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Ignoring Other Research, New Study Explains (Away) the Origin of New Body Plans

Recently, a team of British paleontologists added a new pseudo-explanation. Read More ›
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Photo: Trilobite fossil, by Jakob Vinther, University of Bristol, via EurekAlert!

A Beautiful, Wonderful Solution to the Cambrian Puzzle?

It’s so elegantly simple, why didn’t anyone think of this before? Animals evolved because they evolved. Read More ›
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Photo: A soybean cyst nematode, by Agricultural Research Service [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

A Suspicious Pattern of Deletions

Winston Ewert recently published a paper in BIO-Complexity suggesting that life is better explained by a dependency graph than by a phylogenetic tree. Read More ›
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Photo: Hoilungia hongkongensis, by Hans-Jürgen Osigus, Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, via EurekAlert!

Placozoa: An Evolutionary Leftover? 

Simple, small, and worldwide in distribution, the placozoa don’t fit any clear evolutionary picture. Read More ›
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Image: Precambrian life, by Ghedoghedo [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons.

Cambrian-Aged Ediacaran Organism Reconfirms Explosiveness of the Cambrian Explosion

For the first time it has been discovered that an organism from the Precambrian Ediacaran fauna may have survived into the Cambrian period. Read More ›
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Photo: Fuxianhuia protensa, by Grahbudd at English Wikipedia (Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Meet the Fuxianhuiids: Exploding Cambrian Arthropods

True arthropods are among the most sophisticated animals that appeared without ancestors in the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›
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Photos: Stephen Meyer teaching at the 2018 Summer Seminar, Seattle, by Daniel Reeves.

The 12th Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design — I Will Remember the Faces

Unfortunately, the pictures we have of the Seminar need to be severely cropped, so as to protect the students’ identities. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Banded iron formations, by Zhiquan Li/University of Alberta, via EurekAlert!

Newly Identified Banded Iron Formation Puts Origins Theories on Horns of a Dilemma

Many claim the Cambrian explosion was triggered by a sudden global increase in oxygen levels. Read More ›
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Alien Octopodes and the Multiverse

It’s ABD — “Anything But Design,” as Sarah Chaffee says — that is, anything but design that might leave open the door to a source of transcendent intelligence. Read More ›
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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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