Tag: nested hierarchy

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 15, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bats, birds, common descent, convergence, evolution, homology, intelligent design, Jurassic, Karl Popper, nested hierarchy, synapomorphy, thought police}

Fossil Friday: Scansoriopterygidae, Bizarre Bird-Like Dinosaurs, Illustrate Darwinist Trickery

_{Günter Bechly
December 15, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

12}

Common descent is assumed and the evidence interpreted accordingly, rather than common descent being deduced from the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
August 9, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, common ancestry, common design, dependency graph, evolution, genes, genetic similarity, Gutsick Gibbon, intelligent design, nested hierarchy, Peaceful Science, S. Joshua Swamidass, Tree of Life, Winston Ewert, YouTube videos}

Yes, Winston Ewert’s Dependency Graph Is a Real Model

_{Emily Reeves
August 9, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

The fact that known natural biological processes can produce non-tree-like patterns is problematic not for ID proponents but for proponents of common ancestry. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, antennae, Baltic amber, Darwinism, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, nested hierarchy, phylogenetics, scales}

Fossil Friday: New Kind of Silverfish Trapped in Sticky Resin

_{Günter Bechly
June 24, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

3}

These incongruent or homoplastic characters are a notorious problem for phylogenetics and contradict the evolutionary prediction of a nested hierarchy. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, CSI, dependency graph, DNA, evolution, explanatory power, Forrest Mims, genomes, Human Genome Project, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, medicine, Michael Behe, mutations, Nature Reviews Genetics, nested hierarchy, predictions, Richard Dawkins, RNA, Science (journal), Scientific American, selection, software, Susumu Ohno, systematics, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series), The Selfish Gene, Winston Ewert}

Does Darwinian Theory Make the Same Predictions as Intelligent Design?

_{Casey Luskin
May 5, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

11}

Richard Dawkins predicted that “a large fraction” of our genomes has no function, because, “The true ‘purpose’ of DNA is to survive, no more and no less." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 2, 2019

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, __k-review, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwinism, fossil record, Günter Bechly, Homo luzonensis, human origins, ID the Future, nested hierarchy, paleontology, Philippines, podcast, textbooks}

Paleontologist Günter Bechly: “No Well-Established Tree of Fossil Humans”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 2, 2019

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

2}

Recent fossil finds scramble yet again what scientists thought they knew about human origins. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
March 7, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Darwin’s God, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, homoplasy, Isaac Newton, modus tollens, mutations, nested hierarchy, religion, science, special creation, suboptimality, theism, theology, utilitarianism, vestigial structures}

Claim: Evolution Proves Molinism, and Molinism Proves Evolution

_{Cornelius Hunter
March 7, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science

9}

Unfortunately, religion has infected science and the result is bad religion and bad science. Read More ›

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Date
January 24, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Ann Gauger, Annual Review of Genetics, chicken, chimpanzees, chromatin, common ancestry, David Klinghoffer, Dennis Venema, ENCODE, genome, gorilla, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Molecular Biology and Evolution, nested hierarchy, phylogeny, pseudogenes, Reviewing Adam and the Genome, theistic evolution, vitellogenin}

Adam and the Genome and “Nonfunctional” Pseudogenes

_{Science & Culture
January 24, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science

11}

Venema cites the vitellogenin pseudogene as supposedly demonstrating common ancestry between humans and birds, such as chickens. Read More ›

Blood vessels. Circulatory system. Veins and arteries. Generative AI.

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
October 13, 2011

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Tagged
, __nedited, "poor design", amphibians, cladistics, common ancestry, common descent, convergent evolution, developmental biology, embryology, embryonic development, evidence for evolution, fact check, homologies, nested hierarchy, Nobel Prize, phylogenetic analysis, Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, taxonomy, vestigial structures, Wikipedia}

Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Comparative Anatomy

_{Jonathan McLatchie
October 13, 2011

Anatomy, Evolution

19}

The argument from evolutionary developmental biology and embryonic development is probably one of the stronger for common descent. But I'm not convinced. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 2, 2011

Categories
Science Reporting
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __nedited, ad hoc hypotheses, argument from analogy, Cambrian Explosion, common ancestry, common descent, DNA, evidence for id, Forbes, John Farrell, Medieval science, methodological naturalism, misrepresentation, natural philosophy, nested hierarchy, positive case for design, Response to Criticism, sequence hypothesis, straw man, Tree of Life}

Who Misrepresented Who? A Response to John Farrell

_{Casey Luskin
April 2, 2011

Science Reporting, Scientific Reasoning

15}

When we find re-usage of parts in a way that cannot be explained by a phylogenetic tree and common descent, this is the sort of data we might expect under intelligent design. Read More ›