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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 21, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, common descent, convergent evolution, DNA, evolution, India, James Shapiro, Lee Spetner, Madagascar, monarch butterfly, natural genetic engineering, neo-Darwinian mechanisms, neo-Darwinian theory, Not by Chance, sound waves, The Evolution Revolution}

Lee Spetner’s Nonrandom Evolutionary Hypothesis

_{Casey Luskin
August 21, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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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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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, body plans, common descent, evolution, Flight, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ghost lineages, information, intelligent design, Metamorphosis, molecular clock studies, neo-Darwinian theory, paleontology, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Carboniferous Explosion of Winged Insects

_{Günter Bechly
August 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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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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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, atheism, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, common descent, Darwin Day, eugenics, evolution, free will, genes, Germany, humanzee, J.B.S. Haldane, Judge John E. Jones, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, love, meaning, natural selection, purpose, rape, Richard Dawkins, United States, value}

Darwin Devotion Detector: Take the Test Now

_{William A. Dembski
June 11, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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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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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 27, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, biologists, common descent, debate, defining evolution, defining terms, dialogue, evidence, evolution, Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell, ID the Future, intelligent design, natural selection, podcast, Robert Waltzer}

Clarifying Loaded Words in the Evolution Debate

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 27, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Biologist Robert Waltzer describes an encouraging success story of his about fostering open dialogue. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 22, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, anthropology, common descent, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), Gutsick Gibbon, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, human evolution, human origins, Iron Age, Jackson Wheat, Kenya, monkeys, Olduvai Gorge, paleoanthropology, paleontology, Professor Dave, Tanzania, University of Texas, Wikipedia}

Fossil Friday: Stone Huts, Homo habilis, and Gutsick Gibbon

_{Günter Bechly
March 22, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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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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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, ancestors, ancestral species, cladistics, common descent, Darwinism, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, microevolution, phylogenetic systematics, Pleistocene, Pliocene, stem group, Willi Hennig, wolves}

Fossil Friday: Direct Fossil Ancestors of Living Species?

_{Günter Bechly
March 8, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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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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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, American Museum of Natural History, arachnids, Bayesian reasoning, Casey Luskin, common descent, Cretaceous, Darwinism, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, molecular biologists, molecular clock studies, New York Times, Paleogene, phylogenomics}

Fossil Friday: The Big Bang of Tertiary Birds and a Phylogenetic Mess

_{Günter Bechly
February 23, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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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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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, common descent, Darwinian evolution, entomology, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, insects, morphology, Neo-Darwinism, Paleocene, paleoentomology, paleontology, phylogeny, stem group, stratigraphy, systematics, Tree of Life}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Insectivore Mammals

_{Günter Bechly
January 26, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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We can conclude that Eulipotyphla appeared abruptly in the Paleocene about 66-61.7 million years ago. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 15, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bats, birds, common descent, convergence, evolution, homology, intelligent design, Jurassic, Karl Popper, nested hierarchy, synapomorphy, thought police}

Fossil Friday: Scansoriopterygidae, Bizarre Bird-Like Dinosaurs, Illustrate Darwinist Trickery

_{Günter Bechly
December 15, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Common descent is assumed and the evidence interpreted accordingly, rather than common descent being deduced from the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, arachnids, arthropods, Charles Darwin, common descent, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, England, evolution, Evolution News, flagellum, Fossil Friday (series), Germany, horseshoe crabs, intelligent design, materialism, molecular clock studies, parsimony, phylogeny, predictions, Richard Dawkins, scorpions, spider silk, spiders, tiktaalik, Tree of Life, Winston Ewert, Wisconsin}

Fossil Friday: The Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny, and Why I’ve Become More Skeptical of Common Descent

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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