A recent study has been making headlines around the world, warning of “record flooding” in the 2030s due to a predictable and naturally occurring “wobble” in the moon’s orbit. News sites warn that “every coast…
Ask the average layperson how he or she knows that the earth is millions or billions of years old, and that person will probably mention the dinosaurs, which nearly everybody “knows” died off 65 million…
In the last two chapters we’ve taken a tour — and a rather ugly tour — of the implications of evolutionary and racist thought. Sociologically and culturally, the implications are far-reaching. They reach from the…
Scientists disagree on the accuracy of historical science to analyze evidence from the past. This disparity in viewpoints is largely between scientists who support evolutionary ideas and those who believe in the biblical, God-spoken creation.…
Wood and co-workers (Robinson and Cavanaugh, 1998; Wood 2002, 2005a) have devised and promoted the application of some statistical methods to the taxonomy of various biological organisms. Principally, they rely on a technique described as…