TalkOrigins ArchiveThe Talk.Origins Archive is a collection of articles and essays, most of which have appeared in talk.origins at one time or another. The primary reason for this archive's existence is to provide mainstream scientific responses to the many frequently asked questions (FAQs) that appear in the talk.origins newsgroup and the frequently rebutted assertions of those advocating intelligent design or other creationist pseudosciences.The Origin of Life- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Added October 31, 2006:A discussion of the main models on the spontaneous origin of life that aims to show how cellular complexity could have gradually emerged from simple systems - in contrast to the sudden appearance of complexity that creationists claim to have been necessary at the beginning of life. Central issues like the composition of the early atmosphere of the Earth and the origin of the homochirality of amino acids and sugars are reviewed as well.http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/originoflife.html June 2006 Post of the Month: How Species Originate- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Added July 25, 2006:http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/jun06.html May 2006 Post of the Month: The Evolution of Organs- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Added July 3, 2006:http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/may06.html April 2006 Post of the Month: The Precambrian Song!- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Added May 11, 2006:http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/apr06.html March 2006 Post of the Month: The History of Creationism- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Added April 13, 2006:http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/mar06.html February 2006 Post of the Month: Identifying Fossils- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Added March 18, 2006:http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/feb06.html January 2006 Post of the Month: Large Numbers and Deep Time- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Added February 17, 2006:http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/jan06.html January 2006 Co-Post of the Month: Trying to Keep Up With the Joneses- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Added February 17, 2006:http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/jan06.html#part2 Evidence for the Big Bang- (Found June 24, 2008 ) This article covers the evidence which leads cosmologists to believe the Big Bang happened, deals with common objections to the theory, and discusses alternative models and questions that still remain to be answered.http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/astronomy/bigbang.html December 2005 Post of the Month: Unanswered Questions- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Added January 24, 2006:http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/dec05.html |