EvoWiki - The Evolution Wiki

EvoWiki was a wiki devoted to explaining evolution and debunking creationist claims. The link, I have provided, is from the last Internet Archive link on March 2008. Due to constant vandalism and a major interal error, the web site is no longer live. The site provides excellent rebuttals and fallacies to creationists' claims on evolution. Just be aware that there are no images on-site, sometimes it takes time for it to load and you cannot do a search.

How Evolution Works

Video on how evolution works:

Video: Debunking Creationists' Claims

Rebuttal video to a horrible CGI creationism video. The video shows how creationists are wrong about evolution, radio carbon dating, fossilization, and transitional fossils, that unfossilized dinosaur bones have not been peer reviewed and how uses strawman arguments by calling evolution evil and using Pascal's Wager.

E-mail From A Kent Hovind Supporter

This is an e-mail that I received today from a Kent Hovind supporter about a petition I created and evolution and faith.

Corey,
I find your enthusiasm to keep a family man in jail for his tax evasion issue a sad commentary.... even for an atheist. I think your motivation is far more than what is purportedly your reason for this absurd petition. I believe it is simply a symptom of a problem.....your problem with the God of the Universe. You understand nothing of this man and the good he has done for many. Your reasoning is also vapid in discerning truth from error. You have a religion as well as Hovind. Faith in a fairy tale called evolution. This fairy tale taught as a fact, which is a boldfaced lie.. As a mathematician I can attest that that it is a mathematical impossibility for organic matter to arise from inorganic matter. An the most learned molecular biologists know as a fact. This lie of evolution is tenaciously clung to by many due to the fact they have an issue with God and cannot face the truth scientifically. The evolutionary model does not even fall into scientific basic rules.....such as repeatable results! Come on get off this ridiculous idea of attempting to prolong this mans incarceration for your own bone to pick with the Author of Life! I am truly hoping you repent of this abberant behavior . What if it was you! Ever made a mistake? Think about it........
Paul

My response:

Paul,

I am disturbed that Hovind and his supporters do not accept the conviction and that he broke the law. The petition was to show that people will not tolerate this.

My problem is not with God. I am agnostic, meaning I do not know if there is a god.

I have read what Hovind has done and it is not "good." Sure, love the sinner, hate the sin. But, if one does not repent for his failures and crimes, then how is this good? I am working on web site to show how hypocritical some Christians are, Benny Hinn, Pat Robertson, etc.

Evolution is not religion, I have repeated several times on blogs. Evolution does not have adherents. Evolution is fact and does not require a god nor does it rule one out.

You say that it is impossible for organic matter to come from non-organic matter? Does not the Bible say that humans were created from dirt?

It seems to me, that you have problem with reality. Show me evidence of how evolution is wrong and will show you how you are incorrect.

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing and please do the research.

Sincerely,

Corey Schlueter

Radio debate on evolution

I listened to a debate between Dr. Geoffrey Simmons, from the Discovery Institute and Dr. PZ Myers. I recorded the audio, but it is available on the radio station and on PZ Myers blog.

Earlier in the day, PZ Myers received an e-mail from the radio hosts explaining that debate topic was being changed from the evidence of Evolution vs. evidence of Intelligent Design to whether evolution is fact or faith.

Simmons tried to explain that Darwinism equals evolution and there missing links in whale fossils; to which Myers tells him about several whale fossils that apparently Simmons does not know about.

In the end, Simmons resorts to ad hominems by saying Darwin did not like women and was a racist. Overall, PZ obviously won and one cannot debate or explain evolution in a hour. Hopefully, the hosts of the Christian radio program realize they got more than bargained for.

Kent Hovind's Dinosaurs and The Bible

As promised on CSEblogs,

Here is Kent Hovind's Dinosaurs And The Bible (two and half hours) long:



And Extant Dodo's Critical Analysis:



One of the funny things he says is that grizzly bears lived in Florida and that horses and zebras had a common ancestor (evoluton).

We Are Animals

Creationists deny it, but it is a fact:

Humans are animals. We are mobile multicellular organisms whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall and we consume food (energy) from other organisms.

We are mammals. We are warm-blooded, have hair and feed milk to our young.

We are primates We are pentadactyly, we have fingernails and opposing thumbs, have a generalized dental pattern and a primitive body plan. We have forward-facing colour binocular vision.

We are apes. We do not have a tail, we are omnivorous, and we are highly intelligent.

We are humans. We are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens in the family Hominidae.

Were You There

This question often made by creationists to disprove evolution. I have come across the comment on two posts, Fighting For The Truth and TarzanInChrist.

The obvious problem with this statement is that it is a slothful induction. This argument is equally effective against creationists and the argument makes all human acts of logical deduction meaningless. A crime committed is still a crime, even if there were no witnesses there to observe its occurence.

Events in the past leave traces that last into the present, and we can and do look at that evidence today. A more useful and more general question is, "How do you know?" If the person making a claim can not answer that question, you may consider the claim baseless. If you can not understand the answer, you probably have some studying to do. If you get a good answer, you know to take the claim seriously.

More is on Talk Origins and EvoWiki.