Tag: Colleagues’ Responses
Undead: The Myth of the 80-Million-Year Cambrian Explosion
It arises each night from its coffin. It cannot be killed by any natural means. By now, it has extremely bad breath.
Cambrian Explosion: The Case of Mollusks
The conclusions that Stephen Meyer draws in Darwin’s Doubt continue to be supported by new evidence.
The Letter that Science Refused to Publish
In Charles Marshall’s review of Darwin’s Doubt, the requirements of evolutionary doctrine trump observations about how organisms actually behave.
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.