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The peppered moths have been an evolutionary textbook icon for many years. Is this indeed evidence for evolution through 'industrial melanism', or is it simply an extrapolation from a very modest and common phenonemon, variation within a species population of different predominant characteristics?Biologist and evolutionist Kenneth Miller has written an interesting FAQ on peppered moths, calling 'industrial melanism' 'evolution in action' at http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/Moths/moths.html. Has he overstated the case? I have made a critique of Miller's arguments and presented them here. Mr. James Lippard, an atheist and part of the infidels forum on the net, has not really challenged my arguments,...

The Republican [Missouri] Compromise of 2001: The party of Lincoln is on life support: still making speeches to the crowds, still attending official functions and banquets, still being wheeled out in pomp and ceremony, but it is like a corpse dressed up with mortician's wax to preserve the facade of life. There are times when it is right to get your car a tune up and to have an oil change. There are times to have the tires changed. There are also times when you need to have a major engine overhaul, and there are times, heartbreaking times if the ...

Dr. Mengele and Stem Cell Research. One thing we have to ask ourselves when addressing critical issues of life and death in our culture today is: How would the Nazi's view it, which side would they take, and would we agree with them? Dr. Mengele preformed thousands of ghoulish experiments on Jewish prisoners during the Third Reich because, well after all, they were going to be exterminated anyway, so why not use them in medical experiments? This is the same rational used by those who wish to use stem cells from living, innocent, human embryos waiting to be born. Yet ...

Do You Believe in Flying Saucers? Culture/Society Editorial Keywords: Flying Saucers, little green men, Charles Darwin Source: Invasion of the Saucer Men Do You Believe in Flying Saucers? In my part of the country I get asked that a lot by students. That's partly because of the part of the country I'm in (The West Coast). Flying saucer mania is endemic around here, and somehow that noisy minority has convinced the indifferent majority that to be a Christian of any sort, one must reject flying saucers. Ironically, even many of my students think their church is "against flying saucers" (it ...

The Wizard of Oz is backed up by an enormous amount of geological, biological, and fossil evidence, and only the most narrow-minded creationist could say that this is not true, as is evident from this article recently culled from the popular media: AP April 15, 2001 Recently (Examination of Neandertoto fossils yields clues in dog evolution, Popular Evolution, 1989, P. 186) bones from a Kansas rock quarry have proven beyond doubt that “Toto” was in the direct lineage of modern dogs. Of course there are two suggested lines of dog evolution, that leading up to Canis courageous (cowardly dogs) and ...