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Category Archives: Science Myths

No, It’s Not a Tail!May 21, 2012
Despite Their Protests, Evolutionist Do Depend on “Junk DNA,” and LOTS of It!October 8, 2011

Recent Articles

A Bacterium That “Eats” Carbon Dioxide…and a Creationist Prediction
When Is a Person Actually Dead?
No, It’s Not a Picture of an Atom
A Different Kind of Blog
Another Special Effect Based on Chemistry
Incredibly Fragile Dinosaur Soft Tissue
Rat Surgeons?
Is Religion on the Decline in America?
Why Do I Include God in My Science Texts?
What’s Really Causing Coral Bleaching?
Something I (and Most Scientists) Have Taught for Many Years is Probably Wrong!
And Now For Something Completely Different
This “Junk DNA” Confirms a Creationist Prediction!
Cool Video of a Soft Dinosaur Cell
Large Study Indicates Genetics Has Little Influence on Sexual Orientation
Excessive Screen Time Linked to Poor Psychological Health in Children and Adolescents
Another High-Profile Defection from Darwinism
There Is Nothing Unusual About the Fires in the Amazon
Postmodernism Redefined
Forbes Censors Article About a Scientist Who Is Skeptical of Climate Hysteria
One Way To See How Special Earth Is
Human/Animal Hybrids?
Data Indicate That Earth Was Warmer in The Middle Ages
How I Address the Age of the Earth in My Courses
In This Case, the Journal Science is Holding Back the Progress of Science
MIT Professor Writes About Her Conversion from Atheism to Christianity
More Global Warming Nonsense
Soft Tissue Showdown
Science and Creativity, Part 2
Science and Creativity: Part 1
My Review of Exploring Creation with General Science, 3rd Edition
Another Foolish Global Warming Prediction Falsified
Bethel McGrew, Homeschool Graduate and Mathematics Ph.D. Student
Did The 2016 Election Actually Cause Psychological Stress?
A Classic Example of Misleading “Journalism”
Even Eyes Contain Bacteria!
What Is the Function of a Narwhal’s Tusk?
Ignorant People Acting Intellectually Superior
Dr. Winston Ewert, Homeschool Graduate and Software Engineer
You Just Never Know What Will Inspire a Student
No, Scientists Did Not “Partially Revive” Pig Brains!
Best Evidence Yet for a Black Hole!
Robert Rowlett, Homeschool Graduate and Deputy Attorney General
An Excellent Commentary On Science
Hayley Bower, Homeschool Graduate and Engineer
Soft Dinosaur Tissue Looks Really Young!
A Frustrating Book, But A Good First Step
C.S. Lewis’s Stepson at the Texas Homeschool Convention
Tori Miller, Homeschool Graduate and Elementary Education Major
No, These Researchers Did Not See a Single-Celled Organism Evolve Into A Multicellular Organism!
Homeschoolers: Hear From The Only Person Alive Today Who Lived With C.S. Lewis
A New Category
Dr. Nathan T. Brewer: Homeschool Graduate and Nuclear Physicist
Why I Am Glad That I Homeschooled
A Cure For Cancer? Probably Not!
These Climate Scientists Predict Global Cooling
Big News in Epigenetics!
Another Reason to Doubt the Global Climate Models
What a Way to Bring in the New Year!
How Science Brought Another Atheist to Christ
Mistake in Satellite Placement Used To Further Confirm Relativity
Students Compare Homeschooling to Conventional Schooling
Homeschooling In Israel
Is This Object from an Alien Spacecraft?
Meet The New Apex Predator
Another Failed Evolutionary Prediction
The “Axis of Evil” in Astrophysics
Does Anybody Really Know How Hot It Is?
Wind Farms Warm the Planet
Directed Evolution Wins Nobel Prize
One Common Ediacaran Was Probably an Animal
A Failed Test of Fossil Record Interpretation
Are All Animals Really Omnivores?
Scientists Who Wear Blindfolds
Another Newly-Discovered Feature of the Human Body!
Back to School
Cool “New” Unexplained Phenomenon
The Global Warming Alarmists Were Wrong (Again)
Clouds that “Glow” in Twilight are Becoming More Common
LED Lights Might Pose A Hazard for Vision
Pre-Kindergarten Education Might Cause Long-Term Disadvantages!
Another Illustration of How Little We Know About Climate Forecasting
The Scourge of Postmodernism in Universities
Mathematics Leads Biologists to Discover a New Cell Shape!
This Could Be One of the Most Important Scientific Papers of the Decade
Coming “Soon”: Science in the Atomic Age
No, We Won’t Have Dinosaurs in Two Years!
“Nylon”-Digesting Bacteria are Almost Certainly Not a Modern Strain
Print Reading versus Digital Reading: Which Produces Better Comprehension?
Will Scientists Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth?
Death and Transformation
Study of Mice Highlights the “Junk DNA” Myth
Observations about Second-Generation Homeschoolers
Another Unsuccessful Attempt to Detect Dark Matter
NASA Has NOT Found the Building Blocks of Life on Mars
Study Demonstrates that Most Animal Species Came Into Existence at the Same Time?
The Final Mother/Daughter Comparison Between My Chemistry and Apologia’s Chemistry
Do “Climate Change” Skeptics Behave in a More “Sustainable” Way?
Why You Must Read Multiple Opinions When it Comes to Evolution
DNA Is Even More Complex Than We Thought!
Another Mother’s Day Drama
It is Now a Risk to Promote Free Speech in Science!
Michael Behe Earns a Well-Deserved Honor
A Homeschooling Mother Looks Back on Her Journey
Once Again, Don’t Believe Facebook When It Comes to Science!
Earth Day Predictions that Were “Spectacularly Wrong”
This Galaxy Has No “Need” For Dark Matter!
A New Feature in the Human Body Has Been Discovered!
NASA’s Study Indicates Space Changes GENE EXPRESSION, not GENES!
