Tag: Cambrian Explosion
A Listener’s Guide to the Meyer-Marshall Radio Debate: Focus on the Origin of Information Question
With respect to the critical question of the origin of the information necessary to build new forms of animal life, a strictly materialistic evolutionary approach has little left to offer.
In Radio Debate, Darwin’s Doubt Critic Charles Marshall Acknowledges Meyer’s Fossil Treatment Is “Good Scholarship”
It was an excellent debate, with both participants offering important insights and good arguments, though in my opinion Meyer unquestionably had the better of it.
Unintended Consequences: How Hostile Responses to Darwin’s Doubt Turned a Thoughtful Reader Against Darwinian Evolution
A bumper sticker I’ve seen around in Seattle protests the War on Terror, warning that “We’re making enemies faster than we can kill them…”
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.