The last three articles have been leading up to these excerpts from the article, “Survival of the Fakest” by Jonathan Wells. It originally appeared in The American Spectator, December 2000/January 2001. The full text should be read and is available online from several sources. (Jonathan Wells holds a Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from …
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Does “Ontogeny Recapitulate Phylogeny”?
The title is a mouthful, isn’t it! Memorize that and spout it off when you want to impress people! Seriously, in the last article, we talked about frauds and hoaxes used to prove evolution. This, it seems, is another example. Haeckel: The Accomplished Scientist and his Theory In 1874 Ernst Haeckel presented to the science …
The Carbon 14 Dating Method
If you have paid any attention to earth dating methods, you have surely heard of carbon 14 dating, also called radiocarbon dating. It is a method of dating any object that was once alive for, if alive, it ingested carbon 14 during its life. Let me explain. What Is Carbon 14? Normally carbon has an …
Explaining Instinct
Every reputable scientist knows that Lamarck’s theory of inherited characteristics was repudiated long ago. How Did the Giraffe Grow a Long Neck? He had conjectured that acquired characteristics were passed on to the offspring. Thus, to explain how a giraffe got a long neck, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) theorized that, as leaves were eaten from the …
What is Science?
The title asks a fundamental question, doesn’t it? What exactly is science? After all, many evolutionists claim there are no true scientists who are creationists. Are There Any Real Creation Scientists? This statement ignores such pioneering giants as Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Joseph Lister, James Maxwell, Louis Pasteur, Michael Faraday, Samuel F.B. Morse, Johannes Kepler, …