THIS IS THE SECOND OF A CONTINUING SERIES examining what is being passed off as science on creationist websites.
The topic of this essay is “baraminology,” as discussed in the article Baraminology–Classification of Created Organisms, by Wayne Frair, which appeared in the Creation Research Society Quarterly Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 82-91 (2000), and appears on the christiananswers.net website.
THIS IS THE FIRST OF A CONTINUING SERIES examining what is being passed off as science on creationist websites.
The following are the concluding paragraphs from an article titled The non-transitions in ‘human evolution’–on evolutionists’ terms, by John Woodmorappe. This article is posted on the answersingenesis.org website.
“FLOWERING PLANTS are the most diverse group of plants ever to sit on the Earth,” says William Friedman of the University of Colorado at Boulder. But with no obvious evolutionary predecessors, where did they come from? And how did flowering plants get to be so different from “primitive” land plants, such as mosses, ferns and conifers? Tormented by the problem, Charles Darwin called it an “abominable mystery”.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025525.500-where-have-all-the-flowers-come-from.html
THE EVOLUTIONARY SPLIT between human and chimpanzee is much more recent — and more complicated — than previously thought, according to a new study by scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and at Harvard Medical School published in the May 17 online edition of Nature.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060518075823.htm
THE NUMBER OF YEARS THAT MODERN HUMANS are thought to have overlapped with Neanderthals in Europe is shrinking fast, and some scientists now say that figure could drop to zero.
http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060508_human_evolution.html
BONES FROM A SPINAL COLUMN discovered at a nearly 1.8-million-year-old site in central Asia support the controversial possibility that ancient human ancestors spoke to one another.