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02Oct 2021 by Post

Did Minimal Consciousness Drive the Cambrian Explosion?

anatomy, Anna Zeligowski, brains, Bremen, Cambrian Explosion, chemoton, consciousness, David Chalmers, Eva Jablonka, Evolution, Evolution in Four Dimensions, Germany, Neuroscience & Mind, origin of life, protocell, Simona Ginsberg, Tibor Gánti, wager

Eva Jablonka’s team makes the daring case, repurposing Hungarian chemist Tibor Gánti’s origin of life studies. Source

22Sep 2021 by Post

Arthropod Architects Amaze Engineers

abdomen, Anomalocaris, aphids, arthropods, beetles, Berlin, bioengineers, biology, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, chelicerates, crickets, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwin's Doubt, engineers, Evolution, flies, gnats, honeybees, Intelligent Design, Marrella, MIT, pill bugs, PNAS, praying mantises, spider-silk, spiders, Stephen Meyer, thorax, trilobites

They appear in the early Cambrian fossil record: the first examples of the most diverse phylum on earth. Who knew their skills would become the envy of human engineers? Source

07Sep 2021 by Post

Phylogenetic Conflict Is Common and the “Hierarchy” Is Far from “Perfect”

angiosperms, Biological Reviews, Cambrian Explosion, Darwin's Doubt, Evolution, evolutionary tree, FORA.tv, Genome Research, hierarchy, Intelligent Design, mammals, Metazoa, New Scientist, phylogenetic data, phylogenomic conflict, Precambrian, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Richard Dawkins, Sean B. Carroll, Stephen Meyer, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, U.C. Davis, universal common ancestry, University of Wisconsin-Madison

It’s simply false for Dawkins to claim that when you compare genes of different animals, they “fall on a perfectly hierarchy — a perfect family tree.” Source

20Aug 2021 by Post

Did the New York Times Just Give a Covert Nod to Meyer’s “God Hypothesis”?

Alfred North Whitehead, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, Current Biology, Darwin's Doubt, Faith & Science, God Hypothesis, Intelligent Design, Johannes Kepler, Judeo-Christian tradition, New York Times, Order of Things, physics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Ross Douthat, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer

What’s different is that this time around, the discussion is far more favorable towards Meyer’s position. Here’s what columnist Ross Douthat says Source

18Aug 2021 by Post

In Mainstream Journal, ID Theorists Explore “Waiting Times” 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

19Jun 2021 by Post

Watch: Bechly and Swamidass Debate Intelligent Design

biology, Cambrian Explosion, computational biology, Darwinism, debates, Evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, Joshua Swamidass, Justin Brierley, neo-Darwinian theory, neutral evolution, paleontology, Washington University

One highlight is Dr. Bechly’s summation of his scientific reasons for affirming intelligent design. This produces the response from host Justin Brierley: “Wow.” Source

12Jun 2021 by Post

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery” Is Not Alone: Gaps Everywhere!

abominable mystery, animal phyla, Big Bangs, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Critical Transitions in Nature and Society, Darwin's Doubt, discontinuities, Ediacaran fauna, Epigenetic Mechanisms of the Cambrian Explosion, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, fossil record, Marten Scheffer, Nelson Cabej, paleontologists, Princeton University Press, Spinosa Award, Stephen Meyer, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, undersampling

There is clearly a pattern of discontinuities that requires an adequate explanation, and Darwinism is not it. Source

06May 2021 by Post

Did the Origin of Animals Require New Genes?

Andrew Baldwin, animal body plans, Bilateria, biological complexity, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Marshall, Darwin's Doubt, eLife, Eumetazoa, Evolution, gene regulatory networks, genes, genetic information, homology groups, Hoover Institution, Hox genes, Intelligent Design, Larry Moran, Metazoa, multiverse, Nature Communications, neo-Darwinian theory, paleontology, Peter Robinson, Planulozoa, Return of the God Hypothesis, rewiring, Stanford University, Stephen Meyer, U.C. Berkeley, Uncommon Knowledge, University of Toronto

Materialists who purport to explain the origin of nature's complexity by smuggling in information unwittingly demonstrate the need for intelligent design. Source

21Apr 2021 by Post