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Charles Darwin, caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
Image: Charles Darwin caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871

Peer-Reviewed Paper: “Neo-Darwinism Must Mutate to Survive”

They conclude, “There is something besides mutations and survival of the fittest needed to explain evolution.” Read More ›
Opabinia regalis
Photo: Fossil of Opabinia regalis, a Cambrian animal, by Jstuby at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Untangling “Professor Dave’s” Confusion about the Cambrian Explosion

We have seen the absurdly low quality of this individual’s video. But there is much more. I have added timecodes in square brackets for easier reference. Read More ›
jellyfish
Photo credit: Timo Volz via Unsplash.

Secrets that Give Sea Lions and Jellyfish Their Edge as Swimmers

The world’s best human designers are attempting to build machines to mimic what these animals “naturally do. Read More ›
sponges
Photo credit: Twilight Zone Expedition Team 2007, NOAA-OE., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Complex Specified Information in the Lowly Sponge

Sponges are outliers in biology’s big bang, the Cambrian explosion. Their embryos appear in Precambrian strata, leading some to consider them primitive. Read More ›
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
Photo: <I>Pravda</I> editorial offices, via Wikimedia Commons.

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
Image source: Discovery Institute.

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 ›

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