Category:Talk.Origins Archive

A

• A fossil whale was found vertically through several strata (Talk.Origins)
• A freshly killed seal was C14 dated at 1300 years old (Talk.Origins)
• A petrified hammer was found in Cretaceous rocks (Talk.Origins)
• A plesiosaur was found by a Japanese trawler (Talk.Origins)
• Abiogenesis experiments produce toxins such as cyanide and formaldehyde (Talk.Origins)
• Abiogenesis is speculative, without evidence (Talk.Origins)
• All hominid fossils are fully human or fully ape (Talk.Origins)
• All human fossils would fit on a billiard table (Talk.Origins)
• All kinds could fit (Talk.Origins)
• Amino acids aren't generated from just CO2, nitrogen, and water (Talk.Origins)
• Amount of dissolved sodium in oceans (Talk.Origins)
• An 1883 Turkish expedition found Noah's Ark (Talk.Origins)
• An antigen receptor protein structure is same in camels and sharks (Talk.Origins)
• An evolved mind is fallible, its conclusions untrustworthy (Talk.Origins)
• An old earth would be covered by 182' of meteoric dust (Talk.Origins)
• Anchor stones of Noah's Ark have been found (Talk.Origins)
• Ancient coal and oil are C14 dated as only 50,000 years old (Talk.Origins)
• Animals are not moral, aesthetic, idealistic, or religious (Talk.Origins)
• Animals hibernated on the Ark (Talk.Origins)
• Animals' exacting needs could have evolved after the flood (Talk.Origins)
• Anthropologists disagree (Talk.Origins)
• Appendix (Talk.Origins)
• Aquatic organisms could have survived the Flood (Talk.Origins)
• Archaeologists and forensic scientists can detect design (Talk.Origins)
• Archaeopteryx is a fake (Talk.Origins)
• Archaeopteryx is fully bird (Talk.Origins)
• Archaeopteryx was probably not an ancestor of modern birds (Talk.Origins)
• Archaeoraptor was a fake (Talk.Origins)
• Argument from incredulity (Talk.Origins)
• Arthropods arose suddenly (Talk.Origins)
• Artiodactyls (Talk.Origins)
• Australopithecus was fully ape, closer to chimp (Talk.Origins)
• Average land animal is the size of a sheep (Talk.Origins)
• Average soil depth is consistent with young earth (Talk.Origins)

B

• Babbage was a creationist (Talk.Origins)
• Bacterial flagella are irreducibly complex (Talk.Origins)
• Bats (Talk.Origins)
• Baugh found a fossilized finger from the Cretaceous (Talk.Origins)
• Behemoth, from the book of Job, was a dinosaur (EvoWiki)
• Behemoth, from the book of Job, was a dinosaur (Talk.Origins)
• Bible claims inspiration (Talk.Origins)
• Bible got water cycle right (Talk.Origins)
• Bible is harmonious throughout (Talk.Origins)
• Bible is influential (Talk.Origins)
• Bible is intellectually honest (Talk.Origins)
• Bible is popular (Talk.Origins)
• Bible is target of persecution (Talk.Origins)
• Bible says the earth is round (Talk.Origins)
• Bible says the earth is unsupported (Talk.Origins)
• Bible says the sun goes around the earth (Talk.Origins)
• Bible says the sun goes around the earth - Part 2 (Talk.Origins)
• Bible specifies best time for circumcision (Talk.Origins)
• Bible specifies good medical and hygienic practices (Talk.Origins)
• Bible's accuracy on other scientific points shows overall accuracy (Talk.Origins)
• Big bang theory is wrong (Talk.Origins)
• Bilateral symmetry and evolution (Talk.Origins)
• Biology can reasonably be taught without evolution (Talk.Origins)
• Bombardier beetle chemicals would explode if mixed without an inhibitor (Talk.Origins)
• Butterfly metamorphosis is too complex to have evolved (Talk.Origins)

C

• Cambrian explosion contradicts evolutionary "tree" pattern (Talk.Origins)
• Cambrian explosion shows all kinds of life appearing suddenly (Talk.Origins)
• Carbon dating gives inaccurate results (Talk.Origins)
• Carnivores (Talk.Origins)
• Castenedolo, Olmo, and Calaveras skulls were found in Pliocene strata (Talk.Origins)
• Cetaceans (Talk.Origins)
• Chinese glyph for "ark" is literally "8 mouths" (Talk.Origins)
• Chinese treasure ships show Noah's Ark was feasible (Talk.Origins)

C cont.

