Category: Evolution
In recent museum exhibit of dinosaurs, plate tectonics dominates, not Darwinism
| July 12, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
I was impressed by the (mostly) absence of just-so stories. They would only have been in the way. more
Resurrecting a 500 million year old gene
| July 11, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
“”This is as close as we can get to rewinding and replaying the molecular tape of life,” said scientist Betül Kaçar, a NASA astrobiology postdoctoral fellow … ” more
Breakthrough in animal navigation systems: Trout use magnetite.
| July 11, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
“They were about 100 times more sensitive to magnetic fields than had been expected.” more
Free stuff: Jonathan Wells’ Survival of the Fakest
| July 9, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
Yep. Free. more
When enzymes are breaking Darwin’s Laws, you know the end is near.
| July 8, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
“The surprising result is that the principle of evolutionary economy does not appear to apply to this enzyme.” more
From Ann Gauger: More on the fact that life forms can’t eat wood
| July 7, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, Evolution, News |
“First, Dr. Matti Leisola, the primary author of the paper, has worked on this subject for decades, and is widely respected … ” more
Speaking of ways evolution can happen, there’s also co-evolution
| July 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
That said, the bacteria did not become rats, mice, or humans. But we did not promise you magic, did we? more
Hybridization: A genuine type of evolution we don’t often hear about – and not magic either
| July 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
Truth is, we can see evolution happening all around us if we lower our standards from magic to reality. The original source of all the packed information, even in a fungus, is still unknown, but that’s what science is for. more
Feathered dinosaur found that is not closely related to birds
| July 3, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
But if feather like structures were present in the ancestors of all dinosaurs, how much time does that allow for the gradual evolution of feathers? more
Non-linear dynamics: A way around the dead end of Darwinism? Maybe not …
| July 1, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution |
“So we are back to the fact that homeodynamics and homeostasis are not simply properties of non-linear math, but are properties of global information. ” more
Non-linear dynamics: A way around the dead end of Darwinism?
| July 1, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution |
“Homeodynamics solves this riddle by injecting the mathematical apparatus of nonlinear dynamics into the discussion, which introduces the element of virtuality. ” more
Dennett on Competence without Comprehension
| June 30, 2012 | Posted by William Dembski under Evolution, Science |
[In response to Daniel Dennett's appeal to computer scientist Alan Turing as reductionist materialism's greatest champion next to Darwin:] … at first blush one would think that because Turing had “invented” a “machine,” this might give even Dennett pause and lead him to take a second look at his claim that competence precedes comprehension. For… more
Fossil tracks from animal 585 mya, 30 million years earlier than thought
| June 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
” … the tracks were made by a primitive animal called a bilaterian … ” more
“One of the strongest lines of evidence” for dinosaurs as cold-blooded just collapsed.
| June 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
The dinosaurs were assumed to be slow, cold-blooded, and stupid because that narrative fits the legacy of mid-twentieth century Darwinist preaching about the history of life. more
Ancient flatfish shows only partially migrated eyes
| June 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
The fossil’s a great catch, but it’s unclear how it solves the “mystery.” more
Sexual selection upended: The fatal flaw in Bateman’s 1948 study
| June 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
“In repeating Bateman’s experiment, she and her colleagues found that the flies with two severe mutations are less likely to survive into adulthood.” more
A mystery of fossil preservation: Caught in the act
| June 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
Demonstrably, fossilization can be so rapid that it doesn’t destroy all evidence of what the creature was doing at the time. We don’t know how that happens. more
Philosopher James Barham on “the amazing adaptivity of living things to perturbation.”
| June 15, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
“ll the empirical evidence points to the existence of a fundamental power of intelligent agency underlying life. ” more
When it comes to anything that can be called “evolution” …
| June 5, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
… journalists get a free pass from homework. more
Did giant insects decline because birds ate them?
| June 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
“insect wing lengths from an extensive review of publications on fossil insects.” more
