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What’s New: • Evolutionists’ Confusion over   Mutations and Information Put   to Rest — Lee   Spetner rebuts   more misinformed and easily   demolished 'refutations'. • Not Enough Time for evolution.   Lee Spetner explains the failure   of Wilf & Ewens to make a   cogent case. • Evolution as Creation Myth   Several thoughtful questions for   teachers & students (and every   one else, for that matter). • Biology relies on Evolution?   A myth belied by university-   level texts & course content. • Ashby Camp’s ever-growing   list of 1544 web articles—the   cream of the crop—supporting   creation & challenging   evolution. Quick Links: • Talk.Origins Rebuttals • Guest Articles:     • Geology & Dating     • Biology     • Information Theory     • Paleontology     • Astronomy     • General • Book Reviews • Creationists Answer Their    Detractors • Alleged Biblical Creation    Challanges Answered • Beyond Science • Feedback & Resources About TrueOrigin: • TrueOrigin FAQ  Q&A

he TrueOrigin Archive comprises an intellectually honest  response to what in fairness can only be described as  evolutionism—the doctrine of strict philosophical naturalism as a necessary presupposition in matters of science history (i.e., origins).  This doctrine is abundantly evident in much material advocating the Neo-Darwinian macro-evolution origins model, including—but not limited to—the “Talk.Origins” newsgroup and the “Talk.Origins Archive” website.

Advocates of evolutionary theory practice evolutionism when they routinely invoke (and dogmatically defend) naturalistic and humanistic philosophical presuppositions, and arbitrarily apply those presuppositions to their interpretation of the available empirical data.  This fact (which many of them zealously deny) severely erodes evolutionists’ credibility, and effectively disqualifies them from any claim to objectivity in matters concerning origins and science, though much material is published by evolutionists under the pretense that it is the product only of purely objective and unprejudiced scientific inquiry.

The contributions posted at this site give some expression to the “other side”—dispelling the two most popular myths perpetuated by most advocates of evolutionism, namely:

1.  The myth that the Neo-Darwinian macro-evolution belief system—as heavily popularized by today’s self-appointed “science experts,” the popular media, academia, and certain government agencies—finds “overwhelming” or even merely unequivocal support in the data of empirical science 2.  The myth that the alternative—biblical creation—somehow fails to find any compelling, corroborative support in the same data

The question of origins is plainly a matter of science history—not the domain of applied science.  Contrary to the unilateral denials of many evolutionists, one’s worldview does indeed play heavily on one’s interpretation of scientific data, a phenomenon that is magnified in matters concerning origins, where neither repeatability, nor observation, nor measurement—the three immutable elements of the scientific method—may be employed.  Many proponents of evolutionism nevertheless persist in claiming exclusive “scientific” status for their popularized beliefs, while heaping out-of-hand dismissal and derision upon all doubters, spurning the very advice of Darwin himself.

This site is one answer to such unreasonable—and unscientific—practices...

“Talk.Origins Archive” Rebuttals

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• New Evolutionists’ Confusion over Mutations and Information Put to Rest (Lee Spetner)—rebuts more misinformed, incompetent, and easily demolished 'refutations'.
• Helium Evidence for a Young Earth (Russ Humphreys)—rebuts Kevin Henke’s sloppy, unaccountable criticisms of the peer-reviewed RATE findings.
• Helium Evidence for A Young World Overcomes Pressure (Russ Humphreys)—rebuts the second edition of Kevin Henke’s sloppy, unaccountable criticisms of the peer-reviewed RATE findings.
• 29 ‘Evidences’ for Macroevolution (Ashby Camp)—a thorough critique of Douglas Theobald’s TalkOrigins essay citing a series of alleged ‘predictions’ for evolution.
• Five Major Evolutionist Misconceptions About Evolution (T. Wallace)—a response to a nearly fact-free TalkOrigins essay of a similar title by Mark Isaak.
• Thermodynamics vs. Evolutionism (T. Wallace)—a response to Frank Steiger’s TalkOrigins essays feigning immunity for evolutionism from thermodynamic absolutes.
• Problems with a Global Flood? (Jonathan Sarfati)—a rebuttal of Mark Isaak’s use of half-baked exegesis and presuppositional bigotry to “discredit the flood hypothesis”.
• A Scientific Critique of Evolution (Lee Spetner)—a response to Dr. Edward Max’s TalkOrigins criticisms of the position articulated in Spetner’s book, Not By Chance.
• A Continuation of Spetner v. Max (Lee Spetner)—response and commentary by Spetner on Ed Max’s additional counter-claims and criticisms at TalkOrigins.
• The Moon is Still Young (Malcolm Bowden’s)—rebuttal of Tim Thompson’s attempted dismissal of young age arguments involving the earth-moon system.
• A Theory of Creation (T. Wallace)—answering the vacuous (but popular, at TalkOrigins) claim that no empirically relevant creationary theory exists.
• Talk.Origins: Deception by Omission (Jorge Fernandez)—documents how Talk.Origins avoids significant details through conspicuous omission and oversimplification.

