05Jul 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: Time Wanderers Debunk Popular Scenario of Mammalian Evolution

Chronoperates paradoxus, Cynodontia, dentition, Evolution, Fossil Friday, Gerhard Mickoleit, Greek, Hans-Dieter Sues, lower jaw, mammaliaforms, mammals, paleontology, Paskapoo Formation, reptiles, Saint Bathans mammal, synapomorphies, therapsid, Therapsida, University of Tübingen
The crude Darwinist presumption of more advanced descendants outcompeting their primitive ancestors turned out to be wrong once again. Source
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17Jun 2023 by Post

Researchers: Neanderthals Invented Process to Produce Birch Tar

23andMe, antiseptic, birch tar, birch wood, Clive Finlayson, Germany, Gibraltar Museum, glue, Homo sapiens, Human Origins, insect repellent, intelligence, Michael Shermer, Middle Palaeolithic, missing link, Neanderthals, Neuroscience & Mind, paleontology, Patrick Schmidt, ScienceAlert, University of Tübingen
The tar can be used for glue, bug repellent, and killing germs. This finding tracks growing recognition of Neanderthals as intelligent. Source
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03May 2023 by Post

Farewell to My Teacher, Gerhard Mickoleit 

Arnold Staniczek, biologists, cladistics, East Prussia, Eberhard Frey, entomologists, entomology, Evolution, Frank Torsten Krell, Gerhard Mickoleit, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, Martin S. Fischer, mecopteran insects, morphology, naturalists, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, phylogenetics, polymath, Protestantism, Rainer Schoch, Ralf Britz, Rolf Beutel, Stuttgart Natural History Museum, systematics, University of Tübingen, vertebrate phylogeny, Willi Hennig
He had rather secretly always been a devout Protestant Christian and he too had some doubts about the causal adequacy and sufficiency of neo-Darwinism. Source
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20Sep 2022 by Post

Gene Sharing Is More Widespread than Thought, with Implications for Darwinism

bacteria, bioRxiv, Ceratopteris, co-evolution, convergence, Current Biology, DNA, Doug Soltis, Duke University, Evolution, ferns, Florida Museum of Natural History, Foresight (book), gene flow, heredity, horizontal gene transfer, human evolution, Intelligent Design, introgression, kleptomania, Lingchong You, Neanderthals, North Carolina State University, plants, University of Tübingen
Evidence is growing that organisms share existing genetic information horizontally, not just vertically. Source
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12Aug 2022 by Post

Fossil Friday: A Fossil Butterfly Lookalike

apomorphies, beetles, Brazil, butterflies, butterflies of the Jurassic, convergence, Crato Formation, Darwinism, design pattern, Fossil Friday, fossil record, genetic predispositions, insects, Intelligent Design, Kalligrammatidae, lacewing, Lower Cretaceous, Lower Jurassic, Makarkina adamsi, Makarkina kerneri, mouthparts, natural selection, neuropterans, paleontology, science, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, tape of life, University of Tübingen, wing span
An intelligent design paradigm can easily accommodate convergences as a natural consequence of a designer reusing the same ideas in different constructions. Source
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26Feb 2021 by Post

Study: Hands of “Ardi” Indicate a Chimp-like Tree-Dweller and Knuckle-Walker

Ardi, Ardipithecus ramidus, bipedality, bonobos, chimpanzees, Evolution, Germany, hominins, human ancestor, Human Origins, Madelaine Böhme, primates, quadrupedality, Rosetta Stone, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Science Advances, The Scientist, Tim White, University of Tübingen
Initially, Ardi was widely called the “oldest human ancestor,” due to its supposed skeletal traits that indicated an early bipedal (upright walking) species. Source
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