Icons of Evolution Home of Biologist and Iconoclast Jonathan Wells
Author

Jonathan Wells

red-and-white-spiral-background-stockpack-adobe-stock.jpeg
red and white spiral background

Inherit The Spin

Darwinists Answer “Ten Questions” with Evasions and Falsehoods A year ago, I posted “Ten Questions To Ask Your Biology Teacher About Evolution.” On November 28, 2001, The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) posted its answers to my questions.

high-school-tutor-sitting-at-desk-with-male-student-in-biology-class-stockpack-adobe-stock.jpeg
High School Tutor Sitting At Desk With Male Student In Biology Class

Ten Questions to Ask Your Biology Teacher About Evolution

ORIGIN OF LIFE. Why do textbooks claim that the 1953 Miller-Urey experiment shows how the building blocks of life formed in the Earth’s early atmosphere — when scientists actually think that the Earth’s early atmosphere was quite different and the origin of life remains a mystery? Read More ›
SONY DSC
SONY DSC

Survival of the Fakest

[Originally appeared in the The American Spectator – December 2000/January 2001. PDF Version.] If you had asked me during my years studying science at Berkeley whether or not I believed what I read in my science textbooks, I would have responded much as any of my fellow students: puzzled that such a question would be asked in the first place. One might find tiny errors, of course, typos and misprints. And science is always discovering new things. Read More ›
ascentofman

Icons of Evolution

Written by developmental biologist Jonathan Wells, Icons of Evolution has become a modern classic. Taking aim at 10 common “icons” used to bolster Darwin’s theory in widely used biology textbooks, Wells shows how they turn out to be scientific urban legends, long-refuted fakes, or misrepresentations of the scientific data. Wells’ book spurred revisions to a number of biology textbooks, and it has been translated into Polish, Czech, Chinese, and Japanese.

Read More ›