Adding New DNA Information via Random Mutation
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Evangelism | Comments OffIf you've been following along, over the past few weeks I've been breaking down some of the problems that I have with things like evolution and natural selection. Today, I want to address a concept that has been gaining popularity in order to explain how new genetic information could be generated. For a long time, evolution and natural selection went hand-in-hand, but we didn't really hear as much about the idea of random mutation. If you ...
Natural Selection as a Mechanism for Evolution
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Evangelism | Comments OffA couple weeks ago, I started going over evolution and defining some terms in order to touch on various aspects of evolution and various theories about how that works. This week, I want to touch on natural selection as a mechanism for evolution (macro-evolution). When people think of Charles Darwin, they think of "the theory of evolution." As I pointed out already, however, Darwin did not develop the theory of evolution. What his theory was about ...
Evolution Lacks Explanatory Scope/Power
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Evangelism | Comments OffLast week, I started laying the groundwork with respect to evolution, natural selection and random mutation. As before, for the purposes of this post, "evolution" will be used to refer to "macro-evolution" or the evolving of one species into another species. And for today, I want to focus a bit on evolution itself outside of the mechanisms of natural selection and random mutation. One of the more hotly debated issues of evolution these days is the ...
The Supreme Good (the Chief End of Man)
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 by Ty Wallace posted in Christian Living | Comments Off"What is the chief end of man?" It is a question as old as the existence of man himself. Not only is this a very important question we should be asking ourselves (as well as know the answer to) but there is really no way a person can avoid it, although many try. And how so? If not by brushing it under a rug, people will take on one or more of the various philosophies of ...
Evolution, Natural Selection & Random Mutation
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Uncategorized | Comments OffThere are some thoughts that I wanted to put down regarding the ideas of what has commonly been called the "Theory of Evolution." I'm not certain that I'll get to all of this in one post, so we'll see how this goes. The first thing that I want to do is make some distinctions among some various terms that get bandied about today and debated, argued, etc. Those terms are "evolution," "natural selection," and "random mutation."
