Advocacy against Materialism and Neo-Darwinism: 2024 (part 2)

 

 

Article "Fossil Friday: Time Wanderers Debunk Popular Scenario of Mammalian Evolution" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (July 5, 2024) about out-of-place fossils among the mammal-like reptiles.

Photo: Holotype of Chronoperates paradoxus, University of Alberta, fair use
Photo: Holotype of Chronoperates paradoxus, University of Alberta, fair use

Photo credit: Pikaia, Bruce Martin, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credit: Pikaia, Bruce Martin, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

 

Article "Fossil Friday: Cambrian Fossils Turned Upside Down Yet Again" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (July 12, 2024) about the reinterpretation of the iconic fossil Pikaia.


 

Article "Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (July 19, 2024) about convergence and accelerated evolution in sabre-toothed animals.

Photo credit: Wilfredor, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credit: Wilfredor, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

If you want to suffer through yet another incompetent and vulgar response by Bill Needle you can read “A Convergence of Idiocy!” at his Marmotism blog (July 31, 2024).

Photo credit: Hallucigenia, Han Zeng, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credit: Hallucigenia, Han Zeng, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

 

Article "Fossil Friday: Cambrian Explosion Bingo Continues" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (July 26, 2024) about another arbitrary just-so-story to explain the Big Bang of life.


 

 

Article "Fossil Friday: Controversial Gradualism in Tyrannosaurids" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (August 2, 2024) about more empirical problems for Darwinian gradualism.

Photo credit: Daspletosaurus, Evolutionnumber9, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credit: Daspletosaurus, Evolutionnumber9, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Photo credit: RECOLNAT (ANR-AA-INBS) - Gaëlle Doitteau, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Photo credit: RECOLNAT (ANR-AA-INBS) - Gaëlle Doitteau, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

 

Article "Fossil Friday: The Carboniferous Explosion of Winged Insects" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (August 9, 2024) about my very favorite subject and field of expertise: the fossil record of insects.


 

 

 

Article "Fossil Friday: Human Nature of Neanderthals Supported Again" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (August 16, 2024) about our ancient fellow humans from the Ice Age.

Photo credit: Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credit: Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Photo: Chilesaurus diegosarezi, by ケラトプスユウタ, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Chilesaurus diegosarezi, by ケラトプスユウタ, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

 

Article "Fossil Friday: The Mystery of the Frankenstein Dinosaur" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (August 23, 2024) about an enigmatic dinosaur and conflicting views on dinosaur relationships.


 

Article "Fossil Friday: The Sudden Appearance of Crocs in the Triassic Fossil Record" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (August 30, 2024) about the abrupt origin of the crocodile lineage.

Photo credit: Postosuchus, Dallas Krentzel, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credit: Postosuchus, Dallas Krentzel, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Photo credit: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credit: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

 

 

Article "Fossil Friday: Sea Scorpions Defy Darwinian Expectations" at Discovery Institute's site Evolution News (September 6, 2024) shows that evolutionary biology is largely a scam.


Speaking engagements and other scheduled events for 2024:

  • February 5: recording of podcast “How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs…Or Not” or ID the Future with Andrew McDiarmid.
  • March 14: recording of podcast “A Paleontologist's View of Darwinism and Intelligent Design” for Come Reason! with Lenny Esposito.
  • April 17: recording of podcast “Unraveling the Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny” for ID the Future with Andrew McDiarmid.
  • May 26-30: Presentation on May 29 about “Four Challenges to the Causal Adequacy of Neo-Darwinism” at a private interdisciplinary conference titled Modern Alchemy in Florence / Italy (43 participants).
  • August 4-7: Two lectures on August 6 about “Fossil Explosions in the History of Life” and “The Waiting Times Problem and Other Challenges to Neo-Darwinism” for the summer colloquium Cosmos & Creator: Reason, Faith and the Academic Disciplines (Jul. 31 - Aug. 17, 2024) in Cambridge / UK (55 people in the audience).
  • August 21: Lecture about “Explosions in the History of Life” for the twentieth annual Discovery Society Insiders Briefing God & Science in Cambridge (Aug. 17-23) in Cambridge / UK.
  • October 25-28: Lecture on October 26 about “Scientific Challenges to Neo-Darwinism” at the Centro Italiano Intelligent Design / CIID conference Cosmos, Life, Intelligence, Information in Venice / Italy (about 60 participants).