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Photo: Australian honeyeater, by JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/), CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Lee Spetner’s Nonrandom Evolutionary Hypothesis

We were saddened to learn of the passing of Lee Spetner, MIT-trained physicist. Dr. Spetner was 91 years old and lived in Jerusalem. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Carboniferous Explosion of Winged Insects

This represents just one of the many discontinuities in the history of life that strongly contradict the predictions from a neo-Darwinian theory of evolution. Read More ›
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Darwin Devotion Detector: Take the Test Now

A tongue-in-cheek questionnaire that nonetheless provides real insight into the extent to which Darwinian ideas have captured our thinking. Read More ›
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Photo: Galápagos finch, by kuhnmi, via Flickr.

Clarifying Loaded Words in the Evolution Debate

Biologist Robert Waltzer describes an encouraging success story of his about fostering open dialogue. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Stone Huts, Homo habilis, and Gutsick Gibbon

A PhD student of biological anthropology named Erika runs one of the more popular anti-creationist YouTube channels under her pseudonym Gutsick Gibbon. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Direct Fossil Ancestors of Living Species?

Willi Hennig, the founder of phylogenetic systematics (cladistics), recognized that finding and demonstrating direct ancestors would be a very hard task. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Big Bang of Tertiary Birds and a Phylogenetic Mess

There was an abrupt origin, a burst of biological creativity, which is best explained by an infusion of new information from an intelligent agent. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Insectivore Mammals

We can conclude that Eulipotyphla appeared abruptly in the Paleocene about 66-61.7 million years ago. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Scansoriopterygidae, Bizarre Bird-Like Dinosaurs, Illustrate Darwinist Trickery

Common descent is assumed and the evidence interpreted accordingly, rather than common descent being deduced from the evidence. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny, and Why I’ve Become More Skeptical of Common Descent

True skeptics should question everything, and not just everything apart from Darwinism and materialism. Read More ›

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