for suggesting there might be critters so tiny you can’t even see them, multiplying right…

The now-famous Wistar evolution conference took place exactly 50 years ago at the University of Pennsylvania. An all-star panel of mathematicians, biologists and engineers debated the merits of Neo-Darwinism… based on MATH. The verdict: The engineers and mathematicians said, “No way Jose.” The biologists said, “You guys are ignorant. You don’t understand.” OK, it wasn’t…

Charles Darwin believed behaviors a parent learned during his or her lifetime could be passed to children. Many scientists of the time believed that. It was called “Lamarckism” after Lamarck who first proposed the theory. Later, the Neo-Darwinists laughed Lamarckism right out of the academy. “Silly Lamarck, he didn’t know that DNA mutations are all…

I got this missive from Charlie Richardson… “Some fundamentalist churches equate doctrinal non-conformity with “not walking with Christ.” So for a lot of folks your idea of “evolving your interpretation” of Scripture, based on science, is anathema and the liberal slippery slope to hell. I know this from firsthand experience. Extreme fundamentalism

One of the most appealing aspects of Young Earth Creationism is, it offers a simple, trouble-free view of God. “God made everything perfect. It was just us HUMANS who messed everything up. It’s all OUR fault.” Reader Daniel, a Christian, asked: “I have to say you have a very interesting take on the Bible then….

Long-time blog follower “Old Git Tom” poked the beast with this comment: “It is preposterous to call Darwin’s Natural Selection (NS) theory of bio-evolution ‘successful’. It remains a failed hypothesis. It was never even a valid scientific one. It is a tautology; it it is self-reinforcing, circular. The NS merry-go-round goes this way: 1. Fitness…

An interesting article blurb: “A minimal cell is usually defined as a cell in which all genes are essential. This definition is incomplete, because the genetic requirements for survival, and therefore the minimal genome size, depend on the environment in which the cell is grown. The work described here has been conducted in medium that…

Last week I skewered Richard Dawkins for saying life was a “happy chemical accident” on National Public Radio. A reader of my blog (a smart, well educated guy) rushed to Dawkins’ defense. I demanded he explain how

Ken Ham is an excellent marketer and salesperson for Young Earth Creationism. I should know — much of my professional background is in marketing, working with some of the most talented marketers and sales people on the planet. I got the chance to hear Ken Ham. He was speaking at a home schooling conference my…