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Date
April 23, 2022

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Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
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, abrupt appearance, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Crossway, Darwinism, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, paleontology, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, Stephen Meyer, Theistic Evolution (book), universal common ancestry}

Bechly: Problems with Universal Common Ancestry Posed by the Fossil Record

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April 23, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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Paleontologist Günter Bechly was a proponent of Darwinism until he discovered significant scientific reasons to doubt the evolutionary story. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 19, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, brains, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, carbon, central nervous system, Chengjiang fossils, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran Period, euarthropod, evolution, fossil record, Fuxianhuia protensa, intelligent design, jointed appendages, Nature Geoscience, News, Panarthropoda, Precambrian, pyrite, Stephen Meyer, taphonomy, tardigrades, University of Leicester, University of Warwick}

Darwin Wept: Cambrian Brains and Other Challenges for Evolution

_{David Coppedge
April 19, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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Whenever you find papers and articles dealing with the Cambrian fossil record in the usual science journals, there are commonalities. Read More ›

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Date
April 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Australopithecines, evolution, fossil record, human origins, humans, ID the Future, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, theistic evolution, Theistic Evolution (book)}

Ann Gauger Puts Ape-to-Man Evolution Under the Microscope

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April 10, 2022

Biology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Among the tenets of theistic evolution is the idea that humans evolved from a large population of ape-like creatures. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 31, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, bioRxiv, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, carbon, Casey Luskin, cilia, comb jellies, ctenophores, Current Biology, evolution, irreducibly complex systems, Michael Marshall, New Scientist, oxygen, Phanerozoic Eon, predators, Science Advances, slime, sponges, Stephen Meyer}

Cambrian Explosion: More Woes and Dodges

_{David Coppedge
March 31, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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Evolutionists are still failing to explain the Cambrian explosion. They struggle to explain new complexities or else try to change the subject. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 23, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Basics of Intelligent Design Biology, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, evolution, evolutionary transitions, fossil record, intelligent design, Khan Academy, Niles Eldredge, paleontologists, punctuated equilibrium, punk eek, Stephen Jay Gould}

Lukas Ruegger: Three Problems with Punctuated Equilibrium

_{David Klinghoffer
March 23, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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By the time of his death, Stephen Jay Gould had come full circle, in effect, returning to traditional Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 19, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Australopithecus, Chromosomal Fusion, common ancestry, creationism, Eugenie Scott, evolution, evolutionary biology, genetic drift, hominids, Homo, human origins, intelligent design, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), natural selection, Niles Eldredge, pseudogenes, punctuated equilibrium, Richard Leakey, Science and Human Origins, Stephen Jay Gould}

Eugenie Scott Gets Intelligent Design Backwards

_{Casey Luskin
January 19, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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This punctuated, even saltational increase in hominid skull sizes over time continues to be recognized in the literature. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwinian gradualism, evolution, fossil record, Ian Tattersall, IDEA Center, National Academy of Sciences, Niles Eldredge, paleontologists, punctuated equilibrium, Science Uprising, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory}

Yes, the Punctuated Equilibrium Model Was Developed to Explain the Lack of Transitional Fossils

_{Casey Luskin
January 5, 2022

Evolution, Geology, Paleontology

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Why would Eldredge and Gould propose such a model? Because they knew the data showed that potential transitional fossils are an extreme rarity. Read More ›

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Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Chile, Darwinism, digestive enzymes, digits, evolution, fin rays, fish, gene regulatory network, genes, genetic code, intelligent design, limbs, Long Story Short, mitosis, Neil Shubin, PNAS, Spain, tiktaalik, University of Chicago}

More Fishy Tales Afoot from Neil Shubin

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January 3, 2022

Anatomy, Evolution, Paleontology

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Tiktaalik discoverer Neil Shubin from the University of Chicago searches for genetic clues between fish fins and tetrapod toes. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 29, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, American Museum of Natural History, Australopithecus afarensis, bipedalism, brain case, chimpanzees, Darwin critics, Darwinists, fossil record, Günter Bechly, hominins, homoplasy, human locomotion, human origins, humans, ID the Future, knuckle-walking, last common ancestor, Miocene apes, rewriting, Sahelanthropus, Science (journal), Sergio Almécija, tree-climbing}

#4 Story of 2021: Human Origins Research Is a Big Mess

_{Günter Bechly
December 29, 2021

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Considering the number of fossils attributed to the human lineage, an absence of such fossils for the great African ape lineages raises an obvious suspicion. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 23, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Allison C. Daley, arthropods, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran Period, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Mark McMenamin, Marten Scheffer, neo-Darwinian mechanisms, Princeton University Press, Science Uprising, Simon Conway Morris, Spriggina, Stephen Meyer}

Was Spriggina an Evolutionary Ancestor of Arthropods?

_{Casey Luskin
December 23, 2021

Evolution, Paleontology

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For those wedded to an evolutionary interpretation of life’s history, the fossil and genetic evidence leave the origin of arthropods a major mystery. Read More ›