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hummingbird
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A Closer Look at Hummingbird Tongue Design

Did evolutionary theory contribute anything to this study? The authors speculate briefly about “co-evolution” of flowers and their pollinators. Read More ›
exoplanet
Image credit: NASA Universe, via Flicker (cropped).

The Silence of the Space Aliens

The SEETI thinkers are looking for signs of intention. Even in global death, they believe they could separate natural causes from intelligent causes. Read More ›
Xiaotingia
Photo: Xiaotingia, by Bruce McAdam, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: The Temporal Paradox of Early Birds

Wherever you look in the fossil record you stumble upon problems for the Darwinian story and evidence that is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›
spider
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Dreaming Spiders? My Disagreement with Michael Egnor

Rapid eye movement may indicate neural activity, but dreaming for me implies a conscious awareness of the dream state, which I consider as unlikely in spiders. Read More ›
common octopus
Photo credit: Martijn Klijnstra, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Octopuses Got So Smart? “Junk DNA”

Jumping genes used to be dismissed as junk DNA which in turn was held to be slam-dunk evidence for unguided evolutionary processes. Read More ›
Hoatzin
Photo credit: Kate from UK, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Bizarre Bird” Highlights the Problem of Biogeography

While hoatzins are bad at flying, evolutionists have been forced to credit these birds with some impressive rafting — unbelievably impressive. Read More ›
dolphins
Photo: Dolphins, by Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Brain Size Doesn’t Determine Intelligence

Brains are not simple, so many “just common sense” theories have fallen by the wayside. Read More ›
octopus
Photo credit: Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons.

If Octopuses Are So Smart, Should We Eat Them?

We have tended to assume that intelligence rose with the development of a spinal cord and brain (vertebrates), and warmbloodedness (mammals and birds). Read More ›
squirrel
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Check Their Privilege: Are Squirrels Socially Unjust?

Researchers have long assumed that people think like animals. But now we see that the equation reads the same in reverse: animals think like people. Read More ›
Basilosaurus
Photo: Basilosaurus, by Asmoth, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Species Pairs: A New Challenge to Darwinists 

I consider this simple argument as a final nail in the coffin of Darwinian unguided evolution. Read More ›

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