[nwrep]

It is good that we are making progress on the margins in one discipline in academia, but it may be too little, too late, as traditionalist views are being routed in the broader socio-cultural debate.

[Tell It Right]

I remember listening years ago to a podcast with Hugh Ross and Fuzale Rana (an astronomer and biochemist with Reasons to Believe, an old-earth creationist group). They said that the organizers of the Origin of Life conferences rarely include old-earth creationists unless they believe in theistic evolution (that God created natural selection and the earliest organisms, then sat back and watched His creation of man come about naturally).

One year some statisticians pointed out to problems in natural selection, most notably the speciation rate demanded by natural selection to go from single celled organisms to human beings. And another problem the statisticians pointed out was the Cambrian Explosion observing 50% to 80% of all known phyla to ever exist springing up in the archaeological record within a brief 1 million year period about 500 million years ago. (A million years is "brief" if Darwinists expect speciation to happen gradually across billions of years.)

The RTB scholars joked that it was a long time before the Original of Life organizers invited statisticians again. LOL