Are Humans Evolving? Depends on Your Definition. - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... to as “evolution.” Without clarifying which definition is being used, confusion could easily result. And with such vague definitions that are offered for evolution―such as “the change in the genetics of a species over...

Can Divergent Species of Snakes Interbreed? - Article
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Larry Vardiman, Ph.D. - ... taxonomies of their progenitors. Consequently, part of the definition for species--according to evolution--is that they will not interbreed and have offspring. Animal species are often identified by distinctive characteristics such as...

The Impetus for Biological Change - Article
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Nathaniel T. Jeanson, Ph.D. - ... that reproductive compatibility is at least a part of the definition of kind. Hence, if two creatures can successfully interbreed, they're likely members of the same kind. Furthermore, this means that all the land-based biological diversity we...

Four-Winged Dinosaur Definition Doesn't Fly - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... feathers. Modern scientists seem to hold a broader, looser definition of dinosaurs, and a new fossil find has found its way into the often-blurred region between dinosaurs and birds. Was it really a dinosaur? An international team of...

Werner Arber: An Honest Evolutionist? - Article
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Lawrence E. Ford, Sr. - ... to address his particular concerns. A central issue was the definition of Darwinism. In one message, Dr. Arber wrote: From my scientific point of view, the essential pillars of Darwin's original publications are (1) the existence of phenotypic...

On the Changing Definition of the Term "Species" - Article
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Kenneth B. Cumming, Ph.D. - ... think that surely by now scientists would have agreed on the definition of this fundamental term in systematics--species. In truth, while most biologists would quickly offer their preferred definition when asked, each could also be unsettled by...

Speciation and the Animals on the Ark - Article
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Daniel Criswell, Ph.D. - ... Ark. However, the science of how speciation occurs, and the definition of a species versus the biblical kind, does explain how many variations of the same kind of animal can arise quickly from small populations, such as those on Noah's Ark....

Leakey and 'Human Evolution' - Article
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Frank Sherwin, D.Sc. (Hon.) - ... (evolution)? Troubling, also, is Leakey’s non-definition of the word “evolution,” upon which hangs the origins debate—“If you don’t like the word evolution, I don’t care what you call it, but life...

Students Surprised to Find Noah's Ark Feasible - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... "species,"a modern term that seems to bear as many definitions as there are researchers who use it. What about the biblical detail given in Genesis, which noted seven of each bird kind—probably meaning seven pairs of each bird...

Mudcracks and the Flood - Article
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William A. Hoesch, M.S. - ... children love to play in. Geologists give it a more formal definition: a mixture of water, silt, and clay that may be either semi-fluid or soft and plastic. The conversion of mud to mudstone involves, primarily, a loss of water. Loss of water,...