Tag: Cambrian Explosion
Darwin Defenders Love Donald Prothero’s Ranting Review of Darwin’s Doubt
We thought it was important to repost this excellent response by Casey Luskin, which serves as a decisive rebuttal to Dr. Prothero’s claims.
Does the “Great Unconformity” Explain the Missing Cambrian Ancestors?
An unconformity is an erosional surface representing a gap in the geological record, where time is missing.
Does Natural Selection Leave “Detectable Statistical Evidence in the Genome”?
In Chapter 11 of Darwin’s Doubt, Stephen Meyer responds extensively to critics who have claimed that the evolution of new genes is well understood.
Darwin Defenders Love Donald Prothero’s Ranting Review of Darwin’s Doubt
I wonder who among the Internet’s Darwin brigade will have a go at Stephen Meyer’s book next. Good luck to them.
How "Sudden" Was the Cambrian Explosion? Nick Matzke Misreads Stephen Meyer and the Paleontological Literature; New Yorker Recycles Misrepresentation
Ironically, the rarity of genes and proteins in sequence space means that even thirty million years is not nearly enough time for the neo-Darwinian mechanism to generate a new gene or protein, much less a new animal form.