Mark Isaak's Home Page

(See the linked pages for the really interesting stuff. Comments, corrections, and additions are welcome. Email me at Please use a subject line that is obviously not spam.)

On Creation/Evolution Issues

• Five Major Misconceptions About Evolution
• Problems with a Global Flood, 2nd edition
• Bombardier Beetles and the Argument of Design
• A Philosophical Premise of 'Naturalism'? - Why scientists are no more wedded to an assumption of naturalism than creationists are.
• What is Creationism? - an introduction to the varieties of creationist positions.
• An Index to Creationist Claims - A comprehensive list of creationist claims, and brief rebuttals to them.

On Other Biological Subjects

• Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature

On Mythology

• The Flood in World Myth and Folklore

On Philosophy

• Is That So? The Art of Evaluating Information - Can you believe the stuff you read here and other places? Here are some guidelines to help you decide for yourself.
• Nine Commandments - moral strictures revisited

List-making

• A Collection of 'and'-linked Pairs - A thousand and one odds and ends exploring the ins and outs of English language and idiom.
• Compounds of Three Words - A list of 3-unit compounds, insofar as I could find them, for whomsoever is interested.

Creative Writing

• Jack and the Beanstack - I wrote this in 1982. Shortly after that, the first few paragraphs somehow made it into the Berkeley UNIX fortune program and were distributed widely. Here's the whole story.
• The Modern Entomologist
• Jessica's Rights
• Oomycetes - To properly appreciate this, you should have an understanding of mycology and romantic poetry.