Failed Predictions of Climate Alarmists
A Video Blog Entry
When Hysteria is More Important than Science
My New Elementary Science Series and My New Chemistry Course Win Awards!
Possible Physical Evidence of the Prophet Isaiah
Facts and Truth
Physicist and Homeschooling Pioneer Will be Speaking at Two Homeschooling Conferences
Human Technology is Garbage Compared to Biology
Where Did Western Philosophy Begin?
Cells Have Digital-to-Analog Converters
A Mother and Daughter Compare Apologia’s Chemistry to My Chemistry
Birds Seem to Intentionally Spread Fires!
The Surprising Reason that Some Cave Fish are Blind
Another Evolutionary Idea Falisified
Here’s Another College That Gets It
A Christmas Letter from 1914
Bias in Science
Lightning: A Natural Nuclear Reactor!
More Evidence That Bill Nye Has No Idea What He Is Talking About
Another Atheist Comes to Christ Because of Science
Thankfulness Despite Tragedy
Please Stop Believing Facebook, Especially When It Comes to Science!
Homeschooling: It’s Worth the Tears
What’s the Matter with the Universe?
Another Stunning Confirmation of General Relativity
By Teaching, We Learn
A Climate Skeptic’s Story
Cosmologists: Often in Error, but Never in Doubt
An Award-Winning Play
A Positive Step for Science
Sometimes, It’s the “Deniers” Who Are Right!
One of the Most Important Aspects of Global Climate Is Still Completely Undetermined
The Current Hurricane Activity is Not Unusual From a Scientific Perspective
These Footprints Will Probably Inspire Some Impressive Storytelling
Trigonometry from The 18th Century BC!
Knowing Science Doesn’t Mean Following the Scientific Consensus
Thoughts and Pictures from the Eclipse
One Reason The Argument from Morality Might Be Persuasive
Resources for The Upcoming Solar Eclipse
It’s REALLY Hard for a Planet to Support Life
When People Don’t Believe in God, They Will Believe Anything!
Exploring Creation with Marine Biology, 2nd Edition
When Richard Dawkins Notices Your Inconsistency, You Have a Problem!
Two Videos About Density
A Test to Determine Whether or Not We Have a Creator
Boiling a Liquid In Order to Freeze It
When Someone Really Believes The Words of Jesus
A Perfect Example of Critical Thinking
Homeschooling and Socialization
Wild Birds and People Work Together in Mozambique
André Marie Ampère: A Fascinating Genius and Devout Christian
Can Courses Taken in Junior High Be Included on a High School Transcript?
Radioactive Half-Lives Not Affected by Earth/Sun Distance
More Evidence that A Baby in the Womb is Fully Human
A Study of Unschoolers
No, Young-Earth Creationism Isn’t a “New” Idea
Another Journey from Atheism to Christianity
There is Hope
PZ Myers Needs Better Reading Skills Than That
My Review of “Is Genesis History?”
Read, PZ, Read!
Scientist Isolates Individual Dinosaur Cells!
No, I Did Not Write Apologia’s Elementary Science Books
A Series of Unorthodox Easter Skits
Can a Homeschooled Child Take an Extra Year of High School?
Scientist Realizes Important Flaw in Radioactive Dating
I Will Be Teaching Online Classes!
More on the Flat Earth
Dr. Patrick Briney, Atheist-Turned-Christian
An Excellent Observation about Postmodernism
My Elementary Science Series Wins an Award
Chris Williams: Husband, Father, Actor, and Friend
One Reason It Is Hard to Change a Person’s Mind About Politics (and Science)
Microfossils? Maybe. Oldest? Who knows?
Junk DNA and Evolution
Naturalism and Its Alternatives in Scientific Methodologies
The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ
Another Failed Evolutionary Prediction
What Happens to the Mind When the Body Can’t Communicate?
Politics Poison Science
No Doubt About It: These Proteins are From Dinosaurs
Jay Wile, From a Student’s Perspective
The Future of Creation Science is Bright
College Professors’ Impressions of Homeschool Graduates
More Archaeological Evidence Supporting Scripture
Ark Encounter Attendance Reported to be High
Another Atheist Who Became a Christian
Climate Scientist Resigns Because of the “Craziness” of the Field
Lichen Kept This Secret from Scientists for Almost 150 Years!
An Atheist Becomes a Christian After Reading The Lord of the Rings
Evolutionists Couldn’t Have Been More Wrong About Antibiotic Resistance
Confirmation of Feathers On A Dinosaur?
Memes: Spreading False Ideas Since 1980
Howard Edmund Wile: The Man Who Showed Me How to Live
Antarctic Ice Still a Mystery
The Latest Numbers on Homeschooling From The U.S. Department of Education
Radiation Probably Did Harm the Apollo Astronauts
The Reviews (At Least Some of Them) Are In!
Does science undermine human rights? No, But Materialism Might.
A Demonstration About Inertia
Secular Jew Becomes a Christian
This Baby Has Two Mothers and A Father
A Demonstration of the Surface Tension of Water
Young-Earth Creationist Wins Lawsuit
I’m Not Surprised, But I’m Not Sure What It Means
More Confirmation of a Creationist Prediction
The Difference Between Energy and Power
Another Atheist Who Became a Christian
More “Ancient” DNA Found
Another Earth-Like Planet? Not Really.
Coral Bleaching: A Death Sentence or An Adaptive Mechanism?
Dr. James Tour Tells Us How Little We Know About the Origin of Life
Watch Your Assumptions: They Can Lead To False Conclusions!
A Really Undeniable Book, Written By a Real Scientist
Reflections on the Ark Encounter
A Real-Life Example of The Prodigal Son
A Desperate Attempt to Solve an Intractable Problem
CRISPR – A Gene-Editing Technology with Promise and Peril
Gospel of Jesus’ Wife Is a Fake
Galileo and his Thermometer
The Interesting Story of Galileo’s Tomb
Insightful Words from Michelangelo
Flowers Use Electricity to Communicate With Bees!
