Tag: Paleogene
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.
Chinks in the Chicxulub Story
If an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs as believed by the scientific consensus, its effects on evolution seem strained and inconsistent.
Fossil Friday: Did Monkeys Raft Four Times Across the Atlantic?
Time is not the hero of the plot when actual improbabilities and probabilistic resources are ignored or glossed over with fancy storytelling.
Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Treeshrews (Scandentia) and Colugos (Dermoptera)
Even as a paleontologist I admit that calling this a real scientific discipline seems like an insult to sciences like physics or chemistry or molecular biology.
Fossil Friday: Fossil Hyraxes and the Abrupt Origin of Hyracoidea
Of course, it is only we “nitpicking” intelligent design proponents who point out such incongruences.
