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Defining Evolution Ch 11 Summary: Genetic Drift & Migration

Genetic Drift/Migration is always listed among the mechanisms of evolution, but can new kinds of plants or animals come into being merely because some that already exist wander off? This topic leads into a discussion of “Changes in Allele Frequency” … Continue reading

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Recommendation for Reading: The Great Divorce by CS Lewis

C.S. Lewis imagines a bus strip from hell into heaven to see if any of the citizens of hell would choose to stay. In a novel that reads like a fun stage play (Which has since been turned into a … Continue reading

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Defining Evolution 11: Genetic Drift/Migration & Changes in Allele Frequency

“Hello again friends,” I said, standing tall, root beer in hand, “and welcome back to another discussion certain to get hate from people who don’t understand either side of the debate. When it comes to Creation vs Evolution I find … Continue reading

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Defining Evolution Ch 10 Summary: Natural Selection

When Darwin said that Natural Selection was the means by which species originated, did he mean that? When you open up the book and read what he said, you find that the title, like much of what he wrote, was … Continue reading

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Rent-A-Friend Recommends: The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis

Lewis explains the defense of objective reality, and of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society. In another deep book for thinking people, Lewis brilliantly dismantles the subjectivism of his (and our) … Continue reading

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Defining Evolution 10: Natural Selection

“Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature…Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of evolution is no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century.” … Continue reading

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Defining Evolution Ch 9 Summary: Problems with Survival of the Fittest

Darwin vaguely suggests that “Natural Selection” and “Survival of the Fittest” are the same thing, but when you look at EVERYTHING he says on that page of his book, you start to see that he didn’t really mean most of … Continue reading

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Defining Evolution Ch 9 Summary: Problems with Survival of the Fittest

Darwin vaguely suggests that “Natural Selection” and “Survival of the Fittest” are the same thing, but when you look at EVERYTHING he says on that page of his book, you start to see that he didn’t really mean most of … Continue reading

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Rent-A-Friend Recommends: Miracles by C.S. Lewis

Lewis argues that, before you can look into history to determine if a particular miracle has happened, you must first look into philosophy to determine if miracles CAN happen. A brilliant and heavy work of philosophy, theology, and history, this … Continue reading

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Defining Evolution 9: Survival of the “Good Enough for Now”

Ordinarily I begin at the start of a new Thursday, but there was a conversation which the lads and I had during the end of our weekly run at Nacho hill at Danny’s Bar, Grill, and House of Rabblerousing which … Continue reading

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