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Welby Thomas Cox Jr.. IN THE BEGINNING
Chapter 1. THE BIG BANG
Chapter 2. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO CARL SAGAN
Chapter 3. EVIDENCE SUPPORTING BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
The Fossil Record
Life Form
Common Structures
The Distribution of Species
Similarities During Development
New Evidence from Molecular Biology
Creationism and the Evidence for Evolution
Chapter 4. Life's Origins by Land or Sea? Volcanic springs and deep-ocean vents get new evidence
CHEMICAL GARDENS
DIGGING DEEPER
LANDLOCKED
SEEING THE LIGHT
DISCIPLINARY DIVIDE
Chapter 5. New Study Outlines 'Water World' Theory of Life's Origin
Chapter 6. THE NUMBER 42
Chapter 7. Pseudo-science vs. The Real Deal!
Etymology
Characteristics
Lack of scientific method
Opposition to the archaeological establishment
Chapter 8. Nationalist motivations
Religious motivations
Description
Academic archaeological responses
Conferences and anthologies
Inclusive attitudes
NOAH’S ARK AND THE GREAT FLOOD. Introduction
Ancient flood myths
Real ancient floods
Is the Ark Encounter's approach to Noah's flood scientifically tenable?
Theological difficulties
Conclusion
Chapter 9. Archaeologists Found 115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Where They Shouldn't Be
Chapter 10
Chapter 11. Why ask “Why Trust Science?”
Chapter 12. The Miller–Urey Experiment
Chemistry of experiment
Earth's early atmosphere
Extraterrestrial sources
Recent related studies
Chapter 13. Genetic Evidence and the Modern Human Origins Debate. Abstract
Introduction
The fossil record of evolution in the genus Homo
Models of modern human origins
The fossil evidence
The genetic evidence: gene trees
The genetic evidence: regional differences in genetic diversity
The genetic evidence: a cline in genetic diversity
The genetic evidence: the estimated number of human ancestors
The genetic evidence: ancient DNA and the fate of the Neandertals
The genetic evidence: adaptive genetic introgression
Conclusions
Chapter 14. CHRISTIANS DIVIDED OVER HISTORICAL FACTS ON THE ORIGIN OF MAN. TALK OF THE NATION: NPR NEWS
Chapter 15. In Warm, Greasy Puddles, the Spark of Life?
INDEX. References
REFERENCES
Chapter 16. End of the world: When will the Rapture happen? What does the Bible say?
Chapter 17. To Believe Or Not Too
Chapter 18. GENESIS…FAREWELL TO REASON …MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE. A RANSOM DELAYED!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BOOKS BY WELBY THOMAS COX, JR
SHAKESPEARES' THOUGHTS ON TIME
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Please permit me to digress on this Sunday morning as I watch the sun rise at 6:39 am. I would like to share a few thoughts about one of the worlds great thinkers, Carl Sagan.
We live in Carl Sagan’s universe–awesomely vast, deeply humbling. It’s a universe that, as Sagan reminded us again and again, isn’t about us. We’re a granular element. Our presence may even be ephemeral—a flash of luminescence in a great dark ocean. Or perhaps we are here to stay, somehow finding a way to transcend our worst instincts and ancient hatreds, and eventually become a galactic species. We could even find others out there, the inhabitants of distant, highly advanced civilizations—the Old Ones, as Sagan might put it.
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Scientists call such structures homologies and have concluded that they are best explained by common descent. Comparative anatomists investigate such homologies, not only in bone structure but also in other parts of the body, working out relationships from degrees of similarity. Their conclusions provide important inferences about the details of evolutionary history, inferences that can be tested by comparisons with the sequence of ancestral forms in the paleontological record.
A bat wing, a mouse forelimb, and a human arm serve very different purposes, but they have the same basic components. The similarities arise because all three species share a common four-limbed vertebrate ancestor
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