ENST: Darwinists Are Dodgeball Pros
Darwinists avoid focusing on
the issue, the whole issue,
and nothing but the issue
Take the Cambrian Explosion. What is the issue there? In this post from Evolution News, CEH editor David Coppedge tries to stay focused on the issue, but finds evolutionary paleontologists dodging and dancing this way and that, focusing on irrelevant details. And what is that main issue? Read about it here:
Dodging the Main Issue in the Cambrian Explosion
David Coppedge
Evolution News & Science Today, January 31, 2025
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Concerning the well-known and persistent problem of the Cambrian explosion, Stephen Meyer stated the issue as clearly and succinctly as possible in his best-selling book Darwin’s Doubt: “the origin of new biological information” (p. ix). He has repeated this issue in videos, interviews, debates, articles and speeches before and after 2013, the book’s publication date. Indeed, it was the central issue in Meyer’s Smithsonian paper that led to Richard Sternberg’s ouster in 2004. With scientists in the ID movement stating this issue continually for more than two decades, evolutionary biologists cannot claim ignorance of it. Yet to the present day, they dodge it. In three recent papers, we see how they talk about everything and anything but the issue: the origin of new biological information. Let’s consider these papers in order of publication.
Molecular Clock Fiddling
Last November, Philip C. J. Donoghue of the University of Bristol (mentioned by Bechly here) with three colleagues struggled to calibrate the Ediacaran and Cambrian fossil record to the “molecular clock” hypothesis (see my discussion of the molecular clock here). Getting these two data sources to fit has been a pervasive challenge along the entire evolutionary timeline. The abstract of their paper in Science Advances1 claims success, but ends with a quizzical statement….
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The Cambrian Explosion: most animal phyla appear abruptly without ancestors at the base of the Cambrian strata. Credit: canbedone (Adobe Stock)
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On hot and humid summer days, you aim to find relief from the heat (ice cream parlor, lake, swimming pool or combination thereof, etc.). Evolutionists, however, cannot find relief from the heat that the Cambrian Explosion poses to their theory. If there are no evolutionary ancestors below the Cambrian layer (Ediacarin), that worsens your problem. The lack of ancestors or transition fossils are as problematic to evolutionists and their associated ideas as other stumbling blocks (polystrate fossils, folded rock layers, biological remnants, etc.).