One Needle, A Universe of Haystacks: What a Single Working Protein Asks of Chance
Twenty amino acids, one hundred fifty positions, and one question biochemists actually argue about: how rare is a sequence that folds into something useful?
Twenty amino acids, one hundred fifty positions, and one question biochemists actually argue about: how rare is a sequence that folds into something useful?
The theistic evolution debate is always fought in Genesis. Try it in 1 Corinthians 15 instead: if death made the body, what exactly is destroyed when God raises it?
Sexual reproduction costs a lineage half its output every generation and yields nothing until the whole system is finished. Maintenance is not origin.
Apologetics · Creation — Theistic evolution and the image of God: where, exactly, does man begin? Most arguments about creation
Haeckel’s embryo grid was flagged as doctored within a decade and printed in textbooks for a century. The fraud is not an argument against Darwinism — but three things it exposes are.
Apologetics · Creation — what the Hebrew word min actually claims, and what it does not Ten times in the
Paul says creation is groaning and waiting to be delivered. Theistic evolution has to explain what it is groaning about.
Darwinism needs mutations to build. The measured ledger of mutation runs the other direction — and time is what makes it worse, not better.
The strongest popular objection to design is not that biology looks accidental. It is that biology looks badly built. Most
A federal-head Adam drawn from a population is available to theistic evolution. A woman built from that man’s side is not — and the apostles argue from the mechanism, not the theme.
The tautology charge against Darwinism fails, and Christians should stop using it. The sharper version of that objection survives scrutiny — here is how to ask it.
Soft tissue in dinosaur bone and carbon-14 where there should be none. What the anomalies actually establish, what they do not, and where the young-earth case really rests.
The backwards retina, the looping laryngeal nerve, the failing knee. The strongest objection to intelligent design, taken at full strength — and the answer Scripture made first.
Make Adam a symbol and you have not lost a chapter of Genesis. You have lost the structure of your rescue, because Paul’s gospel argument runs on two men.
The Waiting-Time Problem and the Limits of Deep Time Every conversation about origins eventually reaches the same move. You raise
Apologetics · Creation — Intelligent Design and the origin of life Most debates about origins start in the wrong place.
God guided evolution. Two words carry the whole peace treaty, and one of them has never been cashed out. There are only three things it can mean, and each costs something.
The fossil record’s loudest signal is not change. It is the absence of it. Darwin knew where his theory was
Ninety-eight percent of your DNA was written off as leftover debris. Forty years of looking has revised that number in exactly one direction.
The usual frame is science against Scripture. The harder question is whose reading of Genesis you are overruling. Theistic evolution