The principal semiconductors are silicon and germanium; silicon’s abundance in the Earth’s crust is second only to oxygen. Source Read More Evolution News
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Not Enough Evidence: Casey Luskin on Recent Homo naledi Claims
They claim that the small-brained species had high intelligence and engaged in activities like burying their dead, using fire, and engaging in cave wall art. Source Read More Evolution News
How NOT to Argue Against Irreducible Complexity
This roundworm produces non-flagellated sperm, though these sperm cells are amoeboid, meaning that they move by extending and retracting protrusions. Source Read More Evolution News
How Media Helped to Corrupt Science
Traditional popular media, science media, and science journalists have all helped create a situation where we can’t afford to Trust the Science! Source Read More Evolution News
A “Prepared Mind” for Alfred Russel Wallace
Although Wallace receded into the deep recesses of my memory, I had what Pasteur called “the prepared mind.” Source Read More Evolution News
Fossil Friday: A Popular Just-So Story on the Origin of Bird Flight Bites the Dust
There is a long-running about whether birds first took off by running and flapping from the ground up, or whether they jumped as gliders from the tree down. Source Read…
Visitor’s Guide: At Nation’s Natural History Museum, Misinformation on Human Origins, and More
Mammalian fossil exhibits at the Smithsonian claim that humans and all mammals descended from the “first mammal,” perhaps Morganucodon. Source Read More Evolution News
Plant Evolution: All Gaps and Miracles
A major study looks for evolution, but finds huge disparities, stasis, gaps, periodic explosions, and miracles of emergence held together with imagination. Source Read More Evolution News
Are Humans Progressing Toward Evolutionary Perfection?
Men are not about to become like gods. “I’m a strong believer in original sin,” quips David Berlinski. Source Read More Evolution News
Turek: “Science Doesn’t Say Anything; Scientists Do”
When someone tells you to “Follow the science,” there’s a good chance you’re being hustled. You should ask “Which science?” Source Read More Evolution News