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Where's the Evolution?

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  The horseshoe crab is a common example of a "living fossil" or "Lazarus taxa",  a modern organism that demonstrates very little divergence from its ancestors in the fossil record. Introduction "Living fossils" (also known as "Lazarus taxa" or "stabilomorphs") are modern organisms that have maintained consistent form over an indefinitely long period, with their ancestors in the fossil record closely resembling their modern-day anatomical makeup. (Garrod, 2023) A famous example is that of the Coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish that disappeared from the fossil record around 65-80 million years ago, only to be found alive and well in the coastal waters of southeast Africa and Southeast Asia during the early 20th century. (Smithsonian, n.d.) By resembling their ancestors so closely, they have led some to question the universality of evolutionary processes - both Genesis Apologetics and Creation Ministries International have cited living foss...

15 (more) Questions for Evolutionists, Answered!

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Since our response to Genesis Apologetics' 25 Questions for Evolutionists , we discovered that Creation Ministries International offers its own pamphlet of questions for evolutionists . While Genesis Apologetics' list was intended for early college students in biology and earth science classes, CMI's is "...made available to concerned individuals and churches who wish to help spread awareness of this greatly censored information." While there is some overlap in the questions asked (with some of them even using the exact same wording), the CMI pamphlet provides more information per question and references original content that dives into the questions in more depth. We wanted to offer a charitable response that's thorough and fair, to help anyone who may want specific answers to this set of questions. The list itself is as follows:     1. How did life originate?     2. How did the DNA code originate?     3. How could mutations - accidental copying mistakes (...

The Loma Linda Study: A Forgotten Piece in the Paluxy Narrative

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Cross-section of a genuine dinosaur track obtained by Loma Linda University in the 1970s, showing evidence of compression just below the surface, which is absent in carved tracks (c. Neufeld, Origins , 1975) I wanted to share a brief post about a study completed by Loma Linda University in the 1970s on the controversial Paluxy tracks. (Check out the articles here and here for a brief summary of some of the key notes on the Paluxy controversy, or Glen Kuban's summaries here and here for a more detailed look). The current narrative among supporters of the Paluxy human-track interpretation is that the evidence of the track's "human-ness" is strong evidence against the theory of evolution and that those holding to atheistic evolution reject the clear evidence of the tracks being human because of their philosophical presuppositions. (Rakowsky, 2022) In his 1991 Dinosaur: Scientific Evidence That Dinosaurs and Men Walked Together , human-track advocate Carl Baugh charac...