Professional, peer-reviewed papers about Charles Darwin from a theological, philosophical, and scientific perspective
Darwin’s Sexual Selection Theory of Humans Falsified
Dr. Jerry Bergman • July 3, 2024
Field research evaluating Darwin’s sexual selection of beauty beliefs has concluded “that Darwin was wrong.”
University Skeleton and Brain Collections Fueled Darwinian Racism: Another Evil Fruit of Evolution Revealed
Dr. Jerry Bergman • June 12, 2024
Scientists behind the skeleton/organ collections firmly believed in human evolution. They were collecting specimens of “inferior races” to prove evolution, but the material did not support evolution.
Reply to the “Response to ‘The Debate over Classification of Archaeopteryx as a Bird’”
Dr. Gabriela Haynes • Dec. 6, 2023
This paper aims to address some issues raised by McLain et al. (2023) in an article titled “Response to ‘The Debate over Classification of Archaeopteryx as a Bird.’”
Response to “The Debate over Classification of Archaeopteryx as a Bird”
Matthew McLain , et. al. • Dec. 6, 2023
Matthew McLain, Dr. Marcus Ross, Matt Petrone, Noël Lay, and Matthew Speights take issue with Dr. Gabriela Haynes’ 2022 discussion of the difference between birds and dinosaurs.
Karl Haushofer: One of the More Important Persons to Influence the Events That Led to WWII and the Holocaust
Dr. Jerry Bergman • Nov. 1, 2023
Hitler was following the teachings of his mentor, Karl Ernst Haushofer, and Haushofer’s disciples, including Rudolf Hess and a few other academics and scholars.
President Woodrow Wilson: A Darwinian Racist Eugenist
Dr. Jerry Bergman • Aug. 16, 2023
The life of American President Woodrow Wilson was reviewed, focusing on the influence of Darwinism and Wilson’s acceptance of a racist-eugenics worldview.
The Central Role of Darwinism in the Vietnam War
Dr. Jerry Bergman • March 1, 2023
Charles Darwin’s (1809–1882) ideas helped to guide Social Darwinism, which was an underpinning of the Communist and the National Socialist (Nazi) ideologies.
The Debate over Classification of Archaeopteryx as a Bird
Dr. Gabriela Haynes • Sept. 14, 2022
Based on several findings, no reason remains for Archaeopteryx to be classified as anything other than a bird.
Darwinism and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Dr. Jerry Bergman • Nov. 17, 2021
The history of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study is a salient example of the negative fruits of Darwinian racism.
Friedrich Engels Introduced Darwin to Karl Marx and Changed the World
Dr. Jerry Bergman • Nov. 10, 2021
Friedrich Engels was in some ways as important as Marx in helping to establish the revolution called Marxism (Communism) that has changed the world.
The Spleen, Once Regarded as Vestigial, Now Recognized as a Critically Important Organ
Dr. Jerry Bergman • June 30, 2021
The spleen is now acknowledged to be a critical organ serving at least six different important functions.
Theistic Evolution: A Response to Wayne Grudem, Making the Same Errors He Opposes in Others
Dr. Terry Mortenson • Feb. 17, 2021
Grudem is making the same biblical and theological errors that theistic evolutionists make. To be biblically consistent, he must abandon his old-earth position.
The Failed Attempt to Prove Jewish Inferiority by a Skeleton Collection
Dr. Jerry Bergman • Dec. 16, 2020
Over 100 innocent people were murdered to prove a theory that turned out to be not only wrong but based on an erroneous secular philosophy, namely Darwinism.
Gypsies Massacred as Part of the Darwinian Eugenic Holocaust
Dr. Jerry Bergman • Dec. 9, 2020
Attempts to apply Darwinian eugenics were part of the Nazi effort to produce a superior race in Germany.
The Grand Canyon, Monument to an Ancient Earth: The Deceptions Continue
Dr. Terry Mortenson • Dec. 2, 2020
The Grand Canyon, Monument to Ancient Earth? rejects the truth of Genesis regarding the Flood and the age of the earth.
Louis Agassiz and Alexander Winchell: Two Case Histories of Creationists Who Illustrate That Rejecting Genesis Influences the Acceptance of Racism
Dr. Jerry Bergman • Sept. 23, 2020
Theories that attempted to harmonize evolution and the Scriptures gave birth to, and perpetuated, a form of scientific racism based on Darwinism.
Inerrancy and Biblical Authority: How and Why Old-Earth Inerrantists Are Unintentionally Undermining Inerrancy
Dr. Terry Mortenson • Sept. 16, 2020
The old-earth signers of the CSBInerrancy unintentionally violated their own principles of interpretation and unintentionally undermined the inerrancy and the authority of Scripture.
Darwin’s Views of Women Had a Considerable Effect on Society
Dr. Jerry Bergman • April 29, 2020
This review has two goals, to document from Darwin’s writings that he believed women were inferior to men, and to document that his views greatly influenced modern academia and evolutionists.
Korea, Darwinism, Racism, and War
Dr. Jerry Bergman • Nov. 6, 2019
This review focuses on Korea, and the effects of racism on Korea from both Japan and China.
How Scholars’ Perceptions of the Semantic Range of יוֹם Have Affected Their Discussions of the Age of the Universe: Part 3
John C. P. Smith • July 17, 2019
The study looks at delineations and definitions of יוֹם in Scripture, and in lexical and other sources.
How Scholars’ Perceptions of the Semantic Range of יוֹם Have Affected Their Discussions of the Age of the Universe: Part 2
John C. P. Smith • April 24, 2019
There is a considerable disconnection between lexicography regarding יוֹם and the formation of creation theology.
