living fossils – Uncommon Descent

Researchers: Huge coelacanth fish is “not a living fossil”

For all practical purposes, the coelacanth is a “living fossil,” in the sense that it is an example of stasis. It wanders a bit genetically over millions of years but doesn’t change much over hundreds of millions of years. Could we say the same of most vertebrates?

Intelligent Design

Australian lungfish has largest animal genome

Don’t we need some information theory to understand life?

jerry spot on The anti ID people have conceded the truth of ID. There only strategy is mocking and diversion. No... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Viola Lee Bowing back in: your point is essential. As free-willed moral creatures, we are the cause of morality: all the consensual... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
chuckdarwin Zweston @ 44 I thought I was the Black Knight of Monty Python fame. So now its Sev? I'm hurt....... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Origenes If X creates your faculties of intelligence and free will so that you will have the capacity to think and... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
zweston Chucky d, will you tell me your responses to the thought experiment? – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
zweston Jerry, spot on. And I'm one of those people who continue to defend Christianity...but I really don't need to. The... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Lieutenant Commander Data Seversky If God is omniscient then He knows all that there is to know. If Seversky is ignorant then he... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Viola Lee Stephen, I see that you were addressing Origenes, not me, so I apologize for pressing you on responding to me.... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
jerry Genetics and natural selection operating. Call it evolution but it is not Evolution. Wait till those cute adorable elephant cows... – Are humans changing evolution? Like tuskless...
jerry Interesting phenomenon! When one is obviously losing an argument against ID, never respond to the logical argument but attack Christianity.... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Origenes SB@ //on the claims “I, Origenes, exist” & “I, Origenes, am self aware”// O: I arrive at a self-evident truth.... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
StephenB SB: Meanwhile, you have not yet addressed the major problem with your hyper-subjective philosophy: You can, as the subject, be... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
bornagain77 Seversky asks, "if after death we move to a much better “plane of existence”, why does your God make us... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Origenes SB @ The problem with your position is that you seem to reduce everything to the subjective realm, even to... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
Origenes SB, Viola Lee@ SB: Meanwhile, you have not yet addressed the major problem with your hyper-subjective philosophy: You can, as... – Materialists Know What They Say is...
polistra Climate change, climate change, climate change, pandemic, biodiversity, mass extinction, mass extinction, Anthropocene, Anthropocene, climate change, climate change, climate change.... – Are humans changing evolution? Like tuskless...
Eugene I don't understand why they keep calling time a "dimension". It is clearly not a dimension, but a "variable" which... – At Medium: Six scientific paradoxes on...
Seversky Zweston/37 Sev: If the God of the Bible appeared to you and you had knowledge without a doubt it was... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Seversky Bornagain77/30 Seversky claimed that living in an imperfect world counted as evidence against Christianity. Yet, the Bible has ALWAYS claimed... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
Seversky Doubter/26 Maybe there is no inconsistency with the Christian doctrine of omnipotence because He simply doesn’t choose to exert complete... – Nathan Lents argues that the human...
kairosfocus SB, as a note, testimony of a responsible, credible witness often provides adequate warrant, and this may apply to internal,... – Materialists Know What They Say is...