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Burgess Shale

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Photo: Obamus coronatus and Attenborites janeae, left and right, respectively, via UC Riverside.

Trackways Reported in Ediacaran Strata

Small putative trackways in Siberian rocks are giving evolutionists an opportunity to claim bilaterian animals preceded the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›
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<p>Photo: Walcott Quary, Burgess Shale, by Mark A. Wilson (Wilson44691) (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster) [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons.</p>

Meyer, Medved on Great Minds — Cambrian Explosion, Burgess Shale, and More

Animal forms come and go, but what links them as “acts of mind” (as Agassiz put it) is a “continuity of ideas,” not, says Meyer, the physical continuity that Darwin asserted. Read More ›
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Contradicting Darwinian Gradualism, Earliest Animals Show Complex Parental Behavior

Darwin himself realized that any kind of significant saltational change would imply a miracle-like intelligent intervention. Read More ›
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Earlier Burgess-Shale-Type Fossils Found in Greenland

Exquisitely preserved animal fossils now show up on three widely separated continents. The earliest are just as complex as those in the Burgess Shale. Read More ›
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See Intelligent Design Brought to Life in an Otherworldly Natural Setting – Our 13th Annual Insiders Briefing!

All this in just four days? Amazingly, yes. It will be a packed event, and you are invited to join new friends and leading figures in the international ID movement. Read More ›
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Photo: Parvancorina fossils, Australia, compared with a size of a coin, by EOL Learning and Education Group [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

More Admissions of Cambrian Explosiveness

Hidden in the jargon of science papers about Cambrian and Precambrian life one finds clues favoring Meyer’s conclusions that the Cambrian explosion refutes Darwinism. Read More ›

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