The title of this post is kind of clunky, but necessary. When I first heard this news about a week ago, my immediate thought was “How long will it take for someone to email me that this specimen is from the nephilim?” I now have my answer. This morning my...
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Scientists (Again) Saying Junk DNA Isn’t Junk
One of the claims of ancient astronaut theorists is that the “non-coding” DNA in the human genome is alien — allegedly proving the intervention of extraterrestrials in human evolution in the ancient past. It’s a wonderful non sequitur:...
Directed Panspermia in the News
A commenter on my site informed me of this recent news item of interest for UFO Religions: UK Scientists: Aliens May Have Sent Space Seeds To Create Life On Earth The article is a serious one and not a parody. Here are the first two paragraphs along with the...
Denis Lamoureux on Biblical Genealogies
Over at the Patheos blog, Pete Enns has been posting about this short video series by Denis Lamoureux. You’ll recall that Dr. Lamoureux was one of the contributors to the 4 Views on the historical Adam book. His position was “no historical Adam.”...
Comments on the Four Views of the Historical Adam Reviews
As promised, I want to post a few thoughts on Nijay Gupta’s posted reviews of the four views book on the Historical Adam. These comments presume you have read the reviews (here and here). On Lamoureaux’s view (“Evolutionary creation and no historical...
PaleoBabble Logic: A Fun Non Sequitur Illustration
A non sequitur is a conclusion that does not follow from the data considered. PaleoBabble research is riddled with them. One of the more frequent flaws in thinking that produce non sequiturs is the confusion of correlation and causation: just because two things...
The Evolution of Adam: Additional Thoughts
[NOTE / UPDATE: 6/6/2020 – I was recently informed that BioLogos deleted that article mentioned below by Dennis Venema because the science in it was deemed indefensible. For details on that, click here .] A few weeks ago I had offered some thoughts on a review...
Review of Peter Enns’ Book, The Evolution of Adam
This review of Peter Enns’ short but important book, The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins , is getting some discussion on the web. I just finished Enns’ book, so I want to share some impressions of this...
Intelligent Design and Nobel Laureates
From time to time I post on intelligent design (ID) here, as that perspective on origins could be (and has been) offered as a backdrop for any intelligent ET life that might be found out in the universe someday. That is, the Designer would also have designed alien...
On Intelligent Design's Ability to Embrace Evolution and Adapt to Various "Designers"
This post critiquing a well-known Christian Darwinist’s mis-articulation of intelligent design is absolutely worth reading. I post it here in light of several ideas I have noted several times on this blog: 1. Evolutionary theory and intelligent design are not...
Some Non-Falsifiable Darwinian "Science" Applied to ET Life
Thanks to the Uncommon Descent blog for its post, Darwin’s natural selection explains why we don’t see space aliens. Here’s a bit that tells you all you need to know about the scientific merit of this explanation for why we haven’t found ET...
Evolutionary Biology Consensus: The Death Throes
I post this not because it has anything directly to do with UFO Religions, but it does bear peripherally on our discussions. Many alien life enthusiasts (not to mention intelligent design critics in general) are fond of appealing to the assured results of evolutionary...
On the Pointless Demand for Alien-Human DNA Testing
Readers of this blog and those who have listened to various interviews I have done this year know that I think the request by Zecharia Sitchin to have Sumerian Queen Puabi ‘s remains genetically tested to prove her alien heritage is silly. One of the primary...
Junk DNA and Evolution
Here’s an interesting piece from Cornelius Hunter’s blog (PhD in biophysics and computational biology; read: he ain’t no hack). This “junk DNA” is a favorite point of appeal to people who want to see alien fiddling with the human genome...
The Scoop on Junk DNA
No, it’s not alien DNA. What a shocker. Ancient Astronaut fundamentalists love to tout “junk DNA” in humans like it’s this impenetrable mystery because it’s alien in origin. No, it’s not. Read about the work being done in this...