5+ hour, 27+ min ago  (366+ words) New fossil discoveries from China are being hailed as evidence that could reshape our understanding of the origin of complex animal life. Source New fossil discoveries from China are being hailed as evidence that could reshape our understanding of the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (280+ words) Among other recent news about the Cambrian: These representative papers show that the Cambrian Explosion remains a huge enigma for evolutionists. Darwin would still struggle with his doubt on the subject today, 167 years after he wrote his woeful complaint in…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (365+ words) Less than a year before his tragic death, paleontologist G'nter Bechly posted a long and powerful article here, "Three Modern Scientific Challenges to the Causal Adequacy of Darwinian Explanations." The challenge that especially caught my eye at the time was…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago  (286+ words) Author's note: The following is from my paper light-heartedly titled, "The Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus): An Ancestor of Humans?" First, I show Ernst Haeckel's chart (1871/1876) depicting the evolution from protoplasm to humans, including the platypus and kangaroo as direct ancestors of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1264+ words) Recently I mentioned that physicist Stephen Barr was wrong to call the origin of humanity "gradual." One of the citations I noted recounts the non-gradual origin of humans. It is a 2000 paper in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution by…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (356+ words) While I won't comment on the theology, I do take issue with Professor Barr's scientific claim about the nature of the hominid fossil record as it relates to human origins. Here's what he says: Homo sapiens as a biological species…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (343+ words) Second, Botting also has some strong criticisms of the purported bilaterian fossils. For example: He is skeptical that the potential wormlike organism labelled "F to H" and "M to P" actually has a gut. Again, he's skeptical that there's a…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1012+ words) Perhaps the most arresting challenge to the materialist account of life is one that cannot be quantified at all. Source At the foundation of every living cell is information " not merely complexity, but specified complexity. The distinction matters. Random gibberish…...

1+ mon, 4+ week 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…...

2+ mon, 2+ day 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…...