Author: Casey Luskin
Khan Academy Misleads with Human-Chimp Genetic Similarity Argument for Common Ancestry
The video compares humans and chimps, saying the latter’s behaviors and facial expressions are “eerily human.” I could say the same thing about my cat.
Khan Academy “Evidence for Evolution” Video Pushes the Fake Fossil Horses Series
The video draws arrows from one species of fossil horses to the next and says “there is a constant change and we can see it directly through the fossil record.”
Khan Academy Video, “Evidence for Evolution,” Gives Circular Arguments for Common Ancestry
If you define homology as resulting from common ancestry, you can’t then turn around and use that as an argument for common ancestry.
“Evidence for Evolution”? Khan Academy Pushes Haeckel’s Phony Embryo Drawings
I’ve watched many Khan Academy videos over the years — sometimes just for fun, and sometimes to advise teachers on whether they are good tools to use.
Chromosomal Fusion and Correcting Mistakes: A Retrospective on an Old Debate
The main evidence that Dr. Scott cites to argue that chromosomal fusions aren’t necessarily deleterious comes not from humans but from horses.