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Wallace notebooks
Wallace notebooks
Photo: Wallace's notebooks, at the Linnean Society, London, by John Cummings / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same

If any modern ID proponent fits the Wallacean model it is biologist Michael Behe. Read More ›
homology
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“Long Story” Sunday: Why Homology Can’t Be Used as Evidence for Evolution

How has your weekend been so far? There's still time to spice it up with a little laughter and learning. Read More ›
humpback whale
humpback whale
Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Pentadactyl Whale Flipper Is an Engineering Masterstroke

Does the five-digit design of the whale flipper, akin to the five-digit design of so many different kinds of animal limbs, point to evolutionary common descent? Read More ›
chicken embryo
embryonic development
Photo: Chicken embryo, by Ben Skála (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Will Evolutionists Ever Take Falsification Seriously? A Response to P. Z. Myers

Can there be a better example of trying to argue that whatever the evidence, evolution is the answer? Read More ›
HMS Beagle
Image: HMS Beagle at Tierra del Fuego.

“Sacred Cause”? Reconsidering Charles Darwin as Abolitionist

I offer a series of posts here designed to lay out the evidence in detail. It is not merely that Desmond and Moore are selective in the sources they cite. Read More ›
chimp
Photo credit: Rishi Ragunathan, via Unsplash.

Chimp and Human Genomes: An Evolution Myth Unravels

Casey Luskin rebuts the oft-repeated claim that the human and chimp genomes are 98-99 percent similar as surely resulted from Darwinian common descent. Read More ›
Sirenia
Photo: Pezosiren, Thesupermat via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fossil Friday: Sea Cows and the Abrupt Origin of Sirenia and Desmostylia

So, is every thing OK with Darwinism after all? No so fast. Actually, there are some problems that do not square well with a Darwinian scenario. 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 ›
Dave Farina
Photo: Dave Farina, via YouTube.

Debunking “Professor Dave’s” Hit Piece Against Stephen Meyer

This YouTube video runs to about an hour and a quarter, so I will be answering him once again in a series, minute by minute. Read More ›
Galápagos finch
Photo: Galápagos finch, by kuhnmi, via Flickr.

There Is No Settled “Theory of Evolution”

What is evolution? In other words, what is core to the theory — and not forfeitable? It’s naturalism. Period. Read More ›

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