Deer Sense the Earth’s Magnetic Field
No, Dr. Michio Kaku Hasn’t Proven God’s Existence!
An Unexpected Consequence of the Fukushima Disaster
What Drives Young People to Atheism?
Homeschooling In Real Life
Kirsten Powers: Another Atheist Who Became a Christian
Going Back to College (Again)
The Power of Grace
I Was Wrong About Homo naledi
Another Creationist Prediction Confirmed
People Can Compensate for Bad Genes!
Another Mother’s Day Drama
The Faith of Christopher Hitchens
Thoughts From Two Adoptive Fathers
Nimrod: A Story of Relentless, Unconditional Love
How Christianity and Science Can Interact
Trees Exchange Nutrients Through an Underground Network!
Bill Nye Couldn’t Be More Wrong!
Adult Stem Cells Continue to Effectively Treat Illnesses
More Disagreement Between Climate Models and Data
Another Evolutionary Prediction Falsified
American Meteorological Society Survey Shows There Is No 97% Consensus on Climate Change
Yes, Earth Is Unique, But This Study Doesn’t Demonstrate That!
A Spinosaurus and a “Pregnant” T. Rex at the Texas Homeschool Convention
This Is Why You Shouldn’t Pay Attention to Most Surveys
When Children Became People
Bill Nye Continues To Talk About Things of Which He is Ignorant
The Inquisition Strikes Again
Review of Evolution: Still A Theory in Crisis
Honeybees Are Recovering in the U.S.
Gravitational Waves Detected!
A Limited-Time Special Offer From Great Homeschool Conventions
What are the differences between my old chemistry course and my new chemistry course?
Jupiter May Not Shield Earth from Comets
Is There An Undiscovered Planet in Our Solar System?
Review of Shadow of Oz
Another Bad Sermon Illustration
Using Pigeons to Diagnose Cancer?
Universal Genetic Code? No!
Another Bad Sermon Illustration
A Bad Sermon Illustration
C.S. Lewis Wasn’t an Anti-Evolutionist, but He Did Work for British Intelligence!
Another Atheist Who Became a Christian
Another Christmas Drama
Exciting News in the Energy World
It’s Not That Simple!
This is So Cool!
Deep Wisdom About Adoption
Yet Another Global Warming Alarmist Prediction Has Been Falsified
Soft Blood Vessels from a Dinosaur Fossil
Another Atheist-Turned-Christian
Mathematics and Science
In Honor of Veterans Day
A Chemistry-Based Special Effect for Stage
Put Away the Laptop. Take Longhand Notes.
Did We Really Save the Ozone Layer?
Two Good Points Made by the Director of the Vatican Observatory
What’s Killing Corals? It Could Be Your Sunscreen.
Debunking the Myth That Copernicus “Demoted” the Earth
New Study Indicates Chimp DNA is 88% Similar to Human DNA
Debunking the Flat Earth Myth
What We Learned from the Recent Lunar Eclipse
Do Selfies Result in More Deaths than Shark Attacks?
Bill Nye Once Again Demonstrates His Ignorance of Basic Science
A Drama About Grace
Patterns of Evidence: Exodus
Dirt Can Be Good For Children
Homo naledi: Human Relative? Probably Not.
Homeschooled Student Gets Perfect ACT Score
Who’s the King of The African Savanna? The Lowly Termite!
The Dominican Republic Also Shows Bill Nye Was Wrong
Creation Science in the Dominican Republic
These Three Scientists Don’t Believe in Catastrophic Climate Change or a Flat Earth
This Study Indicates that Most Babies Should NOT Avoid Peanuts
More Reasons To Doubt Iron as a Preservative for Dinosaur Tissue
Discovering Design with Chemistry
Is Soft Tissue Common in Dinosaur Bones?
Earth 2.0? We Have No Idea!
I’m Back!
The 2015 California Homeschool Conference: Wisdom from Jacob and Kristine Barnett
The 2015 Homeschool Iowa Conference
What is the Relationship between Christianity and Science? Ask These Two Scientists.
Coral Islands Adjust to Rising Sea Levels
The 2015 Michigan Home Education Conference And The Success of Homeschooled Students
An Update on My New Chemistry Course
The Ontario Christian Home Educators’ Convention
An Investigation of Temperature Data Adjustments
Intact Proteins Found in Fossils That Are Supposedly 8-18 Million Years Old
The 2015 Midwest Homeschool Convention
An Interesting Article From a Formerly Anti-Vaccine Mother
Another Easter Drama
A Few Questions and Answers
The 2015 Indiana Association of Home Educators Convention
The 2015 Greater St.Louis Area Home Educators Expo
The 2015 Southeast Homeschool Convention
A New High School Chemistry Course Available August 17th
Gentle Herbivore? Think Again!
More Examples of Organisms Changing the Products of Their Genes!
Homeschooling Promotes Intolerance? Think Again!
Maybe the Sun Doesn’t Affect Radioactive Decay Rates
The Texas Homeschool Convention
Inge Auerbacher at the Texas Homeschool Convention
My Review of Exploring Creation with Chemistry, Third Edition
Homeschoolers: Here’s Your Chance to Experience Living History!
Dawkins Demonstrated to be Wrong….Again
UndeNYEably Uninformed
Science and History Synchronized…Sort of
Scientists Are Still Trying To Figure Out Gecko Feet
Counting To God: Another Atheist Who Became a Christian
An Update On The Triceratops Fossil That Contained Soft Tissue
More Archaeological Evidence That Supports The Bible
Another Christmas Drama
USGS Sacrifices Scientific Integrity to Jump on the Global Warming Bandwagon
Research Shows That We’ve Been Wrong About Stem Cells
Another Atheist Who Became a Christian
Hello, my name is Jay Wile, and I am a pyromaniac.
