Category: Evolution
Neural circuit that facilitates intricate movements, speech, found?
| May 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
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
| May 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
“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
| May 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion |
From October 2010, based on the book God & Evolution more
Human paleontologist Richard Leakey is whistling in the dark
| May 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
Thinking evolution debate will soon be history more
Convergent evolution: Tooth enamel of vertebrates and crayfish
| May 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
“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?
| May 17, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
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
| May 16, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under academic freedom, Darwinism, Evolution, Free Speech, science education, Society |
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?
| May 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
“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
| May 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News, Plants |
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
| May 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Genetics, News |
“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?
| May 11, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
It’s getting harder to distinguish between a serious look at convergent evolution and ID. Thoughts? more
Telic Thoughts defends the late John Davison
| May 11, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
” … 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
| May 7, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Self-Org. Theory |
“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)
| May 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Biography, Evolution, News |
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
| May 5, 2012 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, Evolution, News |
“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?
| May 1, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, extinction, Intelligent Design, News |
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
| April 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
“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
| April 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
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 …
| April 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, News |
“… multiple feats of anatomical novelty, innovative engineering and genetic rewiring necessary … ” more
Mysterious giant fossil is 450 million years old
| April 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
“The fossilized specimen, a roughly elliptical shape with multiple lobes, totaling almost seven feet in length, …” more