Tag: Simon Conway Morris
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.
Attempts to Reconcile Evolutionary Theory with Christianity Lead to Intractable Tensions
The fundamental premise of evolutionary theory is that humans are the product of an undirected process that did not have us in mind.
Notre Dame Hosts a Conference on Creation, Including Intelligent Design
The organizers accepted my abstract for a talk about “The Return of Teleology to the Natural Sciences.”
Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid
Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill.
Fossil Friday: A Fossil Butterfly Lookalike
An intelligent design paradigm can easily accommodate convergences as a natural consequence of a designer reusing the same ideas in different constructions.