Tag: falsification

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 6, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, algae, bilaterian animals, Cambrian fossils, cnidarians, Current Biology, Cyanobacteria, Ediacaran biota, falsification, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, Kimberella, molecular clock studies, motility, nematode, New Scientist, Precambrian, Professor Dave, roundworms, UC Riverside}

Fossil Friday: Are Ediacaran “Fishing Hooks” a Breakthrough Discovery of Precambrian Animals?

_{Günter Bechly
December 6, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Let’s have a look at the newest edition of the Precambrian animal guessing game. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 29, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, asphyxiation, birth, cannibalism, Darwinian expectations, Darwinists, embryos, evolutionary biology, falsification, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Holzmaden, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, London, Lower Jurassic, marine reptiles, Mesozoic, mothers, Natural History Museum, paleontology, Posidonia shale, pseudoscience, science denial, State Museum of Natural History, Stenopterygius quadricissus, Stuttgart}

Fossil Friday: Ichthyosaur Birth, Another Evolutionist Just-So Story Falls Apart

_{Günter Bechly
September 29, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

11}

This is not how good science is supposed to work but is rather typical for pseudoscience that shields itself against empirical falsification. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, evolution, falsification, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, PNAS, topology, Tree of Life, Twitter, University of Nottingham, YouTube videos}

Biologists Take a Hatchet to Tree of Life, Biology Keeps Going Anyway

_{Paul Nelson
August 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Early in his presentation, McInerney says that he hopes to persuade his audience that this familiar LUCA-based hypothesis “has been falsified.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, begging the question, Cambrian Explosion, common ancestry, Darwinists, evolutionary biology, falsification, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, immunization, just-so stories, materialists, opium, phylogeny, pseudoscience, Stephen Meyer, trilobites}

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Complex Eyes in Trilobites

_{Günter Bechly
April 21, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

4}

The theory has been made immune to empirical falsification because it is simply assumed to be true by default as the only viable option for materialists. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 9, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Tagged
, Africa, Asia, common descent, debris, dinosaurs, Europe, evolutionists, falsification, fossil record, Late Cretaceous, logic, Milner Centre for Evolution, monkeys, oceans, rafting, Sherlock Holmes, University of Bath}

When “Science” Becomes a Cult

_{David Klinghoffer
October 14, 2020

Biology, Faith & Science, Political Science

7}

The problem comes when, in order to win our acceptance, double-talk is used to pretend that a cult is something other than what it is. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 11, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, BioEssays, censorship, climate change, coincidences, Dave Speijer, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionists, falsification, intelligent design, Paul Nelson, rooster, Scientific American, tobacco, vaccinations}

Are Darwinists Backing Away from Falsification?

_{David Klinghoffer
September 11, 2020

Evolution

3}

"If the rooster stands on the manure pile, as the folk saying goes, it will rain tomorrow or it will not rain tomorrow." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 15, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, arthropods, Darwinian theory, discontinuity, evolution, falsification, fossil record, gradualism, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, magic wand, morphological change, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, The Guardian, trilobites}

Bechly: Why the Phenomenon of Living Fossils Is Under “Massive Attack”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 15, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

If you ever encounter a horseshoe crab on the beach, you are a looking at a creature that would not have appeared out of place hundreds of millions of years ago. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
November 8, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, convergence, Ernst Mayr, evolution, falsification, fitness landscape, intelligent design, Michael Denton, proteins, Stephen Jay Gould, Theodosius Dobzhansky, University of Oregon, unpredictability, Victor Stenger}

Protein Mutations Are Highly Coupled

_{Cornelius Hunter
November 8, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

This is a clear falsification of an evolutionary expectation expressed across many years, and widely held by a consensus of experts. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
September 13, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, __k-review, abortion, babies, behavior, evolution, falsification, fitness, just-so stories, kin selection}

The Challenge to Evolution from Abortion

_{Cornelius Hunter
September 13, 2017

Bioethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Reproductive Science

4}

The whole point of “fitness,” in an evolutionary context, is reproduction. One has higher “fitness” if one can have more offspring. Read More ›