Questions on evolution for professors and students

[stcordova]

One exercise I found helpful in persuading college students about the falsehoods of evolutionary theory is to get them to research the questions themselves or ask fellow students or ask (if they are clever and brave) professors they know (preferably after they've gotten through the class).

This thread is for collecting some good questions to ask and recording the effectiveness of the questions. I've found some questions that I once thought were good, turned out not to be so good. There have been lists before like:


But I want to revise and improve on that list and even include Noah's flood type questions.

[stcordova]

[stcordova]

[stcordova]

[tjguy]

[tjguy]

Could some or much of the so called evidence in genetics interpreted to support common descent actually be nothing more than convergent degeneration?

Couldn't creationists use the argument of convergence to our advantage as evolutionists do?

[stcordova]

[T.S.Erik]

I remember the heart question on UD, and it had all the "greats" like Alan Fox, Liddle, et al. stumbling and stammering attempting to reason how transitions could occur whilst still have a viable organism each step of the way.

I would certainly agree on this example. I would also agree one cannot shove it down student's throats and guiding them subtly toward their own investigation. Especially at that age they simply know everything and anyone who tries to say otherwise is "the man keeping them down."

Depending on how technical one wishes to get, a good option could be on the shortcomings seen in population genetics. A read through the fairly recent, "Science and Human Origins" (Ann Gauger, Douglas Axe, Casey Luskin. 2012) will provide an entire semester's worth of questions.