Category: Evolution
Fossil Friday: New Study Confirms Discontinuities in the History of Plants
I have elaborated on the sudden appearance of flowering plants in the Lower Cretaceous, which was called an “abominable mystery” by Charles Darwin.
The Incredible Design of Muscles
At the very least, on the supposition of intelligent design, the existence of muscles is not particularly surprising.
Why Evolutionary Biologists Are “Fatigued” by Darwin
Says Stephen Meyer, “The neo-Darwinian math is itself showing that the neo-Darwinian mechanism cannot build complex adaptations.”
Paper Digest: A Robot Is Built Using Cockroach Biomimicry
The understanding of what it takes to build complex systems sheds light on the causal hurdles that would be necessary for evolutionary processes to overcome.
Paper Digest: Biomimicry Uses the Design of Biological Organisms to Improve Human Technology
Throughout this paper, Stuart Burgess emphasizes the supremacy of natural systems over human-engineered ones.