For those who were left rather underwhelmed by the Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham debate (Ken Ham didn’t do very well), consider reviewing another far more interesting debate. Late last year there was an interesting debate on Premier Christian Radio, “Unbelievable” with Justin Brierley between Stephen Meyer and Charles Marshall over Meyer’s latest book, Darwin’s…
How is plagiarism detected? Let’s say a student claims to have written an original paper, but his teacher discovers that much of it appears to be identical, save for few words here and there, and a few paragraph modifications, to a paper she discovered on the internet. Would this not be excellent evidence that the…
By: Sean Pitman . Dr. Nicholas J. Matzke started out as geography grad student at the University of California in Santa Barbara who had obvious passions outside of geography. He then went on to become fairly well-known debating on Talk.Orgins.org, where I first ran into him myself and had several lengthy discussions. Since then, Nick has…
The Debate: Dr. Jason Rosenhouse is an associate professor of mathematics at James Madison University in Virginia. In his spare time, he enjoys engaging in the debate over Creation vs. Evolution and has even written an interesting book about his experiences visiting creation events around the United States entitled, “Among the Creationists.” I personally enjoyed…
by Sean Pitman . Richard E. Lenski is an American evolutionary biologist, best known for his 25-year long-term E. coli evolution experiment and his work with digital organisms using Avida. What is impressive about Dr. Lenski is that he is trying to show how random mutations and natural selection (the Darwinian mechanism for evolution) can…