Today, young-earth creationists are actively promoting a new model of the origin of the diversity of life on Earth. This speculative view borrows a number of elements found in any typical evolutionary biology textbook. For example, modern YECs claim that most and possibly all species alive today—except humans—are related to numerous other, though not all,... Continue Reading →
The Ark Encounter’s Hyper-evolutionary Model Underestimates Speciation Rates
How many animals did Noah preserve on the Ark? I often see critics of young-earth creationists (YECs) challenge Noah’s Ark with the question, how could Noah have fit all two million species on the ark?  When I see this challenge posed on Facebook or Twitter it is invariably coming from an individual that knows very... Continue Reading →