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Peter Ward

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Plate Tectonics and Scientific Discovery

Plate tectonics is important for advanced life in multiple ways and planets with plate tectonics are very rare. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Dallas Krentzel, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: The Sudden Appearance of Crocs in the Triassic Fossil Record

The Triassic period proves to be a real carpet bombing of bursts of biological creativity. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Flying Reptiles in the Mid Triassic

Personally, I am quite sympathetic to the dissenting view of my paleontologist colleague Simon Conway Morris. Read More ›
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Photo: Susisuchus anatoceps, by Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: A Croc Smile from the Cretaceous

Ubiquitous discontinuities contradict the gradualist predictions of Darwin’s theory and thus should count as empirical falsifications of that theory. Read More ›
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Photo: Hydrothermal vents, by NOAA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Nature Article Admits Unanswered Origin-of-Life Questions, Exposing Broken Promises of ID Critics

In 2016, physicist Lawrence Krauss promised, “We’re coming very close” to explaining the origin of life via chemical evolutionary models. Read More ›
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Photo: Fertile Earth juxtaposed with barren Mars, via NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Plate Tectonics: Why Life Is Served on Plates

The ground under your feet is literally moving. The continents are drifting apart near an average rate of one inch per year. Read More ›
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On the 15th Anniversary of The Privileged Planet: An Update

The basic thesis of TPP is that the best places for intelligent observers are also the best places for observing. Read More ›
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Rare Earth Elements and Intelligent Design

Can we explain human technology merely by supernova explosions and blind chance? In rare earth elements, we find hints of a better explanation. Read More ›
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Uncommon Earth: Kepler Supports Denton

It sound like an anachronistic political endorsement, but it’s true: the Kepler spacecraft is supporting Michael Denton’s fine-tuning campaign with large contributions of data. Read More ›
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Cambrian-Aged Ediacaran Organism Reconfirms Explosiveness of the Cambrian Explosion

For the first time it has been discovered that an organism from the Precambrian Ediacaran fauna may have survived into the Cambrian period. Read More ›

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