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Burgess Shale

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Fossil Friday: New Research on How Delicate Soft-Bodied Organisms Can Be Perfectly Preserved

All the just-so-stories of macroevolution are completely dispensable in real (experimental) biology. Read More ›
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Image credit: Jean-Bernard Caron, Simon Conway Morris, Degan Shu, CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday:  An Extinct Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion

One of the strongest arguments in favor of Darwinian evolution gets more and more dismantled, which totally vindicates the critique by Michael Denton. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Han Zeng, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Explosion Bingo Continues

What if scientists were to discover next month that there was no oxygenation in the Cambrian but the exact opposite? Read More ›
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Photo credit: Bruce Martin, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Fossils Turned Upside Down Yet Again

Most of these reconstructions are based on very weak evidence and are highly speculative. Read More ›
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Photo credit: John A. Cunningham, Kelly Vargas, Zongjun Yin, Stefan Bengtson and Philip C. J. Donoghue, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Ediacaran Animal Embryos Put to Test and Put to Rest

There are no fossil animals in the Ediacaran, when they should be found according to the gradualistic predictions of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
Octocorallia
Photo: Octocorallia, by Alexander Vasenin, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Let There Be Bioluminescence

Biological light switched on in the Cambrian — for what reason, evolutionists are not sure. It just happened, like all the other natural miracles. Read More ›
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Photo: Holotype of Mesobalanoglossus buergeri, by G. Bechly.

Fossil Friday: Hemichordate Body Plan and Lifecycle Goes Back to the Cambrian Explosion

This Fossil Friday we will discuss the abrupt origin of yet another animal phylum during the famous Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›
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Photo: Fossil algae, Ediacaran Lantian Formation, Zhang et al. 2021: fig. 4, fair use. Source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110449.

Fossil Friday: New Study Challenges the Artifact Hypothesis

It is time for Darwinists to stop their science denial and face the fact that empirical data consistently contradict core predictions of their theory. Read More ›
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Photo: Burgessomedusa, Royal Ontario Museum, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Jellyfish Body Plan and Life Cycle Originated in the Cambrian Explosion

Remarkably, these animals can be placed within the crown group of  the living cnidarian clade Medusozoa, which is not exactly what Darwinists should expect. Read More ›
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Image: Hallucigenia, by Scorpion451, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

In Resolving Darwin’s Doubt, These Cambrian Fossils Are No Help

This is hierarchical organization, none of which is seen in the Precambrian layers beneath. Read More ›

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