Approaching The Origins Debate with an Open Mind

Produced by "What You Ought to Know", this humorous video provokes us to think objectively and fairly about the way we draw conclusions based on evidence of natural selection and speciation. Are "ID" and "evolution" scientific theories or philosophies to explain our scientific findings?

Tiktaalik roseae

Background:

• In 2006, a team of scientists unveiled the discovery of Tiktaalik roseae, a fossil fish known as the 'fishapod' [non-technical introduction]

• A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan [original scientific paper]

Perspectives:

• Tiktaalik roseae --a fishy 'missing link'
• Polish tetrapod footprints trample Tiktaalik
• Creationist responses to Tiktaalik roseae: Dispatches from the Culture Wars
• Tiktaalik: Real extinct animal & evidence of evolution. No hoax. Not "discredited"
  

Embryology

• Background:
  
  Darwin's Evidence: Embryology [lecture notes]
  

• Perspectives:

  Icons of Evolution [Google eBook chapter]

  
  

  Embryology and Evolution [scholarly article]
  

Wells and Haeckel's Embryos, A Review of Chapter 5 of Icons of Evolution [online article]

• Video:

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Darwin's Finches

• Background:
  Speciation and the Galapagos Finches [online article]
  
  
• In The News:
  Scientists Watch Darwin's Finches Evolve [msnbc news article]
  
  
• Perspectives:
  Icons of Evolution: Darwin's Finches [online article]
  TalkOrigins Resources on Darwin's Finches [online archive]
  Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth, Darwin's Finches [Google eBook]
  
  
• Detailed historical and geographic study:
  Darwin and his Finches: The Evolution of a Legend, by Frank J. Sulloway [scholarly article]
  
  
• Video on Evolution and the Galapagos Finches:

Carbon Dating

• Accuracy of Fossils and Dating Methods [online article]
• BBC: Radiocarbon Dating [online article]
• The Usefulness of Carbon 14 [online article]