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Michael Behe on UK’s The Mind Renewed
Sat nite fun: Orchids with monkey faces
Another pop science truism hits the, er, pop science truism pile
Phys.org warming to idea that humans are pig-chimp hybrids?
At it again: Agnostic David Berlinski offers to pray for Nick (“burn books” for Darwin) Matzke …
But why are we even asking if Darwinism gave birth to social Darwinism?
H. C. Felder interviews Bill Dembski on design
Mathematician David Berlinski takes on Darwin’s man Nick Matzke
Grand evolution theory for complex animals in ruins; fossil is, in fact, a jellyfish
From ScienceDaily: Pseudooides fossils have a segmented middle like the embryos of segmented animals, such as insects, inspiring grand theories on how complex segmented animals may have evolved. A team of paleontologists from the University of Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences and Peking University have now peered inside the Pseudooides embryos using X-rays and found features that link them to the adult stages of another fossil group. It turns out that these adult stages were right under the scientists’ noses all along: they have been found long ago in the same rocks as Pseudooides. Surprisingly, these long-lost family members are not complex segmented animals at all, but ancestors of modern jellyfish. Paper. (public access) – Baichuan Duan, Xi-Ping Dong, Luis Read More ›
Are the world’s oldest “animal” fossils, 600 mya, algae?
From ScienceDaily: Now scientists have reviewed all the evidence pointing towards an animal identity of the Weng’an fossils. Their findings have revealed that none of the characteristics previously used to define the fossils as animals are actually unique to animals alone, opening up the possibility for alternative identifications. Professor Philip Donoghue, another Bristol co-author, added: “Many proponents of animal affinity have argued that the Y-shaped junctions between the cells in the fossils are an important animal character, but this a feature common to many multicellular groups, including algae, that are very distant relatives of animals.” Dr Cunningham added: “It could be that the fossils belong to other groups, such as algae, and these possibilities need to be investigated carefully.” Despite Read More ›
Durston and Craig on an infinite temporal past . . .
In recent days, the issue of an infinite temporal past as a step by step causal succession has come up at UD. For, it seems the evolutionary materialist faces the unwelcome choice of a cosmos from a true nothing — non-being or else an actually completed infinite past succession of finite causal steps. Durston: >>To avoid the theological and philosophical implications of a beginning for the universe, some naturalists such as Sean Carroll suggest that all we need to do is build a successful mathematical model of the universe where time t runs from minus infinity to positive infinity. Although there is no problem in having t run from minus infinity to plus infinity with a mathematical model, the real Read More ›