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Meyer and Tour on New Critiques of Origin-of-Life Research

Biochemist Nick Lane and bio-engineer Joana Xavier have given a sobering assessment of the origin-of-life research field. Read More ›
Charnia-masoni
Photo: Charnia masoni, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

No. 3 Story of 2023: Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Read More ›
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Roundup of Functions for “Junk DNA” Supports the New RNA Gene Paradigm

The junk DNA paradigm may have caused us to miss the precise DNA that helps makes a species unique.  Read More ›
Cambrian Bryozoa
Photo: Fossil bryozoan, Carboniferous of Ohio, James St. John via Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0 DEED.

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go

This is a field that often has more in common with the interpretation of inkblots in Rorschach tests than with hard science. Read More ›
Charnia-masoni
Photo: Charnia masoni, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Read More ›
Burgess Shale
Photo: Burgess Shale, by Mark A. Wilson (Wilson44691) (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster).[1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

From Bad to Worse for Darwinism, as New Cambrian Explosion Finds Arrive

Less time and more complexity are compressed into an impossible challenge for evolution. Read More ›
Trilobite_Redlichia
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Fossil Friday: Did the Cambrian Explosion Really Happen?

The deniers of the well-established scientific consensus rest their argument on the recent publications of a few maverick paleontologists. Read More ›
Megasiphon thylakos
Photo: Megasiphon thylakos holotype, after Fig. 2 in Nanglu et al. 2023, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Fossil Tunicate Confirms Cambrian Explosion

Almost on a monthly basis new fossil evidence corroborates the abruptness of the Cambrian Explosion as a genuine "Big Bang" of life. Read More ›
marrellomorph
Photo: A marrellomorph from the Fezouata Formation, by Muséum de Toulouse, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionists Spin the Cambrian Explosion — But Alas, All in Vain

Fossils are great; the more the better. Experience from spectacular discoveries assures us that no surprises will change Charles Darwin's own cause for doubt. Read More ›
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God’s Grandeur: Some Resources to Explore

How many people are willing to give up morality, rationality, free will, truth, beauty, and goodness as valuable concepts based on reality? Read More ›

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