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The Evolution Debate: Creationist Rhetoric

Posted on October 26, 2019 by Alex R. Howe

I’ve pretty much gone through the arguments against evolution I planned to debunk in my various posts. (See the first post in this series here.) To be sure, there’s a lot more material out there, but I’ve addressed the specific … Continue reading →

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The Evolution Debate: The Flood and the Geologic Record

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Alex R. Howe

In the creation-evolution debate, you’ll often see creationists dismiss evidence for evolution after finding some fault with it, as they often do for transitional fossils. But something else you’ll see a lot is reexplaining evidence in a way that fits … Continue reading →

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The Evolution Debate: Beneficial Mutations

Posted on September 1, 2019 by Alex R. Howe

In the creationism-evolution debate, one of the most common creationist talking points is that random mutation cannot be the driving force behind evolution, either because it is too unlikely to happen by random chance, or because mutations can’t make any … Continue reading →

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The Evolution Debate: Transitional Fossils

Posted on August 17, 2019 by Alex R. Howe

According to proponents of evolution, PRATTs are Points Refuted a Thousand Times—arguments by creationists against evolution that are easily refuted, yet keep coming up again and again. I’ve dissected a few of them so far to try to figure out … Continue reading →

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The Evolution Debate: Micro v. Macro

Posted on August 11, 2019 by Alex R. Howe

VS I’m slowly moving forward with my series about evolution. In my previous posts, here and here, I’ve tried to explore why debates between evolution and creationism are so unproductive. One thing I’ve noticed is people on both sides of … Continue reading →

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The Evolution Debate: What is Evolution?

Posted on April 20, 2019 by Alex R. Howe

Previous post in this series: Why are there still monkeys? I wrote before about one of the problems with the creation v. evolution debate being PRATTs, or “Points Refuted a Thousand Times.” In that post, I explained why “If humans … Continue reading →

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Aron Ra, Kent Hovind, and the Evolution Debate

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Alex R. Howe

Over the past several months, Christian creationist Kent Hovind and militant atheist Aron Ra held an extended YouTube debate about the evidence for evolution. (You can see Hovind’s challenge here and the first video of the debate, by Aron Ra, … Continue reading →

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