What Does It Mean To Be Open-Minded?
An Interesting Observation from China
The Bright Morning Star
Two Interesting Quotes
More Than A Marksman
An Interesting Sculpture of Nelson Mandela
Homeschooling in South Africa
Headed Back to South Africa
Bill Nye Makes a Prediction
Climate Science Is Not “Settled”
An Excellent Question from a University Student
Neil deGrasse Tyson – Serial Spreader of Falsehoods
Strike Yet Another Vestigial Organ
How Should a Christian Deal with Tragedy?
Gore Was Spectacularly Wrong About Arctic Ice
What Keeps a Young Adult Active in the Faith?
Not a CDC Coverup…A Case of Using the Wrong Analytical Method
Exploring Creation with Chemistry, 3rd Edition: My Initial Thoughts
First Day of Class
Another Study Shows College Does Not Erode Faith – For Most Christians
Going Back to College
Yet Another Study Confirms The Effectiveness of Home Education
Confirmation of a Creationist Prediction Becomes Even More Stunning
Road Salt Changes Butterflies, Perhaps for the Better
Instant Cooperation Among Organisms
Geneticists’ Bias Causes a Big Mistake
The 2014 Valley Home Educators Convention
An Update on Mark Armitage and the Inquisition
A Historian Asks: Is it okay to lie about history for a good cause?
A Great Story I Heard During a Radio Interview
About That Habitable Planet…
Academic Freedom and Christian Colleges
When it Comes to Temperature, You Might Not Be Able to Trust the Data!
Flu Shot During Pregnancy Produces Unexpected Benefits
The Appalachian Home Educators Conference
Even More on Slime Molds
Yet Another Failed Evolutionary Prediction
A Father’s Day Drama
The California Homeschool Convention
How Do You Design the Best Train? Copy the Designs of the Ultimate Engineer.
The Homeschoolers of Wyoming Convention
“Global Warming” Has Not Increased Droughts
Not Suprisingly, DNA Is Even More Complex Than Previously Thought
New Record Set for Soft Tissue in Fossils
The Inquisition Strikes Again
One Researcher Says China Will Soon Be The Largest Christian Nation on Earth
Well, I Finally Saw the Movie Noah
These Algae Falsify an Evolutionary Prediction
Not Surprisingly, the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” Is a Fake
Homeschooling in Ontario, Canada
The 2014 Midwest Homeschool Convention
Using Stories to Indoctrinate Children
The President of the Flat Earth Society Is An Evolutionist Who Also Believes in Global Warming
Even Leaf Fossils Contain Original Remains After Sitting for Supposedly 50 Million Years!
The SHEM Convention (and Why College Isn’t the Right Option for Most Students)
Really Generous Bacteria!
It Did Sound Too Good to be True…
The More We Learn About Bone, The More Amazing It Is!
The 2014 Southeast Homeschool Convention
Speaking in the Raleigh, North Carolina Area
Fascinating: Your Brain Gets Heavier When You Think!
This Climate Study Claims to Have the “Right Stuff”
Salmon Seem to Inherit a Map for Their Migration
More Evidence That Antibiotic Resistance Existed LONG BEFORE Antibiotics Were Developed
Bacteria Put Out “Welcome Mats” for Tubeworms
Flight to Heaven
An Atheist Detective Who Became a Christian
I Was Wrong
Bill Nye and the Fossil Record
Talking Past One Another – The Ham/Nye Debate
For Some Diseases, It Was Vaccination, Not Sanitation
Another Atheist Who Became a Christian
More Amazing News About Breast Milk
Can Fear Be Inherited? This Study Seems to Say “Yes,” at Least in Mice.
Will This Bring Back the Moon Dust Argument?
Cellular Communication – Another “Truth” Destroyed
Watch The Ham/Nye Debate FREE At Home!
Babies Learn Music and Language in the Womb!
Another Atheist-Turned-Christian
DVD and Live Streaming Options for the Debate
Ken Ham and Bill Nye the Anti-Science Guy
More Consequences of Anti-Vaccination Misinformation
Earthrise: A Re-Creation
Stranded at Christmas
The Benefits of Musical Instrument Lessons Last A LONG Time!
DNA Is Even More Sophisticated Than We Thought!
Some “Vegetative” Patients are Probably at Least Partially Aware
Chromosome Fusion? It’s Getting Harder and Harder to Believe.
Insults Do Not an Argument Make
An Explanation that is Not Exactly Iron-Clad
The Plastisphere
An Odd View of an Old Debate
The Bacterial Flagellum: More Sophisticated Than We Thought!
Sofishsticated Swimming
Overly Honest Moments in Science
Why Do We Have to Sleep?
Astounding: Your Baby Can Heal You!
Those Who Say Religion Is Important Are More Likely to Lie?
Christianity and Science – What History REALLY Tells Us
Yet Another Benefit of Homeschooling
Fusion Milestone? Yes, But Not The One Reported
A Tribute to My First Grade Teacher
Has Voyager 1 Left The Solar System?
Is it “hilarious” or “an exclamation mark” on an “already-clear conclusion”?
“Oil” in Weeks, Not Millions of Years
The Box of Sin (A Short Drama)
The Great Debate, Take 2
Yet Another Global Warming Prediction Falsified
My “Top 10” Science Education Tips
Accelerated Radioactive Decay
An Insect with Gears
Relationships in Nature Go Deep – Really Deep!
Another Experiment from Science in the Beginning
The Atomic Bomb and the Brain
Richard Dawkins Produces Another Theist
An Experiment From My New Book
People Weren’t The First to Develop an Internet!
The Blue Planet
More Evidence That Earth Is Designed to Resist Warming
Contrasting Schools and Homeschools on College Preparation
My New Elementary Science Series
Proof of Heaven
The Inquisition Strikes Again – Twice!
