Tag: Simon Conway Morris

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 24, 2025

Categories
Historical Sciences
Paleontology
Tagged
, Australia, California, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Dilemma, Darwin’s Doubt, Death Valley, debates, Ediacaran biota, fossils, Günter Bechly, GUT, metazoans, muscles, Nama Group, Namibia, nervous system, organs, peacock, Simon Conway Morris, South Africa, Stephen Meyer, taphonomy}

Despite Exceptionally Well-Preserved Namibian Fossils, Ediacaran Mystery Remains

_{David Coppedge
November 24, 2025

Historical Sciences, Paleontology

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Simon Conway Morris described the Ediacaran ecology as a “sleepy” world of simple, passive creatures bearing no resemblance to what was to come. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, American Humanist Association, C.S. Lewis, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, debates, Denis Noble, Denyse O'Leary, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Mendelian genetics, Michael Egnor, Miracles (book), MIT, Old Testament, qualia, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, Rudder Theatre, Santa Fe, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Steven Weinberg, Stuart Kauffman, Texas A&M University, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blind Watchmaker, Trotter Prize, Tufts University, violence, Zeitgeist}

Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

_{William A. Dembski
February 21, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science

30}

A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Read More ›

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Author
Martin Hilbert

Date
December 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Baltic amber, Cambrian Explosion, cladistics, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Ludwig van Beethoven, On the Origin of Species, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Meyer, Tree of Life, University of Cambridge, University of Oklahoma}

Life’s History and the “Ode to Joy”

_{Fr. Martin Hilbert, C.O.
December 2, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

13}

The history of life can perhaps be likened to a collection of different musical themes. In Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the four beginning notes are the theme. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 19, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, carnivores, cats, clades, convergence, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), intelligent design, jaws, Los Angeles, paleontologists, Pleistocene, predators, Simon Conway Morris, skulls, teleology}

Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times

_{Günter Bechly
July 19, 2024

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

4}

No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, arthropods, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Fossil Friday (series), Hallucigenia, holotype, lancelets, Royal Ontario Museum, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould}

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Fossils Turned Upside Down Yet Again

_{Günter Bechly
July 12, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

7}

Most of these reconstructions are based on very weak evidence and are highly speculative. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
October 26, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Bill Nye, Cambrian animals, college, Darwin's Doubt, earth, evolution, evolutionary biology, high school, intelligent design, Kindle, libraries, life, neo-Darwinian mechanism, paleontology, peer-reviewed literature, probabilistic resources, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Meyer, textbooks}

Why Evolutionary Biologists Are “Fatigued” by Darwin

_{Emily Sandico
October 26, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Says Stephen Meyer, “The neo-Darwinian math is itself showing that the neo-Darwinian mechanism cannot build complex adaptations." Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 19, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, dinosaurs, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genetic code, intelligent design, legs, Peter Ward, pterosaurs, search engines, Simon Conway Morris, teleology, tetrapods, turtles, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Flying Reptiles in the Mid Triassic

_{Günter Bechly
May 19, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Paleontology

4}

Personally, I am quite sympathetic to the dissenting view of my paleontologist colleague Simon Conway Morris. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, Aristotle, charity, Christianity, Edward Feser, Empedocles, evolution, Finding Darwin's God, G.K. Chesterton, gnosticism, Howard Glicksman, human dignity, intelligent design, John West, Kenneth Miller, kin selection, sexuality, Simon Conway Morris, Steve Laufmann, teleology, theology, Thomas Aquinas, University of Notre Dame, Your Designed Body}

Attempts to Reconcile Evolutionary Theory with Christianity Lead to Intractable Tensions

_{Brian Miller
November 30, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Faith & Science

9}

The fundamental premise of evolutionary theory is that humans are the product of an undirected process that did not have us in mind. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 16, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Ecology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Alasdair MacIntyre, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, creation, Democritus, energy production, error correction, imago Dei, information processing, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, James Tour, materialism, molecules, natural law, Plato, Pope Francis, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roman Catholic, scientific revolution, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Meyer, stewardship, teleology, University of Notre Dame}

Notre Dame Hosts a Conference on Creation, Including Intelligent Design

_{Brian Miller
November 16, 2022

Cosmology, Ecology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

4}

The organizers accepted my abstract for a talk about “The Return of Teleology to the Natural Sciences.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, animal phyla, Anomalocaris, body plans, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Carboniferous Period, cephalopods, chordates, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Lophotrochozoa, Macquarie University, new york, paleontology, Simon Conway Morris, squid, stem group}

Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid

_{Günter Bechly
September 2, 2022

Biology, Paleontology, Science

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Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill. Read More ›