Titans 40 Therizinosaurs & More Ken Ham vision problems

Evolution Hour 322 A heads up on a plan to do a source analysis on the Sternberg list of 800 junk DNA papers waved at Dan Stern Cardinale in his debate with Luskin. I’ll be slipping those in as the Part 2s now and then, to see if they buttress the claims Luskin made about them. Back to dinos, though, therizinosaurs are another group S&T are waffly on regarding their kind, and declare how they “are hard to classify because of their unique appendages.” Drawing on Zanno’s 2009 https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... & 2011 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas... papers, S&T say “carnivory was more the exception than the rule.” If you look, though, it’s about branches of coelurosaurs, especially the bunch leading into birds (which detail S&T made no mention of). And both papers had extensive phylogenies, which may be compared to the nothing offered by the creationists. Part 2 On April 4 AiG tweeted to an old 2022 Ken Ham squib on eye evolution https://answersingenesis.org/human-bo..., which was riffing off a secondary summary of eye evolution, Belan 2022 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/eye-... which itself drew on mainly older stuff, Gehring 2005 https://doc.rero.ch/record/303235/fil... and Fernald 2006 https://www.researchgate.net/publicat.... So let’s bring things more up to date. Schwab 2018 https://www.nature.com/articles/eye20... reviewed the technical literature at much greater length. Lots had been filled in, which naturally put very deep roots as still unclear (owing to how far back the processes began), such as the “murky” origins of rhodopsin from a G-protein coupled receptor—though work Schwab didn’t cite. Wolf 2015 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art... was helping to clarify that. And Chen 2021 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... later helped clarify how “a small family of protein kinases can recognize and be activated by hundreds of different GPCRs.” Additional work in that period would include Yoshida 2014 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep0... on Pax-6 variants in cephalopod eye evolution. Ham’s mantra, that somehow “new information” needed to be added to make the variety of eyes we have, isn’t borne out by the details, and confirmed by Ham never saying what this “information” would consist of. Thanks to all your help, I’m doing my part on the science defense front, having written THE coverage of how antievolutionists ignore the reptile-mammal transition macroevolution evidence https://www.amazon.com/dp/1540736296/... which paleontologist Christine Janis described in her Amazon review as “an incredible tour de force” And now the new https://www.amazon.com/Rocks-Were-The... with Jackson Wheat puts the Source Methods scalpel to use carving YEC to pieces. Volume 2 is in the works, with even more neat stuff not included in Vol 1. Source Methods works as a debate approach too. For example, catch my 2018 debate with Kent Hovind    • Is Young Earth Creationism True? Kent Hovi...   Draw freely on all the work assembled at TIP “Troubles in Paradise: The Methodology of Creationism” www.tortucan.wordpress.com share the pdfs freely. You can become an “Evolution Hour” Patron   / downardtip   The first book https://www.amazon.com/Paralogs-Phile... And the brand new sequel https://www.amazon.com/Paralogs-Phile... There will be more to come.