More Anti-Science Behavior From Bill Nye
Homeschool: The Best Setting to Teach Science
Riddle of the Feathered Dragons
Want to Lose Weight? Ask Your Bacteria for Help.
The Human Body: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, Second Edition
Archaeologists May Have Found a Palace Used by King David
A College Education Makes You MORE LIKELY To Retain Your Faith
Can Random Processes Produce Biological Information?
“Ancient” Bacteria Use Quantum Mechanics!
CAPTCHA – Why We Can Read It and Robots Can’t
A Surprising Study of People Living Near Fukushima
A Particularly Startling Wind Turbine Death
Another Example of Three-Way Mutualism
Optics Is Starting to Catch Up to the Arthropods
The Most Difficult Article I Have Ever Written
A Really Memorable Commencement Speech
The HEMS Homeschool Convention
Hundreds, not Millions
Tides at the Bay of Fundy
The HENB Conference in New Brunswick
It’s Interesting, But It’s Probably Not a Footprint
Will Scientists Be Able to Clone Mammoths?
The Inquisition Strikes Very Close to Home
The FPEA Convention
Blame ‘Climate Change’ Despite the Evidence
Scientific Fraud: A Surprising Study
Exactly How “Green” are Wind Turbines?
A Mother’s Day Drama
Give Her What She Wants!
The Sioux Empire Christian Home Educators Convention
Another Amazing Homeschool Graduate
The SHEM Homeschool Convention (and some awesome questions)
Another Fossil Surprise
Nematode Nervous System: A 1-in-40-Million Design
Are We Becoming Less Intelligent?
Another Atheist-Turned-Christian
The Trend Is Not Good for Global Warming Advocates
The 2013 Midwest Homeschool Convention (and abiotic oil)
Another Study Estimates Minimal Risk from the Fukushima Disaster
Another Easter Drama
Coral Can Call for Help
Soft Bone Tissue in a Triceratops Fossil
Science & Human Origins
Does Natural Selection Weed Out Harmful Mutations?
Another Study that Confirms Homeschool Graduates Outperform Their Peers in College
The Appendix Is Now So Important That It Supposedly Evolved Many Different Times!
Dr. Gish Dies at Age 92
Homing Pigeons May Hear Their Way Home
Nature’s Farmers Are Pretty Smart!
Fully Human
Why (and How) Your Skin Wrinkles Underwater
Human and Chimp DNA Only 70% Similar, At Least According to This Study
Some People’s Beliefs About Climate Change are Blowin’ in the Wind
Even Shark Embryos Detect Electric Fields
Sockeye Salmon Use Geomagnetic Details to Guide Them Home
Cosmos, Bios, Theos
Hippopotamus “Sweat”
Even More Impressive DNA Storage
Dr. Jay is AFK
Being Degenerate Can Be Very Good!
Poop Transplants Treat Clostridium difficile Infections!
Astronomers are Finally Starting to Question an Absurd Assumption
Horizontal Gene Transfer: Another “Way Out” for Evolutionists
Male DNA in Female Brains? Yes!
Boring Math Drills Aid Higher Math Skills
Bacteria in Breast Milk? Yes!
More Evidence Against Feathered Dinosaurs
What Is Christmas All About?
A Rorschach Test for Paleontologists
Not God’s Type
Paleontologists Found What They Were Looking for….NOT!
The Young, Faint Sun Is Still a Problem
Is A Knee Replacement on That Playlist?
There is No Such Thing…
Has NASA Finally Found Life on Mars?
Homeschool Graduates Rock Baylor University
Homeschooling in Wadsworth, Ohio
The Eclipse in Brisbane, Australia
Yet Another Failed Evolutionary Prediction
A Large, Detailed Study Confirms Another Failed Evolutionary Prediction
What Do Spiders Do With All Those Eyes?
Same Chemical, Different Chemical Formula?
Did Butterflies Evolve from Sea Snails?
Desperately Seeking Innovation
Remains of Cells: In DINOSAUR Bones!
People Prefer Purpose
Remember That Nuclear Disaster in Japan?
Bugs and Bacteria Working Together
An Excellent Quote
Direct Evidence that a Father’s Age Affects Autism Risk
Homeschool Graduates and Community College
An Atheist Who Rejects Materialist Neo-Darwinism
More Problems with Carbon-14 and Old-Earth Assumptions
The Stories Behind A Few Hymns
The Great Debate
The ENCODE Data and Pseudogenes
Six Alaskan Cities in Six Days
Defending the Indefensible, Part 2
Defending the Indefensible
Time to Redefine the Concept of a Gene?
Surprising? Only to Evolutionists!
Back To School? Add Doubt to Your Curriculum.
Another Scientist Who Gives Credit Where It Is Due
Bill Nye the Anti-Science Guy
It’s Amazing What RNA Can Do!
Move Over, Kindle. This Scientist Stored His Book on DNA!
Homeschooling in Savannah
There Seems To Be No Question About It: The Sun Affects Some Radioactive Half-Lives
More on Mercury’s Magnetic Field
Once Again, It’s Just Not That Simple…
Stone-Age Animation
Animal Magnetism
One Gene = One Protein? Not Even Close!
Another Example of Three-Way Mutualism. Is This Just the Tip of the Iceberg?
Human Body Hair is Useless, Right? WRONG!
One Way To Think About the Complexity of the “Simplest” Life Form
A Real-Life Example of “Convergent Evolution”
Another “Fact” I Was Taught Bites the Dust
Dinosaur Feathers? Probably Not.
Upset Creationist
One Global Warming Alarmist Now Admits He Went Overboard
Upset Atheists
The “God Particle” Is A Stupid Name
Dr. Gowaty Answers Dr. Coyne’s Question
The Latest Evolutionary “Truth” To Be Debunked
CHARGING Towards an Understanding of Autism
You Cannot Promote Truth With Lies!
