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Update of my articles. Sorry, still not organised. I have better things to do with my time. Just dig in to what might interest you and follow the links. Comment on the blog page, or comment on a relevant Facebook page or email me at my name with a dot in the middle at gmail dot com. Spread the word.

I now have 400 or so published pages. The material does not lend itself to conventional book form, but maybe an e-book? If anyone is interested in organising it with me and maybe getting it published as an e-book, you are welcome to use any of it, and if you can make any  money out of it, good luck to you. Let me know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ancient_of_Days. William Blake, 1794

The blog is not monetized. I make nothing from it. It mostly concerns evidence for evolution and comments on creationist material, with other pages that I hope you will find interesting.

It is material that I have developed over a number of years. I had considered converting it into book form, but this format seems the best one for presenting it, so I am endeavouring to organise it in a form that you can read like a book, with the pages in a sequence. Any link you click on will be opened in a new tab. As is the case with all linked-to items, close the tab and you will be returned to the linking page.

My material is not copyrighted. Feel free to link to it, copy it, or copy 'n' paste from it.

This is an ongoing project, and the pages will be edited and added to in the course of time. Bookmark this so you can easily come back to see if there is anything new.

Comments and questions are very welcome, both in this blog and in the many Facebook groups I frequent, which is practically all the groups that discuss evolutionary science, creationism and intelligent design, except for the for-profit creationist groups, from all of which I am excluded.

Veritas posts

=====Barry's Blog=====

About the Author, Barry Desborough, who has misspent his retirement fighting science-denying creationism.

But Why is Evolutionary Science Vitally Important? - A Personal View

Endogenous Retroviruses: A Conversation with Tavian Opaldo. - YouTube

Text for Tavian Oladapo interview

=====Endogenous Retroviruses=====

The top page for answers concerning the slam-dunk proof of common ancestry, commonly located endogenous retroviruses. (ERVs).

ERVs: Of Eloi and Morlocks. A simple explanation of ERVs and why they are important evidence for common ancestry - H.G. Wells' The Time Machine'

ERVs: Proof of Evolution (An Executive Summary)

ERVs: What is the case for common descent from ERVs? A summary in a nutshell.

ERVs: Long terminal repeats (LTRs). How these retroviral markers provide yet more information on evolutionary history.

ERVs: Why do virologists and geneticists conclude that ERVs descend from retroviruses and why do creationists ignore all this?

ERVs: The Koala's Tale. How an exogenous and endogenous virus (KoRV) confirms the viral origin of ERVs.

ERVs: But isn't this all just circular reasoning, assuming evolution to 'prove' evolution?

A retrovirus is invading the Koala genome | Virology Blog

ERVs: Just how many ERVs are shared, in common locations, in the genomes of humans and chimps?

ERVs: Don't retroviruses target particular locations in the DNA? Doesn't this explain corresponding ERVs?

ERVs: ERVs do stuff. Doesn't that prove that they didn't originate from retroviruses, but were designed?

ERVs: Aren't ERVs designed to protect against viral infection? Superinfection exclusion

ERVs: ERVs promote the transcription of host DNA. Doesn't this prove they are designed?

ERVs: ERVs are essential in reproduction. How can this be?

ERVs: Aren't the same ERV genetics in corresponding DNA loci in different species because they have to do the same job?

ERVs: But how can you rule out design as an explanation for ERVs? A challenge for creationists and ID spotters.

ERVs: "Standing for Truth" (the Beavis and Butthead of creationism) attempt to reply to my questions raised by the idea that ERVs were designed

A Review of "The Endogenous Retrovirus Handbook" from "Beavis and Butthead".

ERVs: Another attempt at answering my design questions by "Flambeau Flambeaux".

ERVs: Yet qnother attempt to answer the questions an ERV design hypothesis raises

ERVs: Creationism's version of Beavis and Butthead attempting to discredit the ERV evidence.

ERVs: But how could a species survive such a massive invasion of retroviruses into its genome?

ERVs: So how could ERVs survive programmed cell death (apoptosis)?

ERVs: Haven't the same ERVs been found in species that are said to be distantly related?

ERVs: What if we find an ERV in a common locus in chimps and gorillas, but not in humans?

