Evolution
Actually, no, it’s not. Here’s how we know this:
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If you are a fisherman, odds are you are at least passingly familiar with the Pacific Salmon and the incredible journey it makes from the vast expanse of the ocean to the same river or stream in which it was born. But did you know these fish smell the water? The following 8:46 second video…
Read MoreConsider the simple mouse trap: It’s made up of five discrete parts, which together have one and only one function – to catch and kill unwary mice. A mere five parts to perform one job. Take away any one of the five parts and what’s left is a pile of useless wood and metal. Similarly,…
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Unless you have been living your entire life in some alternate universe where the first appearance of the sense of humor remains somewhere way, way off in the future, you know what is meant when somebody mentions “Knock-Knock” jokes. Whatever else we may think about any particular Knock-Knock joke, when we hear one, we know…
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Every human being and every other living creature that has ever lived at its most basic level required the same thing in order to exist – Information. More specifically, the digital information in the DNA molecule that shapes which particular kind of creature is to be produced. But where does that DNA information come from?…
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Science has “proven” that life can evolve from non-life, right? That’s what we’ve all been told over and over and over for decades. But the reality is that there are lots of scientifically significant problems with that contention. The Discovery Institute’s Long Story Short video series describes these multiple problems in animation and narration that…
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Lord Alfred Tennyson, the 19th Century British poet, famously described nature as full of violence and death, “red in tooth and claw.” He thus captured in a most vivid image the idea that survival of the fittest is the basic law of nature. The image is also a fitting starting point for an introduction to…
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Everybody at one time or another has suffered a wound that bled. A paper-cut on a finger, a punch to the nose that draws a red flow, or a deep slice from a slipped knife that requires stitches. Been there, done that. But what if your body’s blood didn’t clot at the wound site? You…
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If you took a biology course anywhere in the past multiple decades, odds are good you heard some form of the argument that Darwinian Evolution can be seen happening right in front of our very eyes. It’s called Antibiotic Resistance — the process whereby bacteria develop over time the ability to be unfazed by those…
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With less than a handful of exceptions, mammals are all land-bound creatures. The biggest of the few exceptions is the Humpback Whale. It meets all the qualifications for being a mammal, yet it spends its entire life in the ocean. The conventional evolutionary wisdom ascribes the origin of the Humpback Whale to a much smaller…
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