10Apr 2023 by Post

There Was Berra’s Blunder; Now Lieberman’s Lapse

Berra's Blunder, biology, Bruce Lieberman, Casey Luskin, Corvette, Darwinists, dinosaurs, engines, Evolution, extinction, Intelligent Design, Kinks, Lieberman’s Lapse, mammals, paleontologists, Phillip Johnson, promissory note, railroad, Ray Davies, Royal Society Open Science, steam engine, steam locomotive, steam train, Tim Berra, University of Kansas
Tim Berra thought evolution was like the diversification and progress seen in Corvette models. Now, another evolutionist makes an analogy for extinction. Source
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03Jul 2022 by Post

Could We Ever Recover Dinosaur DNA?

Alan Grant, Alida Bailleul, Bozeman, Centrosaurus, dinosaur DNA, dinosaurs, DNA, Evolution, fossilization, fossils, Gizmodo, Hypacrosaurus, Ian Sample, Jack Horner, Jeanne Timmons, Jurassic Park, Mary Schweitzer, Montana, Museum of the Rockies, National Science Review, paleontologists, paleontology, Princeton University, Renxing Liang, soft tissue, The Guardian, wooly mammoth, Yukon
There have been a number of unexpected finds from dinosaurs besides bones; some paleontologists dig hopefully. Source
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04May 2022 by Post

Using the Positive Case for Intelligent Design to Answer Common Objections to ID

"God of the gaps", argument from ignorance, BioLogos Foundation, biology, Brown University, Charles Marshall, CSI, Denis Lamoureux, Evolution, intelligent agent, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover, paleontologists, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series), UC Berkeley, University of Alberta
As for the “God of the gaps” charge, the basic objection is that ID is an argument from ignorance, based upon what we don’t know. Source
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22Jul 2021 by Post

Confronting Joshua Swamidass on Confrontation

Book of Job, computational biologists, confrontation, Conversation, Creation, Crossway, dialogue, eagle, evolutionary theory, Faith & Science, Günter Bechly, hawk, Intelligent Design, Joshua Swamidass, paleontologists, theistic evolution, Theistic Evolution (book), Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed, Washington University
Swamidass got it wrong, and it’s perfectly appropriate for me to confront him on that. I wasn’t talking about any approach to human argumentation at all. Source
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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
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08Apr 2021 by Post

Charles Marshall: Origin of Life Could Have Happened “Millions of Times”

alkaline vent, Australia, Charles Marshall, chemical determinism, codons, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Doubt, David Raup, Evolution, evolutionary theory, genetic code, Intelligent Design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, Michael Yarus, Pajaro Dunes meeting, paleontologists, Phillip Johnson, protein translation, ribosomes, RNA world, Science (journal), Science at Cal, U.C. Berkeley, University of Chicago
Charles Marshall at U.C. Berkeley represents establishment opinion in current evolutionary theory, and for good reason. Source
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21Dec 2020 by Post

Grandeur in Extinctions?

Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Carboniferous Period, Charles Darwin, Creative Destruction, Darwinian evolution, Darwinians, Earth-Life Science Institute, ecospace, Evolution, evolutionary radiation, extinction, Graham Budd, Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill, machine learning, mass extinction events, On the Origin of Species, Paleobiology Database, paleontologists, Phanerozoic Eon, Tokyo Institute of Technology
New corollary to an old law: Put Darwinian assumptions in, and you will get Darwinian models out. Source
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