Tag: Cambrian Explosion

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 29, 2022

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
Academic Freedom, African apes, African elephant, Asian black bear, Asian elephant, bison, body plan evolution, bottle-nosed dolphin, Cambrian Explosion, Casey Luskin, chimps, common dolphin, cow, Darwinism, donkey, Evolution, evolvability, Grand Canyon, Günter Bechly, Hawaiian silversword, highland cattle, hippos, hominid evolution, horse, house mouse, house rat, humans, hybridizing, interbreeding, Neo-Darwinism, phenotypic plasticity, polyploid hybrid, river hippo, South American Spectacled bear, species pairs, squirrels, West African pigmy hippo, whale evolution}

Günter Bechly: Species Pairs Wreck Darwinism

_{Günter Bechly

June 29, 2022

Evolution}

On this ID the Future, distinguished German paleontologist Günter Bechly continues unpacking his new argument against modern evolutionary theory. According to Bechly, contemporary species pairs diverge hardly at all over millions of years, even when isolated from each other, and yet we’re supposed to believe that the evolutionary process built dramatically distinct body plans in similar time frames at various other times in the history of life. Why believe that? He suggests this pattern of relative stasis among species pairs strikes a significant and damaging blow to Darwinian theory. In this Part 2 episode, Bechly and host Casey Luskin discuss mice/rat pairs, cattle and bison, horses and donkeys, Asian and African elephants, the Asian black bear and the South American Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 27, 2022

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
amphibians, azure damselfly, beak size, Birds, body plan transitions, Butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, cedars, coloration, compound eyes, conifers, Convergent evolution, countercurrent heat exchange, damselflies, Darwinism, European common frog, Evolution, finches, furs, Galapagos Islands, genetic disparity, genetic switches, Hawaiian honey creepers, house sparrow, houseflies, human beings, iguana, land iguana, marine iguana, Moor frog, northern damselfly, species divergence, stabilizing selection, stasis, teleological end point, tree sparrow, warblers, whale evolution, whale origins}

Species Pairs: A New Challenge to Evolutionary Theory

_{Günter Bechly

June 27, 2022

Evolution}

On today’s ID the future, German paleoentomologist Günter Bechly and host Casey Luskin unpack a recent article of Bechly’s at Evolution News, “Species Pairs: A New Challenge to Darwinists.” There Bechly describes a challenge to evolutionary theory that thus far has been given little attention, namely “the morphological similarity of modern species pairs.” He says this “poses a severe problem for Darwinian theory “because it implies that the macroevolutionary processes that allegedly were at work and common during all periods of Earth history and in all groups of organisms, apparently were totally absent in the origins of all of the millions of living species.” Or as he puts it in a follow-up article on the same topic, “Among the 350,000 Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 2, 2022

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
abrupt appearance, archeopteryx, artifact hypothesis, Cambrian Explosion, Carboniferous, Casey Luskin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Darwinian gradualism, Darwinism, Evolution, evolutionary discontinuities, evolutionary gradualism, flying insects, fossil forgeries, Fossil Record, fossil record explosions, Fossils, Günter Bechly, human evolution, Neo-Darwinism, origin of flowering plants, paleontology, Piltdown man, Precambrian, Richard Dawkins, sudden appearance, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Theory of Evolution, transitional forms, transitional fossils}

Debunked Transitional Fossils Just the Tip of the Iceberg

_{Günter Bechly

March 2, 2022

Evolution}

On today’s ID the Future Casey Luskin hosts distinguished German paleontologist Günter Bechly to discuss Bechly’s essay in the recent Harvest House anthology, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith: Exploring the Ultimate Questions About Life and the Cosmos. Darwinian evolution predicts a gradually branching tree of living forms, with one form shading into another over long periods of evolution, with each transitional step almost too modest to notice. Does the fossil record suggest such a pattern? Quite the opposite, Bechly says. Instead the pattern of the fossil record is consistently one of sudden appearance, and evolutionists have yet to successfully construct a single robustly populated series of gradually transitioning fossils that move chronologically from one form to a distinctly different Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 30, 2021

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
agnosticism, animism, Antony Flew, artificial selection, Battle of Maldon, Bertrand Russell, British Rationalist Association, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Church of England, Darwinism, devolution, domestic breeding, Evolution, gradualism, heroic fatalism, heroic poetry, Homeric epics, humanism, Icelandic sagas, John Updike, Michael Behe, Natural Selection, Neil Thomas, Niles Eldredge, paganism, Pigeon Feathers, Punctuated Equilibrium, Richard Dawkins, Richard Spilsbury, Stephen Jay Gould, Taking Leave of Darwin, the Enlightenment, Theism}

Author Neil Thomas Takes Leave of Darwin, Pt. 2

_{Neil Thomas

August 30, 2021

Evolution}

On this ID the Future, Taking Leave of Darwin author Neil Thomas and host Jonathan Witt continue their conversation about Thomas’s journey from Darwinian materialism to theistic humanism and a thorough skepticism of Darwinian theory. Here Thomas links the heroic posturing of modern atheists Richard Dawkins and Bertrand Russell, on the one hand, and on the other, the heroic fatalism of poetry stretching back to the early Middle Ages and, further still, to the ancient Greeks. Thomas also draws a link between the animistic thinking of much ancient pagan thought and the magical powers attributed to the Darwinian mechanism. Thomas explains why he now views the latter as essentially “crypto-animism.” In their wide-ranging conversation, Thomas and Witt also touch on Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 14, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
abrupt appearance in the fossil record, Cambrian Explosion, Christianity, Darwinian gradualism, Darwinism, Evolution, fine tuning, Fossil Record, Günter Bechly, Inference to the Best Explanation, Intelligent Design, Joshua Swamidass, Justin Brierley, methodological materialism, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, neutral evolution, origin of the universe, random mutation, Rube Goldberg, Theism, Unbelievable, William Lane Craig}

