One of the lingering talking points used by darwinists in debates is fixity of species, which as usual is used in a way that is rhetorically resistant to correction. It just popped up here at UD, and so, by way of DDG search, let’s lay it to rest, starting with the much despised YEC’s. The […]
Evolution
Robert J. Marks: What do AI and evolution have in common?
Many biologists claimed to have written code to simulate evolution. But the popularization of the No Free Lunch theorems showed that the computer programmer must infuse guiding information into the evolutionary program to make it work. To explain the diversity of creativity, an evolution process must be directed.
Talk about stasis! Bedbugs are 100 million years old
Well, they will just have to keep looking for that early, really simple bedbug, below which there is nothing but sub-bedbugs.
Ernst Haeckel studied sponges to demonstrate “a universe devoid of supernatural beings or purpose”
Just to set the record straight, embryologist Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) had, according to learned expert, a “philosophy of sponges.” And the title above captures part of it.
At Nature: Carl Woese’s archaea are “shaking up the tree of life”
If the most complex cells descended from the least complex ones (which is what it looks like), that’s not really something many researchers want to hear.
Colin Patterson: Can you tell me anything about evolution that is true?
Further to the story we noted last night, that possibly one-third of biologists now question Darwinism, this might be a good time to bring up Colin Patterson (1933-1998) again. He was a senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History and he offered an awkward question to colleagues one day: “Can you tell me […]
Biology evolves: One-third of biologists now question Darwinism
Benjamin Dierker: This dissatisfaction is a matter of public record, even if it lacks public attention, and despite the narrative running contrary.
Educating oneself away from science denial: Two true stories
Our Danish friend Karsten Pultz, author of Exit Evolution, read the dramatic story of the flight from fundamentalism and responded by publishing his own account of how he escaped science denial. It is a somewhat different story
Bird “goes extinct” twice
Note that loss of the ability to fly is treated in this story as a form of evolution, as if the loss resulted in greater complexity rather than less. As if it wasn’t fatal when the island was inundated. But it enables evolutionary biologists to say that “evolution happened.”
Astronomer Martin Rees reacts to Suzan Mazur’s Darwin Overthrown
The story addresses the way Rees has been in the background of creative thinkers in biology who are grappling with what we now know. Non-Darwinian things.
Scallops’ 200 eyes “even more complex” than realized
Take a deep breath and keep repeating “It all just happens randomly somehow. The same random way buildings get built and books get written.”
Can the giant Medusa virus help explain the evolution of complex life?
As described, the authors’ explanation doesn’t follow. The Medusavirus substituting its own DNA for that of the host is no different from the cuckoo substituting its own offspring for another bird’s in a nest. The fact that the strategy works does not necessarily demonstrate a hereditary relationship between the two species.
Huge floating logs transported Jurassic life forms around the world?
Think of it as Noah’s bark. It might explain some things. Let’s see what holes it plugs.
Yale: Weird new crab species forces rethink of definition of crab
And maybe of how animals evolve over time.
Researcher: “No rhyme or reason” to unexpected sea anemone genome
“The mitochondrial DNA of the tube anemone, or Ceriantharia, is a real head scratcher, from its unexpected arrangement to its previously unimagined magnitude. ”