The Northeast Homeschool Convention
Tragedy and Faith
Cells Might Actually Communicate with Each Other Using LIGHT!
More Evidence Against Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos
The 2012 Transit of Venus
Information Is A Real, Physical Quantity
Rapid Change in Lizards: An Example of Post-Flood Diversification
The Long Beach, California Homeschool Convention
Colony Collapse Disorder: This Might Be the Cause
No, It’s Not a Tail!
The Devil’s Delusion
Dawkins and His Poor Scholarship
Dark Matter Just Got Darker
The SEEK Graduation Ceremony
Homeschooling with Heroes
Those Plates, They Are A-Movin’
The Freshwater/Saltwater Shuffle
The 2012 Midwest Homeschool Convention
The MidSouth Homeschool Convention
How Meaningful are Genome Comparsons?
Jesus Talks to Pilate After the Resurrection?
Just How Evil Is This “Evil Twin”?
The Christian Home Educators of New Hampshire Convention
The Evidence from Mercury: Inconclusive
The 2012 Southeast Homeschool Convention
La Presidenta and Other News from Costa Rica
The Gorilla Genome Falsifies Another Evolution-Inspired Idea
Interaction Interruption?
Octopuses Can Change the Products of Their Genes When Necessary!
Why God Won’t Go Away
Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos: Looks Like a Bad Cable Is To Blame
Could This Be a Clue About the Origin of Pathogens?
Arched Necks In Dinosaur Fossils: Is Water to Blame?
Is This a Miracle Tree? Not Really – It’s Just the Result of Amazing Design!
Where the Conflict Really Lies, Part 2
Where the Conflict Really Lies, Part 1
Silver Foxes Change Rapidly… and in Surprising Ways
The Debate is Settled on Another “Vestigial Organ”
The Rage Against God
You Never Know What They Will Discover…If You Let Them!
From Atheist to Creationist: Several Have Made That Journey
Cooler Heads Are Starting to Prevail
Having Troubles Posting Comments?
The New Creationism
More Peer-Reviewed Papers Critical of Evolution
All Quiet On The Blogging Front
Another Failed Evolutionary Prediction
Motherhood Has a Lasting, Cellular Impact!
The Appendix: More Evidence That the Creationist Prediction Is Correct
More on Comparing the Human and Chimpanzee Genome
Kisses From Katie
Dr. Frank Logsdon and the NASB: Another Christian Myth
Antiboitic Resistance Doesn’t Dissapear Quickly
Christopher Hitchens is Dead
Certainty and Science Do Not Go Together!
The Debate Rages On…At Many Levels
Sea Ice and The Robustness of the Earth
Another Goldilocks Planet?
Plant/Fungus Symbosis Is A Real Relationship
Life Isn’t All That Special?
Former Scientific Heretic Wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Hummingbirds Can Shake Their Heads at 34g!
Yet Another Failure of “Geological Column” Reasoning
Science Will Survive. In Fact, It Might Even Improve…
When You’re Desperate, Anything Is Plausible
This is a Christian University That Gets It
Just Making Sure That Horse Is Really Dead…
Add Water’s Quantum Forces to the List of Things that Are Finely-Tuned for Life
Another Point About C.S. Lewis
Making Something 100% Efficient Is No Problem For God!
A Positive Step for the National Science Foundation
So Far, It’s Hard To Find Negative Effects from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
This Is One Smart Spider!
Despite Their Protests, Evolutionist Do Depend on “Junk DNA,” and LOTS of It!
David Barton Needs a Fact-Checker
Another Famous Physicist Leaves the APS Over Global Warming
An Interesting Canadian Homeschooling Study
Particles Traveling Faster Than The Speed of Light?
Stem Cells: Induced Ones Make The Same Proteins as Embryonic Ones
Young-Earth Creationist Leads Award-Winning Research Team
Doubt Can Aid Faith
Antibiotic Resistance is Not a Modern Phenomenon
The Inquisition Strikes Again!
Why Do Muscles Hurt One or Two Days After Weightlifting?
Good News for the UK
Christian Educators – Heed This Survey!
Opals Refuse To Obey Scientifically-Irresponsible Theories
Good News in Autism Research
Our Galaxy Is “Just About Perfect”
God’s Cleanup Crew Is Tougher Than Expected!
Science Can’t Prove Anything
I Was Wrong
We Have Liftoff!
Does This Really Blow a Gaping Hole in Global Warming?
Is Anti-Boring Equal to Exciting? We Might One Day Know!
The Earliest Eyes Look Like Modern Ones
Strike Another “Vestigial” Organ
The Genesis of Science
A Chemistry Poem by Bailey Gillespie
Everyone Wants A Piece of C.S. Lewis
I Thought This Was Cool
Imagine That: Richard Dawkins is Wrong About Anti-Evolutionists
More Evidence That The Church Has Never Been United on Genesis
Homeschooling in Australia
Creation Science in South Korea
Homeschooling In South Korea
More on Homeschooling in New Zealand
Homeschooling in New Zealand
Advice on How To Succeed In College from a Homeschool Graduate
Homeschooling and Creationism: A Recipe for Stellar Students
More on Cane Toads in Australia
Cane Toads in Australia
Something We Can Learn From the Harold Camping Nonsense
Mass Does, Indeed, Warp Spacetime
Dr. Karl Giberson Does Not Want You To Think For Yourself!
Oh Dem Young Bones
Another Homeschooled Superstar
The MassHOPE Convention
Amazing Ant Rafts
Land Plant Evolution – Another Example of Mental Gymnastics
Ultrafast Underwater Traps
Fruit Fly Genome Studies Confirm That There Is Little “Junk DNA”
The APACHE Conference
Modern Science Is a Product of Christianity
What Do Evolutionists Do When One of Their Own Is Honest about the Data?
While Mortals Weep
More on Mutualism
The Midwest Homeschool Convention
Yet Another Example of “Old” Fossils that Look Young!
