“How do you know? Were you there?”
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CA/CA221.html
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/How_do_you_know%3F_Were_you_there%3F
http://www.skepticink.com/smilodonsretreat/2014/02/04/the-were-you-there-argument-hamnye-debate/
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/06/23/dear-emma-b/#comments
http://rationalblogs.org/rationalwiki/2013/04/20/how-do-you-know-were-you-there/
http://www.holysmoke.org/hovind.htm
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2008/04/were-you-there/
http://www.skepticalcommunity.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=37735
The Missing Links of The Scientific Theory of Evolution?
The Fossil Record of Evolution - Descent with Modification - Lists of: Transitional Fossils & Transitional Forms
Debunking the creationist argument of a fine-tuned Universe or the anthropic principle
Debunking the Macroevolution creationist argument against the Scientific Theory of Evolution
Debunking the Irreducible complexity creationist argument against the Scientific Theory of Evolution
Debunking the creationist intelligent design argument of genetic information theory argument of DNA, language, and computer code? Dembski & Stephen C. Meyer’s “Signature in the Cell” lies against the Scientific Theory of Evolution
https://tmblr.co/ZTwOHx262bl4I
The Evolution of the Eye
https://tmblr.co/ZTwOHx29jhIo9
Debunking the top false analogy arguments of rhetorical fallacy, from creationist design against the Scientific Theory of Evolution: Paley’s Blind Watchmaker teleological, Hoyle’s Boeing tornado junkyard, Infinite monkey Shakespeare typewriter theorem, and Missler’s Peanut butter
Debunking the Second Law of Thermodynamics (Entropy), creationist argument against the Scientific Theory of Evolution
Debunking the creationist T. Rex Soft Tissue & Blood argument against the Scientific Theory of Evolution
An Index to Creationist Claims
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html
Misconceptions about evolution
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/misconceptions_faq.php
MISCONCEPTION: Evolutionary theory implies that life evolved (and continues to evolve) randomly, or by chance.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/misconceptions_faq.php#a2
Evolution and Chance
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/chance/chance.html
Mutations are Random
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/IIIC1aRandom.shtml
Misconceptions about natural selection and adaptation :
But it’s not random either!
So it is a misconception to view natural selection as a process that perfects organisms. At the opposite extreme, natural selection is sometimes interpreted as a random process. This is also a misconception. The genetic variation that occurs in a population because of mutation is random — but selection acts on that variation in a very non-random way: genetic variants that aid survival and reproduction are much more likely to become common than variants that don’t. Natural selection is not random!
Misconceptions about natural selection and adaptation
Natural selection is a powerful process: it produces amazing adaptations (such as the “leaf-disguise” of the katydid shown below) and helps us understand much of what we observe in the natural world—but natural selection is often misunderstood. Frequently, the process is misconstrued as one that simply grants a species any trait that it might need for survival. However, as we will see, natural selection has its limitations, and many characteristics of organisms can be better understood with a more realistic view of the process.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/misconcep_01
Misconceptions about evolution
Unfortunately, many people have persistent misconceptions about evolution. Some are simple misunderstandings—ideas that develop in the course of learning about evolution, possibly from school experiences and/or the media. Other misconceptions may stem from purposeful attempts to misrepresent evolution and undermine the public’s understanding of this topic.
Browse the lists below to learn about common misconceptions regarding evolution, as well as clarifications of these misconceptions.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/misconceptions_faq.php#e2
Frequently asked questions about evolution:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/faq/index.html
MYTH: Did you know that it is supposed to take 20,000 years for the carbon 14 in the atmosphere to reach equilibrium?
