Category: Evolution

Neural circuit that facilitates intricate movements, speech, found?

In non-coding regions? Better known, to Darwinists, as ”junk DNA” whose sheer uselessness proves their theory. more

Convergent evolution: 359 million year old eel fossil had spine like land-dwellers

“The surprising find argues against a common assumption paleontologists use to determine from fossils whether an ancient species lived on land or in water.” more

Biola God and evolution conference now on YouTube

From October 2010, based on the book God & Evolution more

Human paleontologist Richard Leakey is whistling in the dark

Thinking evolution debate will soon be history more

Convergent evolution: Tooth enamel of vertebrates and crayfish

“The teeth of the Australian freshwater crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus are covered with an enamel amazingly similar to that of vertebrates.” more

Hybridization, not Darwin’s natural selection, explains why butterflies mimic each other?

Here’s an open access paper, just published in Nature online (May 16, 2012) , about whose abstract a friend writes to say, “You could request a full paragraph of explanation for each sentence.” Well-known examples of South American butterflies mimicking each other’s wing patterns may be due – not to wing panel by wing panel… more

How to Talk to Your Professors About Your Darwin Doubts

There are two regular tragedies in the Intelligent Design movement. The first tragedy is the student who airs his or her doubts about Darwin, and a faculty member then makes it their life mission to block that student from a degree, or, if they get a degree, prevent them from getting any further. This sometimes… more

Has biology suddenly discovered ecology?

“bacteria that evolved in a mixed community with other species altered their feeding habits to share resources more effectively ” So Darwin is dead but no one will give him a decent burial? more

Fossils of insects pollinating plants from 100 million years ago

Given that 80% of today’s flowering plants depend on insect pollination, there must have been a good deal of co-evolution and horizontal gene transfer. more

Y chromosome durability: AKA secret sex worries of science writers

“Y chromosomes are here to stay, and are not the genetic wasteland that they were once thought to be.” more

Interesting vid: Simon Conway Morris answers the question, Is biology structured?

It’s getting harder to distinguish between a serious look at convergent evolution and ID. Thoughts? more

Telic Thoughts defends the late John Davison

” … a proper regard for mindless culture warriors of all stripes – that proper regard being absolutely no regard whatsoever.” more

From The Best Schools: Seeing Past Darwin II: James A. Shapiro

“Much in our culture depends upon the public’s being made aware that Darwinian theory as standardly interpreted is intellectually bankrupt.” more

From Telic Thoughts, we learn more about non-Darwinian biologist John Davison (1928-2012)

This obituary implies that he had discovered at the end that there is a country for old men. more

Convergent evolution: Fungus and insect proteins identical

“Rey et al. (1998, 6215) note that the two genes coding for the two proteins, one fungal and one insect, had to have originated independently of each other, … ” more

Jury’s still out on dino to bird transition?

It’s true that some birds do look that way sometimes, but if convergent evolution teaches us anything, it is that appearances deceive. more

Lizard nourishes its young via a … placenta

“The fetal tissues actually invade the uterine ones, much like in humans,” Blackburn says. “It’s totally unexpected.” more

This amphibian is just about indistinguishable from a worm

Is this Devolution in Action!? Oh wait! Wasn’t that supposed to be Evo- … oh, never mind. more

Whale evolution time frame too narrow for a Darwinian process …

“… multiple feats of anatomical novelty, innovative engineering and genetic rewiring necessary … ” more

Mysterious giant fossil is 450 million years old

“The fossilized specimen, a roughly elliptical shape with multiple lobes, totaling almost seven feet in length, …” more

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