Tag: common descent
Fossil Friday: Direct Fossil Ancestors of Living Species?
Willi Hennig, the founder of phylogenetic systematics (cladistics), recognized that finding and demonstrating direct ancestors would be a very hard task.
Fossil Friday: The Big Bang of Tertiary Birds and a Phylogenetic Mess
There was an abrupt origin, a burst of biological creativity, which is best explained by an infusion of new information from an intelligent agent.
Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Insectivore Mammals
We can conclude that Eulipotyphla appeared abruptly in the Paleocene about 66-61.7 million years ago.
Fossil Friday: Scansoriopterygidae, Bizarre Bird-Like Dinosaurs, Illustrate Darwinist Trickery
Common descent is assumed and the evidence interpreted accordingly, rather than common descent being deduced from the evidence.
Fossil Friday: The Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny, and Why I’ve Become More Skeptical of Common Descent
True skeptics should question everything, and not just everything apart from Darwinism and materialism.