My religious prejudices

Bible translations
Prejudice: Pentecost and Presbyterians

Encounters with prejudice in biology

Changes in synaptic structure
Egg production in the blood-feeding insect, Rhodnius prolixus

Biology and Homosexuality
Setting the stage
Chapter 2 Endnotes

An early experience with the origin debate
The ancient earth

Charles Lyell’s presupposition
Darwin’s reliance on Lyell

Fostering the evolutionary worldview

Appealing to authority
Banning creationism from the science classroom
Appeal to authority
Use of fear
Lying to make a point

What do Evolutionists fear?
Evaluating objections to the teaching of creationism
Let the brain game go lame
Chapter 3 Endnotes

Evolution defined
The scientific evidence for (macro)evolution
The scientific evidence against (macro)evolution

Genetics
Mendelian genetics
Mutations
Genetic Drift
Living fossils
Mitochondrial DNA
C-value paradox
Survival of the fittest (natural selection)
Ancient DNA

Dealing with anomalies
Darwin on evidence against natural selection

On the absence or rarity of transitional varieties
Organs of extreme perfection and complication

Thoughts for the future
Chapter 4 Endnotes

Darwin the great scientist
Darwin the con man
The third possibility

Darwin, the evolving Evolutionist
The evolving Origin of Species
John Gould

The phenomenon of Darwin
Chapter 5 Endnotes

What is the Shroud?
Science and the Shroud
What is the image on the Shroud?
Science stumbles over the Shroud

The Shroud as a painting
The Shroud as a primitive photograph
The not-so conclusive radiocarbon dating

The future for science and the Shroud
Chapter 6 Endnotes

Facts of geology: physical and historical
Time facts: relative and absolute

Facts of relative time
The Law of Superposition
The index fossil and the geologic column
Facts of absolute time
Coral reefs
Chalk layers in the Mediterranean Sea
Radiometric dating

Homeostasis and geology
Chapter 7 Endnotes

The religious nature of evolution
Evolution worshiped: The Celestine Prophecy

The Nine Insights

Evolution, a religious doctrine
Chapter 8 Endnotes

Origin theories of Christians

Theistic Evolution: Sir John Polkinghorne
The Day/Age Theory: Hugh Ross and Progressive Creation
The Gap Theory: Arthur C. Custance
Young-earth Creationism: Ken Ham

The choice is yours
Chapter 9 Endnotes

Importance of a virgin birth
Genetic engineering and biblical revelation

Creation of Eve
An explanation for the stability of species

Nuclear energy and the Shroud of Turin
To dare to dream