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Cambrian Explosion

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Photo credit: James St. John, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Look: On Thanksgiving, Be Grateful for the Intelligent Design of Your Eyes

They were quite the sudden, unanticipated gift in the history of life. Read More ›
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All photos in this article are by David Coppedge.

Evolution Theater: Smithsonian Whitewashes Human Origins

The museum makes a big deal of Lucy. Their portrayal has many more bones than the original! Read More ›
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Photo: Chrismooreia michaelbehei, a fossil dragonfly species, 191 million years old, named in honor of ID scientist Michael Behe, by Günter Bechly.

Günter Bechly: Why the Fossil Record Points to Intelligent Design

He covers how “a lightbulb went on” for him about Darwinism, the fatal waiting time problem, why the ballyhooed extended synthesis fails to save the day for evolution, and more. Read More ›
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All photos in this article are by David Coppedge.

Smithsonian Glosses Over the Cambrian Explosion

The nation’s museum cannot ignore the collection of fossils Walcott sent them from the Burgess Shale. But can they explain them away? Read More ›
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All photos in this article are by David Coppedge.

At the Smithsonian, the Nation’s Museum, It’s All Darwin, All the Time

At the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Charles Darwin dominates almost every exhibit.  Read More ›
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Photo: White Sands National Park, by uncredited NPS employee, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Follies from Around the Science Literature

Evolutionary anthropologists will have to drastically revise the timeline of the first human arrivals in North America. Read More ›
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Photo: Eric Metaxas at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, via YouTube.

Reasons to Believe: Eric Metaxas’s Powerful New Book, Is Atheism Dead?

Eric doesn’t just know the relevant books, but he knows most of the living authors, whose findings strip away the accumulated varnish of atheist materialism. Read More ›
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Photo: Titanokorys gainesi, by Jean-Bernard Caron & Joseph Moysiuk, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Three Stunners Challenge Traditional Darwinism

Remember when fossil hunters found Marble Canyon, a fossil bed in Canada that surpassed the Burgess Shale in extent and species richness? Read More ›
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Photo: Fossil of Opabinia regalis, a Cambrian animal, by Jstuby at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Did Minimal Consciousness Drive the Cambrian Explosion?

Eva Jablonka’s team makes the daring case, repurposing Hungarian chemist Tibor Gánti’s origin of life studies. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 US <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Arthropod Architects Amaze Engineers

They appear in the early Cambrian fossil record: the first examples of the most diverse phylum on earth. Who knew their skills would become the envy of human engineers? Read More ›

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