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04/06/06
Tiktaalik: Missing Link or New Icon?
The journal Nature is making news by publishing a report today that a group of researchers claim to have uncovered the skeleton of a 375-million-year-old fish in the Canadian Arctic that they believe is a missing link in the evolution of some fishes to becoming land walking vertebrates. The fish has been named Tiktaalik roseae, meaning "large shallow water fish."
According to a Discovery Institute Press Release a number of these fishes—Ichthyostega, Elpistostege, Panderichthys—have been hailed in the past as the “missing link.” Maybe one is a missing link; maybe none are. What remains unexplained is the dearth of so-called "missing" links. The Darwinian process, if it indeed produced all of the animal forms around us, should have produced untold millions of transitional forms.
Creation-Evolution Headlines provides a list of newslinks on this find and then analyzes what was actually reported in the scientific article in Nature.
Latest Fossil Find "No Threat" To Theory of Intelligent Design
"This recent fossil find poses no threat to intelligent design." So says Discovery Institute senior fellow and leading intelligent design theorist Dr. William Dembski, adding...
"Intelligent design does not so much challenge whether evolution occurred but how it occurred. In particular, it questions whether purposeless material processes - as opposed to intelligence - can create biological complexity and diversity."
Transcript of the Dr. Doom Speech Now Available
In a presentation at the 109th meeting of the Texas Academy of Science March 2-4, a few hundred members rose to their feet and gave a standing ovation to a speech by Dr. Eric Pianka that enthusiastically advocated the elimination of 90 percent of Earth's population by airborne Ebola.
Although published reports claim attempts were made to squelch any recordings of "Dr. Doom's" speech (as Pianka is referred to these days), the Pearcy Report today released a partial transcript of the talk based on an audio recording from the event.
The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise has also release a transcript of a similar speech by Pianka delivered on March 31 at St. Andrew's University.
Behe Responds to Article in Science
Three researchers, Jamie Bridgham, Sean Carroll and Joe Thornton claim to have shown how an irreducibly complex system, such as that described by Michael Behe, might have arisen as the result of gene duplication and a few point mutational changes in the latest issue of Science magazine.
“This continues the venerable Darwinian tradition of making grandiose claims based on piddling results,” said biochemist Michael Behe, who developed the theory of irreducible complexity in his best-selling book Darwin’s Black Box.
Read more in this Discovery Institue Press Release and expect to see articles claiming victory for Darwinism in all the major news sources.
For more details you can also read a longer response by Michael Behe "The Lamest Attempt Yet to Answer the Challenge Irreducible Complexity Poses for Darwinian Evolution" and "Stephen Meyer Responds to Research on Irreducible Complexity".
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