Selectionism: An Empty Idea
November 7, 2020
If anything could be due to any selection pressure up, down or sideways, then nothing might be due to selective pressure.
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How to Do Biology Without Darwin
October 25, 2020
A paper and press release compare fish and humans, but avoid falling into the Darwin just-so-story habit.
Dramatic Climate Change Occurred Before Cities
October 21, 2020
Fossils show remaining bones of aquatic mammals poking out of the desert sands of Egypt.
Darwin’s Flawed Atoll Theory Still Taught
October 13, 2020
Rice University says Darwin’s theory of the slow buildup of coral atolls is “fatally flawed.” Study: Darwin’s theory about coral reef atolls is fatally flawed (Rice University). Darwin investigated other questions than evolution, such as the nature of barnacles, pigeons and things, but they all attempted to promote views of long ages and the gradual […]
Fossil Marine Reptile Buried with Last Meal Intact
August 22, 2020
Here is another example of an ichthyosaur that was buried rapidly. This one didn't have time to digest its lunch.
Trilobite Eyes Were Already Modern
August 13, 2020
Some trilobites had compound eyes similar to modern crustaceans and insects. They just popped into existence without ancestors.
‘Impossible’ Hybrid Suggests Non-Darwinian Change
July 28, 2020
Animals may be more capable of sharing genetic information than coming up with it de novo.
For Better Science Writing, Cross Out Evolution-speak
July 27, 2020
Like strict teachers, editors should cross out useless evolutionary speculations from science papers.
Blood Cells Act as Multi-Purpose Truckers
July 10, 2020
Blood Cells: Oxygen-Carrying Trucks That Have a Host of Functions New Research Shows How the Body Shows Striking Evidence of Intelligent Design by Jerry Bergman, PhD Introduction One of my masters theses for medical school researched tumor markers.[1] Tumor markers are body indications of a disease state such as cancer. An example is substances […]
Did Fish Evolve Hands?
June 30, 2020
Wishful thinking from a one-track mind leads evolutionists to draw more imagination than demonstration in the latest tetrapod-ancestor fossil.
Diatoms Defy the Evolutionary Endosymbiosis Theory
June 29, 2020
Here's why endosymbiosis cannot explain diatoms – or anything else.
Another Big Science Fail Over Pollution
June 5, 2020
Is plastic polluting the world's oceans? Yes, but not nearly as much as hundreds of studies had claimed. Measure, don't assume!
Extinctions: A Playground for Darwin Storytellers
May 28, 2020
The fossils show that many species are gone from our planet. But explaining how they went extinct depends on one's worldview beliefs.
Previous Tetrapod Ancestors Fell Flat, Too
May 12, 2020
Fame and Fortune (cont.): What constitutes a sister taxon to tetrapods? By Margaret Helder, PhD (continued from yesterday) Ever since Prof. Edward Drinker Cope identified a lobe finned fish called Eusthenopteron from Miguasha in Quebec, as a promising ancestor of four footed animals, the question arose as to what features in a fish would […]
Latest Tetrapod Ancestor Can’t Stand Up
May 11, 2020
In a two-part entry, Dr Margaret Helder examines the latest candidate fossil for ancestor to all land vertebrates.