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Olufemi Oluniyi
Photo: Olufemi Oluniyi, via Discovery Institute.

My Friend Olufemi Oluniyi and Darwin’s Legacy in Nigeria

Olufemi opened my eyes and heart to the importance of Nigeria to Africa, the dynamic role of Christians there, and the importance of Africa to the world. Read More ›
Darwin Comes to Africa
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John West Introduces Darwin Comes to Africa

The work explores the poisonous influence of Social Darwinism on British rule in Nigeria in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read More ›
Tiger Moth
Photo: A tiger moth, by wanderingnome, via Flickr (cropped).

The Cruel Legacy of Social Darwinism in Nigeria

Social Darwinism rests like a tiger moth on Darwinism, its mother theory; when challenged with facts, it just flits to a slightly different position. Read More ›
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When Darwin Came to Africa

Charles Darwin didn't spend much time in Africa. But his poisonous ideas certainly did. Read More ›
beaver
Photo: A beaver, depicted on the Canadian Parliament Building, by D. Gordon E. Robertson, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Beyond Evolutionary Fitness, Mammals Are Ecosystem Engineers

When animals give back more than they take, does that fit the model of selfishness that Darwinism promotes? Read More ›
Proboscidea
Photo: Deinotherium, composite from Wikimedia, Concavenator CC BY-SA 4.0, HeMei CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fossil Friday: Elephants and the Abrupt Origin of Proboscidea

Is this what Darwinism would predict? Of course not! Is it instead what intelligent design theory would predict? Indeed it is. Read More ›
Macroscelidea
Photo: <I>Namasengi mockeae</I>, mandible, Eocene, Namibia, from fig. 11 in Senut & Pickford 2021, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Fossil Elephant Shrews and the Abrupt Origin of Macroscelidea

Elephant shrews are sometimes considered to be living fossils, and their origin is believed to go back 57.5 million years in the Paleocene. Read More ›
Aardvarks
Photo: Amphiorycteropus gaudryi, Miocene Greece, modified after Koufos 2022 fig. 3, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Miocene Aardvarks and the Abrupt Origin of Tubulidentata

So much about the congruence of anatomical and genetic similarity predicted by Darwin’s theory. Read More ›
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Photo: Wandering albatross, via Wikimedia Commons.

Capabilities of Migrating Birds Deserve Awards and Recognition

New technologies are giving scientists global information on a wide variety of bird species. Read More ›
tuskless elephant
Photo: A tuskless elephant, by paulshaffner via Unsplash.

Michael Behe: Evolution, Devolution, Design

In Africa, having the devolutionary mutation that leaves an elephant tuskless renders the creature of no interest to elephant-slaying ivory poachers. Read More ›

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