ERVs: David DeWitt at Anwers in Genesis says ERVs do not line up with the expected evolutionary progression.

ERVs: What's all this about the "Phoenix Virus"? A fully replication competent retrovirus resurrected from our own genomes? Sounds like a Michael Crichton science fiction story!

ERVs: The "Phoenix Virus": An explanation of the experiment.

ERVs: Could you have this backwards? Maybe retroviruses come from designed-in variation inducing genetic elements (VIGEs)? (1)

ERVs: On incredulity that so many ERVs have become fixed (ubiquitous) in our genomes

=====This section examines creationist articles trying to firefight the ERV evidence=====

ERVs: The "Not Junk" Anti-ERV Defence. The dishonesty of fabricating a strawman argument and attacking it.

ERVs: Were They Created Good? - Yingguang Liu @ Answers in Genesis

ERVs: Evolutionary “Junk” or God’s Tools? - Georga Purdom @ Answers in Genesis

ERVs: The Natural History of Retroviruses. Liu and Soper of AiG debunked by fellow creationist, Todd Wood.

ERVs: Questioning Evolutionary Presuppositions about Endogenous Retroviruses - Dr. Anjeanette Roberts @ Reasons to Believe

ERVs: Toppling Another Evolutionary Icon, ENCODE Data Suggests Endogenous Retroviruses Are Functional. Casey Luskin @ "Evolution News".

ERVs: Viral Genome Junk Is Bunk. Bunk from Jeffrey Tomkins' @ "The Institute of Creation Research"

ERVs: Gorilla Genome is Bad News for Evolution. Tompkins @ the ICR getting it wrong again

ERVs: Viral Genome Junk Hits the Trash - Yet more trash from our Jeff @ the ICR

ERVs: Endogenous Retroviruses - Pitman @ DetectingDesign, also getting it wrong

ERVs: Large Scale Function for Endogenous Retroviruses - Luskin @ EvolutionNews

ERVs: Large Scale Function for ‘endogenous retroviruses’. - Shaun Doyle @ Creation Ministries International

ERVs: Do koalas prove that humans got part of their DNA from viruses? - Matthew Cserhati @ Creation Ministries International

ERVs: Anjeanette Roberts On "A Common Design View of ERVs Encourages Scientific Investigation" @ Reasons to Believe

ERVs: Questioning Evolutionary Presuppositions about Endogenous Retroviruses. Dr. Anjeanette Roberts @ "Reasons to Believe

ERVs: “Evolution's Best Argument Has Become Its Worst Nightmare” by Brian Thomas of the “Institute for Creation Research”

ERVs: Dismantling the Best Evidence for Common Descent. A book by the Beavis and Butthead of creationism.

ERVs: Do Endogenous Retroviral Sequences (ERVs) Prove Evolution? Yes, they do!

ERVs: Large scale function for ‘endogenous retroviruses’ - Doyle @ CMI

ERVs; Junk No Longer - Casey Luskin @EvolutionNews

ERVs: From Jonathan McLatchie, "The Search for Adam and Eve"

ERVs: The Search for Adam and Eve" Mclatchie backpedals on his previous article for "Evolution News", but not quite far enough, and how creationists never correct their mistakes, because - God.

ERVs: Do Shared ERVs Support Common Ancestry? from Evolution "News"

=====Science: More general topics. Natural selection=====

Veritas: A Probability Demo

Calculating Protein Probability. Big Scary Number Theory.

Conway's Game of Life: an example of the phenomenon of emergence.

How Information Arises Naturally.

======== Ages Age Correlations and an Old Earth. How multiple independent lines of evidence falsify YEC.==========

How 14C dating of dinosaur remains never return a YEC-compatible date

====== Attacking evolution: Darwin's Sacred Cause, to prove that all men are created as equals.

Amazon's review of Franz de Waal's book, The Bonobo and the Atheist, on evolution and morality

Darwin and Eugenics. How and why Darwin opposed eugenics.

Creationist nonsense about genetic "Information"

Gravity: How sometimes, a false notion can get stuck in your head, and no amount of evidence and reasoning can winkle it out. Sound familiar?

Please Take Note. Science and atheism are not the same things.

