Tag: paleontology
Fossil Friday: The Carboniferous Explosion of Winged Insects
This represents just one of the many discontinuities in the history of life that strongly contradict the predictions from a neo-Darwinian theory of evolution.
Fossil Friday: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Once Again
This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute.
Fossil Friday: Did Giant Dinosaurs Swim Across Oceans?
More rafting animals! Who cares about probability or empirical evidence, when a simple just-so-story can do the job?
Fossil Friday: Three Modern Scientific Challenges to the Causal Adequacy of Darwinian Explanations
As a consequence of the collapsing tree problem, I suggest abandoning evolutionary classifications and return to a pre-Darwinian Linnaean classification.
Fossil Friday: Discontinuities in the Fossil Record — A Problem for Neo-Darwinism
The fossil record generally documents a discontinuous history of life with sudden appearances of new body plans and new forms of life in saltational events.