When you use a computer to analyze data it has to be coded in a form that the computer can understand. This is where personal bias and circular reasoning starts: not in the analysis, in the coding.
Coding a Character State Matrix
A Phylogenetic Tree of Life
Back in the early days of using DNA in systematics, when PCR machines (polymerase chain reaction) were cool new toys, the data was fragmentary. We were a grad student in one of the molecular labs sequencing plant DNA.
The Purpose of Creation
One of the things which allows Matty's Paradigm to be a consistent with the broad narrative of scripture is understanding that creation has a specific purpose. This purpose harmonizes physics with spirituality.
Purpose and Reason
Why did God create the universe? The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything: God created the universe so that sentient beings with free will could make a choice between light or darkness, life or death.
Evolution is Death
We have two natures, carnal and spiritual: the duality of man. It finds its way into everything, including scientific investigation. Evolution is a duality of truth and error. You need to know what's truth, and what's error.
The Wages of Sin is Death
What does it mean that there was no death before sin? There are a couple of issues here: 1) What is life? 2) What is dying?
Death Through Sin
One of the most helpful things for a Christian to know is the context of evolution. The traditional battle lines of the debate have been creation vs. evolution, but that's a trap designed to distract you from the real issue. THEN there was no evolution before sin.
March 11th
Evolution on the scale needed in the atheist narrative (SciPop) requires death, but there was no death before sin. It's not possible for evolution to be the origin of humanity.