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How slavery enhanced racism
What came first, slavery or racism?
by Carl Wieland
Epigenetics—an epic challenge to evolution
Research indicates that many outward characteristics of organisms may be the result of ‘switching on’ of existing genes in response to the environment.
by Marc Ambler
The Neutral Model of evolution and recent African origins
Do the ‘molecular clock’ assumptions of the most popular version of human evolution and dispersal, the ‘Out of Africa’ hypothesis stand up under scrutiny?
by Rob Carter
Obama racism row
‘Disgustingly racist and offensive’ pictures on the internet of America’s First Lady have caused a furore, for which Google executives have apologized. What’s behind it all?
by David Catchpoole
Were Neanderthals pre-Flood?
A questioner asks: Did Neanderthals live before the Flood?
by Robert Carter
Unravelling the knotty khipu code
Who would have ever thought of storing information on segments of threaded strands according to a certain code? The Incas did—and they weren’t the first.
by David Catchpoole
Evolutionary dilemma
Discoveries of such things as gene regulatory networks and epigenetics are creating a crisis for evolutionists
by Don Batten
Unnatural selection
Genetic engineering is no longer in the realm of science fiction. We review a Netflix series called Unnatural Selection and discuss the implications of the CRISPR-Cas9 technology.
by Robert Carter and Scott Gillis
The fallacy of racism
Evolution fuels racism; the Bible refutes it.
by Paula Weston
The people that forgot time (and much else, too)
A hunter-gatherer tribe thought to have “descended unchanged from the Stone Age” has recently been DNA-tested—with “astonishing” results.
by David Catchpoole
Potatoes and ‘white chimpanzees’
The ‘failure’ of natural selection resulted in the death of millions during the Irish potato famine.
by Russell Grigg
Was there a curse of Ham?
Is the curse of Ham real? Are there three races according to the sons of Noah? What can we learn from the Bible, history and science?
by Lucien Tuinstra