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• Brief Definitions
  • Bad Definitions
  • Some Complaints About My Evolution Definition
  • Defining Evolution
  • Gradations of Confidence
    • Theory and Proof
• Evidence
  • The Age of the Earth
    • Astronomical Cycles
      • Astronomy and Glacial Cycles
      • The Earth's Wobbles
      • An Ocean-Floor Spectrum
    • Are Radioactive Dates Consistent?
    • Coral and the Moon
      • The Receding Moon
    • Are Radioactive Dating Methods Consistent?
      • Comparing the Crater-Chain Dates
    • Counting Ice Layers
      • Turning Layer Counts into Year Counts
      • The Depth of the Icecap
      • Why Aren't Ice Layer Counts Exact?
      • Checking We're Right About The Icecap Dating
    • Radioactives Missing From The Earth
    • Radioactive Dating
      • Carbon Dating
    • Rock Layers
    • Creationist Arguments For A Young Earth
      • Young Earth Argument: Moon Dust
      • Young Earth Argument: Population Growth
      • Young Earth Argument: Is The Speed Of Light Decreasing ?
  • Book Reviews
    • Michael Behe's "Darwin's Black Box"
      • An Anonymous Review Of A Paper By Behe
      • How Can Evolution Cause Irreducibly Complex Systems?
        • Duplication Mutations
          • Can A Duplication Mutation Be Beneficial?
    • "Evolution: A Theory In Crisis" by Michael Denton
    • "Icons Of Evolution" by Jonathan Wells
    • Ian Taylor's "In The Minds Of Men"
  • Biology: Strange Features, Strange Creatures
    • If We Evolved From Apes, Then Why Are They Still Here?
    • Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?
    • Living fossils like the Coelacanth
    • De-Evolution
    • Could A Dog Evolve Into A Cat?
    • How Could The Immune System Evolve?
      • When Did The Immune System Evolve?
    • How Could An Eye Evolve?
      • Connecting The Eye And The Brain
      • What Good Is Half An Eye?
        • Does Slightly Better Vision Give An Advantage?
        • Is Poor Vision Useful?
      • Measuring The Visual Quality Of The Eyes In This Sequence
      • Where Would An Eye Spot Have Come From?
      • The Intermediate Stages Of The Fish Eye
      • How Long Would The Fish Eye Take To Evolve?
      • Darwin's Gradualistic Scenarios
        • Example of a Gradualistic Scenario: Mimicry
          • Example of a Mimic: a Uroplatus
          • Example of a Mimic: a Uroplatus
          • Example of a Mimic: a Uroplatus
          • Example of a Mimic: a Uroplatus
          • Example of a Mimic: a Uroplatus
          • Example of a Mimic: a Uroplatus
          • Example of a Mimic: a Uroplatus
          • Example of a Mimic: a Uroplatus
          • Example of a Mimic: a Uroplatus
    • Are fruit flies mutated in labs still just fruit flies?
    • How Could Fruits And Flowers Evolve?
    • Frozen Mammoths
    • Can One Thing Be More Evolved Than Another?
    • Why Are Polar Bears White?
    • Does Natural Selection Require Population Growth?
    • Why Has Macroevolution Not Occurred Recently?
    • How Could Sex Evolve, And Why?
      • How Did A Haploid Cell Get To Be A Diploid Cell?
      • Why Have Males And Females?
      • How Did Sexual Reproduction Get To Multicellular Organisms?
      • What Was The Advantage To Sexual Reproduction?
  • The Theory Of Common Descent
    • Biogeography
    • Different Species With The Same Chromosome Pattern
    • Different Species With The Same "Junk DNA"
      • Junk DNA Shared By Cows And Whales
  • Evidence about Evolution
  • Fossils
    • Anomalous Dates
      • Glen Rose Man
      • The Miocene Human Fossil in Guadeloupe
      • Fresh Lava Dated As 22 Million Years Old
    • How Complete Is The Fossil Record?
    • What Are Fossils?
      • Fossils In Amber
    • How Are Fossils Found?
    • Transitional Fossils Grouping Today's Creatures
      • Fetal Growth of a Horse Foot
      • The Horse Series
      • The Horse Family Tree
    • The Rarity Of Old Fossils
    • Smooth Change in the Fossil Record
      • A Smooth Fossil Transition: Eocoelia
      • A Smooth Fossil Transition: Forams
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        • Geology Dept article 3
      • A Smooth Fossil Transition: Orbulina
        • Geological Data about Orbulina
        • Transitional Fossils Leading to Orbulina
      • A Smooth Fossil Transition: Pelycodus
        • A Pelycodus Fossil
      • A Smooth Fossil Transition: Radiolarian
      • A Pliocene Snail
    • Fossils Showing "Instantaneous" Burial
    • "Polystrate" Fossils
    • Does Science Know How Fossils Form?
