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12Aug 2022 by Post

Fossil Friday: A Fossil Butterfly Lookalike

apomorphies, beetles, Brazil, butterflies, butterflies of the Jurassic, convergence, Crato Formation, Darwinism, design pattern, Fossil Friday, fossil record, genetic predispositions, insects, Intelligent Design, Kalligrammatidae, lacewing, Lower Cretaceous, Lower Jurassic, Makarkina adamsi, Makarkina kerneri, mouthparts, natural selection, neuropterans, paleontology, science, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, tape of life, University of Tübingen, wing span

An intelligent design paradigm can easily accommodate convergences as a natural consequence of a designer reusing the same ideas in different constructions. Source

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

01Jul 2022 by Post

Fossil Friday: Turtles All the Way Down

Acerosodontosaurus, Bavaria, carapax, China, Claudiosaurus, convergence, Eorhynchochelys, Eunotosaurus, Eurysternum wagleri, Evolution, Fossil Friday, fossils, Germany, Intelligent Design, lepidosaurs, Middle Permian, Middle Triassic, Mörnsheim, Neo-Darwinism, Odontochelys, paleontology, Pappochelys, Parareptilia, phylogenetic reconstruction, phylogenomic studies, plastron, Proganochelys, Proterochersis, reptiles, sauropsids, Solnhofen Limestone, tortoises, turtle shell, turtles, Upper Jurassic

Contrary to the gradualistic expectations of Darwin’s theory, the distinct body plan of turtles appeared abruptly in the Late Triassic. Source

09Jun 2022 by Post

Rare Fossil Preserves a Moment of Deadly Battle — And Recalls a Problem for Darwin

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Pterosaurs appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Late Triassic, which agrees with the predictions of intelligent design theory. Source

03Jun 2022 by Post

Fossil Friday: Large Constrictor Snake from the Eocene

artificial resin, constrictor snake, Eocene Epoch, Evolution, Fossil Friday, fossil record, fossils, Germany, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Messel, Palaeopython fischeri, paleontology

The fossils from this locality have to be transferred (re-embedded) into artificial resin to be preserved. Source

07May 2022 by Post

Can Materialistic Models Accommodate the Scientific Data?

cancer, cancer cluster, chance, cosmic fine-tuning, data, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, fossil record, geological time, Intelligent Design, materialistic science, multiverse, Niles Eldredge, paleontology, punctuated equilibrium, Stephen Jay Gould, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series)

Would you believe someone who claimed that fairies and leprechauns were caught on video, but they are too small or too fast to be seen? Source

28Apr 2022 by Post

Investigating the Evidence for Intelligent Design — in Biochemistry and Other Fields

amino acid sequences, biochemistry, biology, codes, DNA, Douglas Axe, Evolution, Experience, genetics, information, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, language, molecular machines, mutational sensitivity, observation, paleontology, physics, protein sequences, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, systematics, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series), William Dembski

Irreducible complexity and high CSI systems are found, indicating these systems were designed. Source

23Apr 2022 by Post

Bechly: Problems with Universal Common Ancestry Posed by the Fossil Record

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Paleontologist Günter Bechly was a proponent of Darwinism until he discovered significant scientific reasons to doubt the evolutionary story. Source

10Apr 2022 by Post

Ann Gauger Puts Ape-to-Man Evolution Under the Microscope

Ann Gauger, Australopithecines, biology, Evolution, fossil record, Human Origins, humans, ID The Future, paleontology, Podcast, Sarah Chaffee, theistic evolution, Theistic Evolution (book)

Among the tenets of theistic evolution is the idea that humans evolved from a large population of ape-like creatures. Source

24Mar 2022 by Post

Lukas Ruegger: Three Problems with Punctuated Equilibrium

Basics of Intelligent Design Biology, biology, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Evolution, evolutionary transitions, fossil record, Intelligent Design, Khan Academy, Niles Eldredge, paleontologists, paleontology, punctuated equilibrium, punk eek, Stephen Jay Gould

By the time of his death, Stephen Jay Gould had come full circle, in effect, returning to traditional Darwinism. Source

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