How Good are those Young-Earth Arguments: Radiocarbon Dating
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hovind/howgood-c14.html
List of creationist arguments
http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/List_of_creationist_arguments
101 evidences for a young age of the Earth and the universe (rebuttal)
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/101_evidences_for_a_young_age_of_the_Earth_and_the_universe
TheThinkingAtheist - Top Ten Creationist Arguments - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSxgnu3Hww8
TheThinkingAtheist - Top Ten Creationist Arguments - Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfZFsXfCy6s
Refuting creationists arguments - A brief guide of 19
Top 25 Creationist Fallacies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXMKPvWqgYk&feature=related
40 Fallacies and Tactics Creationists use (And Why you should avoid them)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBUEyso1ivk
Top 15 Misconceptions about Evolution
http://listverse.com/2008/02/19/top-15-misconceptions-about-evolution/
Top 10 Myths about Evolution (And How We Know It Really Happened
http://atheismresource.com/wp-content/uploads/top-10-evolution-myths.pdf
The Top 10 Intelligent Designs (or Creation Myths)
http://www.livescience.com/11316-top-10-intelligent-designs-creation-myths.html
Top 10 evolution myths PDF
http://www.skeptic.com/downloads/top-10-evolution-myths.pdf
Top Ten Myths About Evolution (And One Extra)
https://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/Top10MythsEvol.HTM
Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13620-evolution-24-myths-and-misconceptions.html#.U5e96_ldV9k
Getting the Monkey off Darwin’s Back: Four Common Myths About Evolution
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/getting_the_monkey_off_darwins_back/
Myths and misconceptions about evolution - Alex Gendler
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/myths-and-misconceptions-about-evolution-alex-gendler
Myths and Misconceptions
http://evolutionfaq.com/faq/category/myths-and-misconceptions
10 Myths, Misconceptions, and Mischaracterizations of Evolution
http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/10-myths-misconceptions-and-mischaracterizations-of-evolution/
TEN MAJOR FLAWS OF EVOLUTION – A REFUTATION - refutation of a popular creationist internet meme.
http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/02/09/ten-major-flaws-of-evolution-a-refutation/
The five best arguments for creationism ever!
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/09/09/the-five-best-arguments-for-cr/
25 Creationist’ Arguments 25 Evolutionist’ Answers
http://www.sullivan-county.com/nf0/fundienazis/25_answers.htm
Ken Ham’s 10 facts that prove creationism – Debunked
Answers to the Standard Creationist Arguments
http://ncse.com/cej/3/1/answers-to-standard-creationist-arguments
Six Flood Arguments Creationists Can’t Answer
https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/6flood.htm
Sharp Arguments Against Creationists
“I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ’[intelligent] design’ [of the universe]. If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn’t working very well.” ~ Harvard anthropologist Irven DeVore, speaking at a conference on “Cosmic Questions” at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., April 1999, sponsored by the AAAS and the Templeton Foundation (reported in Science 284: 737, 1999).
http://users.fred.net/tds//anti/sharparguments.html
10 Creation Myths As Strange As The Bible
http://listverse.com/2014/01/11/10-creation-myths-as-strange-as-the-bible/
18 creationist arguments debunked
http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/18-creationist-arguments-debunked
~Debunking Evolution: Problems between the theory and reality - By John Michael Fischer
http://www.newgeology.us/presentation32.html
Debunking “Debunking Evolution”
The great continental demolition derby
When creationists try to harmonise their worldview with certain inescapable facts of geology, the result is chaos.
Recently I had forwarded to me a document bearing the title Debunking Evolution: problems, errors, and lies exposed, in plain language for non-scientists.
The content was depressingly familiar, and can largely be guessed from the title, although the way it crams in so many technical, sciencey-sounding terms into its almost 15,000 words rather works against its claim to be “plain language”. The author is given as one John Michael Fischer; despite this tract being widely disseminated across the internet (often copied and pasted into forum discussion threads) I have not been able to find any information on him or his background.
A full rebuttal of all this material would be even longer than the original; there’s certainly not enough space for it in this publication. In any case, most of it is standard creationist fare that’s been refuted over and over again – no macroevolution (only microevolution), irreducible complexity, the tornado in a junkyard (or a minor variant), no fossil ancestors for Cambrian species, no transitional fossils, the demise of the Tree of Life (as reported in a New Scientist cover story), Ernst Haeckel’s embryo drawings, lack of true vestigial organs, and how the Second Law of Thermodynamics precludes evolution.
Only a of arguments are comparatively new. Fischer gets very excited about recent findings that “increasing biological complexity is correlated with an increasing number of non-protein-coding DNA sequences and not, as previously assumed, with an increasing number of protein-coding genes.” Cells contain many short sequences of RNA which don’t code for functional proteins but play a variety of roles in regulating cellular processes and protein synthesis. He concludes from this that the ‘junk’ DNA which makes up most of the genome isn’t really junk after all, but must have been inserted by a Designer to fulfill essential biological functions.
http://skeptics.nz/journal/issues/96/the-great-continental-demolition-derby
Junk DNA is still junk
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/05/19/junk-dna-is-still-junk/
The fish that crawled out of the water
A newly found fossil links fish to land-lubbers.
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060403/full/news060403-7.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/fossils
http://www.fossilmall.com/Fish.htm?cd=GTaxFish
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/results-list.php?hcid=34
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderful_Life_(book)
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