Tag: Nick Matzke
The Myth of Precambrian Sponges
Evolutionists would expect to find sponges as the earliest animals in the fossil record.
Alleged Refutation of the Cambrian Explosion Confirms Abruptness, Vindicates Meyer
The top-down pattern of appearance of animal phyla during the Cambrian explosion represents major conflicting evidence for Darwinian evolution.
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…”
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.
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.
