Category: Evolution
The Case of the Mysterious Hoatzin: Biogeography Fails Neo-Darwinism Again
What’s the evidence that primates, rodents, and lizards crossed oceans on rafts?
Why the “Onion Test” Fails as an Argument for “Junk DNA”
The so-called onion test, or indeed the “C-value enigma,” is predicated on unsupportable assumptions about the physiological effects of — and/or requirements for — larger genomes, many of which are contradicted by the scientific evidence.
We Get Poor-Mouthed by the National Center for Science Education
To “poor-mouth” means using claims of poverty to try to manipulate other people.
“More Philosophical than Scientific”: Parsing a Rationalization
If you want to show that evolution does not violate the second law, you cannot simply say, sure, evolution is astronomically improbable, but the Earth is an open system, so there is no problem.
Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Biogeographical Distribution
When the biogeographical data does not fit with the predictions and expectations of common descent, one always has “oceanic dispersal” at the ready to serve as an ad hoc fudge factor — including the rather remarkable claim that monkeys made it across the Atlantic from Africa to South America!