The evidence for the fact of evolution comes from many disciplines ranging from comparative anatomy to the biogeographical distribution of species. Over the years that I have been writing on the evolution-creation issue, I have written many articles outlining the evidence. Short of writing a (much needed) book for Christadelphians on the subject, collating these articles into an easy to navigate FAQ list will provide the interested reader with material which both outlines this evidence, and shows where and why the usual special creationist attacks on evolution fall apart.
Genetics and Comparative Genomics
- The Genomic Evidence for Common Descent: 1. Synteny and the chromosome 2 fusion event
- The Genomic Evidence for Common Descent: 2. Gene similarity and the consonance of evolutionary trees
- The Genomic Evidence for Common Descent: 3. Shared identical pseudogenes
- The Genomic Evidence for Common Descent: 4. Retrotransposons
- The Genomic Evidence for Common Descent: 5. Endogenous Retroviral Elements
- The Genomic Evidence for Common Descent: 6. Scars of DNA repair and out of place DNA elements
- Dispelling creationist misconceptions about ENCODE
Palaeontology and the Fossil Record
- The Fossil Evidence for Common Descent 1: Missing Links and other Special Creationist Fallacies
- The Fossil Evidence for Common Descent 2: Tetrapod Evolution
Outside Articles on Evolution
If you want to follow the evolution-creation debate, then it helps to
understand the science behind it. BioLogos Fellow Dennis Venema, an
evangelical Christian who is associate professor of biology at Trinity
Western University in Langley, British Columbia. His multi-part series
is designed to provide the non-specialist with a good understanding of
the science of evolution:
Evolution as a Scientific Theory
How Darwin Developed His Theory
Artificial Selection and the Origins of the Domestic Dog
Natural Selection and the Human Lineage The Basis of Heritable Variation
From Variation to Speciation
Genomes as Ancient Texts
Incomplete Lineage Sorting
Homoplasy and Convergent Evolution
Coevolution
The Cambrian Diversification and Assembling Animal Body Plans
Assembling Vertebrate Body Plans
Evolution Basics: The Placental Revolution
Evolution Basics: From Primate to Human
Mitochondrial Eve and Y Chromosome Adam
How Language Evolution Helps Us Understand Human Evolution
Paleogenomics and the Tangled Web of Human Speciation
At The Frontiers of Evolution: Abiogenesis and Christian Apologetics
At The Frontiers of Evolution: Contingency vs. Convergence
Is Evolution a Purposeless Mechanism?
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
Speaking the Truth in Love
Given the complete
ignorance of the considerable fossil evidence for human evolution, a
summary of this evidence is critical, if only to stop believers making
fools of themselves when they talk about 'Nebraska Man' and 'Piltdown
Man' as if the average palaeoanthropologist will slink away in
embarrassment. Hardly. Evangelical Christian and physical anthropologist
James Kidder provides an excellent summary of the evidence at BioLogos.
The Human Fossil Record
The Rise of Archaic Homo sapiens
