Eric Magnusson
Eric Magnusson, who has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, is president of Avondale College in Australia and supervises doctoral and postdoctoral research programs at the Australian National University at Newcastle, N.S.W., Australia.
Articles by Eric Magnusson
Control Systems and Evolution
December 1974
THE ARGUMENT about the most plausible explanation for the origin of plants and animals on this planet is difficult to win. The idea of Creation can receive only indirect support from scientific evidence, because the creative acts were supernatural…
Biochemistry and the Study of Evolution (part 2)
December 1973
IN PART one of this series, it was pointed out that those who question the evolutionary account use the same tree figure to demonstrate the classification of plants and animals as evolutionists do. However, they call it a "taxonomic tree"…
Biochemistry and the Study of Evolution
November 1973
PEOPLE COMMITTED to the evolutionary explanation of the history of life on earth often compare the evolution of living things to the growth of a tree. Originally there is only one shoot; the first twigs produced from it correspond to the…
Rival Theories of the Origin of Life
June 1973
THE idea of a spontaneous origin of living cells was not much discussed before about 1940, although it was early seen to be a necessity for a thorough going naturalistic view of life. Russian scientists, especially A. I. Oparin, were active…
Mutations and the Origin of Species
May 1977
THE IDEA that several million different species of living things needed nothing more than the ordinary processes of life to explain their origin had been growing in the minds of many scientists of the early nineteenth century, but…