New technologies show Panderichthys and Tiktaalik on the way to living on land

In a recent paper in Nature, Catherine A. Boisvert, Elga Mark-Kurik, and Per E. Ahlberg show how a prehistoric fish, Panderichthys who lived 385 million years ago, had bone structure that resembles animal digits instead of typical fin architecture. It appears that there is some debate among paleontologists as to the when “fingers” first arose [...]

Casey Luskin is wristless

On July 14, 2008, Casey Luskin asks: Tiktaalik roseae: Where’s the Wrist? In this post, Luskin essentially is saying that the recent transitional fossil of Tiktaalik does not have anything resembling a wrist. The trained scientists who published the paper (Neil H. Shubin, Edward B. Daeschler and Farish A. Jenkins, Jr), the scientists that peer-reviewed their work, [...]

What does the evidence say to the Discovery Institute?

The subject of today’s post is again about the denial of evidence for evolution by ID proponents. In the June 9th post, entitled: “Are Neo-Darwinists barking up the wrong tree?“, Casey Luskin and Logan Gage describes how some theists, including Stan Guthrie, are now embracing common ancestry. I applaud these people. However, the authors don’t [...]