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30Nov 2022 by Post

Untangling “Professor Dave’s” Confusion about the Cambrian Explosion

animals, birds, body plan, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Casey Luskin, cladists, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, Douglas Erwin, Ediacaran fauna, Ediacaran Period, Evolution, Fortunian, fossil record, great Ordovician biodiversification event, homology, insects, Nick Matzke, paleontology, phylum, plesiomorphic, Professor Dave, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, symplesiomorphy, synapomorphy, The Blind Watchmaker, wings, YouTubers

We have seen the absurdly low quality of this individual’s video. But there is much more. I have added timecodes in square brackets for easier reference. Source

20Nov 2022 by Post

Evolution of Human Consciousness Solved! — Yet Again

animals, apes, biology, cats, consciousness, Eva Jablonka, Evolution, Human Origins, Irreducible Complexity, Martin Luther King Jr., mice, minimal consciousness, Mother Teresa, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology Today, Simona Ginsburg, University of Toronto, unlimited associative learning

What does the term “evolution” contribute to the discussion of the origin of human consciousness? Source

16Jun 2022 by Post

Court Rules Elephant Does Not Have Rights

activists, animal rights, animals, Bronx Zoo, Children, crime, Culture & Ethics, duties, elephants, Happy (elephant), human rights, humans, illness, immaturity, injury, judges, New York State, News Media, Nonhuman Rights Project, people, rights, slaves, sophistry, species barrier, women, writ of habeas corpus

I have written here several times about the attempt by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP) to “break the species barrier.” Source

26May 2022 by Post

These Animals Know How to Self-Medicate

Angela Ziltener, animals, antibiotics, antivirals, biology, cats, chimpanzees, corals, Dogs, dolphins, elephants, Gabon, grass, health, itching, mahouts, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Northern Red Sea, pain, parasites, Simone Pika, stomach, University of Zurich, West Africa, work elephant riders, wounds

The “animals’ pharmacy” mainly aims at treating parasites and wounds using plants and insects. Source

24Apr 2022 by Post

Claim: Research Shows Animals Have a Moral Sense

abstract thought, animals, chimps, Conversation, Dogs, emotions, ethics, Evolution, Frans de Waal, horses, James Hutton, moral choice, morality, Nautilus, Neuroscience & Mind, right, Templeton Foundation, The Bonobo and the Atheist, University of Vienna, wrong

We are informed at Nautilus, the Templeton Foundation’s magazine, that “ It’s time to take moral emotion in animals seriously.” Really? Source

14Apr 2022 by Post

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

animal rights, animals, bacteria, Climate News, Congress, courts, Culture & Ethics, deer, ecosystems, Ecuador, elephant, fish, forests, geological features, germs, habeas corpus, human exceptionalism, individual animals, insects, Laws, Life Sciences, nature right, New York State, plants, rivers, Switzerland, viruses, water

Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Source

19Nov 2021 by Post

Smithsonian Glosses Over the Cambrian Explosion

animals, Anomalocaris, behaviors, brains, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canada, cell types, Charles Darwin, Charnia, China, Darwin's Doubt, Dickinsonia, Ediacarans, Evolution, Fossil Hall, fossil record, Hallucigenia, Intelligent Design, mollusks, National Museum of Natural History, Opabinia, organs, oxygen, paleontology, Pikaia, Smithsonian Institution, Spriggina, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Woodward, tissue types, Tribrachidium, trilobites, Wiwaxia

The nation’s museum cannot ignore the collection of fossils Walcott sent them from the Burgess Shale. But can they explain them away? Source

03Sep 2021 by Post

Dawkins: A “Perfect Hierarchy” in the Tree of Life?

animals, biology, common design, creationists, Darwin Day, Darwinian evolution, DNA, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, FORA.tv, genes, hierarchy, Intelligent Design, Paul Nelson, plants, pseudogenes, Richard Dawkins, Tree of Life, YouTube videos

The “hierarchy” that Dawkins is referring to in the video is the tree of life that evolutionary biologists can generate. Source

27May 2021 by Post

PETA Wrong Again: Milk Is Good for Your Heart

animal products, animal rights, animal welfare, animals, bones, brain power, Culture & Ethics, dairy products, heart disease, high blood pressure, ideologues, International Journal of Obesity, meat, memory loss, milk, moderation, PETA, veganism

I have no complaint against people who refrain from consuming animal products. Making choices based on one’s moral view is an aspect of human exceptionalism. Source

29Mar 2021 by Post

Evans et al. (2021): All Four Examples Debunked

animals, axial polarity, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, circular reasoning, Darwin’s House of Cards, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran fossils, Ediacaran organisms, Ediacaran specialists, Eukaryonta, Evans et al. (2021), Evolution, evolutionary biology, Facebook, Gregory Retallack, Ikaria, La La Land, lichen, marine protozoans, Mary Droser, muscles, nervous system, paleontology, Precambrian House of Cards Series, Tom Bethell, Tree of Life, Tribrachidium, trilobozoans, University of Oregon

Evans et al. (2021) seem to have been well aware of the circular reasoning in their argument. Source

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