Birds Use Quantum Mechanics to Navigate?
Richard A. Muller on Global Temperatures
The Southeast Homeschool Convention
Dr. Enns Offers Me a New Biblical Insight
Dr. Peter Enns on the “Dark Side” of the Old Testament
An Opportunity for Critical Thinking!
A quick update on the Japanese Nuclear Reactors
The Nuclear Power Plants In Japan
Intelligent Design in Science?
The Midsouth Homeschool Convention
Alvin Plantinga on Divine Action and Science
Alvin Plantinga on The City of Man
Dr. Alvin Plantinga on Science and Christianity
More Good News for the Gulf!
Creating Life in the Lab
Let’s Break Off This Engagement!
The Sun Is Not Shrinking
Farming Exists at Many Levels of Creation
Microbial Me
New Survey in Science Shows That Evolutionary Propaganda Isn’t As Effective As Some Had Hoped
DNA Is Even More Complex Than We Thought!
Here’s How Desperate Naturalists Are Becoming
And Now For Something Completely Different
If You Thought Some of My Other Posts Were Geeky…
Sorry, “Black Sheep.” Science IS Sexy
Who Cares About The Data? Don’t Question the Dogma!
Discriminating Homeschoolers Lead to Excellent Curriculum
A New Kind of Vaccine
Oh No! He’s Wrong Again!
Should I Feel Stupid FOR Running or Just AFTER Running?
The Amazing Design of Human Tears
Exaggeration about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Anti-Vaccine Researcher Andrew Wakefield Committed Fraud
What Makes Bone So Strong?
Bacteria That Cause Tooth Decay….Good for you?
“Conserved DNA” and “Useful DNA” – An Evolutionary Predicament
Still More Evidence That Babies in the Womb are Fully Human
Debate on Vaccination Vanishes from Anti-Vaccination Website
I Always Knew Cats Were More Elegant…
You can watch the debate here
Why Are Asexual Animals Rare?
The Faith of Some Evolutionists is Mind-Boggling
Not So Fast, NASA
Homeschool Graduates Are Amazingly Well-Rounded
Debate: Do Vaccines Cause Autism?
What Did NASA Really Discover?
A Bacterium Walks Into a Restaurant…
And I Thought Slime Couldn’t Get Any Better!
It’s Too Bad The APS Won’t Learn from This
Cool It!
Relativity Confirmed Under Normal Laboratory Conditions
Another Confirmation of Quantum Mechanics
A Small Brain Does NOT Mean A Low Intelligence
Thank God for Whale Poop!
Climate Heretic Dr. Judith Curry
How Bacteria Talk
Genes aren’t Everything
Here’s What You Do When A Fossil Find Contradicts Evolution
Go to the Ant
Marvelous Monarch Medicine
Fetal Study Shows Social Interaction IN THE WOMB
“Goldilocks Planet” May Not Exist
These Guys Should Work for NASA
Sex Really Complicates Things!
Homeschool Graduates and College: Real Success
Every Year, There is Less Junk DNA
The Legacy of Anti-Vaccination Misinformation
Peer Review: A Review
Well…It’s (Probably) Not Neutrinos
More Evidence Supporting The Young-Earth Theory of Earth’s Magnetic Field
A Really Stupid Quote
The Amazing Archerfish
The Amazing Bowerbird
Irony and Stupidity
Global Climate Models Fail AGAIN
Some Perspective on the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
More Evidence for Variable Radioactive Half-Lives
Speculation Above Data – Standard Fare for “Global Warming”
Those Bones Keep Looking Younger and Younger
Are Autism Rates Really Rising?
How Do Bacteria Smell? Very Well!
Free Webinar
Quivering Daughters
Will Evolutionists Ever Learn?
The Old Schoolhouse Expo
Why Sacrifice? After All, She’s Just Our Daughter!
I No Longer Work for Apologia Educational Ministries
With Enough Blind Faith, You Can Believe Anything!
The Chicken Did Come First, But Not For This Reason!
I Get Spam
Galileo’s Daughter, Part 2: The Genius of Galileo
Homeschool Version of “I Will Survive”
Three-Way Mutualism: A Clue to Pre-Fall Viruses
Galileo’s Daughter, Part 1
A Chemistry Demonstration for The Atonement
Autism – Closing In On the Causes
Intelligent Design in Nature?
Patriarch Age and Genetics
The Wisdom of Galileo
Dam That’s Big!
One reason a Young-Earth-Creationist Education Is Superior To Other Kinds of Science Education
More “Junk” That is Really Gold!
This Isn’t Evolution – It’s Lunacy
Evolution and Falsification
Norwegian Shooter Has Been Banned
PZ Myers – A Top RELIGION Blogger
Bioluminescence
Imagine That – The Sun Is Important!
Introns: Junk that Is Really Gold
I Get E-MAIL
Entropy and Evolution, Part 2
Entropy and Evolution, Part 1
Blood Platelets…Not Just for Clotting!
That’s a Good Point!
Now this is odd…
Coyne and Embryonic Development…Wrong AGAIN!
Synthetic Life Shows the Impossibility of Abiogenesis
Baranomes
Others Get E-MAIL
Genetic Redundancy – An Amazing Design
Signature of Controversy
Neanderthals Didn’t…Didn’t…DID Interbreed with People
Smallpox and AIDS?
The RNA Virus Paradox
Gut Microbes and Obesity
Fish Fear Me…
Science Has Demonstrated Evolutionists Wrong and Creationists Right…AGAIN
Babies and Morality
Is DNA Providing a Coherent View of Evolution?
Now This is Interesting…
Another Confirmation of the Creationist View of the Genome
Real Science Might Be Alive and Well
Update on Cabaret
Leaf Miners and Amazing Symbiosis
Life Is A Cabaret
A Million Visitors in Just Under Three Years – Amazing!
With Enough Faith You Can Believe Anything!
