6+ hour, 15+ min ago  (517+ words) What this means is that arguably this paper has added only one additional Cambrian animal phylum to the Precambrian world: Ctenophora. But Science paper notes this is unsurprising since ctenophores are non-bilaterians and multiple other non-bilaterian animal phyla are already…...

3+ day, 32+ min ago  (563+ words) Over the past few days I've been discussing an important paper in the journal Science that reveals supposed Ediacaran bilaterian animal fossils (see here and here, with more to come). Meanwhile, this past weekend, I happened to go on a…...

4+ week, 6+ hour ago  (494+ words) Research at University of Texas at Austin reveals surprising developments in the origin of new plankton species after the K-T extinction event. This event, one of five major extinctions throughout Earth's history, is widely associated with a massive impact that…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago  (316+ words) How do you separate the facts from the narrative? That can be challenging these days, and the realm of science is no exception. Source How do you separate the facts from the narrative? That can be challenging these days, and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (337+ words) Science Before the Scientific Revolution: What Can We Learn from It? Science and Culture Today What can we learn about science and faith from those who lived before the rise of modern science? On a new episode of ID the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (243+ words) The question I invite the reader to consider is this: Has the prediction from evolutionary theory that embryos pass through ancestral stages proven productive? Has it genuinely advanced our understanding of embryonic development, or has it more often guided researchers…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (379+ words) Editor's note: We are delighted to welcome the new book by award-winning British engineer and designer Stuart Burgess, Ultimate Engineering: An Engineer Investigates the Biomechanics of the Human Body(Discovery Institute Press), with an excerpt from Chapter 1. There is a…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (642+ words) Here are new findings about a group of undersea stars: sea turtles. There are seven species of sea turtles in the world today, all beautifully designed and, sadly, all endangered. Consider first, appropriately, the enigma of origins. Do we see…...

3+ mon, 6+ hour ago  (265+ words) Our colleague'David Coppedge calls it "historical racism, the evolutionary blunder of wanting to create hierarchies of intelligence, or how "evolved past human groups may have been, in particular Neanderthals and Denisovans. Coppedge summons us to greater sensitivity and generosity:' The…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (321+ words) They fall somewhere within that tangle of groups that ultimately gave rise to Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern people. That's very fair, but does it mean they were anything but basically human? Cue Jerry Coyne's'Why Evolution Is True'blog, which'commented'just a few…...