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Evolution vs. Creationism

A History of the Creation vs. Evolution Debate
From Religious Tolerance.org. A good place to start if you are interested in this debate.

From the Talk Origins Archive:
Frequently asked but rarely answered questions for Creationists
Excerpt:
Question 2. Is there any observation which supports any feature of your theory? (An adequate answer to this question will not be something which is a problem for evolution, but is rather evidence for your theory. Remember that it is logically possible for both evolution and your theory to be false. Something which appears to support Lamarkian evolution rather than Darwinian, or punctuated equilibrium rather than gradualism is not enough. Also, the observation must be something which can be checked by an independent observer.)

2a. Is there any observation which was predicted by your theory?

The Evolution Evidence Page

Here's a Christian who claims that the New Testament talks about Evolution. An excerpt from her essay:

Following is a list of Christ's sayings that hint at evolution. Of course God meant these parables to teach us about the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven, but taken in their literal sense it is obvious that Jesus understood the concept of the struggle for survival and how limited resources lead to only a few organisms successfully reproducing out of the abundance of life forms that had their chance to try. What is more, He expected at least some of His audience to be familiar with the concept. Christ taught for the ages, not just for the few precious years He walked the dust of the Earth.

Creationists'Lies and Blunders



Science & Creationism
An online book by the National Academy of Sciences.

And in this Corner....

Arguments and Rebuttals
between Creationists and Evolutionists

Evolutionists When Charles Darwin introduced the theory of evolution through natural selection 143 years ago, the scientists of the day argued over it fiercely, but the massing evidence from paleontology, genetics, zoology, molecular biology and other fields gradually established evolution's truth beyond reasonable doubt. Today that battle has been won everywhere -- except in the public imagination. Taken from Tom Rennie's 15 answers to Creationist Nonsense

Creationists 1. [Creationists suggest that] evolution is only a theory. It is not a fact or a scientific law. Rennie argued that while laypeople may use the term theory as something that falls in the middle of a hierarchy of certainty above a mere hypothesis but below a law, the truth is that scientists do not use the terms that way (2002, 287[1]:79). To support his argument, he then offered the following definition of a scientific theory from the National Academy of Sciences: A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses. Read the rest of this rebuttal to Rennie's article: Apologetics Press Rebuttal

Evolutionists When scientists introduced the world to humankind's earliest known ancestor two weeks ago, they showed us more than a mere museum piece. Peering at the 7 million-year-old skull is almost like seeing a reflection of our earlier selves. And yet that fossil represents only a recent chapter in a grander story, beginning with the first single-celled life that arose and began evolving some 3.8 billion years ago. Now, as the science of evolution moves beyond guesswork, we are learning something even more remarkable: how that tale unfolded. From Tom Hayden's article advocating the theory of Evolution A Theory Evolves How evolution really works, and why it matters more than ever

Creationists It used to be that the only things certain in life were taxes and death. According to journalist Thomas Hayden, we now can add organic evolution to that list. The latest effort to shore up the ever-faltering theory of evolution was the cover story of the July 29, 2002 issue of U.S. News & World Report. In explaining how evolution works, and why it matters more than ever, Hayden stated: It's an everyday phenomenon, a fundamental fact of biology as real as hunger and as unavoidable as death (2002, 133[4]:43). Mr. Hayden�s grandiose claim notwithstanding, organic evolution is neither �as real as hunger nor as unavoidable as death. Aplogetics Press Rebuttal to Hayden

Creationists I welcome Genesis to go into the lab and be tested. I'd like to see any scientific evidence that discredits anything told in the book of Genesis. Genesis tells us that all the animals are going to bring forth after their kind, thousands of years of breeding experience has proven that to be exactly correct. Dogs produce dogs, you know, and cats produce cats. There is nothing in Genesis that can't stand all the scientific proving you want to give it. from Kent Hovind's opening argument. Read the debate from the beginning starting with Hovind's introduction

Evolutionists I really want to respond to several things. The first thing is that the individuals who were responsible for creation science are the second generation of the people who followed the writings of the fundamentals--the fundamentals being a series of tracts that were written around ... between 1914 and 1919, by conservative Christians who were alarmed with the success of biologists in essentially selling the evolutionary model to the Christian community from Terry Prewitt's opening argument read his introduction

Audio debates between Evolutionists and Creationists

1) This debate is between young earth creation scientists Dr. Kent Hovind and Biologist Dr. William Moore (an agnostic.) (Tape 8) It occurred at Wayne State University in Detroit. Dr. Moore is one of America's leading proponents of evolution who has been teaching it at the college level for over 30 years.

2) Here's a debate between young earth creation scientists Dr. Kent Hovind and Mike Schultz versus theistic evolutionists Dr. Terry Prewitt and Nick Powers.


From the Talk Origins Archive
An Index To Creationst Claims
A comprehensive rebutttal of almost all the main Creationist points.

Creationism Links







Institiute for Creation Research

12 Quotes from Leading Evolutionists Evolution is science? It is admittedly unobservable, lacking fossil evidence, dependent upon scientific consensus, and essentially a belief system about past life on Earth. The following 12 quotes are from leading and well known scientists and researchers. A larger work with 130 similar quotes is available: "The Revised Quote Book", edited by Dr. A. Snelling, PhD, pub. by: Creation Science Foundation, Australia See the 12 quotes at Creationism.org

True Origin Archive
A rebuttal to Talk Origin Archive.


The Biblical Creation Society

The Revolution against Evolution

Advice to Christians
who must deal with Evolutionists.

Science Not Sure

Greatest Mysteries: How Did the Universe Begin?

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Other Possibilities?

The Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians .
One of the many texts discovered at Nag Hammadi . It conveys the Gnostic (Sethian) understanding of how the earth came into being, how Seth, in the Gnostic interpretation, is incarnated as Jesus in order to release people's souls from the evil prison that is creation. In this sense the Gospel of the Egyptians is echoing the Hindu/Buddhist concept of Maya, this plane on which we currently exist, which is actually illusory and which prevents humans from seeing the true unity of the cosmos, and the soul's need for, and eventual liberation from, the physical plane of being.

Scientists Scientists Now Know: We're Not From Here! Read a rebuttal of this theory by astrophysicist Dr Denis Sullivan, from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

World Mysteries

Award winning site delving into many world mysteries contains lots of articles by noted authors in the alternative theories field. The Big Bang theory is challenged by the concepts of Superstrings and the 10th dimension and Hindu (Vedic) physics/Cosmogony. The question of human origins is addressed. Was the Human genome a product, a project, of alien intervention?


There is a great deal of archaeological evidence that the history of life on earth might be far different than what current geological and anthropological texts tell us. Consider these astonishing finds:

The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts

Real or Fakes? You decide...

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