Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every g….

There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLI….

In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through a….

A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record ….

The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far from idea….

We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition th….

There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but a tiny fra….

Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think it is safe to say that we know ….

The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scienti….

It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is sound.... Birds, as a ….

250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwi….

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven ….

I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of [creationist] arguments without the h….

Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time..