Shaun Doyle

Biography

Shaun has a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science with first class honours, specializing in Soil Science, and a Graduate Diploma in Natural Resource Studies—both from the University of Queensland, Brisbane.

He became a creationist before he became a Christian, in his first university year. This helped him form a solid foundation on the Word of God that was able to withstand the evolutionary attacks levelled at his ‘young’ faith at university.

From 2005 to 2008, and again from 2010 until the present Shaun has worked for CMI as an editor and reviewer for the Journal of Creation, and has written numerous articles for Creation magazine, Journal of Creation, and CMI’s website creation.com.

Journal of Creation (formerly TJ) articles

• Scientism and secularism … and Scripture? A review of Secularism and Scientism: Learning to respond to a dangerous ideology by J.P. Moreland
• Debating origins: A review of Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design by J.B. Stump (Ed.)
• Ancient cosmology and the timescale of Genesis 1
• Do ‘laterite’ soils take a million years to form?
• The historical Adam and what he means for us
• Precambrian rabbits—death knell for evolution?
• Worldviews, logic, and earth’s age—part 2
• Worldviews, logic, and earth’s age—part 1
• No keeper’s brother
• Defining arguments away—the distorted language of secularism
• Does biological advantage imply biological origin?
• ‘Transitional form’ in mammal ear evolution—more cacophony
• Cladistics, evolution and the fossils
• Antifreeze protein evolution: turning wrenches into hammers
• Walking sharks: evolution in action? and (Pre-publication version)
• Feathery flight of fancy
• Big birdosaur blues and (Pre-publication version)
• Serial cell differentiation: intricate system of design and (Pre-publication version)
• Vestigial arguments: remnants of evolution and (Pre-publication version)
• Large scale function for ‘endogenous retroviruses’
• Panderichthys—a fish with fingers? and (Pre-publication version)
• Evolution of multicellularity: what is required?
• Earliest multicellular life? and (Pre-publication version)
• ‘Oldest’ fossil shrimp? and (Pre-publcation version)
• Photosynthetic sea slugs: an evolutionary enigma
• The diminishing returns of beneficial mutations and (Pre-publicaton version)
• Lizards moving from eggs to live birth: evolution in action? and (Pre-publication version)

Creation magazine articles

• How the rocks fit the Flood
• Creation or endless cycle of re-creation?
• The name game: scientific ideas named after creationists
• Einstein’s Heroes—biblical creationists
• Abraham Ulrikab—the ‘zoo exhibit’ who could write
• Termite mounds: cities in miniature
• A gorge in three days! (Pre-publication version)
• Squirrel evolution? (Pre-publication version)
• The real ‘Jurassic Park’?
• Stone Age Atlantis
• Fishy arms and legs

General/Biblical

• The Christchurch mosque attacks: speaking Christ’s peace, truth and lov
• Why biblical authority matters
• Canaanite DNA disproves the Bible? Or, Canaanite DNA disproves media’s ability to read the Bible
• Deism and divine revelation
• Remembering God’s mighty acts
• Forced abortion and euthanasia?
• Philosophical arguments for God
• Evidence for young-earth creationism
• Using buzzwords to divide and deride
• Do I have to believe in a historical Genesis to be saved?
• The good news without the bad news is no news at all!
• CSI and evolution
• The Simpsons and Scopes: Making a mockery out of the Maker
• Making a man out of a chimp
• Creation: a form of white supremacy?
• ‘Glacier Girl’ on a mission
• Creation in Kazakhstan
• Heresy in Israel! Chief education scientist dismissed for denying evolution and global warming

Geology

• Biologos and the age of the earth: Pushing an anti-biblical doctrine
• The ‘giant footprint’ of South Africa
• Noah’s comet?
• Deep time doesn’t make sense!

Biology

• Reading ‘origin of life’ research
• Basics of biblical biology
• The ‘artificial life’ deception
• The good, the bad and the evolutionary
• More musings on our ‘useless’ appendix
• Where are the emperor’s clothes?
• No sale for Darwin

ET/Astronomy

• Was Jesus an alien?
• Bacteria not made of arsenic after all
• Doubts about hyped–up planet
• Extrasolar planet “100% likely” to have life?
• NASA’s ‘ET’ suffered arsenic poisoning!
• Fossil ETs on meteorites? Why should we believe the hype this time?

