The BioLogos Forum: Kelsey Luoma
Kelsey Luoma is a graduate of Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California, where she received a bachelor's degree in biology. She plans to continue her education in medical school. As an evangelical Christian and student of biology, Luoma is very interested in resolving the conflict between faith and science. She has spent two summers working as a student intern for BioLogos. In the future, she hopes to serve internationally as a physician.
Posts by Luoma
Speciation and Macroevolution
February 23, 2012
In our final installment of this three part series, we move on to the question of speciation and macroevolution. A common challenge to evolutionary theory is that while life does indeed change over time (what is known as microevolution), no one has ever seen one species evolve into another species (what is known as macroevolution).
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Where is the Genetic Evidence for Evolution?
January 19, 2012
In our last BioLogos podcast, we looked at the question of transitional fossils, and how the transitional species story strongly supports, and certainly does not disprove, evolutionary theory. In our latest, we move on to look at the genetic evidence for evolution. The discovery of DNA has revolutionized our understanding of common descent, particularly in the past few decades.
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Where are the Transitional Fossils?
November 10, 2011
A common argument leveled against the theory of evolution is that scientists have not been able to produce transitional fossils that show the change of one species into another. In our first ever BioLogos podcast, presented by BioLogos intern Kelsey Luoma, we address the misconception about what a transitional fossil actually is. Rather than a mix between two related species, these fossils point back to the common ancestors that modern species share.
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“Ninety Minutes Well Spent”: A Student’s Review of RENEWAL
April 22, 2011
The religion-environmental movement is powerful exactly for these reasons. When people are motivated by a deep-rooted desire to worship God, they are willing to invest time, energy and emotion to what they believe is the right thing to do. Throughout history, as C.S. Lewis pointed out in his famous work Mere Christianity, “those who did most for this world are those who thought most of the next”.
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A Student’s Review of Behe’s “Two Binding Site Rule”
November 11, 2010
While Behe presents his ideas in an articulate and convincing manner, he relies on only a few weakly supported arguments. In fact, many of the arguments he uses are misleading and illogical. In this post, I will isolate one such misleading argument- that “complexes of just three or more different proteins are beyond the edge of evolution”- and present evidence to show that Behe may have been wrong (p. 135).
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