Veritas: Detecting Design

Veritas: The Nature of Scientific Knowledge (1)

Veritas: Giordano Bruno

=====Creationism: "Dr." Kent Hovind. The fake "doctor" who "qualified" at a fake university and for some unfathomable reason became a hero of the creationist mob. =====

Veritas: "Standing for Truth," + Kent and Eric Hovind (1)

Veritas: "Standing for Truth" and Creationist Custard.

Standing for Truth. The Beavis and Butthead of Creationism.

"Kinds". How creationists retrofit their crazy ideas to abuse the KJV version of the Bible.

"Research" at the "Institute for Creation Research". They don't do research, they are not an institute. They just want your money.

A New Study Confirming Creationism! ;)

Abysmal scholarship from Creation.com. Evolution, Lysenkoism and Stalinism mashup unravelled.

How creationists disqualify themselves from science discussion by their "statements of faith"

Genesis - how literalists say they believe it, but actually do not.

No Free Lunch? How William Dembski stole and misrepresented some respectable mathematics to write a book to con money out of the gullible followers of "intelligent design".

Veritas: "The Atheist" and "The Grammar Nazi"

Veritas: A reply to "A Biblical Response to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Launch."

Veritas: Abysmal scholarship from Creation.com

Veritas: Accelerated Christian Education (ACE), and the Attempted Hijacking of Secular Education.

Veritas: Baraminology - Creationist Science at its most Rigorous

Veritas: Baraminology. What a load of crap!

Veritas: The Peculiar Case of Homer Jacobson and Apologetics Press (1)

=====Theology: Judgement Day=====

Atheists have no morals: A counter to this accusation

Maybe everything is fake?

Bringing Forth. How Genesis describes abiogenesis - the emergence of life from non-living matter.

Science and Atheism: How they are not the same

On Abiogenesis

Theism, Atheism, Agnosticism: Let's get this straight.

Veritas: A-prefix. Why and and how theists misrepresent people who don't believe in gods.

Veritas: Agnosticism - atheism

Veritas: Atheists have no morals

Rational manifesto

________________Veritas: Archiving Glen Morton's Pages.__________________

Veritas: About the Author - Glenn Morton

Veritas: Early Church Fathers on Genesis

Veritas: Burrows cause problems for the Flood

Veritas: Creationist Misuse of the Green River Formation

Veritas: Carbon Dioxide and the Flood

Veritas: Carbonate hardgrounds disprove the global flood

Veritas: Canadian Coal Not Formed Catastrophically

Veritas: AI (Artificial Imbeciles)

Veritas: Answering "ftacky" at Christian Forums

Veritas: Ant Super-Colonies

Veritas: As I so often have to, I need to point out that science and theology are different topics

Veritas: Astonished

Veritas: Barry's Recommended Reading List

Veritas: Belief

Veritas: Cameras v Eyes

Veritas: Can race be erased?

Veritas: Darwin and Eugenics

Veritas: Christianity and Science

Veritas: Conversation with Dominic Stratham

Veritas: Debating John Heintz

Veritas: Derwood on "Baraminology"

Veritas: Did "Team SFT" Really Debunk "Stated Clearly" on the DNA Evidence That Humans & Chimps Share A Common Ancestor: Endogenous Retroviruses?

Veritas: DNA is not a code

Veritas: Does Retroviral DNA Insert Randomly into Genomes? More creationist lies

Veritas: Dumb Design

Veritas: Endianness

Veritas: Ending religion is a bad idea, says Richard Dawkins?

Veritas: Endogenisation as an explanation.

Veritas: ERV FAQ: Other articles on ERVs

Veritas: ERV Intro

Veritas: ERV’s [sic] Utterly Debunked

Veritas: Evo-phobia

Veritas: Evolution is Dead

Veritas: Evolution: Its Acceptance Amongst Prominent Christians

Veritas: Evolutionary Algorithms and "Intelligent Design"

Veritas: Evolutionists and Antis

Veritas: Falsifiability

Veritas: Fish Cause Problems for the Global Flood

Veritas: Fisked: Waste Not: Research Finds that “Far from Junk DNA,” ERVs Perform “Critical Cellular Functions”

Veritas: For Chris

Veritas: For those who will not click

Veritas: Fred Hoyle, Georges Lemaître, the Big Bang, Evolution and Boeing Aircraft

Veritas: Further to my contention that science is not a topic for a theist/atheist discussion group

Veritas: Genomic Information

Veritas: Ghosts.

