2012

Didier Raoult, whom even the evolutionists admit is “the most productive and influential microbiologist in France,” explains that Charles Darwin “was a priest,” in a personal profile story this week.  Read more

Although fossil plants are well documented from the Silurian Period of Earth history, spores from land plants are known from the preceding Ordovician and Cambrian Periods. However, it is not until the Mid-Devonian that fossil forests appear in the fossil record. The Gilboa Forest from New York State was first described in the 1920s and it became known as the earliest fossil forest. It has the same status today. Only one plant was known from this forest – the Eospermatopteris, or “ancient seed fern” – thought to grow up to 10 metres above the ground. They were not woody, but they had characters that that suggest affinities with tree ferns. The original analysis reinforced the evolutionary assumption that the earliest Read More ›

As we have explained many times, being an evolutionist means there is no bad news. If new species appear abruptly in the fossil record, that just means evolution operates in spurts. If species then persist for eons with little modification, that just means evolution takes long breaks. If clever mechanisms are discovered in biology, that just means evolution is smarter than we imagined. If strikingly similar designs are found in distant species, that just means evolution repeats itself. If significant differences are found in allied species, that just means evolution sometimes introduces new designs rapidly. If no likely mechanism can be found for the large-scale change evolution requires, that just means evolution is mysterious. If adaptation responds to environmental signals, Read More ›

As Michael Ruse and others have pointed out the language evolutionists use can be telling, but what is not discussed is that the language evolutionists do not use is also telling. Anyone familiar with the evolution genre cannot help but notice the curious use of design language. Teleology abounds as natural selection is described as “solving” this or that “problem.” As Ernst Mayr pointed out in Toward a New Philosophy of Biology, “The use of terms like purposive or goal-directed seemed to imply the transfer of human qualities, such as intent, purpose, planning, deliberation, or consciousness, to organic structures and to subhuman forms of life.” Of course for Ruse, Mayr and the evolutionists these are merely interesting asides. The persistence of teleological language in the literature is Read More ›