09Jan 2026 by Post

New Paper Has Bad News for Popular “Oxygen Theory” of the Cambrian Explosion

Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, clades, Darwin's Doubt, David Coppedge, Douglas Erwin, Evolution, evolutionary precursors, Gizmodo, Intelligent Design, James Valentine, oxygen, oxygen theory, oxygen trigger model, oxygenation, paleontologists, paleontology, partial pressure of oxygen, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Cambrian Explosion (book)
The technical paper acknowledges that this level of oxygenation, if sustained, would indeed “challenge the view” that oxygen was a trigger for animal evolution. Source
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08May 2025 by Post

Evolved or Engineered? A Geneticist Evaluates the Panda’s Thumb

bamboo, clumsy, Engineering, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, giant pandas, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, mammals, mechanical systems, paleontologists, Panda's Thumb, Podcast, radial sesamoid, Stephen Jay Gould, Stuart Burgess, suboptimal, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, wrist bone
Giant pandas have an elongated wrist bone, the radial sesamoid, that allows them to handle and eat bamboo with great dexterity. Source
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11Apr 2025 by Post

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “The Catholic Darwin”

A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Alasdair MacIntyre, Catholicism, Collège de France, Discovery Institute Press, England, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and science, Fr. Martin Hilbert, Fr. Raymond J. Nogar, Henri Bergson, history of science, hominization, Institut Catholique de Toulouse, Jacques Maritain, Jesuits, Msgr. Bruno de Solages, neologisms, noosphere, Omega point, paleontologists, Peter Medawar, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Raïssa Maritain, Robert Shedinger, suicide, supernatural, The Phenomenon of Man, theology
No doubt, Teilhard ­ had — and has — Catholic admirers. The most positive Catholic assessment I have encountered comes from the pen of Msgr. Bruno de Solages. Source
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19Jan 2025 by Post

Günter Bechly on Life’s Sudden Information Explosions

ancestral species, Avalon explosion, bacteria, biological explosions, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, common ancestry, descendant species, Evolution, genes, Günter Bechly, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, mammals, neo-Darwinian process, paleontologists, paleontology, placental mammals, Podcast, protein folds, Sarah Chaffee, Stephen Meyer, Triassic explosion
“There’s no reasonable way,” Bechly concludes, “to get from bacteria to mammals via evolutionary processes.” Source
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15Nov 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: New Research on How Delicate Soft-Bodied Organisms Can Be Perfectly Preserved

arthropods, bacterial decay, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Doolittle Walcott, China, clay mineralogy, Devonian Hunsrück Shale, digestive tracts, Emu Bay Shale, Evolution, eyes, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, Intelligent Design, Kangaroo Island, Karl Popper, microbes, mudslides, paleontologists, paleontology, preservation, South Australia, taphonomic processes, Theodosius Dobzhansky, turbidites, Waptia fieldensis
All the just-so-stories of macroevolution are completely dispensable in real (experimental) biology. Source
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19Jul 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times

carnivores, cats, clades, convergence, Evolution, Fossil Friday, Intelligent Design, jaws, La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, paleontologists, paleontology, Pleistocene, predators, saber teeth, saber-toothed tiger, Simon Conway Morris, skulls, Smilodon populator, teleology, University of Liege
No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them. Source
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15Jan 2024 by Post

Fooled by Darwinism: A Scholar’s Cautionary Tale

ancient Greeks, Antony Flew, atheists, Bertrand Russell, crypto-animism, Darwinian materialism, Evolution, fatalism, geneticists, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, John Updike, Middle Ages, natural selection, Neil Thomas, paganism, paleontologists, Podcast, poetry, Richard Dawkins, skepticism, Taking Leave of Darwin, theistic humanism
Neil Thomas links the posturing of atheists Richard Dawkins and Bertrand Russell with the fatalism of poetry stretching back to the Middle Ages, and further. Source
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09Aug 2023 by Post

The Problem of Pain: Julian Huxley, Magnus Carlsen, and the Meaning of Life

Atheism, atheists, Charles Darwin, chess, chessboard, Evolution, Faith & Science, fossils, Intelligent Design, Julian Huxley, Lex Fridman, Magnus Carlsen, Meaning, meaning of life, meaninglessness, Norway, origin of life, Origin of Species, pain, paleontologists, religion, Thomas Henry Huxley, University of Chicago
In a conversation with Lex Fridman, Magnus Carlsen betrays no sense of empathy for how his view that life is an accident might negatively impact others. Source
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