Posts of the Month for 1998
- February: Missing Links Still Missing?!
- Wesley Elsberry compares Darwin's predictions about the fossil record to what we actually observe.
- March: Rank Amateurs on t.o
- Sverker Johansson debunks the notion that all evolutionists on the newsgroup are just amateurs.
- April: Abiogenesis
- Ian Musgrave covers some of the objections to the idea that life arose spontaneously (not that this is a problem for Darwinism...)
- May: NM Physicists Create Artificial Life on the Web!
- Dave Thomas started something with his and Mark Boslough's April Fools prank report on talk.origins that the Alabama legislature was redefining the mathematical constant pi to be 3, in a parody of creationist attempts to legislate against science that doesn't suit them. It was taken seriously and spread around the world despite clear pointers it was a hoax.
- June: Probability of star formation
- In the midst of a discussion on stars, Nathan Urban delivered telling arguments against the view that the universe had to have been created for life.
- July: The Ubiquity of Selection: Problems with David Ford's Critique
- Loren King discusses the widely-held antievolutionist view that Darwinian selection is disconfirmed by the fossil evidence because of a lack of gradual transitions, the supposed barriers to genetic change, and some logical errors about selection.
- August: The discovery of new dino tracks
- Keith Morrison is inspired to sing about the amazing abilities of T-Rex, at least, if creationists are right about him.
- September: Dembski on Design, simplified
- Ivar Ylvisaker summarises the "new" argument for Intelligent Design by William Dembski.
- October: After the FAQs: Any Popular Science books palatable to YECs?
- Louann Miller describes a generalised, and all too familiar, dialogue between evolutionists and creationists and asks for popular science books to recommend to Young Earth Creationists once they have been pointed at the FAQs.
- November: Fashionable Nonsense
- Sometimes the issues affecting evolutionary science need to be put in broader context. The postmodernist attack on science ("modernism") has been attacked itself in a recent book, reviewed here by Richard Harter.
- December: Extant Variation
- There's an enormous amount of genetic variation in modern populations. How do creationists account for it? asks Adam Noel Harris.
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