This page is a list of articles which expound on things that I wrote in my book. This page also acts as a diary of revisions that I have made to my book.
Why I Don't Trust Christian Apologists
On Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism
Jesus' Resurrection: Debunking Gary Habermas on the Hallucination Theory (offsite)
Must the genetic code be as it is?
Evolution, the genetic code, and ‘message theory’: A response to Walter Remine (offsite)
A Debate on the Genetic Code as Evidence of Common Descent (Scroll down for links to this debate).
Book Revisions
5/20/09 -- Bottom of Page 80 should read:
"This year came and passed, but did not convince many within the group to abandon their religion."
I revised ch.5 so that it says, "[After Jesus' death, the disciples] MAY HAVE found passages like Psalm 16:10, which says that God will not let his Holy One see corruption , and Daniel 9:26, which predicted that the anointed one (“messiah”) would be cut off, and retrospectively thought this a prophecy of Jesus. In short, the first Christians did not have “every predisposition” to disbelieve simply because Jesus had been exectued.
5/14/09 -- In Chapter 10 I added one footnote and added information to a pre-existing note. The altered and added footnote:
155. For simplification I only mentioned one way that the genetic code can evolve. However, there are other ways, though they are very limited in how they can change the code. See Koonin EV and Novozhilov AS “Origin and Evolution of the Genetic Code: The Universal Enigma”, Pages 4-5. Accessed at:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4749v2
Accessed 5/12/09
156. Crick, F. H. C. “The recent excitement in the coding problem”. Prog. Nucleic Acids 1, 163–217 (1963).
Note that the prediction of a universal genetic code was explicitly stated in HINEGARDNER RT, ENGELBERG J., “RATIONALE FOR A UNIVERSAL GENETIC CODE.” Science. 1963 Nov 22;142:1083-5.
The Abstract reads:
“A mutation in the genetic code would place new amino acids in certain loci and entirely eliminate amino acids from other loci of practically all proteins in an organism. It is reasonable to postulate that mutations of this kind cannot supplant the original code. The genetic code, once established, would therefore remain invariant.”
A Debate on the Genetic Code
Walter's First Response (to my article)
