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Photo credit: Ochir-Erdene Oyunmedeg via Unsplash.

Biology Helps Us Understand the Blessing of Grasses

Don’t walk on the grass, that “often undervalued” form of life, without looking down. It’s amazing down there. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig.

Abstract: Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

All orders and families of the angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record (the same for most lower systematic categories). Read More ›
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Photo credit: Richard Dawkins, by Magnus Norden (151212035) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Phylogenetic Conflict Is Common and the “Hierarchy” Is Far from “Perfect”

It’s simply false for Dawkins to claim that when you compare genes of different animals, they “fall on a perfectly hierarchy — a perfect family tree.” Read More ›
water lily
Photo: A water lily from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil, copyright by G. Bechly.

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Mesozoic Cupules Come to the Rescue?

Darwin's "abominable mystery" is not only very much alive and kicking, but it also suggests intelligent design. Read More ›
Tropidogyne pentaptera
Photo: Tropidogyne pentaptera, a mid Cretaceous flower from Burmese amber, by Oregon State University (license CC BY-SA 2.0), via Flickr.

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Jurassic Flowering Plants After All?

This year a new article by Silvestro et al. (2021), "Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants," was published. Read More ›
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Photo: The Jurassic seed fern Sagenopteris belongs to the extinct gymnosperm clade Caytoniales, which is believed to be the closest relative of flowering plants, via Wikimedia.

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Still Alive and Kicking

Darwinists had hoped that 150 years of paleontological research since Darwin would surely make this nagging problem go away. Read More ›
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Photo: Wolf-Ekkehard and wife and dog in his back yard in Köln, by Granville Sewell.

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig: An Intelligent Design Pioneer

Darwinism sounds superficially plausible until one looks at real plants and animals with their irreducibly complex details. Read More ›
Lupinus pilosus
Photo: Lupinus pilosus, by Zachi Evenor, cropped by User:MathKnight, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Flowering Plants and Common Descent

If this accurately reflects the argument in the primary research paper, it provides a beautiful example of common descent as axiomatically true. Read More ›
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On Fall Foliage, Nathan Lents Comes Up Short

There is nothing in the word “gift” that entails its having been given identically to all persons at all times. That’s not hard, actually. Read More ›
bee orchid
Photo: Ophrys apifera, also known as the “bee orchid,” by Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE / CC BY-SA.

Sex Chromosomes Refuse to Fit One Origins Theory

The designer made the sexual organs of angiosperms, namely, flowers, to be the most spectacularly beautiful structures in biology. Read More ›

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