18+ hour, 55+ min ago  (277+ words) Science and Culture Today A Friday article at Science Daily caught my eye: "Scientists are Seriously Asking if Bees and Chat GPT Are Conscious." Either the writer has been fuddled by an unholy amalgam of Cartesianism and materialism, or the…...

3+ day, 16+ hour 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…...

6+ day, 15+ hour 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…...

1+ week, 14+ 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…...

3+ week, 2+ day 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…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (523+ words) In his book, Kuebler mentions chromosomal fusion as evidence for human-ape common ancestry: chromosome 2 in humans appears to have originated via the ancestral fusion of chromosomes 2a and 2b which are found in other primates. As a result, the order of genes…...

3+ week, 2+ day 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…...

3+ week, 18+ hour 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, 2+ day ago  (574+ words) Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths have reused the same pair of genes for over 120 million years to produce strikingly similar warning colors. Rather than altering the genes themselves, evolution modifies how they're switched on and off. This…...

1+ mon, 1+ 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…...