Category Archives: Evolution

Mathematical Problems with Darwin

Posted on July 25, 2019 by humblesmith
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The Cumulative Argument Against Evolution

Posted on July 8, 2018 by humblesmith

Evolution is a topic that raises emotions on several sides of the discussion. By itself it is not a subject that should divide people, whether disagreements be between Christians or atheists or faculty members of respected universities. It does divide, … Continue reading →

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Systems of Systems Require a Good Designer

Posted on May 10, 2018 by humblesmith

We think of science as providing modern conveniences, but in actuality scientists provide less of the things that make our lives more enjoyable than we realize. Instead, engineers take the things of science and make them work in practical ways. … Continue reading →

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Ken Ham’s Uncharitable Inaccuracies

Posted on December 3, 2017 by humblesmith

A few weeks ago I attended the National Apologetics Conference, sponsored by Southern Evangelical Seminary (SES). One of the sessions was a moderated discussion between Dr. Richard Howe and Mr. Ken Ham on the topic “God’s Word or Man’s Word: … Continue reading →

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Some Works on Evolution Worth Reading

Posted on September 12, 2017 by humblesmith

Evolutionary biologists have, since Darwin, held that random mutations are filtered by natural selection to produce the biological life that we now see. Since Darwin they have spoken in generalities, assuming that the mutations at the sub-cell level are actually … Continue reading →

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New Book: Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics

Posted on June 14, 2017 by humblesmith

New book out, hot off the press: “Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics” by William Dembski, Robert Marks, and Winston Ewart. These men are all math modelers, and they are claiming that there is no math model to explain evolution, and as … Continue reading →

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What is the Mess We Are in, and How Did We Get Here?

Posted on January 28, 2017 by humblesmith

Liberal churches have accepted aberrant theologies, or even heresies, while conservative churches have disconnected faith from reason and disconnected the church from the culture. Here we explore the causes of this condition and give some examples of the problems. Influential … Continue reading →

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An Atheist Questions the Logic of Darwinism, Part 3

Posted on January 7, 2016 by humblesmith

In the previous post, we learned that Thomas Nagel’s book Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False maintains that if indeed the world really exists in a mind-independent way (such as sugar or water) and … Continue reading →

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An Atheist Questions the Logic of Darwinism, Part 2

Posted on January 5, 2016 by humblesmith

Thomas Nagel, in his important book Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False, systematically challenges several important areas of study, claiming that neo-Darwinism cannot adequately explain the development of the biological world around … Continue reading →

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An Atheist Questions the Logic of Darwinism (Part 1)

Posted on December 31, 2015 by humblesmith

Evolution, as understood in the popular circles as purely random physical mutations filtered by natural selection, is increasingly under attack. It’s defenders must continue to climb further onto a limb and make explanations that taste more and more like just-so … Continue reading →

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Theistic Evolution & Biblical Interpretation

Posted on October 10, 2015 by humblesmith

Forms of theistic evolution seem to abound in Christian circles. Theistic evolution is a teaching that says that evolution was used by God to create mankind, even in evolution’s fullest sense of very gradual change through random mutations and natural … Continue reading →

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What is the Origin of Our Sense of Moral Lapse?

Posted on January 14, 2015 by humblesmith

In the book True Reason (Gilson and Weitnauer, eds.) Samuel Youngs asks “We are brutally aware of how often we come up short (what could be the evolutionary purpose for a sense of abiding discontentment with the world on moral grounds?). (p.176). … Continue reading →

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The Mathematical Difficulties of Natural Selection

Posted on October 12, 2014 by humblesmith

A 2011 confernce held at Cornell University presented a series of academic papers that focused on viewing biological systems in terms of informational questions. The authors drew parallels between numerical searches and biological systems. By applying conclusions about searches to biological information, conclusions can be … Continue reading →

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Genesis 1, Science, and Logical Conclusions

Posted on September 28, 2014 by humblesmith

This week I learned of a college student at a large, local state university who told of a story about one of his professors. The student’s geology professor, on the first day of class. specifically took time to ridicule Genesis 1. … Continue reading →

