Advocacy against Materialism and Neo-Darwinism: 2023 (part 2)

Article "On the BBC, a New Openness to Teleology in Biology?" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (August 2, 2023) about a great review by Richard Buggs on a very surprising new openness in BBC nature documentaries to non-Darwinian processes and teleology in the history of life.

 

Article "Fossil Friday: Fossil Tunicate Confirms Cambrian Explosion" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (August 4, 2023).

 

Photo: Megasiphon thylakos holotype, after Fig. 2 in Nanglu et al. 2023, fair use
Photo: Megasiphon thylakos holotype, after Fig. 2 in Nanglu et al. 2023, fair use

Photo: Trilobite Redlichia, Cambrian of China, Dlloyd via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: Trilobite Redlichia, Cambrian of China, Dlloyd via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Article "Fossil Friday: Did the Cambrian Explosion Really Happen?" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (August 11, 2023) about bad science used by Darwinists to get rid of the inconvenient Big Bang of life in the Cambrian Explosion.


 

Article "Fossil Friday: Imagining Eggs in the Famous Archaeopteryx Fossils" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (August 18, 2023) about a case of real junk science.

Photo: Archaeopteryx Berlin specimen, M Jorge Guimaraes via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: Archaeopteryx Berlin specimen, M Jorge Guimaraes via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

On August 9 Matt Fradd recorded a one hour interview with me for his highly popular Catholic YouTube channel and podcast Pints with Aquinas. Currently the full video is only available for paying supporters at Locals, but two short clips have been publicly released on YouTube.


Photo: Ashaninkacebus molar, after Fig. S4 Marivaux et al. 2023, fair use
Photo: Ashaninkacebus molar, after Fig. S4 Marivaux et al. 2023, fair use

Article "Fossil Friday: Did Monkeys Raft Four Times Across the Atlantic?" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (August 25, 2023) shows how the evolutionary narrative of seafaring monkeys is getting even more ridiculous.


 

Article "Fossil Friday: Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (September 1, 2023).

Photo: Charnia masoni, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Charnia masoni, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Photo: Edaphosaurus pogonias, by Jonathan Chen, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Edaphosaurus pogonias, by Jonathan Chen, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

 

Article "Fossil Friday: Study Debunks Textbook Wisdom on the Evolution of Mammalian Gait" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (September 8, 2023).


 

Article "Fossil Friday: Venetoraptor Is Not the Archaeopteryx of Pterosaurs" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (September 15, 2023).

Image: Venetoraptor gassenae, modified from Müller et al. 2023 fig. 1, fair use
Image: Venetoraptor gassenae, modified from Müller et al. 2023 fig. 1, fair use

Photo credit: Umberto Salvagnin from Italy, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credit: Umberto Salvagnin from Italy, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

 

Article "Chameleon Vision — A Unique Marvel of Design" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (September 20, 2023).


Speaking engagements and other scheduled events for 2023:

  • March 12, 2023 (via Zoom): Keynote speech “Scientific Evidence against Neodarwinism and for Intelligent Design” and Q&A for the “International Conference on Islam, Science and Atheism” in Lahore, Pakistan organized by IDP (98 live and 55 online participants).
  • June 1-3, 2023 (via Zoom): Two invited lectures about “The Waiting Time Problem and a New Argument against Neo-Darwinism” (Thursday June 1, 12:30) and “Discontinuities in the Fossil Record: A Problem for Neo-Darwinism” (Friday June 2, 12:45) for the Catholic conference Faith and Science in the Age of Secularisation in Krakow, Poland. I will also present my personal testimony (June 1, 18:30) and participate at the Q&A panel session (June 3, 13:45). See this article about the conference at Evolution News.
  • June 9-10, 2023 (via Zoom): Two invited lectures about “Discontinuities in the Fossil Record as Evidence against Neo-Darwinism and for Intelligent Design” (Friday evening) and “Evidence from Modern Physics against Materialism and for a Universal Mind” (Saturday morning) at the cultural week Regoliamoci! in Sardinia (Italy) organized by CIID. Cancelled by the education department because of bias against ID!
  • June 29 (via Zoom): Online Q&A for the Summer Seminars of Discovery Institute.
  • August 9 (via Zoom): Recording of an interview by Matt Fradd for his YouTube channel and podcast Pints with Aquinas.