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Dickinsonia
Photo: Dickinsonia, by Smith609 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Dickinsonia, the Ediacaran Animal that Wasn’t

Gregory Retallack is a kind of maverick paleontologist, who endorses a fringe hypothesis that Ediacaran organisms were not marine but terrestrial lichens. Read More ›
Pravda
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This Cambrian Explosion “Explanation” Qualifies as Propaganda

It’s interesting to see what Derek E. G. Briggs is willing to admit about the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›
Cambrian explosion
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On Cambrian Explosion, Biology Journal’s Special Issue Betrays Cause for Darwin Doubts

The strength of a theory can be gauged by how well it stands up to attacks and how well it incorporates new evidence. Read More ›
Cambrian animal
Image: A scene from The Information Enigma, via Discovery Institute.

Molecular Clocks Can’t Save Darwinists from the Cambrian Dilemma

To explain away the Cambrian explosion has been and remains a high priority for Darwinists. Read More ›
trilobites
Photo: Trilobites, by Kevin Walsh [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Positive Case for Intelligent Design in Paleontology

The dominant pattern in the fossil record is explosions of new biological forms. The Cambrian explosion is a prime example. Read More ›
Cambrian event
computer simulation
Image: A scene from The Information Enigma, via Discovery Institute.

Unraveling the Myth that Undesigned Processes Generate Novel Functions

In short, the sequences performed no new function, so no new information was created. Read More ›
trilobites
Photo: Trilobites, by Kevin Walsh [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Bechly: Problems with Universal Common Ancestry Posed by the Fossil Record

Paleontologist Günter Bechly was a proponent of Darwinism until he discovered significant scientific reasons to doubt the evolutionary story. Read More ›
gr3_lrg
Photo source: Current Biology (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)).

Darwin Wept: Cambrian Brains and Other Challenges for Evolution

Whenever you find papers and articles dealing with the Cambrian fossil record in the usual science journals, there are commonalities. Read More ›
Anomalocaris
Anomalocaris
Image credit: Anomalocaris, Katrina Kenny & University of Adelaide/UNE Photos, via Flickr.

Cambrian Explosion: More Woes and Dodges

Evolutionists are still failing to explain the Cambrian explosion. They struggle to explain new complexities or else try to change the subject. Read More ›
Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata
Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata
Kimberella quadrata, an Edicaran organism, by Masahiro miyasaka / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Lukas Ruegger on the “Ediacaran Explosion”— No Solution to the Cambrian Puzzle

Ruegger is the personable new intelligent design “explainer” whose videos take an approach similar to Khan Academy’s, but better. Read More ›

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