Tag: molecular clock
Was Kimberella a Precambrian Mollusk?
If identified as an animal, it would “predate the Cambrian explosion of bilaterian animal phyla as a kind of ‘advance guard.’”
Response to Swamidass: Rats, Mice, and Discrepant Molecular Clocks
Molecular clocks are a relatively simple concept.
Response to Swamidass: Confusion in a Review of Theistic Evolution
It’s worth engaging him, since Swamidass is the relatively rare critic of ID who works at tackling arguments for design in a substantive fashion.
Rafting Stormy Waters: When Biogeography Contradicts Common Ancestry
The orderly pattern of biogeographic distribution of plants and animals was one of the lines of evidence that Charles Darwin mentioned in support of his theory.