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Here are two very interesting updates to my recent articles at
Evolution News on alleged Ediacaran animals and the Cambrian Explosion.
Dickinsonia Could Still Be a Fungus
In my article (Bechly 2018b) about the iconic and enigmatic Ediacaran organism
Dickinsonia, I showed why in spite of new biomarker evidence presented by Bobrovskiy et al. (2018),
Dickinsonia is unlikely to be an animal. Such evidence-based skepticism is of course not greatly appreciated in Darwinist circles and provoked a response.
At the
Peaceful Science forum, an anonymous atheist and self-professed blogging graduate student (evograd 2018), who obviously lacks sufficient expertise as well as some reading comprehension, criticized my article with a red herring quibble about two of six references that Bobrovskiy et al. quoted (which I actually never disputed), while ignoring all real arguments. Just read my article and compare it with his criticism to decide for yourself if it has any merit. Anyway, this