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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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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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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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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15Mar 2024 by Post

Notes on the Mysterious Origin of Hippos

Africa, Anthracotheriidae, biology, brachiopods, bryozoans, cephalopods, Charles Darwin, constancy, corals, Doliochoeridae, Ernst Mayr, Evolution, evolutionary derivations, foraminifers, fossil record, genera, Georges Cuvier, ghost lineages, Hippopotamidae, Hippopotamus amphibius, hippos, Intelligent Design, Louis Agassiz, Martin Pickford, megafauna, National Geographic, ostracods, paleontology, species, stasis, subfamilies, trilobites, ” and waiting around without any function that might explain why natural selection working on random mutations bothered to engineer them
The family Hippopotamidae appears abruptly in the fossil record — like all the other groups that I have so far investigated in detail. Source
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07Mar 2024 by Post

Up from Dawkins: Summer Seminars Were a Turning Point for Me

academics, alumni, biology, Center for Science and Culture, Colorado Springs, Discovery Institute, Education, Engineering, Evolution, evolutionary, Glen Eyrie Castle, Human Errors, Intelligent Design, mathematical biology, misinformation, molecular biology, Nathan Lents, paleontology, population genetics, professionals, researchers, Richard Dawkins, scientific enterprise, scientists, students, Summer Seminars, The Blind Watchmaker, Unlocking the Mystery of Life
I wanted to determine whether I was, as Richard Dawkins asserted, an accident of nature. Or was I created by God? Source
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04Mar 2024 by Post

Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Are FREE but the Application DEADLINE Approaches

application, arts, biochemistry, bioethics, Brian Miller, C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, careers, Casey Luskin, Colorado, computational biology, cosmology, deadline, developmental biology, Economics, Education, embryology, Glen Eyrie Castle, graduate students, Guillermo Gonzalez, history of science, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, John West, mathematics, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Egnor, molecular biology, paleontology, Philosophy of Science, physics, Pikes Peak, Politics, professionals, researchers, Robert Marks, scholars, scientism, scientists, Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences, social policy, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teachers, technocracy, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, theology, Travel, Wesley J. Smith
In the shadow of 14,000-foot Pikes Peak, we’ll meet and learn from the top scientists and scholars in the ID community. Source
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