Category: Evolution
Making a monkey of Darwinian sexual selection theory
| April 25, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
But putting it that way would have been a bad career move, so the researchers present the facts and leave it at that. From ScienceDaily: A new study of guenon monkeys in Gombe National Park is the first to provide genetic evidence of ongoing mating between two distinct species. These monkeys have successfully been producing […]
Apologetics Academy webinar, with Paul Nelson, on ontogenetic depth – is it real?
| April 21, 2018 | Posted by News under Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Intelligent Design |
Jonathan McLatchie writes to say, “This week we will be joined by philosopher of biology Dr. Paul Nelson, who will discuss the concept of ontogenetic depth and why it matters to evolutionary theory.” 9pm British time (4pm Eastern / 3pm Central / 1pm Pacific (Time zones.) In this session, Discovery Institute senior fellow Dr. Paul […]
Three Things Biologists Rarely Know About Biology
| April 18, 2018 | Posted by johnnyb under Biology, Evolution |
I’ve talked to a number of biologists, and it seems like there are a number of important facts that are left out of a standard biological education.
“Bad” antibodies become powerful weapons to fight disease
| April 18, 2018 | Posted by News under Design inference, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
From ScienceDaily: The ‘bad apples’ of the immune system are also its secret weapon, according to major Australian research published today in the world-leading journal Science. In a world first, scientists from Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research have revealed how a population of ‘bad’ antibodies in the immune system — which are usually ‘silenced’ […]
Researcher: “[i]t’s amazing how clear cut the change from ‘no dinosaurs’ to ‘all dinosaurs’ was.”
| April 18, 2018 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design |
From ScienceDaily: Lead author Dr Massimo Bernardi, Curator at MUSE and Research associate at Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences, said: “We were excited to see that the footprints and skeletons told the same story. We had been studying the footprints in the Dolomites for some time, and it’s amazing how clear cut the change from […]
What makes citing problems with Darwinism heresy?
| April 17, 2018 | Posted by News under Evolution, Information, Intelligent Design |
From Cornelius Hunter at ENST: Who is the author of the following statement? In contrast [to trait loss], the gain of genetically complex traits appears harder, in that it requires the deployment of multiple gene products in a coordinated spatial and temporal manner. Obviously, this is unlikely to happen in a single step, because it […]
A pattern of laws of tooth development identified
| April 16, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, Genetics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design |
From ScienceDaily: In a study published this week in Science Advances, an international team of researchers from Arizona State University’s Institute of Human Origins and School of Human Evolution and Social Change, New York University, University of Kent, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology found that a simple, straightforward developmental rule — the […]
If viruses can evolve in parallel in related species… ?
| April 14, 2018 | Posted by News under Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
From ScienceDaily: Scientists from the universities of Exeter and Cambridge compared viruses that evolved in different species and found “parallel genetic changes” were more likely if two host species were closely related. … “This may explain in part why host shifts tend to occur between related species. However, we sometimes see the same mutations occurring […]
Colorful moth wings dated back to nearly 200 million years ago
| April 12, 2018 | Posted by News under Evolution, stasis |
From Laurel Hamers at Science News: Tiny light-scattering structures that give today’s butterflies and moths their brilliant hues date back to the days of the dinosaurs. Fossilized mothlike insects from the Jurassic Period bear textured scales on their forewings that could display iridescent colors, researchers report April 11 in Science Advances. The fossils are the […]
Eggshells are designed to break from the inside
| April 7, 2018 | Posted by News under Design inference, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
From Nicola Davis at the Guardian: Before being laid, bird eggs form a hard calcium-rich shell with three main layers. While it was already known that these thin from the innermost out as a chick grows in preparation for hatching – with calcium from the shell being incorporated into its skeleton in the process – […]
But the Big Cool cannot talk about evolution as if reality mattered
| April 5, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
More rubbish about evolution at a highbrow US mag? From David Klinghoffer at ENST: … no matter what you say, no one will challenge you other than some of those intelligent design rascals and you know you can automatically dismiss anything they say. Case in point: former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson’s recent article for The […]
My biology teacher only told me how to feed worms to snakes
| April 4, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, science education |
Without getting bitten. From Cornelius Hunter at ENST: Greg Mayer at Jerry Coyne’s website (Why Evolution Is True) posed study questions for learning about evolution. Evolutionists have responded in the “Comment” section with answers to some of the questions (see here, here, and here). Here is what I posted there in response: … But when […]
Unauthorized answers to Darwinian fundamentalist Jerry Coyne, some deleted by Coyne.co
| April 2, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
From Cornelius Hunter at Darwin’s God: Jerry Coyne’s website (Why Evolution Is True) has posed study questions for learning about evolution. Evolutionists have responded in the “Comment” section with answers to some of the questions (see here, here, and here). But when I posted a few relevant thoughts, they were quickly deleted after briefly appearing. That’s unfortunate because those facts […]
Biology majors recruited to face rearward promoting Darwin
| March 30, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
From Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. and Avelina Espinosa at Evolution: Education and Outreach: The controversy around evolution, creationism, and intelligent design resides in a historical struggle between scientific knowledge and popular belief. Four hundred seventy-six students (biology majors n = 237, nonmajors n = 239) at a secular liberal arts private university in Northeastern United States […]
Researchers: Paleontologists are naming too many species
| March 15, 2018 | Posted by News under Ecology, Evolution, Genomics, Intelligent Design, speciation |
What? Someone noticed? From Manchester University: A comprehensive new study looking at variations in Ichthyosaurus, a common British Jurassic ichthyosaur (sea-going reptile) also known as ‘Sea Dragons’, has provided important information into recognizing new fossil species. Professor Judy Massare (SUNY College at Brockport, NY, USA) and Dean Lomax (The University of Manchester) have studied hundreds […]
Spiders evolving disguises separately, in parallel, are another problem for Darwinism
| March 13, 2018 | Posted by News under Convergent evolution, Darwinism, Evolution |
Spiders evolving disguises separately, in parallel, are another problem for Darwinism Not that one can directly admit it. From Catherine Offord at The Scientist: The Hawaiian stick spider has evolved the same three color morphs on multiple different islands in parallel, according to research led by biologists at the University of California, Berkeley. The team’s […]
Researcher: Dark DNA raises fundamental questions about evolution
| March 12, 2018 | Posted by News under 'Junk DNA', Evolution |
From Adam Hargreaves at New Scientist, No doubt you have heard of dark matter, which is thought to make up over a quarter of the universe. We know it’s there; we just haven’t been able to detect it. Well, something similar is afoot in the genome. My colleagues and I have dubbed this elusive genetic […]
Researcher: Best educated guesses fail with plant evolution
| March 9, 2018 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Plants |
From at ScienceDaily: Ancient microbes may have been producing oxygen through photosynthesis a billion years earlier than we thought, which means oxygen was available for living organisms very close to the origin of life on earth. In a new article in Heliyon, a researcher from Imperial College London studied the molecular machines responsible for photosynthesis […]
Diversity of complex viruses messes up origins theories
| March 9, 2018 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life |
From Jordana Cepelewicz at Quanta: All of viral evolution is murky: Different groups of viruses likely had very different origins. Some may have been degenerate “escapees” from cellular genomes, while others descended directly from the primordial soup. “Still others have recombined and exchanged genes so many times in the course of evolution that we will […]
Scandal! New US EPA administrator doesn’t “buy evolution”
| March 6, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Whatever that means. From Kerry Grens at the Scientist: The administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt, said that evolution, at least as it concerns the origins of humans, is a philosophical and not scientific matter, according to audio from a 2005 radio show unearthed by Politico. “There aren’t sufficient scientific facts […]
