Apparently, the platypus ended up inheriting the lot.
Evolution
A big evolution theory is NOT backed up?
ust the title. Punk Eek was supposed to be the final smack in the face to Darwin doubters. As if the science pr site’s purpose is not just to defend Darwinism.Could we someday have a discussion of the various ways evolution happens?
Hard-shelled dinosaur eggs “evolved” three times?
If so, is this really “evolution” or is there a library of possibilities that the dinos could reach into?
A theory on how land animals came to be smart
But the new savanna theory doesn’t explain much of anything because the question is not why it might be beneficial to be smarter but how exactly it happens.
The croc that walked like a man?
At Eurekalert: “It shocked us to learn that the trackways represent bipedal animals 3-4 meters long,” said team leader Professor Kyung Soo Kim, Chinju National University of Education.
Contradiction at the heart of evolutionary biology?
One life form has even developed an immaterial mind. If a theory of evolution can provide no account of this, it is not going to be particularly useful at predicting the future. On the other hand, its premises might make good science fiction.
Oldest “bug” is 425 million years old, 75 million years earlier than expected
Will we all meet up at the Big Bang? Don’t rule it out.
Asked at Oscillations: Why is the Khan Academy so stuck on “natural selection” in evolution?
Suzan Mazur notes that the Khan Academy has tended to promote natural selection as “evolution” generally.
Excerpt from new ID book: Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell
Anderson: To my surprise, Dawkins responded rather glibly that we have a pretty good idea how life started. Yes, there are some challenges, he acknowledged, but…
Does evolution “choose”?
Hey, if we are going to knock design out of nature, we can’t go and lay the entire burden of higher end thinking on the lizard. Either nobody is thinking or somebody is, and that somebody had better be able to.
A striking admission that Michael Behe was right
What he is saying is precisely Behe’s point in Darwin Devolves. Cell evolution is mostly about destroying complex equipment that hinders immediate survival. (The question of how the equipment came to be so complex beforehand is separate from the question of what life forms actually do when they evolve.)
Some remarkable admissions in a Current Biology editorial
So cellular evolution is not the assured result of settled science, as we’ve all been told. Well, it certainly did sound more like a catfight over there. With a similar respect for facts.
Is COVID-19 alive?
Villarreal and Mazur introduce a term that will be new to many— and relevant to viruses like COVID-19: quasispecies
Paul Nelson on why building animals is hard
Standard evolutionary theory (usually known as Darwinism) makes it easier for an incurious teacher to stumble from one school year to the next. No wonder educrats hate people like Paul Nelson for messing with it, right or wrong.
What? Mutations not random? An “enigmatic in-built self-preserving organization”?
Researchers: Our calculations reveal an enigmatic in-built self-preserving organization of the genetic code that averts disruptive changes at the physicochemical properties level.