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Only Religionists Doubt Darwin? The Case of C.S. Lewis

If this were true, it would cast suspicion on the skeptics who, so goes this line of insinuation, are motivated by their passion to believe. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder

Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry.  Read More ›
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Response to Swamidass: Rats, Mice, and Discrepant Molecular Clocks

Molecular clocks are a relatively simple concept. Read More ›
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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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BIO-Complexity Presents Better Model than Common Ancestry for Explaining Pattern of Nature

One of the central pillars of the standard evolutionary model is the belief that all living species evolved from a common ancestor through a gradually unfolding tree of life. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Guy Kawasaki [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Rafting Stormy Waters: When Biogeography Contradicts Common Ancestry

The orderly pattern of biogeographic distribution of plants and animals was one of the lines of evidence that Charles Darwin mentioned in support of his theory. Read More ›
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Rewrite the Textbooks (Again): Origin of Mitochondria Blown Up

Why are evolutionists always wrong? And why are they always so sure of themselves? Read More ›
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Adam and the Genome and the Mysterious Origin of De Novo Genes

A final case where biologist Dennis Venema deals with evidence that is irrelevant to the existence of Adam and Eve is his claim about ORFan genes. Read More ›
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Homo sapiens, or Pan sapiens?

A snarky proposal, among others aimed at deflating the idea of humankind's exceptional place in nature, suggests that our species is really misnamed. Read More ›
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Adam and the Genome and “Nonfunctional” Pseudogenes

Venema cites the vitellogenin pseudogene as supposedly demonstrating common ancestry between humans and birds, such as chickens. Read More ›

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