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Photo credit: en:User:Verisimilus, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Chitinozoa — Enigmatic Microfossils from the Paleozoic Era

We may now add the mysterious Chitinozoa to this ever-growing list of products of the burst of biological creativity in the Early Cambrian. Read More ›
butterfly
Photo: Prodryas persephone, fair use and Franz Anthony via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Butterflies

This phenomenon could rightfully be called a Tertiary Butterfly Explosion analogous to the Cambrian Explosion of animal phyla. Read More ›
Nectocaris
Photo credit: Martin R. Smith, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid

Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill. Read More ›
trilobites
Photo: Trilobites, by Kevin Walsh [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Positive Case for Intelligent Design in Paleontology

The dominant pattern in the fossil record is explosions of new biological forms. The Cambrian explosion is a prime example. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Montsechia vidalii, an early flowering plant fossil from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain, by Luis Fernández García, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery” Is Not Alone: Gaps Everywhere!

There is clearly a pattern of discontinuities that requires an adequate explanation, and Darwinism is not it. Read More ›
Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata
Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata
Kimberella quadrata, an Edicaran organism, by Masahiro miyasaka / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Bechly Series: No Ancestors for Cambrian Animals; Darwin’s Doubt Remains

I urge you to review this important series. Humbly place it at the feet of your favorite Darwinist, atheist, or theistic evolutionist. Read More ›
Kimberella quadrata
Kimberella quadrata
Photo: Dorsal mold of Kimberella quadrata from the Ediacaran of Russia,
showing the cuticular dorsal shield with tubercular nodes and the tapered oral end; by Aleksey Nagovitsyn: Wikimedia, GNU FDL).

Was Kimberella a Precambrian Mollusk?

If identified as an animal, it would “predate the Cambrian explosion of bilaterian animal phyla as a kind of ‘advance guard.’” Read More ›
The Information Enigma

The Information Enigma: A Closer Look

I will flesh out the concept of biological information, and I will explain why significant quantities of it cannot be generated through natural processes. Read More ›
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ID Literature and the Great Evolutionary Firewall

If you’re going to engage people on the topic of intelligent design publications, don’t let them force two false assumptions on you. Read More ›

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