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The Cambrian Explosion

Posted on June 16, 2014 by humblesmith
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Creation, Evolution, The Courts, & Public Opinion

Posted on March 16, 2014 by humblesmith

In the book Darwin Day in America, author John West shows how evolutionary thought, inspired by Charles Darwin and accepted by his followers, has impacted various parts of society. Far from mere biology, Darwin’s theory of random mutations filtered by … Continue reading →

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Pseudo Science

Posted on March 9, 2014 by humblesmith

There have been a few recent reports that tell us that some science journal articles were fakes. One was in Nature, one in Science, and it was reported by Fox News. The problems are facilitated by the fact that professors … Continue reading →

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Ongoing Challenges to Evolution

Posted on February 2, 2014 by humblesmith
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Reactions to Stephen Meyer’s Book: Darwin’s Doubt

Posted on October 14, 2013 by humblesmith

I found a pretty good short blog post that centers around Stephen Meyer’s book Darwin’s Doubt. The writer starts from a good, middle of the road, practical position. You can find the post here. The post describes the reactions and … Continue reading →

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Do You Act With A Purpose, Or Not?

Posted on February 11, 2013 by humblesmith

Modern atheist evolutionists tell us that nature is completely purposeless, yet works toward an end, namely survival. For the most part this end is assumed and never questioned. Few people seem to see a conflict in the idea that nature is mindless and … Continue reading →

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Scientists Say….But Do You Trust Them?

Posted on November 23, 2012 by humblesmith

Modern culture views truth as having a gold standard, science. It measures all statements against scientific facts, accepting the ones that align with science and rejecting the ones that do not. Somewhere down the list are religious truths, which are … Continue reading →

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Junk DNA, Natural Selection, and Intelligence

Posted on September 10, 2012 by humblesmith

As I write this, there has recently been a series of news articles in the popular media reporting a large study called ENCODE, which was a $288 million-dollar study of DNA. The news articles have, in general, reported that although … Continue reading →

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Aquinas, Evolution, Providence, & Chance

Posted on January 2, 2012 by humblesmith

In Thomas Aquinas’ work titled On Truth (De Veritate), Thomas deals with whether or not the world is ruled by God’s providence, or whether all natural things happen randomly. Thomas even precedes his comments by positing a potential objector who … Continue reading →

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Is Science Objective? Or Does It Have An Emotional Bias?

Posted on October 8, 2011 by humblesmith

A. F. Chalmers has a popular book on the nature of science, What Is This Thing Called Science? In the book, Chalmers discusses all the essential views on the philosophy of science and explores how we should interpret the work … Continue reading →

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Is Evolution Falsifiable?

Posted on September 19, 2011 by humblesmith

Atheistic evolutionists have been quick to criticize the Intelligent Design movement as not being falsifiable. ID proponents such as William Dembski have responded, saying simply that if the design in nature could be duplicated without external intervention, the theory would … Continue reading →

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The God Gene: John Cleese Version

Posted on June 15, 2011 by humblesmith
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The Fruit of Hitler’s Nazis Came From What Source?

Posted on April 30, 2011 by humblesmith

In Dinesh D’Souza’s excellent book What’s So Great About Christianity?, the author has a chapter titled A License to Kill: Atheism and the Mass Murders of History. In this chapter D’Souza responds to the popular claim of modern atheists that … Continue reading →

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Is Darwinian Evolution Falsifiable?

Posted on March 19, 2011 by humblesmith

A pretty good post over on the “Tough Questions Answered” blog. This one is about a discussion by two biochemists who disagree about the ability of e. coli to adapt under survival situations. You can find the post here. If … Continue reading →

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If Evolution, Why Religion? (Part 2)

Posted on February 28, 2011 by humblesmith

We have already posed the question, ‘If evolution, why religion?’ in a previous post. See it here. In summary, the point of that post was saying that if evolution is true, then it produced religion, and therefore religion would be … Continue reading →

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Why I am Skeptical of Evolutionism

Posted on February 14, 2011 by humblesmith

Evolution and creation in our culture today garner a lot of emotion. A cursory reading of the events surrounding the two camps tells us that both sides care very deeply for what they hold to be true. That creationists have … Continue reading →

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