Report from Australia: Sharing Design Evidence Down Under

Australia, biology, C.S. Lewis, Cambrian Explosion, cosmic fine-tuning, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, DNA, DNA and Beyond, Emmanuel College, Evolution, Gold Coast, Griffith University, Intelligent Design, John Lingelbach, lecture tour, molecular machines, pizza, Queensland, Southport, Stephen Buranyi, The Guardian, Trinity College
While I packed for my July/August speaking tour of Queensland, Australia, science writer Stephen Buranyi dropped an 11-page bombshell in London. Source
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Complex Specified Information in the Lowly Sponge

architecture, arthropods, astronauts, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian strata, cementer cells, collagen, Current Biology, DNA, epithelial tissue, European Union, Intelligent Design, Mars, science, self-organization, spicules, sponges, temperature, termite mounds, termites, transport cells, vertebrates
Sponges are outliers in biology’s big bang, the Cambrian explosion. Their embryos appear in Precambrian strata, leading some to consider them primitive. Source
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This Cambrian Explosion “Explanation” Qualifies as Propaganda

arthropods, brain, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, crap theory, Current Biology, Debating Darwin's Doubt, Derek E. G. Briggs, Ediacaran Period, evo-devo, Evolution, fecal material, fossil record, Intelligent Design, Izvestia, Kimberella, morphology, nervous system, newspapers, oxygen level, Palaeophragmodictya, phyla, Pravda, stem taxa, Stephen Meyer, USSR
It’s interesting to see what Derek E. G. Briggs is willing to admit about the Cambrian explosion. Source
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On Cambrian Explosion, Biology Journal’s Special Issue Betrays Cause for Darwin Doubts

bilaterians, biology, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Charles Marshall, citrate, Current Biology, David Klinghoffer, Debating Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran Period, Evolution, Florian Maderspacher, gene regulatory networks, Graham Budd, Hervé Philippe, Intelligent Design, James Valentine, Maximilian Telford, phenotypes, Precambrian, Richard Lenski, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma, Uppsala University, Vernanimalcula
The strength of a theory can be gauged by how well it stands up to attacks and how well it incorporates new evidence. Source
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Bechly: Problems with Universal Common Ancestry Posed by the Fossil Record

abrupt appearance, biology, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Crossway, Darwinism, Evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID The Future, paleontology, Podcast, Sarah Chaffee, Stephen Meyer, Theistic Evolution (book), universal common ancestry
Paleontologist Günter Bechly was a proponent of Darwinism until he discovered significant scientific reasons to doubt the evolutionary story. Source
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Darwinists Seek to Explain the Eye’s Engineering Perfection

airy nothings, biology, bipolar cells, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, consensus, Current Biology, Dan-Eric Nilsson, Darwinian theory, David Berlinski, Doubts About Darwin, Engineering, Evolution, inevitability, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, light-sensitive spot, Neil Thomas, photoreceptors, retina, Richard Dawkins, The Design Revolution, Thomas Woodward, Tom Baden, vertebrate eye, visualization
First, they turn evolution into an engineer. Personification is a common ploy by Darwinists. Source
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Lukas Ruegger on the “Ediacaran Explosion”— No Solution to the Cambrian Puzzle

Basics of Intelligent Design Biology, biology, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian fauna, Cambrian News, Complexity, Darwinian gradualism, Ediacaran fauna, Ediacaran Period, Evolution, fossil record, Intelligent Design, Lukas Ruegger, missing ancestors, multicellular life, Simon Conway Morris, single-celled organisms
Ruegger is the personable new intelligent design “explainer” whose videos take an approach similar to Khan Academy’s, but better. Source
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Happy New Year! #1 Story of 2021: Cambrian Explosion Goes Nuclear

arthropods, biology, Cambrian biota, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, David Gelernter, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran organisms, Edicaran animals, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionists, first appearance date, fungus, glide symmetry, Gregory Retallack, Ilya Bobrovskiy, Intelligent Design, latest appearance date, Mongolia, Nama Basin, Namibia, Neo-Darwinism, Peaceful Science, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer, University of Zurich, Vendobionta, Yale University
Here are two very interesting updates to my recent articles on alleged Ediacaran animals and the Cambrian Explosion. Source
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#3 Story of 2021: In Mainstream Journal, ID Theorists on “Waiting Time” Problem for Coordinated Mutations

Ann Gauger, arthropods, Avalon explosion, binding sites, Cambrian Explosion, Discovery Institute, DNA, Evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID 3.0 research project, Intelligent Design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, marbles, mutations, nucleotides, Ola Hössjer, peer-reviewed literature, polynomial, regulatory regions, Springer, Stochastic Processes and Applications, tetrapods, vascular plants, waiting-time problem
The paper is authored by three key scientists in the intelligent design (ID) research program: Ola Hössjer, Günter Bechly, Ann Gauger. Source
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