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Darwin’s embryo drawings flawed?
I’m moving this up from comments because it involves a particular interest of mine, embryology as it relates to evolution and the controversies over various embryo illustrations. Here is the comment by...
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You can tune a piano but you can’t tunicate…
The May (2008) issue of the Institute for Creation Research‘s monthly newsletter Acts & Facts contains an article by the current President of ICR, Dr. John Morris, titled “Evolution’s Biggest...
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An example of “intelligent design”?
Ah yes, surely if there ever was a perfect example of the handy work of a benevolent intelligent designer it must be parasitic wasps. Warning: You may not want to watch this prior to eating if you are...
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New acquisitions for the Britain Research Library
Thanks in part to an anonymous donor the Britain Research Library has recently made a number of new acquisitions in its science, pseudoscience, and political collections. Science Arthur, Wallace (1997)...
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“Gill slits” by any other name…
Charles Darwin once said that he thought the evidence from the comparative anatomy of embryos “by far the strongest single class of facts” in favor of common descent (Darwin, 1860) and while it has...
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Creationist foists “fraudulent” embryo picture on his readers
I decided I am not going to bury the lead on this one. Brian Thomas of the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) just posted another in a long line of creationist screeds attacking the evidence for...
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Answering feedback on Haeckel’s embryo drawings
A commenter named Brad, who is apparently a creationist, left a comment to one of my recent posts. In that post, “Creationist foists “fraudulent” embryo picture on his readers“, I talked about how...
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And now a little poorly concealed bragging
Last weekend while I was awaiting delivery of my copy of Cambridge University historian of science Nick Hopwood‘s new book Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud (2015) on 19th century...
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Consilience and whale evolution
Way, waaay back in December of 2005 (ye gods has been ten years already?!) I wrote a Feedback response on the Talk Origins Archive to a question about the vestigial pelvic bones found in modern whales....
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Responding to a comment on my article: “Gill slits” by any other name…
I have decided to move this up from the comments section (cuz why not?) of my article “Gill slits by any other name… Andy: Hi Troy, I read your post, and it is very well argued. Thanks. [He said...
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ICR blocked me on Facebook
So, the Institute for Creation Research put up a link on their Facebook page to one of their latest Acts & Facts articles on the whole Ernst Haeckel/vertebrate embryos thing and since the sort of...
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