Tag: The Conversation

Business man afraid of his own shadow monster concept

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 14, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Andrew Knoll, anxieties, Biomimetics, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, chemical evolution, debates, Earth and Life, Enceladus, evolutionary icons, evolutionists, Faculty Club, Fear of Finding Out, Fear of Missing Out, Fear of Validating Outsiders, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, heretics, Howard Glicksman, human body, ignorance, intelligent design, James Tour, Lee Cronin, Lucy Hyde, Michael Denton, phobias, poor design, Privileged Planet, Rasoul Sorkhabi, Rice University, scholarship, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer, Steve Laufmann, Stuart Burgess, Texas A&M University, The Conversation, Titan, Ultimate Engineering, University of Bristol, Your Amazing Body, Zombie Science}

Darwinists Afflicted by Fear of Validating Outsiders

_{David Coppedge
May 14, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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Fear of validating opposition to materialism diminishes the scholarship of some scientific publications. Their authors need to get a grip. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 23, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, ambulacrarians, bilaterian animals, bilaterians, biological information, Cambrian Explosion, China, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Darwin’s Doubt, Douglas Erwin, Ediacaran Period, evolutionary mechanisms, fossil record, genes, genetic information, Günter Bechly, Hemichordata, homoplasy, paleontology, phyla, Porifera, precambrian fossils, Science (journal), Scientific American, Stephen Meyer, The Conversation}

The Prescient Günter Bechly: New Paper Doesn’t Negate the Cambrian Explosion

_{Casey Luskin
April 23, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology

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Let’s consider the fossils the paper identifies as appearing in the Ediacaran but that belong to phyla previously known to appear first in the Cambrian. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 20, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, ambulacrarians, ancestors, bilaterians, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cambroernids, Charnia, China, chordates, cladogram, cnidarians, crinoid, ctenophores, Current Biology, Ediacaran strata, fossils, Haootia, holdfast, Jiangchuan Biota, kelp, mackenziid, Margaretia dorus, Precambrian, Profera, Science (journal), Scientific American, The Conversation, vermiform, worms}

Science Paper Overstates Case for “Diverse Assemblage of Bilaterians” in the Ediacaran

_{Casey Luskin
April 20, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology

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I suspect the bilaterian nature of this “most numerous” fossil will be challenged as more studies come out. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animal phyla, bilaterians, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Chengjiang biota, China, Disney, Ediacaran creatures, Ediacaran fauna, Ediacaran Period, evolutionists, fossil record, fungi, Günter Bechly, Ikaria, Kimberella, lichens, Luskin’s First Law, paleobiologists, phyla, retroactive confession of ignorance, Science (journal), Scientific American, seafloor, Stephen Meyer, The Conversation, Uncus, Yilingia, Yunnan Province}

Retroactive Confessions Permeate Around Science Paper on Ediacaran “Bilaterians”

_{Casey Luskin
April 16, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology

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What you just read is an amusing example of what some of my friends affectionally call “Luskin’s First Law.” It goes like this. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 29, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, Adrian Smith, Ant Lab, Arthropoda, collophore, convergent evolution, Cyrille D’Haese, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, deserts, dry deserts, engineers, evolution, evolutionists, fungus, furcula, Günter Bechly, gymnasts, habitats, Harvard University, ice deserts, intelligent design, Mark Stevens, Mollusca, mouthparts, rotting wood, science fair, sea slugs, Spain, springtails, stasis, Subterranean Biology, The Conversation, Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society}

More to Love about Springtails, Those Adorable Gymnasts

_{David Coppedge
January 29, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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Does it have to be called an “evolutionary success” instead of a success? The word “evolutionary” performs no function. It is also contrary to the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 27, 2026

Categories
Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aliens, astrophysicists, Carole Mundell, chance, extraterrestrial intelligence, extraterrestrials, false negatives, false positives, intelligent actors, intelligent design, Live Science, media, natural law., No Free Lunch, Ohio State University, Paul Sutter, radio signals, space, space aliens, Stonehenge, The Conversation, William Dembski}

When Should Mysterious Signals from Space Be Attributed to Alien Intelligence?

_{David Coppedge
January 27, 2026

Astronomy, Intelligent Design

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Intelligent design advocates agree that you don’t infer intelligence until there is sufficient reason to reject chance and natural law. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, archaeologists, archaeology, art, Bible, Carly Cassella, cave art, caves, Darwinian paradigm, Darwinism, evolution, fire, human origins, King Tut, Neanderthals, Paul Pettitt, Rosetta Stone, Science Alert, subhumans, The Conversation, University of Durham}

Perhaps Neanderthals Never Truly Went Extinct

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 14, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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A critical part of the original tale of the Neanderthals is that, because they were stupid, we smarter, more evolved modern humans finished them off. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 29, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Metascience
Science Reporting
Tagged
, accuracy, artificial intelligence, data, data science, evidence, Evolution News, fakery, fallibility, file drawer problem, fraud, generative ai, integrity, knowledge, Leipzig, Nature (journal), objectivity, peer review, PLOS ONE, PNAS, politicization, post-trust, predatory journals, pseudoscience, public trust, replicability, scientific reliability, scientists, suppressed evidence, The Conversation, transparency}

How the “Scientific Community” Undermines Its Own Trustworthiness

_{David Coppedge
May 29, 2025

Ethics, Metascience, Science Reporting

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The “file drawer problem” leads invariably to biased reporting. It refers to scientists deciding not to report negative results. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 25, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, Associated Press, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian Period, Charnia, Cornelius Hunter, Current Biology, Devonian Period, Flinders University, Günter Bechly, Joe Moysiuk, Live Science, Nature Communications, New Scientist, Per Ahlberg, radiodont, Royal Ontario Museum, Royal Society Open Science, The Conversation, tiktaalik, University of Melbourne}

Fossils as Magical Darwin Relics

_{David Coppedge
May 25, 2025

Archaeology, Evolution, Paleontology

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Fossils can be handled in the present, but how they are used by evolutionists in stories of history resembles the practices of overeager medieval churchmen. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 30, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, bird beaks, Current Biology, David Klinghoffer, eagle, entropy, eukaryotes, evolutionary biologists, Evolutionary Game Theory, humidity, mice, Monash University, ostrich, phase transition, photosynthesis, physics, Plato's Revenge, pressure, Richard Sternberg, teleology, temperature, The Conversation, volume, Weasel program}

Physics Envy Is Not Helping Evolutionary Biology

_{David Coppedge
April 30, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Biology is very different from physics. But if living things are entirely describable by atoms and forces, shouldn’t laws of physics apply to them, too? Read More ›