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Cambrian Explosion

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ID Literature and the Great Evolutionary Firewall

If you’re going to engage people on the topic of intelligent design publications, don’t let them force two false assumptions on you. Read More ›
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Bringing Past Articles Current to 2020: Butterflies, Hummingbirds, More

Here are items reported in 2019 that have made news in 2020: more on butterflies, hummingbirds, and the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›
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Did Cloudinids Have the Guts to Be Worms?

I promised last year to follow up on more alleged Ediacaran animals. Now is a good moment to come back to this, with a new study having just been published in the journal Nature Communications. Read More ›
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Mars Bugs and Intelligent Design — On a Collision Course?

I picture Ohio University officials turning as red as Mars over Professor Romoser’s exotic claims. Read More ›
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Photo: Paleontologist Günter Bechly teaching at the 2018  Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, by Daniel Reeves.

Paleontologist Günter Bechly: What We Mean by the Missing Transitional Fossil Forms

Certainly, we find organisms that are “morphologically intermediate,” bearing resemblances to organisms that came before and others that came later. Read More ›
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Photo: Sara longwing, a Heliconius butterfly, by DirkvdM at en.wikipediaLater version(s) were uploaded by Samsara at en.wikipedia. [CC BY 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Butterfly Wing Pattern Diversification by Non-Darwinian Mechanisms

In butterfly “evolution,” new findings show mechanisms at work other than random mutation and natural selection. Read More ›
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Looking for Things to Be Grateful For? Look No Further Than…Your Eyes

We take them for granted, but our ability to interact with the world through vision is beyond remarkable. Read More ›
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Photo: Bathocyroe fosteri, a ctenophore, by Marsh Youngbluth [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Design in the First Animals

Scientists debate whether ctenophores are the earliest animals to appear in the Cambrian explosion. If so, they arrived with multiple tissues, a nervous system, and a digestive system. Read More ›
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Wonderful Profile of Phil Johnson in…the Washington Post?

In a 2005 article, Michael Powell begins by half-apologetically acknowledging that his newspaper has, in the editorial pages, taken a harsher view of ID than he evidently does. Read More ›
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Darwin on Trial — As Fresh and Relevant as Ever

Because of Phillip Johnson’s leadership no informed person will ever again honestly say that Darwin’s theory flows straight from the data. Read More ›

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