• Christ's death was unjust if physical death wasn't the penalty for sin (Talk.Origins)
• Chromosome counts differ greatly and unsystematically between species (Talk.Origins)
• Coal and oil can form quickly (Talk.Origins)
• Coconino sandstone was deposited underwater (Talk.Origins)
• Comets wouldn't have lasted in an old universe (Talk.Origins)
• Complex organs couldn't have evolved (Talk.Origins)
• Complex specified information indicates design (Talk.Origins)
• Complexity doesn't come from simplicity (Talk.Origins)
• Condylarths (Talk.Origins)
• Consistency of radiometric dating comes from selective reporting (Talk.Origins)
• Contorted positions of fossil animals indicate rapid burial (Talk.Origins)
• Cosmic rays and free neutrinos affect U and Ar decay rates (Talk.Origins)
• Cosmos has an axis, contrary to big bang models (Talk.Origins)
• Cosmos is fine-tuned to permit human life (Talk.Origins)
• Cosmos is fine-tuned to permit scientific discovery (Talk.Origins)
• Cost of natural selection is prohibitive (Talk.Origins)
• Cowling's theorem disproves dynamo theory of earth's magnetic field (Talk.Origins)
• Creation (EvoWiki)
• CreationWiki:Talk.Origins responses
• Creationism and evolution are the only 2 models (Talk.Origins)
• Creationism has explanatory power (Talk.Origins)
• Creationism, being Bible-based, is good (Talk.Origins)
• Creationists are prevented from publishing in science journals (Talk.Origins)
• Crew could feed and care for animals (Talk.Origins)
• Crime rates etc. have increased since evolution began to be taught (Talk.Origins)
• Criticism of RATE’s helium diffusion data
• Cybernetic simulations show Darwinian processes don't produce order (Talk.Origins)

D

• DNA needs proteins to form; Proteins need DNA (Talk.Origins)
• Damadian was denied a Nobel prize because he was a creationist (Talk.Origins)
• Dark moths increased in s. Britain after pollution control began (Talk.Origins)
• Dark moths never completely replaced light ones in Manchester (Talk.Origins)
• Darwin himself was racist (Talk.Origins)
• Darwin made it easy to become an intellectually fulfilled atheist (Talk.Origins)
• Darwin on evolution of the eye (Talk.Origins)
• Darwin recanted on his deathbed (Talk.Origins)
• Darwin suffered from psychoneurosis (Talk.Origins)
• Darwin's finches show only microevolution (Talk.Origins)
• Darwin's work refers to "preservation of favoured races" (Talk.Origins)
• Dawkins could not give an example of increasing information (EvoWiki)
• Dawkins could not give an example of increasing information (Talk.Origins)
• Death and suffering before humanity implies an unmerciful God (Talk.Origins)
• Dembski's filter can detect design (Talk.Origins)
• Design arguments converted atheist Anthony Flew to theism (Talk.Origins)
• Design is detectable (Talk.Origins)
• Design requires a designer (Talk.Origins)
• Dinosaur figurines from Acambaro show human/dino association (Talk.Origins)
• Dinosaurs may still be alive in the Congo (Talk.Origins)
• Direct mutagenesis better explains peppered moth variation (Talk.Origins)
• Do you want to be descended from a monkey? (Talk.Origins)
• Duck-billed dinosaur find disproves its bird ancestry (Talk.Origins)

