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.Young-Earth Creationist Helium Diffusion "Dates": Fallacies Based on Bad Assumptions and Questionable Data- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Updated July 25, 2006: Young-Earth creationists consider the helium diffusion studies of D. Russell Humphreys and others to be one of their greatest achievements in arguing for a 6,000 year old Earth. A geologist shows that these studies are extensively flawed and include: serious miscalculations in their data, sampling the wrong rock type, failing to eliminate possible contamination, using equations that are based on invalid assumptions and relying on questionable data. Appendices C and D have.http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/helium/zircons.html July 2006 Post of the Month: The Fallacy of Nonfunctional Intermediates- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Added August 17, 2006:http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/jul06.html September 2006 Feedback- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Added October 22, 2006:http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/feedback/sep06.html September 2006 Post of the Month: Irreducible Complexity as an Evolutionary Prediction- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Added October 19, 2006:http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/sep06.html The Discovery Institute Quote Mines Stephen Jay Gould- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Added October 9, 2006: The newest addition to the Quote Mine Project shows how Casey Luskin of Discovery Institute misrepresents what Gould and others wrote in a brief for Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals.http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/mine/gould_daubert.html Awards, Honors, and Favorable Notices for The Talk.Origins Archive- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Updated October 9, 2006: Honors won by the TalkOrigins Archive.http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/awards/ The Discovery Institute Quote Mines Judge Jones- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Added September 28, 2006: The Discovery Institute selectively quotes Judge Jones' decision in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District in aid of its "bait and switch" claim of scientific evidence in support of intelligent design.http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/mine/kitzmiller.html August 2006 Post of the Month: The Constancy of Constants, Part 2- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Added September 18, 2006:http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/aug06.html August 2006 Co-Post of the Month: An Atheist's Defense of Religion- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Added September 18, 2006:http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/aug06.html#part2 Macroevolution- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Updated September 16, 2006: In evolutionary biology today macroevolution is used to refer to any evolutionary change at or above the level of species. It means the splitting of a species into two or the change of a species over time into another. This FAQ has been expanded, updated, illustrated, and rewritten.http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/macroevolution.html |