A Naturalistic Fairy Tale-Part VI

And then did there exist a “warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, &c., present, that a proteine (sic) compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly absorbed, which would not have been the case before [...]

A Naturalistic Fairy Tale-Part V

And then was there thought for a long time to be a giant impact upon the Earth that resulted in the moon. (1) Or later, perhaps not. (2) Indeed, the Earth was in fact very different from today. There were no oceans and no oxygen. Then was the Earth bombarded by [...]

On Christian Views of Creationism–Part V (Continued: Young Earth Creationism)

Some commentators read my general overviews, and they assume that I don’t know the basic cosmological views, such as the cosmological view of the starlight and time problem. However, I have been reading about cosmology for the last 16 years or so, and I am quite acquainted with how the views on cosmology “have [...]

On Christian Views of Creationism–Part IV (Continued: Young Earth Creationism)

In Part II, I laid out an overview of Young Earth Creationism (YEC), and in Part III, I began addressing some of the controversy with YEC. I will continue addressing the controversy and potential problems with YEC in this post.
Radiocarbon Dating
Radiocarbon dating is used for dating the age of fossils or formerly living matter [...]

On Christian Views of Creationism–Part III (Continued: Young Earth Creationism)

In Part II, I gave a basic summary of the view of Young Earth Creationism. In this section, I’ll discuss some of the controversies.
Catastrophe versus Uniformitarianism
That naturalist viewpoint is that the rate at which geological and other natural processes occur today, is the rate at which these things have always occurred (geological changes, formation [...]

On Christian Views of Creationism–Part II (Young Earth Creationism)

This view of creationism rests on a literal interpretation of the Bible. The notion is that the Earth was created 6000-10000 years ago. The dating is based on the genealogy listed in the chapter Numbers in the Bible. This perspective says that uniformitarian interpretations of geology and cosmology are incorrect or misinterpreted. [...]

Some Basic Concepts in Intelligent Design

Hallmarks of Design
I’ve written before about how things that are designed exhibit function or specific complexity.  I’ll give a definition in a bit more detail here.
Systems that are of high complexity, that is functionally integrated multicomponent systems, systems that are of high specificity where only one or very few of many possible arrangements of these [...]

On Ecological Biodiversity and Irreducible Complexity

The Christian Scribbler has written an interesting post on the macro level of irreducible complexity.  Kliska writes:
I’m in the middle of a book titled: In Six Days; Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation (Ashton, 2000).  All the chapters (which are composed by the different scientists giving their reasons) have been informative and interesting, [...]

Evolution and “Modern” Eugenics

Evolution…hasn’t brought us to a place where we can stop hating, fighting, warring and murdering each other. In fact, in viewing the twentieth century, evolution has only added to our tendencies to be selfish and brutal…(Unknown)
After fifty eight years of living, I have come to a major conclusion about people: if there’s one thing, in [...]

Intelligent Design–Expounding on a Recent Comment

Yet the proponents of the theory of evolution simply don’t allow answers to their arguments, supposedly by rule. They’ll argue that God wouldn’t make a panda’s thumb in a certain way, yet those who might argue that God would make the panda’s thumb like it is supposedly aren’t allowed to answer.
Yes, and then they say, [...]