Category: Cambrian explosion
Ann Coulter on the dog that ate Darwin’s fossils
| August 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, Culture, Darwinism, News |
Put another way, if the Cambrian is not a problem for Darwinism, Darwinism is not science. All real theories have problems, but Darwinism, like any cult, never has any problems – because evidence always takes second place to cult beliefs. more
California Science Center answerable for canning non-Darwin film
| August 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, Darwinism, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, News |
Figures the official Darwinists would arise from their leather-bottomed chairs to try to suppress a film that shows the public the knowledge that the science czars were depriving us of. This time it did not work. more
Three puzzles that are real – A response to a skeptic
| August 3, 2011 | Posted by vjtorley under Cambrian explosion, Intelligent Design |
In his latest post on Uncommon Descent, “Evolution” is a Political Controversy? (Or, am I Living in an Alternate Multiverse?), Gil Dodgen shot down claims by author Alan Rogers that the controversy over the theory of evolution is a political controversy. It’s not a political controversy. It is: 1) An evidential controversy (for example, the… more
Vid: View Darwin’s Dilemma online free
| July 28, 2011 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion |
The beautiful little film about why the Cambrian explosion is a problem for Darwinism, here. Also view The Privileged Planet free - another beautiful, controversial little pic, about why the late, revered Carl Sagan should have known he was “not being truthful” about Earth being just yer average planet. more
Cambrian explosion set to song
| July 18, 2011 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, Culture |
by the Smithsonian. Here. It might not be quite as bad as you think. It’s hard to wreck the Cambrian explosion. Follow UD News at Twitter! more
“Evolutionary arms race” explains THIS Cambrian statistic?
| July 2, 2011 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion |
Lead author Dr Michael Lee, of the South Australian Museum and University of Adelaide, says the “exceptionally preserved fossil eyes” also underscore the speed and magnitude of the evolutionary innovation that occurred during this period. “If the development of complex life is viewed as 24 hours, everything of interest happened in the first hour,”… more
“Darwinists have constructed a virtual world that does not match the real world”
| July 1, 2011 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, Darwinism |
British physicist David Tyler comments at Access Research Network on the “Modern optics in the eyes of an Early Cambrian arthropod” (July 1, 2011): We have known for many years that the eyes of trilobites, going back to the Early Cambrian, have highly sophisticated optics. Although vision has been invoked as a probable characteristic of… more
Don’t ask us how the most complex eyes appeared at the beginning. Instead, we offer to solve a tautology for you.
| June 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion |
In John R. Paterson’s “Modern optics in exceptionally preserved eyes of Early Cambrian arthropods from Australia (Nature, 30 June 2011) from Nature by, we learn of a particular, “exceptionally preserved” trilobite-like eye from South Australia that predates other known finds from 85 million years later: The arrangement and size of the lenses indicate that these… more
Paul Chien on the suppressed significance of the Chinese Cambrian fossils
| June 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion |
“… the most complex animal group, the chordates, were represented at the beginning, and they did not go through a slow gradual evolution to become a chordate.” The Darwin circus wagons should have halted there at Chengjiang and been repurposed as hot dog stands for public convenience. But too much had been invested. Paul Chien,… more
Earlier than thought files: Ancient and well-travelled worm
| May 19, 2011 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, Origin Of Life |
At ScienceDaily we learn that “New Evidence Shows Mobile Animals Could Have Evolved Much Earlier Than Previously Thought” (May 18, 2011): A University of Alberta-led research team has discovered that billions of years before life [animals?] evolved in the oceans, thin layers of microbial matter in shallow water produced enough oxygen to support tiny, mobile… more
Earlier than thought: Freshwater animals
| May 18, 2011 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, Evolution |
Freshwater animals have been found at 435 million years ago, and were assumed to come later than saltwater ones. But “Come On In, the Water’s Fresh”, cries Sid Perkins at Science (17 May 2011): Tiny burrows. A dense aggregation of U-shaped fossil burrows in 520-million- to 542-million-year-old rocks pushes back the appearance of freshwater ecosystems… more
The Cambrian explosion: Getting past the Darwin lobby to look at the facts
| May 17, 2011 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, Darwinism |
Or anyway, the latest attempt at it. The Darwin lobby promotes uniformitarianism (long, slow gradual change caused by natural selection acting on random mutation), which is at odds with the evidence of rapid bouts of change followed by long periods of stasis. Over at Access Research Network, David Tyler discusses “The unscientific hegemony of uniformitarianism”… more
Resources: A look at ancient Earth
| April 22, 2011 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion |
The Earth as its continents would have been seen from space, starting 500 million years ago just before the Cambrian explosion (courtesy MSNBC Cosmiclog): As he built the visualizations, Mendez said he was struck by the fact that the distribution of land mass among the continents has changed dramatically over the past 750 million years,… more
Darwinian Gradualism vs Reality: No Contest
| March 14, 2011 | Posted by PaV under Cambrian explosion, Darwinism, Evolution |
In the Early Edition of PNAS, there’s an article about the fly’s evolutionary tree. While not having access to the article, the supplemental information is available online. In the abstract the authors note that: . . . we use micro-RNAs to resolve a node with implications for the evolution of embryonic development in Diptera. We… more
More Questions for Evolutionists
| August 10, 2010 | Posted by PaV under 'Junk DNA', Cambrian explosion, Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
In this Nature Alert article, we find out that sponges, present as early as 635 million years ago in the fossil record, have 18,000 genes, among which are genes for apoptosis, that is, cell death. Now here is a creature that has “a simple body plan lacking organs, muscles and nerve cells.” Let’s remember that… more
Dinosaurs from birds?
| February 13, 2010 | Posted by DLH under Biology, Cambrian explosion, Darwinism, Evolutionary biology, extinction, Natural selection |
How well neoDarwinian evolution is established and the universal “consensus” over it is demonstrated by: Bird-from-Dinosaur Theory of Evolution Challenged: Was It the Other Way Around? ScienceDaily (Feb. 10, 2010) — A new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides yet more evidence that birds did not descend from… more
California Lawmaker demands answers over museum censorship
| January 15, 2010 | Posted by DonaldM under Biology, Cambrian explosion, Constitution, Courts, Culture, Darwinism, Education, Ethics, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Free Speech, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Laws, Legal, Media, Science |
Apparently round two of the controversy over the California’s Science Center’s cancellation of Darwin’s Dilemma is getting ready to take place. This was reported and discussed here back in October, as well as here and here in December. Now, a California State Senator is calling the constitutionality of the censorship into question. more
Editing the Tape of Evolutionary History Yet Again
| January 8, 2010 | Posted by DonaldM under Biology, Cambrian explosion, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Natural selection, Science, The Design of Life |
The late Stephen J. Gould once wrote “Replay the tape [of evolution] a million times from a Burgess [the Burgess Shale fossils]beginning, and I doubt that anything like Homo sapiens would ever evolve again. It is, indeed, a wonderful life.” (Gould, Stephen J. [Professor of Zoology and Geology, Harvard University], “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale… more
Cambrian explosion film to be shown, after all
| October 23, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Cambrian explosion |
Anika Smith, at the Discovery Institute, informs me that: Those who live in the Los Angeles area are invited to attend a gala premiere screening of Illustra Media’s new documentary, Darwin’s Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record next Sunday, October 25th at 7:00 pm at the University of Southern California. The event is… more