Proposal for a Theistic Design Detector
Following years of spiritual research by Rossum, Talk.Origins reveals our official design for a Theistic Design Detector. It is herewith presented to the Discovery Institute who are doubtless anxious to begin construction.

Posted by Wesley R. Elsberry, filed under TOA PotM. Date: November 24, 2008, 2:38 pm | Comments Off

Are evolutionists covering up the evidence for sudden creation?
John Harshman answers three arguments by Jonathan Wells which assert: The sudden appearance of all modern animal groups during the Cambrian explosion; the use of a circular argument (shared characteristics as evidence for common descent) and; that Archaespteryx isn’t transitional because evolutionists agree it is probably not the ancestor of modern birds.

Posted by Wesley R. Elsberry, filed under TOA PotM. Date: November 24, 2008, 1:35 pm | Comments Off

Does handed DNA and protein prove Intelligent Design?

“Dr. Gary Hurd discusses natural (undesigned) forces that may have lead to the predominance of left handed [L] Amino Acids in proteins and right handed [D] Nucleic Acids in DNA and RNA which are found in all existing organisms. He also provides examples of the continuing use of the D form of amino acids revealing clues to the origin of life.”

Posted by Wesley R. Elsberry, filed under TOA PotM. Date: November 24, 2008, 12:32 pm | Comments Off

Testable examples of the emergence and development of novelty from evolution
Steven J itemizes cases where random mutation coupled with natural selection have produced novelty, describes intermediate forms, and explains the mechanism of natural selection (death before reproduction) in response to Tony Pagano’s assertion that it is impossible.

Posted by Wesley R. Elsberry, filed under TOA PotM. Date: November 24, 2008, 8:36 am | Comments Off

What meaning empty rhetoric?
Noctiluca expresses frustration over the empty rhetoric of an anti-evolutionist who refuses to examine the evidence from an “infinitely complex and endlessly interesting” universe, much less consider the consequences for his beliefs.

Posted by Wesley R. Elsberry, filed under TOA PotM. Date: November 24, 2008, 8:24 am | Comments Off

The Nazi redefinitions of Christianity and Evolution
Howard Hershey describes how the Nazis redefined and influenced Christianity and Evolutionary thinking in Germany to support their goals.

Posted by Wesley R. Elsberry, filed under TOA PotM. Date: November 24, 2008, 8:20 am | Comments Off

Are (non-functional) pseudogenes a product of Intelligent Design?
Howard Hershey argues they are not because most look like copies of existing genes that have accumulated random mutations with time, a pattern consistent with an evolutionary process.

Posted by Wesley R. Elsberry, filed under TOA PotM. Date: November 24, 2008, 8:17 am | Comments Off

Saint Augustine on biblical literalism
Vance McAlister (VBM) shows that this fifth century saint was already pleading that Genesis be interpreted in light of common knowledge and common sense.

Posted by Wesley R. Elsberry, filed under TOA PotM. Date: November 24, 2008, 8:15 am | Comments Off

One of Talk.Origins regulars; Augray provides a point by point rebuttal of an article by Duane Gish of ICR which claimed that Archaeopteryx was essentially a fully modern bird, not a transitional species.

Read it here:

http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/2008_01.html

Posted by TOA News, filed under TOA PotM, What's New. Date: March 2, 2008, 12:08 am | Comments Off