Guest Articles on Related Topics

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      GEOLOGY & RADIOMETRIC DATING  TOP

• An Old Earth is the Heart of Evolution (Jonathan F. Henry)—documents the arbitrary assumption of an old earth as a vital premise to every facet of evolutionary thought.
• Assessing Creationist Stratigraphy (Carl Froede & John Reed)—uses evidence from the Gulf of Mexico to examine various approaches to stratigraphy within the creation model.
• Geology and the Young Earth (Tas Walker)—answers several popular arguments raised against a young earth—even by so-called ‘Bible-believing’ bibliosceptics.
• The Geologic Column: Does It Exist? (John Woodmorappe)—examines the credibility of the much-publicized “geologic column” (and why it always seems to look bigger in print!).
• Ghost Craters in the Sky (Helen Fryman)—Lunar “geology” falls far short of supporting evolutionists’ belief in a 4.5 billion year old moon. (Condensed from a 1998 presentation by Dr. Danny Faulkner.)
• The Dating Game (David Plaisted)—examines the facts behind radiometric (& other) dating methods cited by evolutionists to “prove” their million-year scenarios.
• National Geographic joins the Dating Game (John Woodmorappe)— documents the popular-level periodical’s most recent effort to blur the distinction between science and evolutionary dogma.

      BIOLOGY  TOP

• The “Biology Only Makes Sense in Light of Evolution” Myth (Jerry Bergman)—an empirical study and evaluation, citing numerous university-level texts and courses.
• Bacterial Resistance an Example Evolutionary Change?  Kevin Anderson explains how neither horizontal transfer nor mutations corroborate Darwinism’s predictons.
• Darwinism and the Deterioration of the Genome  Jerry Bergman explains how current knowledge of mutations and their effects contradict Darwinism’s predictons.
• Trilobites — The Eyes Have It  (high-level sophistication, that is)  Sherwin & Armitage explore this “primitive” creature’s remarkably complex vision apparatus.
• The Demise of Mitochondrial Eve  (Harrub & Thompson)—another myth slain by empirical data (though some evolutionists apparently still cling to this obsolete icon).
• Homosexuality and the ‘Gay Gene’ (Harrub, Thompson & Miller)—debunks popular pseudo-science of the same variety as that used for evolutionary dogma.
• Evolutionary Theories on Gender and Sexual Reproduction (Harrub & Thompson)—manifests the shortcomings of evolutionary theories on the origin of sex.
• B-Cell Maturation: An Unsuitable Analogy for Neo-Darwinian Theory (Royal Truman)—demonstrates in detail why the fine tuning of antibodies in vertebrates is not analogous to Neo-Darwinian theory (as claimed by some evolutionists), and therefore adds no credibility to Neo-Darwinian theory.
• Critical Characteristics and the Irreducible Knee Joint (Stuart Burgess)—demonstrates that the knee could not have evolved but must have been created as a fully functioning limb joint from the beginning of its existence.
• Is the Inverted Retina Really “Bad Design”? (Peter W.V. Gurney)—reveals significant details commonly “overlooked” by skeptics who cite the human retina as “evidence” against the Creator, and (therefore) for evolution.
• Origin of Life: Instability of Building Blocks (Jonathan Sarfati)—demonstrates that producing a few chemical ‘building blocks’ lends far less credibility to the ‘naturalistic origin of life’ (abiogenesis) hypothesis than popularly imagined.
• Hydrothermal Origin of Life? (Jonathan Sarfati)—demonstrates the logistical weaknesses in the popularly touted hypothesis that life could have arisen in a submarine hydrothermal vent.
• Why Abiogenesis is Impossible (Jerry Bergman)—Empirical science fails to lend credibility to the popular evolutionary assumption that life could have arisen as a product of purely natural processes.
• ATP: The Perfect Energy Currency for the Cell (Jerry Bergman)—discusses this intricate and complex energy storage mechanism, necessary in its entirety for even the ‘simplest’ form of life to survive.
• Did God Make Pathogenic Viruses? (Jerry Bergman)—explores in detail the function and design of viruses in nature.
• Second Thoughts About Peppered Moths (Jonathan Wells)—The classical story of evolution by natural selection needs revising.
• Homology in Biology—A Problem for Naturalistic Science (Jonathan Wells)—shows how without an empirically demonstrated naturalistic mechanism to account for homology, design remains a possibility deniable only on the basis of questionable philosophical assumptions.
• Unseating Naturalism: Recent Insights from Developmental Biology (Jonathan Wells)—The evidence produced in developmental biology (embryology) does little—if anything—to support Darwinian claims regarding homology and recapitulation.
• Pseudogenes: Are They Non-Functional? (Pierre Jerlström)—A synopsis of John Woodmorappe’s recent essay showing how testable and repeatable science is displacing the evolutionary concepts that pseudogenes are nonfunctional and can be used in establishing primate phylogenies.
• Hox (Homeobox) Genes—Evolution’s Saviour? (Don Batten)—Early acclaimed only as evidence in support of evolution, subsequent research has revealed these genes to yield far less hope than evolutionists initially thought.

