Understanding how the process of evolution incorporates into the creation narrative solves a lot of issues, not the least of which is the potential space problem on Noah's ark.
Species Concepts
Carl Linnaeus
The classification of plants animals and minerals is called taxonomy or systematics. Our scientific background is plant systematics. The modern age of systematics is based on comparing DNA sequences.
Coding a Character State Matrix
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.
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.
Cladistics and Circular Reasoning
Despite the rigorous application of philosophical ploys to guard against circular reasoning in cladistic analysis it's a poster boy for circular reasoning because it's based in a paradigm which is the result of personal bias.
What’s a Tarheel?
In the fall of 1990 we began the graduate program in Plant Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. On our first day we were shown around Coker Hall by a senior graduate student
Experimentation and Evolution
Popular science (SciPop) has been zealous in it's pursuit of documentation for Evolution. The modern scientific method was honed at the same time that Cladistic Phylogenetic Analysis was being developed.
The Role of Evolution
One role, or purpose, of Evolution is a no-brainer: If the Bible says that humans were created by God, but we don't want to believe in God, then we have to find some other way to account for the origin of humanity.
August 9th
In 1991 we (me and the Holy Spirit) scared the faculty at Duke by demonstrating a flaw in the use of cladistic phylogenetic analysis to study the Devonian fossil Archaeopteris.
Archaeopteris
We're critical of the philosophical construction of the scientific method because it's been meticulously crafted to exclude any possibility that the truth can be either an acceptable premise, or a possible conclusion.