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Personally, I am quite sympathetic to the dissenting view of my paleontologist colleague Simon Conway Morris.

The math of population genetics precludes a Darwinian origin of these new genes in such a short time.

The theory has been made immune to empirical falsification because it is simply assumed to be true by default as the only viable option for materialists.

In a previous series at Evolution News (Bechly 2022a, 2022b, 2022c), I answered the diatribe by YouTuber "Professor Dave" directed against our Discovery Institute colleague, geologist Dr. Casey Luskin. The popular YouTuber, whose real name is...

The dominant pattern in the fossil record is explosions of new biological forms. The Cambrian explosion is a prime example.

Why would Eldredge and Gould propose such a model? Because they knew the data showed that potential transitional fossils are an extreme rarity.

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 06:05 UTC "We are survival machines-robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes." This is Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene. His selfish gene theory, he remarked in 1989, "has become textbook orthodoxy," because it is merely "a logical outgrowth of orthodox Neo-Darwinism, but expressed as a novel image." The image is misleading. Dawkins doesnt literally believe that genes are selfish entities with a will to replicate themselves. If they...