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

Fossil Friday: Cloudina Still Lacks the Guts to Be a Worm

We intelligent design proponents make one successful prediction after another, while Darwinism's track record of failed predictions grows ever longer. Read More ›
Turtle_Solnhofen
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Dave Farina Criticizes Intelligent Design but Doesn’t Understand It

Boom! There goes the “exquisitely documented” evolution of turtles. Sorry, Professor Dave. Read More ›
Namacalathus and Cloudina
Namacalathus and Cloudina fossils
Photo: Namacalathus and Cloudina fossils, collection of Redpath Museum, McGill University, by Daderot / CC0, via Wikimedia.

Let’s Help “Professor Dave” Understand the Precambrian

We have much to teach the non-professor, and I trust that he is grateful for the education being rendered to him here. 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).

“Lying on the Internet”? Debunking Dave Farina on Stephen Meyer

A lot of nonsense gets published in peer-reviewed journals and it needs expertise to separate the wheat from the chaff. Farina lacks any expertise to do this. Read More ›
Namacalathus and Cloudina
Namacalathus and Cloudina fossils, collection of Redpath Museum, McGill University, by Daderot / CC0, via Wikimedia.

Namacalathus, an Ediacaran Lophophorate Animal?

I have been writing a series of articles on alleged Ediacaran animals that have been postulated as precursors of the Cambrian explosion. 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 ›
Cloudina

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 ›
burrowing
Photo: Evidence of animal burrowing before the Cambrian explosion? Via Nagoya University.

Cambrian Explosion Shrapnel Still Hitting Evolutionary Scenarios

Darwinian paleontologists try model after contradictory model to get blind chance to invent design. Read More ›
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innovation
Image credit: Courtesy of Illustra Media, from Origin: Design, Chance and the First Life on Earth.

Desperately Seeking Evolutionary Innovation by Chance

Ask evolutionists for a clear, unambiguous example of a new gain in function by chance at the genetic level. They will be hard pressed to show one. Read More ›

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