Veritas: Glenn Morton: Why I took my Web Pages Down

Veritas: Glenn Morton's Pages Archive - Contents

Veritas: Glenn Morton's Theology Articles and Other Topics

Veritas: Gods all the way up.

Veritas: Heaven and Hell

Veritas: Human Evolution, by Graeme Finlay

Veritas: Human Evolution: Genes, Genealogies and Phylogenies, By Graeme Finlay

Veritas: Human Nature

Veritas: ICR

Veritas: ID

Veritas: If ERVs are designed, what are the design purposes of these features? Another attempt.

Veritas: Igneous History of British Isles Won't Fit Into Global Flood

Veritas: Imagine

Veritas: Infallible

Veritas: Information Arises Naturally.

Veritas: Insect borings in dinosaur bones – evidence against rapid burial in a global flood

Veritas: Institute for Creation Research

Veritas: Intelligent Designs?

Veritas: Is Atheism a Belief?

Veritas: Is Evolution Random?

Veritas: Is the Evidence from ERVs Falsifiable?

Veritas: It Sure Was Hot During the Global Flood

Veritas: KKK (Kreationist Kargo-Kult "Science".)

Veritas: Lake Varves and Radiocarbon Dating

Veritas: Limestone Presents Problems for the Global Flood

Veritas: Long Terminal Repeats (LTRs)

Veritas: Me

Veritas: Meme Dump

Veritas: Meteor Craters and the Flood Year

Veritas: Mike Pence Criticizes Theory of Evolution

Veritas: Morality

Veritas: Mt-Eve, Y-Adam

cargo

Veritas: NANOG pseudogenes and human evolution

Veritas: Natural Selection

Veritas: Nicotine

Veritas: Oil Well Cores and the Global Flood

Veritas: Ok, I'll admit it. ERVs ARE junk DNA - well, sort of.

Veritas: Olam: The Bible's Way of Telling Us That the Earth is Old

Veritas: On "The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution" by J. Arvid Ågren

Veritas: On an "Evolution" (fake) "News" article from Casey Luskin

Veritas: On James Tour: The Origin of Life Has Not Been Explained. Part I

Veritas: On Proof

Veritas: On some common objections and complaints about my ERV FAQ.

Veritas: One Million Years of Not Sweeping the Floors: The Soils of Beijing

Veritas: Palaeosols

Veritas: Phillip Johnson trying to defend intelligent design

Veritas: Plain Reading of Genesis 1

Veritas: Politics and Sociopathy

Veritas: Probability Demo Source

Veritas: Pseudogenes FAQs

Veritas: Quote mining

Veritas: Quote Mining - or How to Lie About Your Opponents by Quoting Them

Veritas: Re. "CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang's latest work delivers mRNA, gene therapy with a human protein"

Veritas: Re. "CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang's latest work delivers mRNA, gene therapy with a human protein"

Veritas: Re. Endogenous Retroviruses and Evolution (Modern Synthesis)

Veritas: Re. the "Design Hypothesis" re. ERVs. Microbiological Rape.

Veritas: Recovering YECs

Veritas: Refuting "Refuting the Endogenous Retrovirus Claim of Evolutionists"

Veritas: Retroviruses for Dummies

Veritas: Richard Sternberg by Expelled Exposed

Veritas: Russell's Celestial Teapot and the Burden of Proof

Veritas: Sadly, an Honest Creationist

Veritas: Sadly, an Honest Creationist

Veritas: Salt, Meteors and the Global Flood

Veritas: Science

Veritas: Science and nonscience

Veritas: Selon leur espèce

Veritas: Sir Fred Hoyle

Veritas: Some comments on "Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes"

Veritas: Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes

Veritas: Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes

Veritas: Someone was Ranting

Veritas: Survival of the fittest

Veritas: Talk Beliefs Interview II

Veritas: Talk Beliefs Interview. Mark Torrender talks with yours truly.