Fossils

• Order in the fossil record—How can Noah’s Flood explain it?
• Squishosaur scepticism squashed
• The slow rise of dinosaurs
• ‘Jurassic Park’ feathers?
• Feather fossil fantasy
• Ventastega—not a leg to stand on
• Tiktaalik—sticking its head out of water?
• ‘Remarkable’ mammal hairs in amber?
• Floating fish and fossil fables
• Ghosts in the rocks
• Ediacaran ‘explosion’

Feedback articles

• Different understandings of origins?
• Sevens in the Bible: a reason to doubt God created in a literal week?
• How can we tell who is right in the origins debate?
• Disagreements on the post-Flood boundary: a reason to doubt biblical creation?
• God and the beginning of the universe
• Darwinism and racism – are they linked?
• When we let the doubts win
• Christianity and the origin of religion
• Does the Bible compel an old-earth interpretation?
• Was Noah’s Flood too destructive?
• When we let the doubts win
• ‘Atheist atrocities fallacy’?
• Hydroplate theory: the strongest theory?
• Did the Genesis 1 ‘days’ vary in length?
• Too much heat in Noah’s Flood?
• Would the pre-Fall world have been overrun by animals?
• Why did God create?
• Defining terms carefully
• How could a loving God send a global Flood?
• Creationism kills people?
• Equal airtime to deep time?
• Lizard discovered that can lay eggs and birth live young
• Is Genesis poetic?
• Is God ‘forced by His nature’ to be loving?
• Genesis as history: a discredited interpretation?
• Doubt and the Cambrian explosion
• Is the fossil record ‘overwhelming evidence for evolution’?
• Precambrian geology and the Flood
• Starting from Genesis or geology?
• Evolutionists disagree on how evolution happens
• Biocentrism vs the Bible
• Bodily functions and blue eyes in the pre-Fall world?
• Poor design, or poorly used design?
• Aliens and the Bible
• Is God too ‘hidden’ to be real?
• Can there be beauty apart from God?
• Proving Jesus’ resurrection without the Bible?
• A personal cause for the universe?
• Simultaneous causation and the beginning of time
• Was Jesus an alien?
• Sinners and saints regardless of race
• Does God judge sinners?
• When atheism seems easy
• Why did God allow sin at all?
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson: wrong on God, evil, and miracles
• Reverse ontological argument?
• Heaven vs nirvana
• Why believe in objective morals?
• Evolution: not needed
• Why did God choose Israel?
• How does God relate to time?
• Is the universe a simulation?
• Will the New Heavens and Earth be physical?
• The scientific case against evolution
• Doubt your doubts!
• Did God inscribe the Creation Week in stone?
• Ica stones, Acambaro figurines, and good arguments
• Process theism—Compatible with the Bible?
• Historical science and miracles
• Plato and Christianity
• Could God cause the beginning of the universe?
• ‘Why doesn’t my argument work?’
• God, miracles, and logic
• Why does God forbid premarital sex?
• Does God depend on logic to exist?
• Roman Catholicism, science, and evolution
• Biblical creation: the only real way?
• Why did God take as long as six days to create?
• Genesis: the least relevant book in the Bible?
• Did God create time?
• Estrogen in men?
• The ‘God gene’
• Biology, purpose, and pantheism
• Mosaic fossils?
• Can science contradict the Bible?
• Questions about Mormon theology
• Did Adam and Eve have to eat before the Fall?
• Is God obscure and arbitrary in what He wants from us?
• Know thy enemy
• Are we made in God’s bodily likeness?
• Was the Garden of Eden a ‘sanctuary’ from a hostile outside world?
• Why would Christians be hostile to biblical creation?
• Keeping debates on topic
• The spiritual death of the Adam tribe?
• Spacetime and the Trinity
• Flood geology vs secular catastrophism
• Does yom with a number always refer to 24-hour days?
• The Bible: Jewish folklore and nothing more?
• Thinking biblically about termites and lizards
• Science, history, and the Bible
• Mudskippers and apemen: How useful are cladograms and ‘transitional’ creatures as evidence for evolution?
• Is DNA coded information?
• Is God ‘simple’?
• Mangling misotheism (feedback)
• Evolution exams and fossil fallacies
• Do creationists have to resort to secular ideas to explain geology and astronomy?
• The importance of correct history and theology
• ‘Lucy’ walking upright, and atheism and science
• Simplified sardine arguments and ‘sacking’ heretics
• Common ground with old-earth creationists?
• Distant starlight and the days of Genesis 1
• ‘Natural law’ in the Creation Week?
• Evolution of multicellular yeast observed in the lab?
• When skeptics ask: Big bang blowups and the moon age mystery

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