Author: Casey Luskin
Following Up on the Debate over Science and Human Origins
Recently we received an e-mail inquiring about a couple of critical Amazon reviews of Science and Human Origins, one by Paul McBride and another by Jon F. Peters.
A Lapse in Watchfulness: New York Times Admits Neo-Darwinism Faces a “Paradigm Shift” Over “Failure” to Explain Body Plans
A colleague has pointed out to me a 2007 article in the Times that I hadn’t previously seen. The author is Smithsonian paleobiologist Douglas H. Erwin.
Current Biology Paper’s Assumptions and Methodology Dramatically Underestimate “Rates of Change” in the Cambrian Explosion
While Stephen Meyer pointed out this paper’s most fundamental flaw, there are many other deficiencies. I focus on nine total in this article.
Craig Venter in Seattle: “Life Is a DNA Software System”
Evolutionary biologists would assume that even a synthetic chromosome wasn’t designed if you don’t include a watermark evidencing its non-natural origin.
Small Shelly Fossils, and the Length of the Cambrian Explosion
Meyer does not fail to mention the small shelly fossils and he does not exaggerate the brevity of the Cambrian explosion.