Veritas: The Demise and Fall of the Water Vapor Canopy: A Fallen Creationist Idea

Veritas: The Early Church Fathers Were Not YECs - by John Tobin

Veritas: The Encyclopedia of American Loons

Veritas: The ERV Design Hypothesis. More Answers Offered.

Veritas: The Fish is Being Served with a Delicate Creamy Mercury Sauce

Veritas: The Global Flood Produces Acidic Flood Waters

Veritas: The Irrational

Veritas: The Koala's Tale

Veritas: The Letter the CRSQ didn't want you to read

Veritas: The Misguided Erosion Argument

Veritas: The Multiple Droughts During the Global Flood

Veritas: The Natural History of Retroviruses - a Critique

Veritas: The Nature of Scientific Knowledge

Veritas: The Peculiar Case of Homer Jacobson and Apologetics Press

Veritas: The Physics of a Mesopotamian Flood

Veritas: The Real Poop on the Global Flood

Veritas: The Varves! The Varves! (And Skinny Dipping :) )

Veritas: Theological Issues Concerning Creation, Evolution and the Flood

Veritas: They Lie Because They Have To

Veritas: Thoughts on race and evolution

Veritas: Time Sequence in Pebbles

Veritas: To Jack

Veritas: To Peter Berean

Veritas: Too Many Fossils for a Global Flood

Veritas: Tracks and Raindrop, Hail and Ice Impressions Demonstrates Slow Deposition

Veritas: Vaccine Shit

Veritas: Varves and the Global Flood

Veritas: Varves, Confirmation Bias, or Lying for Jesus?

Veritas: VIGEs

Veritas: Viral Genome Is Bunk - Or Is Tomkins' Article Bunk?

Veritas: Warning. Disturbing video.

Veritas: Was the Genetic Code Intelligently Designed?

Veritas: Wasting Our Time With: Waste Not: Research Finds that “Far from Junk DNA,” ERVs Perform “Critical Cellular Functions”

Veritas: Were Retroviruses Created Good? A Critique.

Veritas: What Evolution Isn't

Veritas: What has Evolution Ever Done for Us?

Veritas: What is True?

Veritas: While the Flood Rages, Termites Dig, Dinosaurs Dance and Cicadas Sing

Veritas: WHO ARE THE CREATION "SCIENTISTS"?

Day Million: A short story by Frederick Pohl.

Veritas: Who is Your Creator? - ERVs!

Veritas: Why are there still monkeys?

Veritas: Why Clastic Dykes Don't Indicate a Global Flood

Veritas: Why Evolutionary Science is Vitally Important - a personal view

Veritas: Why Evolutionary Science is Vitally Important - a personal view (1)

Veritas: Why I Believe Genesis is Historically Accurate

Veritas: Why I Left Young-Earth Creationism

Veritas: Why the Black Sea is not the Site of Noah's Flood

Veritas: Why?

Veritas: Wikidia

Was Darwin a racist, and does evolution promote racism? - #DarwinDay (Hint ... No) • Skeptical Science

Was Hitler a Darwinian.pdf

We'll Let You Know - YouTube

Why creation "science" isn't.

Why I Left Young-Earth Creationism

Veritas: More on the Design Hypothesis

Veritas

Veritas: Did "Team SFT" Really Debunk "Stated Clearly" on the DNA Evidence That Humans & Chimps Share A Common Ancestor: Endogenous Retroviruses?

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Veritas: ERVs? Do koalas prove that humans got part of their DNA from viruses?

Veritas: Is the Placenta a 'Problem'? No, Ann, No.

Veritas: Notes from a Misspent Retirement

Veritas: The Beavis and Butthead of Creationism Ride Again

Amazon.co.uk:Customer reviews: THE FIRST COUPLE: ADAM AND EVE - INDEPENDENT ORIGINS: REFUTING THE CRITICS OF BIBLICAL CREATION PART ONE

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Veritas: A quick introduction to microbiology and retrovirology

Veritas: More from the creationist Beavis and Butthead duo.

A Problem for Darwin? The problem of "blending inheritance".

The Varves! Proof of an old earth and verification of 14C dating accuracy.