Cameleon Tongues – Another Example of Amazing Design
Australopithecus sediba: An Extinct Ape
Antony Flew Dies
Wasp Pharmacology
I Get E-MAIL
Sorry Sagan…
Bacterial Batteries?
Still MORE Problems for Abiogenesis
Once again, Global Warming Alarmists Were Wrong
Going Green…And Causing Accidents
More on Slime Molds
Young-Earth Creationism Is Good for Science
And We’re Back…
The Scientific Consensus: Wrong AGAIN
How a Brilliant Philosopher Annoyed People Who Don’t Like Science
Those Nasty Footprints are Still Causing Problems
Some Evolutionists Just Never Learn
99%? 95%? 87%? 70%? How Similar is the Human Genome to the Chimpanzee Genome?
Still more on the AP article
Dr. Coyne Won’t Debate
Drawing Conclusions
Monty Hall and Evolution
Updates on the AP Article
Ida Thought They’d Have Learned by Now…
Slime Molds are Smarter than Me (at least when it comes to eating)
Philosophers Without Gods
Pictures from New Zealand, Round 4
Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
Pictures from New Zealand, Round 3
Pictures from New Zealand, Round 2
The Design of Life
Prophecy Fulfilled – Evidence that Supports the Bible
Pictures from New Zealand, Round 1
Pictures from Thailand
A More Fruitful Way to Deal with Carbon Dioxide
It’s Hard to Improve on What God Made!
Pictures from the Alaska Tour
What Can a Dead Fish Tell You About the Nature of Science?
One MORE Reason to Be Skeptical of Global Climate Models
Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design – Part 2
Should Intelligent Design Be Taught in School?
Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design – Part 1
Genesis and The Big Bang – Part 2
Genesis and The Big Bang – Part 1
Great Question, Josiah!
It’s A Wonderful Time to Be a Young-Earth Creationist
A Few Dive Photos
Out for More Than A Week
Embarassing E-MAILs
Science Fiction Convention – WOOT!
Darwin’s Legacy: A Biblical Worldview
Poor PZ
I Get Mail
40,000 Generations of Escherichia coli Data Support the Creationist View of the Genome
Science’s Blind Spot – Part 2
Science’s Blind Spot – Part 1
It Doesn’t Take Much to Destroy Dawkins
Overheard at the State Convention of Baptists in Indiana Annual Meeting…
Kicking and Screaming
You Probably Won’t Hear This on the News…
Christians Are Just More Rational
Lobsters Aren’t So Stupid After All!
Did Darwin Promote Racism?
Was There Animal Death Before the Fall?
Creationist Prediction about the Human Appendix
Arrrrggggg…Argo Shows Global Cooling
He’s a What? He’s a What?
Sing It: What a Friend We Have in NeoDarwinism…
P.Z. Myers Blows a Gasket – What Fun!
What Does a Chemist Do with Excess Sodium?
Laminin Shaminin
Fiat Days in Genesis
Sea Level and Global Warming
The Irrational Atheist – Part 2
The Irrational Atheist – Part 1
Here’s Your Second Choice…
Did God Create Earth with an Appearance of Age?
My “Top Five” Reasons for Believing in a Young Earth (Part 6 of 6)
My “Top Five” Reasons for Believing in a Young Earth (Part 5 of 6)
Dr. Joanne Simpson
My “Top Five” Reasons for Believing in a Young Earth (Part 4 of 6)
A Report from the Inaugural Meeting of the New School of Athens
Okay…So Most Likely, Birds Didn’t Evolve From Dinosaurs.
My “Top Five” Reasons for Believing in a Young Earth (Part 3 of 6)
A Review of Ben Stein’s Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
God’s Lesser Glory: The Diminished God of Open Theism
My “Top Five” Reasons for Believing in a Young Earth (Part 2 of 6)
My Commencement Address to the Indiana State Homeschool Graduates
My “Top Five” Reasons for Believing in a Young Earth (Part 1 of 6)
This Explains a Lot!
What is an Evangelical, Anyway?
Time and Creation
Clement of Alexandria on the Days of Genesis
One Reason I Am Skeptical of Young-Earth Materials
One Reason I Am Skeptical of an Ancient Earth
Vaccines: One of the Greatest Medical Advances God has Allowed us to Discover
The Openness of God
Myth of a Christian Nation
What’s With the Name?
Why I Think Vaccination is Very Important
Our Journey with Vaccinations
Another example of how the anti-vaccination movement causes children to suffer
Vaccines DO NOT Contain Fetal Tissue
The Unique History of Smallpox
The Data In Support of Vaccines are Nothing Like the “Data” That Supposedly Support Evolution
Vaccines: The REAL Story – Individuals Who Have Suffered and Even Died Because They Were Not Vaccinated
Anti-Vaccination Advocates Lie About the Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System (VAERS)
Vaccines are THOROUGHLY Tested, Both Before and After Licensure
Reliable Sources of Vaccine Information
A Small List of the Lies Told by the Anti-Vaccination Movement
Anti-Vaccination Advocates Use Statistics to Lie
The Continuing History of Poliomyelitis
Vaccines DO NOT Suppress the Immune System
More Examples of The Effectiveness of Vaccines
Vaccines Actually Protect Against Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
Vaccines are Incredibly Effective at Preventing Disease
The Pharmaceutical Companies Do Not Control the Scientific Research on Medicines
Small Decision, Large Impact: Why Not Vaccinating Your Child Is Dangerous
Vaccines Do Not cause Multiple Sclerosis
Vaccines are Recommended Based on Health Concerns, Not Monetary Concerns
Vaccination News
Vaccines DO NOT Cause Autism
Vaccines are the Reason That the Childhood Diseases are so Rare Today
The Flu Shot Protects Against More Than the Flu!
The REAL Side Effects of Vaccines
Vaccines are Safe
Dr. Murch Retracts Claim

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