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December 2020

December 07, 2020

What Does Critical Thinking Mean when You’re in a Conspiracy Theory?

I don't know where we move on from here, as a country, but I do...

August 2020

August 05, 2020

Ken Ham and the Young Earth Creationist Fear of Uncertainty

Ham's response makes clear how much he and others at young earth creationist organizations like...

February 2020

February 05, 2020

No, Sauropods Did NOT Once Walk on Their Front Legs

I recently came upon a Fox News article titled Giant 'thunder lizard' dinosaurs may have...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

No, Dragons Were Not Dinosaurs

Hodge would probably contend that the difference is that we have dinosaur bones and know...

March 2019

March 06, 2019

Creationists: Adam Named 3,500 Animal Kinds in 3 Hours and 45 Minutes

The image I'm still trying to get out of my head is of Adam naming...

January 2019

January 08, 2019

Can Evangelicals Find Agreement on Creation and Evolution? No.

Wilson's is a middle circle, including young earth creationists who aren't too dogmatic---those who affirm...

September 2018

September 05, 2018

When Are Young Earth Creationists Like Star Wars Fans?

The underlying issue is this: Ham has predetermined his conclusion from the outset, and he...

August 2018

August 29, 2018

Scientists and Creationists Respond to Neanderthal/Denisovan Coupling

Creationists predetermine what happened---based on their interpretation of Genesis---and proceed to make science fit those...

August 15, 2018

On the Racism of Creationist Henry Morris

In the early 1960s, Henry Morris revolutionized the young earth creationist world with his seminal...

August 13, 2018

Creationist Calls Human and Neanderthal Interbreeding “Bestiality”

Until I came across these paragraphs from Paabo's book, I was most familiar with only...

May 2018

May 07, 2018

The Incredible Fragility of Young Earth Creationist Evangelicalism

Evangelicals need to think long and hard about what they are doing when they tie...

February 2018

February 14, 2018

Answers in Genesis Plays Fast and Loose with Mitochondrial DNA

Answers in Genesis' Melissa Webb recently wrote about a family that had their DNA tested...

February 06, 2018

Hey Creationists—Stop Arguing with a Strawman

Answers in Genesis recently posted a piece titled Human Ingenuity: Outsmarting Evolutionary Stories, by Avery Foley,...

January 2018

January 09, 2018

Creationist: We’ll Only Be Impressed If You Find Transitional Fossils in the Precambrian

Hodge's argument appears to be that no transitional fossil found in the layers creationists claim...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

Actually, Creationists Do Believe in Evolution

Answers in Genesis claims that Neanderthals and all other early hominids were descended from Noah...

July 2017

July 19, 2017

The Creationist Giraffe

I was fascinated by this nerve when I first learned about it in college. This...

June 2017

June 26, 2017

Answers in Genesis Says Humans Did Not Come From Africa—And It Gets Weird

Yes, you read that right. The claim here is that Africans have more diverse mitochondrial...

June 22, 2017

Young Earth Creationism Is Evolving

Jeanson does not object to Venema's statement there are transitional fossils, and that the gaps...

June 06, 2017

Evangelicals Who Link Evolution and Racism Forget Christianity Was Used to Defend Slavery and Segregation

Here is the central problem for evangelicals: If racism stemmed from evolution, as they claim,...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Why Answers in Genesis Doesn’t Get Genre

I no longer identify as a Christian and I don't much stake in arguments between...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

Young Earth Creationism’s Important Scientific Veneer

Several months ago, my mother send me some books for the children. Most of them...

September 2015

September 21, 2015

Young Earth Creationists: Neanderthals Were Human

What with the news about homo naledi, a new hominin species, it's probably time to...

August 2015

August 04, 2015

Are Creationists Withholding Information from Children?

In the end, arguing that creationists are withholding information from children to keep them from...

April 2015

April 09, 2015

A Matter of Patriarchy

In God's Not Dead, college freshman Josh Wheaton stands up against his philosophy professor's attempts...

August 2014

August 06, 2014

In Defense of Theistic Evolution

In this post, I want to address the four reasons Greta argues God and evolution...

July 2014

July 09, 2014

That Time I Took Sean to an Answers in Genesis Conference

When I was in college I began dating (we called it "courting") a young man...

June 2014

June 28, 2014

Young Earth Creationism Isn’t Science

Seven years ago, I left young earth creationism. Three years ago, I blogged about the...

February 2014

February 08, 2014

How (Not) to Challenge a Creationist

Yes, I am aware that many of the creationist messages posted on Buzzfeed reveal an...

January 2013

January 22, 2013

Why You Need to Read Jonathan Dudley’s Broken Words

Jonathan Dudley sent me a copy of his Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and...

August 2012

August 17, 2012

A Taxonomy of Creationists

There was a post on the Friendly Atheist a while back which got me thinking...