Veritas: Dear Dr. Tour (public)

Veritas: On "The Placenta Problem: How Common Descent Fails", by Ann Gauger of the "Discovery Institute"

Veritas: The Cambrian Explosion: The Reconstruction of Animal Biodiversity.— By Douglas H. Erwin and James W. Valentine.

Veritas: Generating or Finding Information - a Thought Experiment

"Atheist Logic. A very silly 'meme' that comes up with tiresome regularity.

Veritas: "Objective morality". Is it laziness, cowardice or bluster?

Veritas: "Standing for Truth," + Kent and Eric Hovind

Veritas: Age

Veritas: Werner Gitt

Veritas: Phobias

Veritas: A2AIG

Veritas: Preface

Veritas: Exo Life?

Veritas: Abiogenesis

Veritas: Religious Education

Veritas: Quips

Veritas: Evolutionary Model

Veritas: Expelled Exposed Exposed

Veritas: Revelation

Veritas: Human Evolution: Genes, Genealogies and Phylogenies - Graeme Finlay, a Christian preacher, expert in genetic markers that prove evolution

Veritas: Mackerelevolution

Veritas: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg and Company

Veritas: Antiscientism

Veritas: Intelligent Designer Spotting

Veritas: "Fearfully and Wonderfully Designed".

Veritas: Abiogenesis Revisited

Veritas: ERVs Yet Again: Short Answers. (Follow the Links).

Sapient? Are we really wise?

Veritas: Richard Dawkins: Free online books

Veritas: Is Evolution Random?

Veritas: On "The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism", a book by Jason Rosenhouse

Here be Dragons (on searching a large "phase space"), a common fallacy in creationist 'arguments'.

Veritas: Here be Dragons (Searching a large "Phase Space")

Veritas: No Evo Challenge from Dembski

eandsdembski.pdf

Veritas: Don't talk about "Evolution News"...

Why Can't Christians Understand the Word Atheist? - YouTube

Veritas: De Varven (igen)

Veritas: A Declaration from an Atheist

Veritas: What has Evolution Ever Done for Us?

CA215: Practical uses of evolution.

Veritas: Darwin, Turing

Veritas: Ak!

Why Not Intelligent Design?

Evidence for the Evolutionary Model - ERVs

Veritas: Can race be erased?

(11) Answers for Atheists, Agnostics and all who are angry at the Almighty #2 | Groups | Facebook

James Tour Gets ETour XPOSED by His Own Colleagues - YouTube

How did the Big Bang get its name? Here’s the real story

publications by Glenn R. Morton

Veritas: Less than Human

Veritas: Spam?

PSCF6-18Davidson.pdf

PSCF6-18Davidson.pdf

Veritas: On some common objections and complaints about my ERV FAQ

Veritas: Assumptions?

Veritas: What would a Transitional Creature Look Like?

Veritas: Transitionals

Veritas: Anti-evolution 'arguments' abusing probability

Veritas: Genetic "Information"

Alan Turing

Veritas: Retard

Veritas: Why Evolutionary Science is Vitally Important - a personal view

Veritas: Commenting on John Heintz commenting on Transposons and Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs)

Veritas: More on Probability and Abiogenesis.

Veritas: Lies, Damned Lies, and Mined Quotes

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Why I Left Young-Earth Creationism

Veritas: The Nature of Scientific Knowledge

Thermodynamical Arguments Against Evolution

Veritas: The Nature of Scientific Knowledge

Veritas: Just a Theory?

The Beneficial Functions of Endogenous Retroviruses | Answers in Genesis

Toppling Another Evolutionary Icon, ENCODE Data Suggests Endogenous Retroviruses Are Functional | Evolution News

Veritas: "I was charitable enough to think he was an honestly stupid man"

(5) Evolution IS a Blind Watchmaker - YouTube

Junk DNA and ENCODE: Part 1

(3) Junk DNA... It's a Thing - YouTube

Veritas: Did Richard Dawkins Admit to Intelligent Design? An honestly stupid man, or lying for Jesus?

Veritas: Conway's Game of Life

Veritas: The Appeal to Authority

Veritas: To Facebook Group Members.

Veritas: Why I use a Blog