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Posts of the Month for 2008

January: Evidence that Archaeopteryx is transitional from dinosaurs to birds
Augray provides a point by point rebuttal of an article by Duane Gish of ICR which claimed that Archaeopteryx was essentially a fully modern bird, not a transitional species.
February: Saint Augustine on biblical literalism
Vance McAlister (VBM) shows that this fifth century saint was already pleading that Genesis be interpreted in light of common knowledge and common sense.
March: Are (non-functional) pseudogenes a product of Intelligent Design?
Howard Hershey argues they are not because most look like copies of existing genes that have accumulate random mutations with time, a pattern consistent with an evolutionary process.
April: The Nazi redefinitions of Christianity and Evolution
Howard Hershey describes how the Nazis redefined and influenced Christianity and Evolutionary thinking in Germany to support their goals.
May: What meaning empty rhetoric?
Noctiluca expresses frustration over the empty rhetoric of an anti-evolutionist who refuses to examine the evidence from an "infinitely complex and endlessly interesting" universe, much less consider the consequences for his beliefs.

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