    • What Is A Transitional Fossil?
  • Fraud, Mistaken Identity and Claims Thereof
    • Claims that Archaeopteryx is a Fraud
    • Is The "Horse Series" No Longer Valid?
    • Nebraska Man
    • Piltdown Man
  • Geology Issues
  • Is Evolution "In Crisis" ?
  • The Philosophy of Science, Evolution, and Scientific Creationism
    • Atheism?
    • Changes To A Theory
    • Is Evolution Science?
    • Does the Theory of Evolution Keep Changing?
    • What Makes A Theory Scientific?
    • Can a Historical Science be Science?
      • Historical Science: A Murder Mystery Novel
      • Historical Science: An Astronomy Example
      • Historical Science: A Geology Example
    • The Limits of Scientific Knowledge
    • The Process of Science
    • Is Scientific Creationism, Science?
    • Uniformitarianism
  • Logic, Tautology, and Styles of Argument
    • The Apparent Age Argument
    • The Argument From Personal Astonishment
    • The "God Of The Gaps" Argument
    • Scenarios And "Just So" Stories
    • Is "Survival Of The Fittest" A Tautology?
  • Design, chaos, order and probability
    • Scenarios Affect Probability
    • Does Evolution Have A Direction?
    • Is Evolution Random?
    • "One chance in 10 to the 50th can never happen"
      • "Methinks it is like a weasel" program
    • Can New, Beneficial Genetic Information Arise?
    • The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
      • Thermodynamics as Math
      • An Engineer Looks at the Creationist Movement
  • Physics and Astronomy Issues
    • Are the "Fundamental Constants" of Physics, Constant?
      • What is a Fundamental Constant?
        • What is a Dimensionless Constant?
      • Evidence about Constants Being the Same in the Distant Past
        • The Distance to Supernova 1987a
    • Is the Universe "fine tuned"?
      • New Universes?
    • Neutrinos from the Sun
  • Quotes From Authorities
    • Scientific Authorities
    • Quote: Charles Darwin About Fossils
    • Did Darwin Recant?
    • Quote: Isaac Asimov
    • Quote: Francisco Ayala
    • Quote: Charles Darwin About The Eye
    • Quote: Christian de Duve
    • Quote: Theodosius Dobzhansky
    • Quote: John A. Eddy
    • Quote: Niles Eldredge
    • Quote: Alan Feduccia
    • Quote: Stephen Jay Gould
    • Quote: Francis Hitching
    • Quote: Robert Jastrow
    • Quote: James D. Watson
    • Quote: Leonardo Da Vinci
    • Quote: Richard Lewontin
    • Quote: Lynn Margulis On Mutations
    • Quote: Lynn Margulis On Evolution As A Religious Sect
    • Quote: Lynn Margulis on Speciation
    • Quote: Lynn Margulis on Evolution
    • Quote: Ernst Mayr
    • Quote: Malcolm Muggeridge
    • Quote: Leslie Orgel
    • Quote: Charles Oxnard
    • Quote: Colin Patterson's Talk
    • Quote: Colin Patterson on Transitional Fossils
    • Quote: Karl Popper
    • Quote: David Raup
    • Quote: Mark Ridley
    • Quote: Mark Ridley
    • Quote: Pat Robertson
    • Quote: George Gaylord Simpson
    • Quote: J.W.N. Sullivan
    • Quote: George Wald
    • Quote: Lyall Watson
    • Quotes: Charles Darwin
    • Quotes: Lynn Margulis
    • Quotes: Colin Patterson
  • Speciation: Can New Species Arise?
    • Speciation by Genetic Bottleneck
    • A Chromosomal Inversion
      • About My Chromosome Images
    • Speciation by Polyploidy
    • Speciation by Mating Preference
    • Speciation by Punctuated Equilibrium
      • Punctuated Equilibrium Example: A Marine Microfossil
      • Punctuated Equilibrium Example: Some Dinosaurs
      • Punctuated Equilibrium Example: A Brachiopod
      • Punctuated Equilibrium Example: A Trilobite
    • Strange Problems with the Word "Species"
      • Some Cabbages
      • Gene Pools
      • Species That Happen Only In Zoos
      • Creatures That Can Almost-But-Not-Quite Breed
      • Creatures That Can Be Persuaded To Breed
      • Ring Species
    • Recent Examples of Speciation
    • Speciation By The Traditional Scenario
    • A Chromosomal Translocation
  • Authority, Respect and Status
    • Is Evolution An Active, Accepted Area Of Science ?
    • Would scientists accept evidence against evolution?
    • Charles Darwin's Status
    • Are Scientists Uncertain About Evolution?
• Glossary
  • Biological Classification
• Creation/Evolution
  • Who Believes What?
    • Flat Earth
    • Geocentrics
  • What I Believe
• Books
• Complexity
• Site Map
• Voices for Evolution

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