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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01Jul 2024 by Post

Illuminating the Power of Life

animate realm, biosphere, conditional entailment, copper, Evolution, functional logic, inorganic realm, insulin, Intelligent Design, intentionality, intrinsic properties, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, life, Newtonian mechanics, oxygen, powers ontology, purpose, redox chain, science of purpose, serum glucose, thermodynamics
That which is unique to life alone, which offers the only valid explanation of irreducible complexity, is the manifestation of goal-directed functional logic. Source
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30Jun 2024 by Post

Bees with Feelings? A Darwinist Winces

animal consciousness, animals, Chemistry, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Evolution, Feelings, flight distance, human consciousness, insects, Jerry Coyne, Lars Chittka, natural selection, naturalism, Neuroscience & Mind, panpsychism, Princeton University Press, protozoans, qualia, Queen Mary University, Scientific American, sentience, The Mind of a Bee, Tufts University
Most naturalist philosophers of mind have held that human consciousness — maddeningly mysterious — is an illusion. Source
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28Jun 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: Snake Origins —Yet Another Biological Big Bang

Big Bang, body plan, coordinated mutations, cosmology, Evolution, evolutionary clock, Fossil Friday, Intelligent Design, lizards, Najash rionegrina, paleontology, Patagoniav, population genetics, Singularity, snakes, Stony Brook University, unguided evolution, University of Michigan
The authors commented in the press releases that this burst of biological novelty suggests that “snakes are like the Big Bang ‘singularity’ in cosmology.” Source
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24Jun 2024 by Post

To Address the Problem of Evil, Intelligent Design Is Better Situated than Darwinism

atoms, C.S. Lewis, cancer, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinists, David Klinghoffer, Edward O. Wilson, evil, Evolution, Faith & Science, Ferrari, Frans de Waal, Guillermo Gonzalez, https://returnofthegodhypothesis.com, Intelligent Design, John West, Jonathan Witt, laws of nature, Lord of the Flies, molecules, morality, natural evil, Nicholas Wade, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Hill, Stephen Meyer, Tacoma Narrows bridge, The C. S. Lewis Readers’ Encyclopedia, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, The Problem of Pain, trade-offs, William Golding
The questions I see coming into the Center for Science and Culture from our readers, friends, and supporters are thought-provoking. Source
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14Jun 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Once Again

abominable mystery, angiosperms, biological novelty, biology, Charles Darwin, diversification, Early Cretaceous, Evolution, flowering plants, Fossil Friday, genomes, Intelligent Design, jumps, Las Hoyas, Late Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous, Montsechia vidalii, nature, Nature (journal), paleontology, Philip Donoghue, Spain
This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute. Source
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12Jun 2024 by Post

Only Thick Darwinism Served Here

André Ariew, Burger King, C.S. Lewis, capitalists, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, David Berlinski, eugenics, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, Francis Galton, Freudianism, Hugh Desmond, Intelligent Design, J.P. Moreland, Liliana M. Dávalos, Marxism, Marxists, Nancy Pearcey, Nazism, Neil Thomas, Philippe Huneman, Quarterly Review of Biology, Thomas Reydon, Yoda complex
Want your Darwinism thick or thin? Sorry; if these four scientists argue correctly, you only get the thick slice with some rather unsavory seasonings mixed in. Source
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