      INFORMATION THEORY  TOP

• The Problem of Information (Royal Truman)—examines Richard Dawkins’ efforts (& failure) to furnish a plausible evolutionary accounting of the origin of genetic information.
• Has Tom Schneider Really Solved It? (Royal Truman)—thoroughly dismantles Schneider’s recent attempt at diffusing evolutionary theory’s failure to account for information.  (A rather technical—but worthwhile—read.)
• Genetic Algorithms—Do They Show that Evolution Works? (Don Batten)—explains why GAs are not viable evidence in favor of evolution.

      PALEONTOLOGY  TOP

• The Overselling of Whale Evolution (Ashby Camp)—suggests that the fossil evidence for the land mammal-to-whale transition is not persuasive, let alone conclusive.
• National Geographic’s Whale Fantasy (Harun Yahya)—reveals how the popular “science” magazine used more dogma than data to tell another evolution tale.
• On the Alleged Dinosaurian Ancestry of Birds (Ashby Camp)—examines the fossil evidence vis-�-vis the ever popular dinosaur-to-bird evolutionary scenario.
• Smithsonian criticizes National Geographic’s Dino-to-Bird Claims in an Open Letter, revealing the lack of consensus on the matter among scientists, despite National Geographic’s sensationalistic “propagandizing”.
• Reappraising the “Crown Jewel” (Ashby Camp)—shows that the evidence for the alleged “reptile-to-mammal transition” (frequently cited as proof of evolution) is much weaker than evolutionists would have one believe.
• The Rise and Fall of Skull KNM-ER 1470 (A.W. Mehlert)—Early enthusiasm over this ‘human-like’ find has been quietly dissipated by new bone-scanning technology, skull 1470 now appearing to be that of an australopithecine.

      ASTRONOMY  TOP

• Population III Stars and the Big Bang Model (Steve Miller)—explains why the empirical data (i.e., starlight spectra analysis) is a wholesale contradiction of 'Big Bang' theory.
• The Dubious Apologetics of Hugh Ross (Danny Faulkner)—a PhD astronomer and university professor examines the “science” and Scriptural approach used by Ross.
• The Moon: The Light that Rules the Night (Jonathan Sarfati)—a treatment of the earth-moon system and its implications for the creation-evolution debate.