E

• ERTS satellite photographed Noah's Ark in 1973 (Talk.Origins)
• Early molecules would have been destroyed by UV light (Talk.Origins)
• Early molecules would have decayed (Talk.Origins)
• Earth's early atmosphere had abundant oxygen (Talk.Origins)
• Earth's early atmosphere had no reducing gases (Talk.Origins)
• Earth's magnetic field is decaying, indicating a young earth (Talk.Origins)
• Earth's rotation is slowing, indicating a young earth (Talk.Origins)
• Ed Behling was led to the Ark in 1973 (Talk.Origins)
• Elephants (Talk.Origins)
• Endorphins at death indicate a beneficent creator, not evolution (Talk.Origins)
• Entire geological column doesn't exist (Talk.Origins)
• Erosion rate of Niagara Falls' rim indicates young earth (Talk.Origins)
• Evaporites are too thick (Talk.Origins)
• Evaporites contain no organic matter (Talk.Origins)
• Evaporites could form without evaporation (Talk.Origins)
• Even the simplest life is incredibly complex (Talk.Origins)
• Evidence for design disproves evolutionary mechanisms (Talk.Origins)

E cont.

• Evidence of blood in a Tyrannosaurus bone indicates recent burial (Talk.Origins)
• EvoWiki
• Evolution can't be falsified (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution can't be replicated (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution can't explain butterfly evolving from caterpillar (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution can't explain consciousness (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution can't explain photosynthesis (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution doesn't explain art (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution doesn't explain homosexuality (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution doesn't explain human intelligence (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution doesn't explain language ability (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution doesn't explain morals (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution doesn't explain music (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution doesn't explain our using 1/10th of our brain (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution doesn't explain personality and emotions (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution doesn't explain religion (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution doesn't make predictions (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution encourages eugenics (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution encourages promiscuity and lust (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution from a single ancestor is discredited (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution hasn't been proved (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution is a religion (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution is a useless theory (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution is ambiguously defined (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution is atheistic (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution is baseless without a theory of abiogenesis (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution is only a theory (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution is racist (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution is the foundation of an immoral worldview (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution leads to social Darwinism (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution leaves lots of things unexplained. (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution needs an energy conversion mechanism to utilize energy (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution predicts a continuum of organisms, not discrete kinds (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution requires as much faith as creationism (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution requires naturalism (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution teaches that we are animals and to behave as such (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution will soon be widely rejected (Talk.Origins)
• Evolution's materialism or naturalism denies a role for God (Talk.Origins)
• Evolutionary algorithms smuggle in design in the fitness function (Talk.Origins)
• Evolutionary theory has become sacrosanct (Talk.Origins)
• Evolutionists are intellectual snobs (Talk.Origins)
• Evolutionists don't accept Walt Brown's debate challenge (Talk.Origins)
• Evolutionists don't accept debate challenges (Talk.Origins)
• Evolutionists have blinded themselves to seeing design (Talk.Origins)
• Evolutionists haven't met Hovind's challenge to prove evolution (Talk.Origins)
• Evolutionists interpret evidence based on their preconceptions (Talk.Origins)
• Evolutionists refuse Mastropaolo's "Life Science Prize" challenge (Talk.Origins)
• Experiments show that strata can violate principles of superposition (Talk.Origins)
• Explosions such as the big bang don't produce order or information (Talk.Origins)

F

• FABNAQ
• Fabre was a creationist (Talk.Origins)
• Fairness demands evolution and creation be given equal time (Talk.Origins)
• Federal law (Santorum Amendment) supports teaching alternatives (Talk.Origins)
• Finger development differs greatly between human and frog (Talk.Origins)
• Finger development disproves birds descended from dinosaurs (Talk.Origins)
• First cells couldn't come together by chance (Talk.Origins)
• First known languages are highly complex (Talk.Origins)
• Flood Geology (Creationism vs. Science)
• Flood from comet (Talk.Origins)
• Flood from vapor canopy (Talk.Origins)
• Flowers of asexually-reproducing plants (EvoWiki)
• Folded rocks must have been soft when folded (Talk.Origins)
• Footprints in Coconino sandstone appear to have been made underwater (Talk.Origins)
• Fossilization requires sudden burial (Talk.Origins)
• Fossils are dated from strata; strata are dated from fossils (Talk.Origins)
• Fossils can form quickly (Talk.Origins)