29Dec 2021 by Post

#4 Story of 2021: Human Origins Research Is a Big Mess

American Museum of Natural History, Australopithecus afarensis, bipedalism, brain case, chimps, Darwin critics, Darwinists, Evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, hominins, homoplasy, human locomotion, Human Origins, humans, ID The Future, knuckle-walking, last common ancestor, Miocene apes, paleontology, rewriting, Sahelanthropus, Science (journal), Sergio Almécija, tree-climbing
Considering the number of fossils attributed to the human lineage, an absence of such fossils for the great African ape lineages raises an obvious suspicion. Source
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24Dec 2021 by Post

Was Spriggina an Evolutionary Ancestor of Arthropods?

Allison C. Daley, arthropods, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran Period, Evolution, fossil record, genetic evidence, Greg Edgecombe, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, Mark McMenamin, Marten Scheffer, neo-Darwinian mechanisms, paleontology, Precambrian fossil, Princeton University Press, Science Uprising, Simon Conway Morris, Spriggina, Stephen Meyer, Sven Jorgen Birket-Smith
For those wedded to an evolutionary interpretation of life’s history, the fossil and genetic evidence leave the origin of arthropods a major mystery.  Source
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06Dec 2021 by Post

More Cambrian Woes for Evolution

Andrej Ernst, astrochronology, biology, Bryozoa, bryozoans, budding, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, climate change, Evolution, fossil record, hermaphroditism, information, Intelligent Design, Jacob Musser, Jan Audun Rasmussen, Mark A. Wilson, Max Koslov, molecular studies, Nature (journal), Nature News and Views, Ordovician Period, P. gatehousei, paleontology, Sally Leys, Stephen Meyer, UC San Diego, University of Alberta, University of Copehagen, zooids
New fossils continue to put pressure on the evolutionary narrative of gradualism. Source
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19Nov 2021 by Post

Smithsonian Glosses Over the Cambrian Explosion

animals, Anomalocaris, behaviors, brains, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canada, cell types, Charles Darwin, Charnia, China, Darwin's Doubt, Dickinsonia, Ediacarans, Evolution, Fossil Hall, fossil record, Hallucigenia, Intelligent Design, mollusks, National Museum of Natural History, Opabinia, organs, oxygen, paleontology, Pikaia, Smithsonian Institution, Spriggina, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Woodward, tissue types, Tribrachidium, trilobites, Wiwaxia
The nation’s museum cannot ignore the collection of fossils Walcott sent them from the Burgess Shale. But can they explain them away? Source
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12Nov 2021 by Post

Traditional or Not? Assessing William Lane Craig’s Model on Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve, Aeon, Annual Review of Anthropology, Bernard Wood, brain size, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, chimpanzees, Denisovans, DNA, Donald Johanson, Evolution, Evolutionary Anthropology (journal), Faith & Science, Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo sapiens, Human Origins, In Quest of the Historical Adam, Joshua Swamidass, Lucy, Mark Collard, Middle Pleistocene, most recent common ancestor, Neanderthals, nonhuman hominins, paleontology, pseudogenes, Review of Craig's In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Science (journal), total energy expenditure, william lane craig
I’m having trouble making sense of exactly what his model holds. And it seems I’m not alone. Source
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11Nov 2021 by Post

Fables of Evolutionary Psychology (aka Sociobiology)

Charles Darwin, Chemistry, Evolution, evolutionary psychology, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), Louis Pasteur, macromutations, Mars, micromutations, Niles Eldredge, paleontology, Paul Davies, sociobiologists, sociobiology, Stanley Miller, Stephen Jay Gould, Steve Stewart-Williams, Viking mission, Whack-a-Mole, William Harvey
Evolutionary psychologists are prone to make up just-so stories which are then passed off as being entirely veridical. Source
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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
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