      GENERAL  TOP

• No Evidence that there is enough Time for Evolution (L. Spetner)—Dissects faulty assumptions and unsuibstantiated conclusion of Wilf & Ewens in their claim that there was plenty of time for Darwinian macro-evolution.
• Evolution: The Creation Myth of Our Culture (D. Buckna)—Questions suggested for use to critically examine and evaluate evolution, for classroom discussions or research assignments.
• The Privileged Planet: Showdown at the Smithsonian (Jerry Bergman)—relates how (once again) hysterical evo-scientism fundamentalists pressured the Smithsonian (a taxpayer-funded institution) to conform to their dogma alone in its “science” offerings.
• National Geographic—Shoots Itself in the Foot—Again! (Bert Thompson and Brad Harrub)—rebuts yet another fine example of “scholarly” defense of evolution.
• Is the Design Explanation Legitimate? (J. Sarfati)—discusses criteria to determine design, and whether design is a legitimate explanation for life’s complexity.
• Origin of Language and Communication (Harrub, Thompson & Miller)—examines the origin of speech & language, the anatomical and physiological requirements, and the uniquely human ability to employ speech for communication.
• ‘Scientific’ American ‘Refutes’ Creation (T. Wallace)—Commentary on the latest sophomoric scholarship and bigotry invoked by a pillar of American “mainstream science”.
• Kansas prompts Anti-Christian Reactionary Propaganda—Paul Ackerman, Ph.D., Jonathan Wells, Ph.D., Linda Holloway, and John Altevogt tell the truth about the Kansas School Board’s decision (well, somebody has to!).
• Defending Darwinism: How Far is Too Far? (Mark D. Hartwig)—Discrimination practices of Scientific American put personal belief over scientific qualifications.
• Who’s Really Pushing Bad Science? (Jonathan Sarfati, Ph.D.)—responds to L.S. Lerner’s essay entitled ‘Good Science, Bad Science’ in which Lerner’s thinly veiled prejudice sadly compels him to confuse the two.
• High Priest of Evolution Reveals His Religion (Gary L. Achtemeier)—cites some likely causes for Stephen J. Gould’s recent abandonment of his former masquerade concerning religion and science.
• Population Polls on Creation in Public Schools (Jerry Bergman)—presents data from a broad series of polls concerning public schools and the origins controversy.
• Do Creationists Publish in Notable Refereed Journals? (David Buckna)—contests a popular—but less than honest—claim among many vocal evolutionists.
• Creationism.com (T. Wallace)—yet another anti-creation website, which—in its original (July 2003) form—began dispensing falsehoods with its very first sentence.
• Does the Bible say Earth is Flat? (J.P. Holding)—challenges Paul H. Seely’s arbitrary (and erroneous) use of equivocal biblical language in claiming that the Bible teaches that the earth is flat.
• The Tablet Theory of Genesis Authorship (Curt Sewell)—presents the “tablet theory” concerning the origin of the written record of Genesis, affirming biblical reliability and man’s inherent literary nature.
• Creationism (Helen Fryman)—a brief, but informative treatment of the myth that the Creation/Creator concept is foreign to all but the Christian worldview.
• Was Adolf Hitler a Christian? (Jerry Bergman)—cites abundant historical documentation disproving this popular—but ill-informed—myth concerning der Führer’s religious outlook.
• Darwinism and the Nazi Race Holocaust (Jerry Bergman)—examines the links between the “science” of Darwinism and practice and ideology of Nazi racism.

Book Reviews & Bibliographies

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      EVOLUTIONISTS’ Books Reviewed

• New  Mutilating Miller (John Woodmorappe & Jonathan Sarfati)—a review of Kenneth Miller's failed attempt to marry evolution and Christianity (originally published and copyright by Creation Ministries International).
• Climbing Mount Improbable (Jonathan Sarfati)—examines Richard Dawkins’ book defending the probability of evolution.
• Up a River Without a Paddle (Raymond Bohlin)—takes a close look at Richard Dawkins’ book “River Out of Eden.”
• Tower Babble (T. Wallace)—response to Eugenie Scott’s review of Robert Pennock’s book, Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism.

      NON-EVOLUTIONISTS’ Books Reviewed

• Not By Chance (Carl Wieland)—review of biophysicist Lee Spetner’s book of the same title.
• Not By Chance (Hansruedi Stutz)—review of biophysicist Lee Spetner’s book of the same title. (German text)

      “COMPROMISING” CREATIONISTS’ Books Reviewed

• Genesis Questioned (Jonathan Sarfati)—reviews Hugh Ross’s latest published effort at placing erroneous “science” above infallible Scripture.
• The Battle of Beginnings (Carl Wieland)—review of Del Ratzsch’s book analyzing the evolution/creation issue for Christians.

      CREATIONISTS’ Books Reviewed

• The Answers Book (T. Wallace)—review of the new & improved book in which Ham, Sarfati, Wieland, and Batten relate the biblical record to empirical science in connection with ‘the 20 most-asked questions’ on the subject.
• Creation Compromises (T. Wallace)—review of Dr. Bert Thompson’s book thoroughly documenting—and refuting—misguided efforts at compromising biblical integrity with unsubstantiated claims of “science”.
• The Biotic Message (Don Batten)—a review of Walter ReMine’s book claiming the unity in biology and the pattern of diversity defies any consistent naturalistic explanation.
• Creation Evangelism for the New Millennium (T. Wallace)—review of Ken Ham’s newest statement on the importance of a literal Genesis to Christian doctrine & evangelism.
• Refuting Evolution (T. Wallace)—review of Dr. Sarfati’s response to the National Academy of Sciences’ book that advocates the teaching of evolution exclusively as “science” in the classroom.
• Slaughter of the Dissidents (D. Coolidge)—review of Dr. Jerry Bergman's thorough treatment of the co-opting of mainstream "science" by the dogmatism of philosophical naturalism, and the resulting discrimation against the many who don't toe the religious line.
• Bibliographies of selected non-evolutionist print publications dealing with origins-related matters for those interested in further reading off-line.

