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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

17May 2024 by Post

The Wildly Varying Intelligence of T. Rex

asteroid, baboons, chimpanzees, crocodiles, dinosaurs, Evolution, intelligence, neurons, Neuroscience & Mind, Ornella Bertrand, paleontologists, paleontology, Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, Steve Brusatte, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Tyrannosaurus rex

After centuries with the “stupid” label, the big, bad extinct dino was found in one 2023 study to be as smart as a primate. But then… Source

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

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

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

10Feb 2024 by Post

How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs…Or Not

caterpillars, Darwinian theory, entomology, Evolution, Evolution News, Fossil Friday, fossil record, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, larvae, Metamorphosis, paleontology, prolegs

Almost 400 years after its discovery, the process of metamorphosis is still a thorny conundrum for evolutionary biologists. Source

02Feb 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: New Evidence for the Human Nature of Neanderthals

anatomy, antibiotics, Australian aboriginals, behavior, Bence Viola, biospecies, body decoration, cave art, cavemen, eagle talons, Fossil Friday, gene pool, genetic admixture, glue, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, human nature, Human Origins, human uniqueness, jewelry, lordosis, mating partners, Michael Shermer, native Australians, Neanderthals, ochre, painkillers, paleontology, seafood, spinal curvature, stone circles, Svante Pääbo, Thomas Huxley, University of Toronto

What is at stake is not just some esoteric species problem in the ivory tower, but the very question of human nature and human uniqueness. Source

25Jan 2024 by Post

Science or Science Fiction? Scientists Debate

Ancient Apocalypse, ancient civilization, Andrew McDiarmid, archeology, Aylin Woodward, burials, Casey Luskin, Culture & Ethics, Daniel Sandweiss, documentaries, East Carolina University, Graham Hancock, graves, Homo naledi, Human Origins, ID The Future, Lee Berger, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, Netflix, News Media, paleontology, Rising Star Cave, science fiction, Scientific American, Society for American Archaeology, The Guardian, Unknown: Cave of Bones, Wall Street Journal

Should some Netflix documentaries be labeled science fiction? Two are currently targeted by researchers in paleontology and archeology respectively. Source

19Jan 2024 by Post