Icons of
Anti-Evolution
This website is a work in
progress. It is devoted to rebuttals of the arguments put forth by
John Corrigan "Jonathan" Wells's book Icons
of Evolution. This
site is the collaborative effort of several authors.
Links to
Other Sites discussing "Icons"
Icon
of Obfuscation: Talk Origins takes on
"Icons"
Padian, Gishlick review of Icons (March
2002 Quarterly Review of Biology ):
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/QRB/journal/issues/v77n1/770103/770103.web.pdf
Massimo
Pigliucci's Review Page
Dave
Ussery's Review Page
Don
Lindsey's Review Page
From
Science 6/01: Fatally Flawed Iconoclasm
- A review by Eugenie C. Scott
"The
Talented Mr. Wells," by Kevin
Padian
(Berkeley)
"Creationism
by Stealth" - Jerry Coyne reviews "Icons"
"An
Iconoclast for Evolution?" by Larry D. Martin
and
Wells's Response...
Arthur
Lodge examines "Industrial Melanism"
"10
Questions for Teachers" from the Wells
"Icons" Page
"10
Answers for Teachers"
- from NCSE
Wells
responds to NCSE...
One of Wells's
Questions: "DARWIN’S
TREE OF LIFE. Why don’t textbooks discuss the “Cambrian
explosion,” in which all major animal groups appear together in
the fossil record fully formed instead of branching from a common
ancestor--thus contradicting the evolutionary tree of
life?"
NCSE's
Answer: "Wells is
wrong: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals all are
post-Cambrian--aren’t these “major groups”? ....
"
Wells's
Response: "The NCSE
is wrong: Fish DID make their first appearance in the Cambrian
explosion. ..." He cites several articles, including this
one: Jun-Yuan Chen, Di-Ying Huang and Chia-Wei Li, “An
early Cambrian craniate-like chordate,” Nature 402 (1999),
518-522.
Click HERE (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v402/n6761/fig_tab/402518a0_F1.html)
to see the animal Wells is calling a "fish."
Haikouella lanceolata
Additional
Resources:
Author
Vita
Suggested
Readings
An
Essay on "Dogmatic Darwinists"
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