fossil record – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

17Jan 2025 by Post

Günter Bechly on Fossils and Common Descent

Crossway, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, death, Evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, paleontologists, Podcast, Stephen Meyer, Theistic Evolution (book)

We were shocked and grieved to learn of the death of our friend and colleague Günter Bechly last week. Source

28Dec 2024 by Post

No. 5 Story of 2024: New Evidence Against Dino-Bird Ancestry

Alan Feduccia, antitrochanter, birds, dinosaur-bird hypothesis, dinosaurs, Evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, Hesperornis gracilis, iliac, ischium, Jurassic Park, Karlsruhe, Late Cretaceous, marine birds, microraptorids, paleontology, paleornithologists, penguins, phylogenetics, Temporal Paradox, theropod dinosaurs, troodontids, University of North Carolina, vertebrates

Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs. Source

20Dec 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: Nakridletia — The Rise and Fall (and Possible Resurrection) of a Fossil Insect Order

aquatic flies, biology, China, Daohugou site, Darwinian theory, ectoparasites, Evolution, fleas, forewings, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, gyroscopes, holometabolan insects, insects, Intelligent Design, Middle Jurassic, mouthparts, Nakridletia, paleontology, parasites, parasitic insects, pincers, pterosaurs, scorpionflies, Strashila incredibilis, Strashilidae, strashilids, Vosilidae, wings

So, were strashilids a distinct order of parasitic insects or just aquatic flies? Source

18Dec 2024 by Post

“Doesn’t the Fossil Record Prove Darwinian Theory?”

abrupt transitions, Avalon explosion, Big Bangs, Cambrian Explosion, Cambridge, Creativity, Darwinian evolution, David Berlinski, Ediacaran biota, England, Evolution, explosions, flowering plants, fossil record, Gerd Müller, gradualism, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, jumps, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, predictions, revolutions, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, saltations

You’ve heard that challenge a million times. But as paleontologist Günter Bechly explains, the opposite is true. Source

18Oct 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: Chitinozoa — Enigmatic Microfossils from the Paleozoic Era

animal phyla, asexual reproduction, Cambrian Explosion, chitin, Chitinozoa, cocoon, Early Cambrian, egg cases, Evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Gotland, great Ordovician biodiversification event, marine ecosystems, microfossils, paleontology, planktonic organisms, protists, SEM image, Silurian Period, single-celled organisms, sudden appearance, Sweden, testate amoebae, transitional fossils

We may now add the mysterious Chitinozoa to this ever-growing list of products of the burst of biological creativity in the Early Cambrian. Source

02Aug 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: Controversial Gradualism in Tyrannosaurids

anagenesis, Canada, cladogenesis, Darwinian gradualism, Daspletosaurus, Daspletosaurus torosus, Evolution, Fossil Friday, fossil record, Montana, natural selection, paleontology, speciation, splitting, Tarbosaurus, tyrannosaurid, Tyrannosaurus rex, Zhuchengtyrannus

History will tell who is right in this scientific controversy, but personally I am more convinced by the evidence against anagenesis. Source

26Jul 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Explosion Bingo Continues

atmosphere, biology, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Ediacaran, Evolution, Fossil Friday, fossil record, Hallucigenia, Nature Geoscience, Neoproterozoic Era, oxygen, oxygenation, paleontology

What if scientists were to discover next month that there was no oxygenation in the Cambrian but the exact opposite? Source

09Jul 2024 by Post

Earth Left “A Path of Tools” to Scientific Discovery

Anthropic Principle, biology, cell's, devolution, earth, Evolution, Fire-Maker, fossil record, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan Witt, Michael Denton, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, scientific discovery, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, The Privileged Planet

The fine-tunings for scientific discovery and technological progress are very interesting to me and not just because they defeat the anthropic principle. Source

29May 2024 by Post

Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps

aborigines, Africans, Alfred Russel Wallace, Australians, baboons, Caucasians, Charles Darwin, Europeans, Evolution, fossil record, Fuegians, gorillas, history, HMS Beagle, Human Origins, humans, intelligence, John Stuart Mill, Origin of Species, races, Racism, Reasoning, Richard Weikart, species, stem, Texas, The Descent of Man, Tierra del Fuego, United Nations

A defender of Darwinism might object that it’s silly to ding Darwin for his racism, since just about every white person in Victorian England was racist. Source

15Mar 2024 by Post

Notes on the Mysterious Origin of Hippos

Africa, Anthracotheriidae, biology, brachiopods, bryozoans, cephalopods, Charles Darwin, constancy, corals, Doliochoeridae, Ernst Mayr, Evolution, evolutionary derivations, foraminifers, fossil record, genera, Georges Cuvier, ghost lineages, Hippopotamidae, Hippopotamus amphibius, hippos, Intelligent Design, Louis Agassiz, Martin Pickford, megafauna, National Geographic, ostracods, paleontology, species, stasis, subfamilies, trilobites, ” and waiting around without any function that might explain why natural selection working on random mutations bothered to engineer them

The family Hippopotamidae appears abruptly in the fossil record — like all the other groups that I have so far investigated in detail. Source

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