Tag: Peter Ward
Plate Tectonics and Scientific Discovery
Plate tectonics is important for advanced life in multiple ways and planets with plate tectonics are very rare.
Fossil Friday: The Sudden Appearance of Crocs in the Triassic Fossil Record
The Triassic period proves to be a real carpet bombing of bursts of biological creativity.
Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Flying Reptiles in the Mid Triassic
Personally, I am quite sympathetic to the dissenting view of my paleontologist colleague Simon Conway Morris.
Fossil Friday: A Croc Smile from the Cretaceous
Ubiquitous discontinuities contradict the gradualist predictions of Darwin’s theory and thus should count as empirical falsifications of that theory.
Nature Article Admits Unanswered Origin-of-Life Questions, Exposing Broken Promises of ID Critics
In 2016, physicist Lawrence Krauss promised, “We’re coming very close” to explaining the origin of life via chemical evolutionary models.