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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons.

Notes on the Mysterious Origin of Hippos

The family Hippopotamidae appears abruptly in the fossil record — like all the other groups that I have so far investigated in detail. Read More ›
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Photo: Trisauropodiscus and bird tracks, Abrahams et al., CC-BY-4.0.

Fossil Friday: Fossil Bird Tracks Expand the Temporal Paradox

The origin of birds involves a severe problem for Darwinists, which paleo-ornithologist Alan Feduccia has called a temporal paradox. Read More ›
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Photo: Lee Cronin, via YouTube (screenshot).

An Outstanding Year for Intelligent Design 

I saw on multiple occasions the impact the truth about design can make in individual lives. Recently at U.C. Berkeley, I spoke about the evidence for a Creator. Read More ›
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Image credit: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Were Neanderthals and Humans the Same Species?

The evidence does not demonstrate that humans evolved from some kind of humanlike yet intellectually primitive precursor.  Read More ›
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Photo credit: Damon Carr via Unsplash.

The Human Mind Has No History

There is no good reason to assume that human intelligence evolved from mud to mind via a long slow history. Read More ›
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Photo: Casey Luskin and Brian Miller at the University of Kenya, courtesy of Casey Luskin.

Luskin and Miller on the State of ID in Africa

The response was inspiring. At the University of Eldoret in Kenya, Luskin and Miller were greeted with no less than a band and a red carpet! Read More ›
Brian Miller in Africa
All photos courtesy of Casey Luskin.

Discovery Institute Speakers Get a Hearty Reception in Africa

At the University of Eldoret, in Kenya, we were greeted with — no joke — a band and a red carpet. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Professor Larry Barham, University of Liverpool, via EurekAlert!

Evidence of Woodworking Extends High Human Intelligence Far Back into the Mid-Pleistocene

This rare find shows that some of the very human-like forms in the fossil record were actually much smarter than we thought. Read More ›
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Photo: <I>Ashaninkacebus</I> molar, after Fig. S4 Marivaux et al. 2023, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Did Monkeys Raft Four Times Across the Atlantic?

Time is not the hero of the plot when actual improbabilities and probabilistic resources are ignored or glossed over with fancy storytelling. Read More ›
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Photo credit: David Coppedge.

In Explanations Reported by Mainstream Science, Design Inference Continues to Factor

Speaking of regularly spaced circles, I observed something similar in southern Utah from a helicopter in 2019 (see the photo at the top). Read More ›

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