An ID Debate, Pt. 2: Joshua Swamidass and Günter Bechly

_{Günter Bechly

July 14, 2021

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future concludes a debate over the merits of intelligent design and modern evolutionary theory. Günter Bechly is a distinguished German paleoentomologist who was an atheist and Darwinist but became convinced of theism after he finally decided to read some of the books written by leading ID proponents and found their arguments far stronger than he had been led to believe from second-hand accounts. S. Joshua Swamidass is a computational biologist at Washington University in Saint Louis who says ID may or may not be true in some part of what it affirms, but while he believes in a Creator, he doesn’t find the central arguments of intelligent design proponents logical and cogent. He also is more sanguine Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 12, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
abrupt appearance in the fossil record, Biological Information, Cambrian Explosion, Christianity, Darwinian gradualism, Darwinism, Evolution, Fossil Record, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, Joshua Swamidass, Justin Brierley, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, neutral evolution, random mutation, saltation, specified information, Theism, Unbelievable, whale evolution}

An ID Debate: Joshua Swamidass and Günter Bechly, Pt. 1

_{Günter Bechly

July 12, 2021

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future features a debate over the merits of intelligent design. Günter Bechly is a German paleoentomologist heard many times on ID the Future, who says the science convinced him that intelligent design is true. S. Joshua Swamidass is a computational biologist at Washington University in Saint Louis who says ID may or may not be true in some part of what it affirms, but for him, the science doesn’t lead you to it. They met in a dialogue hosted by Justin Brierley on his Unbelievable? podcast, reposted here with Brierley’s permission. This is the first half of the conversation. The second half is coming to IDTF soon.

Cloudina Carinata, early metazoan worn-shaped

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 5, 2020

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
__edited, artifact hypothesis, Burgess shale, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Charles Walcott, Donald Prothero, Ediacaran period, fossil discontinuities, Fossil Record, Gerd Müller, Jerry Coyne, missing links, Royal Society of London, waiting time problem}

The Demise of the Artifact Hypothesis

_{Günter Bechly

October 5, 2020

Evolution}

paleoentomologist Günter Bechly makes the case that recent findings have put the nails in the coffin of this “artifact hypothesis.” He goes on to argue that these findings are “not just a tiny problem but a fatal problem” for modern Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Newton Keas

Date
May 6, 2020

Categorized
Culture, Science

Tagged
__edited, abiogenesis, Biological Information, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Sagan, Cassini, Christianity and Science, cosmos, Enceladus, Evolution, history of science, hydrothermal vents, Johann Gregor Mendel, John Sutherland, Miller-Urey experiment, Mystery of Life’s Origin, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, origin of life, Saturn, scientific Materialism, Stephen C. Meyer, Unbelievable, William Herschel}

Cosmos: Possible Worlds’ ‘Most Plausible’ Creation Myths

_{Michael Newton Keas

May 6, 2020

Culture, Science}

On this episode of ID the Future, philosopher Jay Richards hosts science historian Michael Keas in another conversation about Neil deGrasse Tyson’s series Cosmos: Possible Worlds. They talk this time about what the show itself calls its “most plausible creation myth… for the origin of life,” involving hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean floor — with no mention at all of the equally deep scientific problems with the idea. Tyson’s imagination wanders from there to a moon of Saturn to the Cambrian explosion, everywhere supposing that just because one or two necessary conditions exist for life, that’s all the explanation that’s needed. Richards and Keas ably explore why this is untrue.

Who Question with Copyspace, Chinese Language

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 27, 2019

Tagged
__edited, Barbara Forrest, California Science Center, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Donald Prothero, falsifiability, genetic drift, Human Nature, Jeffrey Shallit, Jerry Coyne, Larry Moran, Materialism, methodological naturalism, Motoo Kamura, Neo-Darwinism, NOMA, Non-overlapping magisteria, P. Z. Myers, Phillip Johnson, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, Robert Pennock, Stephen Jay Gould, The Blind Watchmaker, University of Kentucky}

David Berlinski Pays Tribute to Phillip Johnson

_{Andrew McDiarmid

November 27, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid reads from David Berlinski’s new book Human Nature. The excerpt is a tribute to Phillip Johnson and his 1991 book Darwin on Trial. Berlinski calls the work a “Majestic Ascent.” Johnson, he writes, not only brought evolution into question logically and scientifically; he brought the case where it belongs, before “the considered reflection of the human race.” Berlinski himself reflects on various empty attempts to build a scientific theory on prior commitments to materialism. “Darwin’s theories,” he says, “are correspondingly less important for what they explain, which is very little, and more important for what they deny, which is roughly the plain evidence of our senses.”

Video still from Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson

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Author
David Gelernter

Date
October 2, 2019

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
__edited, biological information. What it takes to generate information, Cambrian Explosion, computer, Darwinism, David Gelernter, Dissent from Darwinism, DNA, Evolution, evolutionary theory, molecular biology, Neo-Darwinism, population genetics, Proteins, scientific beauty, Species, waiting times}

David Gelernter, Stephen Meyer, David Berlinski Challenge Darwinism, Pt. 1

_{David Gelernter

October 2, 2019

Evolution}

Part one of an uncommon trio of experts speaking on the mathematical challenges to Darwinian evolution. Stephen Meyer and David Berlinski join David Gelernter with Peter Robinson moderating. Read More ›