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Pliohippus Pernix
Image: Pliohippus Pernix, by Claire H. from New York City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Khan Academy “Evidence for Evolution” Video Pushes the Fake Fossil Horses Series

The video draws arrows from one species of fossil horses to the next and says “there is a constant change and we can see it directly through the fossil record.” Read More ›
Nuclear Pore Complex
Image: Nuclear pores in the nuclear envelope, by Blausen.com staff (2014). "Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014". WikiJournal of Medicine 1 (2). DOI:10.15347/wjm/2014.010. ISSN 2002-4436., CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Nuclear Pore Complex Comes into Focus

Super-resolution microscopy is letting us peer even closer into the cell’s secrets, revealing awesome wonders. Read More ›
circular
Photo credit: Matheo JBT via Unsplash.

Khan Academy Video, “Evidence for Evolution,” Gives Circular Arguments for Common Ancestry

If you define homology as resulting from common ancestry, you can’t then turn around and use that as an argument for common ancestry. Read More ›
embryo of pallid sturgeon
Photo: embryo of pallid sturgeon, by USFWS Mountain-Prairie via Flickr (cropped).

“Evidence for Evolution”? Khan Academy Pushes Haeckel’s Phony Embryo Drawings

I’ve watched many Khan Academy videos over the years — sometimes just for fun, and sometimes to advise teachers on whether they are good tools to use. Read More ›
featherwing beetle
Photo: A featherwing beetle (shown at left) is comparable in size to a large amoeba (right), by SKOLKOVO INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, via EurekAlert! (no usage restrictions).

New Mode of Flight Found in Tiny Beetle

A millimeter-sized beetle flies efficiently with feathery wings and a beat mode not seen before. Did it evolve by natural selection? Read More ›
chromosomes
common descent
Photo: Midge chromosomes, by Dr. Josef Reischig [CC BY-SA 3.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

DNA Packing: One of the Supreme Wonders of Nature

The cell packs two meters of DNA into a 10-micron nucleus. How? The machinery is as intelligently designed as the genome itself. Read More ›
Cyanobacteria
Photo: Prochlorococcus, which lives in the ocean, may be the most abundant species of life on earth, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Primitive”? Lowly Cyanobacteria Boast Superpowers

Prochlorococcus, which lives in the ocean, may be the most abundant species of life on earth. It produces about 20 percent of the oxygen we breathe. Read More ›
Electric DNA
DNA
Image credit: Nogas1974 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Watch: Kid Explains Intelligent Design to His Dad

The lucidity of the younger individual’s grasp of ID is quite something. Tor could probably help out in tutoring some adult ID critics I can think of. Read More ›
iron
Photo: Iron, via Wikimedia Commons.

No Iron, No Life: Intelligent Design in Iron Availability

As an exercise, count the number of lucky breaks that had to occur for the evolutionary story to work. Read More ›
retina
Photo: Human retina, by rdowns via Pixabay.

Why Junk Design Arguments Are Junk Science

Examples of so-called “convergent” evolution are ubiquitous, including the camera eye design shared by the squid and human. Read More ›

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