Science Is Constantly Evolving
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This week in Fossil Friday, I have a specimen from a species that is part of an interesting story, although sadly my photo quality is rather poor. The fragments from which this specimen was reconstructed were found in Italy, and I think that, with all the hard work I did obscuring the…
The chorus of support for the teaching of evolution continues, with a statement from the Rabbinical Assembly, adopted in 2006. Describing "intelligent design" as not having "the characteristics of a legitimate scientific theory" and warning that the teaching of "intelligent design" in the…
Steven Dutch concludes his review of James L. Powell’s Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences (2015), which began with part 1 and continued in part 2 and part 3. Conclusions I only found one significant technical error in the book. Powell erroneously states…
Steven Dutch continues his review of James L. Powell’s Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences (2015), which began with part 1 and continued in part 2. Meteor impact The acceptance of metor impacts as a major player in geologic history is actually a tale of…
Perhaps I begin to sound like a broken phonograph, but I find that chapter 28—“Scientists Condemn Evolution”—of William A. Williams’s The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved (1925) is the gift that keeps on giving. (The phrase, I find, was originally a marketing slogan for a…
Steven Dutch continues his review of James L. Powell’s Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences (2015), which began with part 1. Radiometric dating In the case of geologic dating, geologists crashed headlong into Lord Kelvin, the leading physicist of the…
James L. Powell’s Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences (2015) is an excellent book that reviews four geoscience revolutions: accurate geologic dating techniques, the theory of plate tectonics, the discovery of an era-ending meteor impact, and the advent of anthropogenic climate change…
Zack Kopplin Writing in The Daily Beast (December 28, 2015), Zack Kopplin reviews the last decade of antievolution strategies — with the assistance of a former employee of the Discovery Institute, the de facto institutional home of "intelligent design" creationism. The Discovery…
This, this is Diplocaulus A lepospondyl amphibian Praise, praise, praise to Ron Pine: He won himself the blue ribbon. Unfortunately, the commenting system here broke over the weekend. (It is being fixed now.) Dan Phelps was the first person to e-mail the correct answer to the NCSE…