How Scholars’ Perceptions of the Semantic Range of יוֹם Have Affected Their Discussions of the Age of the Universe: Part 1
John C. P. Smith • March 13, 2019
There is a considerable disconnection between lexicography regarding יוֹם and the formation of creation theology.
Critical Analysis of Hugh Ross’ Progressive Day-Age Creationism Through the Framework of Young-Earth Creationism
David Mcgee • Feb. 13, 2019
The most important part of the debate between views on creationism is about the presuppositions of each group and their biblical hermeneutics.
Responding to Lightner’s Comments on Natural Selection: Points of Agreement and Disagreement
Dr. Jason Lisle • Jan. 30, 2019
My paper was criticizing what Guliuzza has publicly written in which he denies the reality of natural selection: a claim that he has never publicly retracted.
Dubious Claims About Natural Selection
Dr. Jean Lightner • Jan. 30, 2019
This brief examination of Jason Lisle’s paper highlights that misunderstanding about natural selection is more prevalent among creationists than he suggests.
Refuting Dubious Claims Regarding Natural Selection
Dr. Jason Lisle • Dec. 5, 2018
Randy Guliuzza has made some controversial claims regarding the cause and nature of adaptation of organisms to their environment. We examine his claims.
Response to “Still No Replacement of Darwin: A Reply to Nathaniel Jeanson’s Response to My Review of Replacing Darwin—The New Origin of Species”
Dr. Nathaniel T. Jeanson • Nov. 21, 2018
Frello’s recent critique is helpful progress in our discussion, and it argues for the strength of the science in Replacing Darwin.
Still No Replacement of Darwin—A Reply to Nathanial Jeanson’s Response to my Review of Replacing Darwin—The New Origin of Species
Stefan Frello • Nov. 21, 2018
I used to think that when creationists talk about creation and evolution as a clash between worldviews, they were wrong. Jeanson has helped me change my mind.
Biblical Integration in Anatomy and Physiology: A Design Approach
Elizabeth Sled • June 20, 2018
We have been created fearfully and wonderfully by our Creator God, and the human body showcases God’s intricate design.
Response to “No Replacement of Darwin: A Review of Replacing Darwin—The New Origin of Species”
Dr. Nathaniel T. Jeanson • April 25, 2018
Ironically, Frello has actually done me a great favor; his review ends up bolstering my original claims.
No Replacement of Darwin
Stefan Frello • April 25, 2018
Jeanson takes on a formidable task: To show that the theory of evolution is wrong, and to replace it with biblical creation. To make it short: Jeanson fails.
The Origin of Beauty: Contrasting the Handicap Hypothesis and Design Theory
David Woetzel • Dec. 13, 2017
Why should there be such “gratuitous beauty”? The plethora of extravagant biological characteristics prominently call out for an explanation.
Scriptural Geology, Then and Now
Warren H. Johns • Nov. 30, 2016
The place of the biblical Flood in the geological record remains one of the most hotly debated issues among creationist geologists today.
The Nature of the Neo-Darwinian Evangelicals’ Criticism of Young-Earth Creationists
Jim Owen • Nov. 23, 2016
If we do not understand the dimensions of the war we are engaged in, we are already halfway to theological and historical oblivion.
On the Origin of Eukaryotic Species’ Genotypic and Phenotypic Diversity
Dr. Nathaniel T. Jeanson , et. al. • April 20, 2016
This study shows that created heterozygosity, together with natural processes that are observable, is sufficient to account for species’ diversity.
Chimeras, Cybrids, and Hybrids: A Christian’s Observations and Critique of Some Aspects of the Controversy Involving the Mixing of Human and Animal Materials for Scientific Research
Callie Joubert • Sept. 18, 2013
On July 22, 2011, some readers of the Daily Mail UK were stunned by news that “Scientists have created more than 150 human-animal embryos in British laboratories.”
Does Natural Selection Exist?
Dr. Nathaniel T. Jeanson • Aug. 7, 2013
How did the modern diversity of life arise from the created kinds of Genesis 1 and from the kinds taken on board the Ark? Did natural selection play a role?
German and American Eugenics in the Pre-World War 1 Era
Danae Mcgregor • March 6, 2013
Before the traumatic devastation of the Nazi genocides, eugenics theory was widely accepted by both German and American scientists, especially in the pre-World War 1 era.
Why Orthodox Darwinism Demands Atheism
Dr. Jerry Bergman • July 28, 2010
A conflict exists between modern neo-Darwinism and orthodox biblical Christianity.
There Is No Darwin Conspiracy
Todd Charles Wood • Jan. 28, 2009
Some contend that Charles Darwin plagiarized his theory of evolution. Whether you agree with the man or not, however, the evidence suggests the idea is his.
Charles Darwin on Answers Research Journal
In 1859, in his book Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin (1809–1882) proposed that all life evolved over millions of years from a common ancestor. Darwin’s view of evolution helped radically redefine the worldview of the western world, as he attempted to remove God as Creator and proposed nature itself can do the creating. The outcome of his hypothesis resulted in decades of indoctrination in godless evolutionary thinking and is the reason why many people today reject the accuracy and historicity of Genesis 1–11. In fact, the outworking of Darwin’s ideas led him to reject both the Bible as a divine revelation and the divinity of Jesus.
The aim of these research papers in Answers Research Journal (ARJ) is to consider the biblical account of creation and the flood from the perspective of a recent creation. These ARJ papers will not only address the historicity of Genesis 1–11 but will also consider other related issues such as the inerrancy of the Bible, social Darwinism, the role of natural selection, design in nature, and more, as they relate to Darwin and his publications. ARJ papers will argue that much of what Darwin believed about the Bible and the natural world has been proven wrong.
Darwinism is the sad result of God’s creatures suppressing the truth of his revelation in creation in unrighteousness and exchanging it for a lie, which results in the worship of creation instead of the Creator (Romans 1:18–25).