algae (on land) – Uncommon Descent

Evolution Intelligent Design Plants stasis

Fossil spores on land pushed back 20 million years

The big story here isn’t about the disconnect between molecular and fossil data; it’s about how early on more complex life forms got started (all that complexity in such a short time isn’t looking good for random mutations).

JVL Asuaber: Ah, but Evolution has been shown to have limitations. It cant account for all the attributes we require. How... – Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems...
Sandy Bob O'Hara I’m sorry, is this the ID junk concept, or the actual one used by biologists, and referenced almost... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
jerry I don’t always read every single comment here. What do you think would be a good ID-based research agenda? You... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
kairosfocus JVL, there is a growing published literature. That should tell you what research has been going on. KF – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
asauber "Why couldn’t it have been the other way around? We’re here, well suited to this collection of environments because evolution... – Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems...
JVL Asuaber: Still a unique human baby, no matter how you try to deflect, I didn't say it wasn't. I just... – Michael Egnor muses on some shaky...
jerry It was explained to me at a secular graduate school by the professor that the fetus is genetically identical to... – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
JVL Michael Egnor: If it’s alive, it has a soul. Are they all eternal I wonder? In the afterlife do you... – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
asauber "i wonder which other source of DNA might have been involved with the pregnancy?" Still a unique human baby, no... – Michael Egnor muses on some shaky...
JVL Asuaber: it’s obvious the Earth (our niche environment) was specially made for us to live in or we wouldn’t be... – Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems...
JVL Jerry: A vapid statement that keeps getting repeated over the years as if it means something. I've been asking for... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
JVL BobRyan: If a fetus, which is Latin for baby, is simply part of the mother to be, why is there... – Michael Egnor muses on some shaky...
asauber I think people are suffering from the game/pretense of expectations or preconceptions being met/not met. Upon detached examination (see Michael... – Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems...
jerry But it cannot be called a scientific endeavour until it starts researching the designer and the mechanisms used to realize... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Viola Lee Egner writes, " Perhaps the most common justification that abortion proponents give for supporting abortion is that the human embryo... – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
JVL ET: As I said and you have proven, Stonehenge stands alone. Those other two are not like Stonehenge. Those other... – L&FP, 55: Defining/Clarifying Intelligent Design as...
jerry The existence or not of {forbidden term} has no impact on the validity of either evolution or ID. I’ve been... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
kairosfocus https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/lfp-55-defining-clarifying-intelligent-design-as-inference-as-theory-as-a-movement/ – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
Silver Asiatic Aristotle, Confucius, Siddhartha Gautama and the author of Ecclesiastes all addressed that within the same time frame 550-350 BC. – At Mind Matters News: Must we...
JHolo Jerry@112, again, I find myself agreeing with you. The existence or not of junk DNA has no impact on the... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...
jerry the late George V. Coyne, a Jesuit priest Maybe it’s Jesuits that are the problem. After all you seem screwed... – Casey Luskin: ID as fruitful approach...