Creationists Answer Their Detractors

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• John Woodmorappe answers Glenn R. Morton’s persistent misuse of Woodmorappe’s list of discrepant isotopic dates.
• Joe Meert’s Manipulation and smearing of Walt Brown’s straightforward debate challenge, documented by Brown and the CSC (PDF).
• A Brief Response to Several Anti-Creationist Books (Don Batten)—diffuses some common myths and misinformation found in recent popular anti-creation literature.
• Dr. Royal Truman answers Dr. Mark Kluge’s criticism of Truman’s essay on Dawkins’ lack of a plausible evolutionary genetic information source.
• Ian Taylor answers Don Lindsay’s apparently hasty and simplistic criticism of Taylor’s book “In the Minds of Men”.
• Ian Taylor answers TalkOrigins multiple newsgroup postings critical of Taylor’s book “In the Minds of Men”.
• Barry Setterfield answers Robert Day’s 1997 criticism of Setterfield’s work in the realm of c-decay (posted at Talk.Origins).
• Pseudonyms: A Long, Honorable Tradition in which John Woodmorappe succinctly disposes of a popular evolutionist red herring via documented historical facts.
• Dr. Andrew Snelling answers Dr. Alex Ritchie, putting a contrived and excessive “double identity” accusation into reasonable perspective.
• Gillian Brown answers Barry Williams, exposing a willfully ignorant brand of “skepticism” that fails to question its own arbitrary assumptions.
• Russell Humphreys answers Various Critics in a series of predominantly technical PDF files downloadable from this site.
• Russell Humphreys answers Thompson, Schimmrich, et al., and the caliber of anti-creationist ‘scholarship’ that relied on errors to ‘discredit’ his work.
• Russell Humphreys challenges Hugh Ross in a brief letter questioning some claims made by Ross in his newsletter.
• Jack Cuozzo answers Colin Groves in a response to Groves’ critical review of Cuozzo’s book, “Buried Alive”.
• Jonathan Sarfati critiques John Stear’s “No Answers in Genesis” website and the skeptics featured there.
• Darwin’s Black Box (Michael Behe)—a response by the author to TalkOrigins newsgroup posts regarding his book.
• Behe answers Various Critics (Michael Behe)—a response to a number of attempts at discrediting his position, as well as the revealing documentation of his experience with the “peer-reviewed” editorial process.
• Ashby Camp answers Douglas Theobald —After Ashby Camp published his critique of Douglas Theobald’s “29 Evidences for Macroevolution” TalkOrigins article, Dr. Theobald published a lengthy and accusatory response to Part 1 of Mr. Camp’s article.  In this reply, Mr. Camp adeptly answers Dr. Theobald’s accusations.
• Wallace answers Schneider (T. Wallace)—a response to Schneider’s critical ‘summary’ of their earlier exchange on thermodynamics, etc.
• Wallace answers Duck (T. Wallace)—a response to the ‘critique’ by Wayne Duck of Wallace’s rebuttal of the TalkOrigins “Five Misconceptions” FAQ.

Alleged Challenges to Biblical Creation

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• Gamma Photons take 1 million years to reach the surface of the sun as visible light photons (answer by Jorge Fernandez).
• The Sun's 'Age' is 5 billion years, based on its chemical composition (answer by Jorge Fernandez).
• Impact Craters pose a variety of alleged challenges to the biblical Creation model (answer by Jorge Fernandez).

Beyond the Limits of Science

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• The Law of God (a.k.a. the “Ten Commandments”). A friendly reminder of our personal, individual guiltiness of sin before a holy God, apart from Whose mercy in the cross of Jesus Christ there is no hope.
• Nine Ways to Know that the Gospel of Christ is True (John Piper)—some “food for thought” for inquiring minds with a hunger for objective meaning in life.

Feedback & On-Line Resources

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• Feedback from Readers (positive, negative and in-between) accompanied by responses, where appropriate.
• TrueOrigin Discussion a strictly unofficial Yahoo Groups “discussion community” focusing on the contents of this site.
• Related Links on origins-related matters (without evolutionist bias) selected for those interested in further reading on-line.
• 1544 Web-Based Articles—some of the best material supportive of the biblical creationary model, carefully selected and categorized by Ashby Camp.
• Glossary of Terms often used (sometimes misused and abused) in discussions and documents relating to the origins debate.