A Look at Feathered Dinosaur Baraminology Pt 2

In part one, we looked at the first dataset used in McLain et al’s attempt to argue that dinosaurs had … More

A Look at Feathered Dinosaur Baraminology Pt 1

I’ve been poking around in the McLain et al 2018 paper for a while now, particularly after having Dr. McLain … More

Wolves and Thylacines

A very interesting paper has come out in Communications Biology and been reported on in a Phys.org article regarding the similarity between wolves and thylacines (better known as Tasmanian tigers). In the new paper, the authors looked at skull similarities between wolves and thylacine pups. The pups were remarkably similar, despite being essentially unrelated evolutionarily. Let’s have a look at this article, then get into some of the implications for fossil phylogenetics.

An Exercise in Scientism: A Response to BioLogos

Anyone who has read me for very long knows that we have been very critical of BioLogos, a group of professing Christians who attempt to harmonize evolution with the Bible. It’s an impossible task, but BioLogos works very hard at questioning nothing the mainstream narrative says and simply accepting whatever evolutionists say and putting a Christian veneer on it. This has led them to absolutely dismantle Christian theology in the process, at one point posting an article claiming Jesus could make mistakes. While that article has been memory holed, BioLogos tendency to accept anything that mainstream science says has remained. They demonstrated this recently in an article trying to teach people how to spot bad science. In the process, they wandered into borderline scientism. Let’s take a look.