Theistic Evolution: Can this “Marriage” be saved??
Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of March 2003
Major Nineteenth Century Theories of Evolution: Lamarck and Darwin
by Richard Peachey Both Lamarck and Darwin viewed evolution as slow and gradual. (Neither believed in “fixity of species.”) But their theories assigned different roles to the organism, and to the environment. 1. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829) Lamarck was a French scientist who, after the French Revolution, was appointed to be
Evolution and the Bible: A Blog Interaction
Introduced by Richard Peachey In early 2012 I participated in an exchange on the topic of Christian views on evolution. The interaction was kick-started by a short video titled “Preaching Against Evolution in Evangelical Churches Creates Atheists.” From the full conversation, which was quite lengthy (but is worth reading), I
“. . . if truth be told, evolution hasn’t yielded many practical or commercial benefits.” — leading evolutionary biologist
by Richard Peachey Leading evolutionist and atheist Jerry Coyne has acknowledged that evolution doesn’t have a lot of practical value. In a review of David P. Mindell’s The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life, Coyne writes: “Mindell’s defence of evolution ends with two odd chapters: one on ‘evolutionary metaphor in
Noted Atheist Critiques Neo-Darwinism!
Introduced by Richard Peachey Thomas Nagel is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at New York University; he is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His latest book, published in September 2012, is intriguingly titled Mind & Cosmos: Why
Did We Quote Dawkins Properly? — A Blog Interaction
by Richard Peachey In our article titled The Coffee News Ads my wife, Gerda, and I quoted several evolutionists, including leading atheist and evolutionary zoologist Richard Dawkins. This article was originally posted on Gerda’s website, which allows for reader comments. Below is a sampling of comments received, and my responses, around
Right-Handed Amino Acids: Can They Smack Down the Evolutionist’s Chirality Problem?
Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of March 2015 by Richard Peachey It was my second year in college, about twenty years ago. I was taking a science degree, and I had helped to arrange a creation/evolution debate on campus. Late in the evening one of
The Peppered Moth Story: Vindicated!
Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of June 2012 by Richard Peachey To the great relief of evolutionists everywhere, the beleaguered “peppered moth story” has now been reinstated to its former status of credible evidence for evolution by natural selection. Up to 1998, many evolutionists had
Do Evolutionists Avoid the Terms “Macroevolution” and “Microevolution”?
by Richard Peachey During recent Web interactions with opponents of creation, I have been accused of putting the terms “macroevolution” and “microevolution” into the mouths of evolutionists. One (anonymous) blogger responded to me, “. . . macroevolution and microevolution are made-up creationist terms. there’s no reason that an actual scientist
Resisting an Overused Argument for Evolution (Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria)
Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of September 2011 by Richard Peachey The letter below was emailed to the Abbotsford Times on September 15, 2011. The Times chose not to publish it (perhaps due to word length). But we hope you’ll find it helpful in your thinking