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Disclosure Day Is Fun, But It Didn’t Rock My Faith

Spielberg's message is not only that aliens are real but also that they’re good and they’re our friends. I find that very curious: How is he so sure? Read More ›
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Photo: Owl moth, by Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Extraordinary Genetic Convergent Evolution in Moths and Butterflies

The practice of re-usage of functional parts in different systems is “ubiquitous” in human-designed technology just as convergence is “ubiquitous” in biology. Read More ›
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Credit: All photos by Casey Luskin.

Beach Stroll Casts Further Doubt on Some Supposed Ediacaran Bilaterian Fossils

In one instance I found a kelp on the beach with its holdfast still nicely attached. A photo of it is at the top. Read More ›
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Photo: Ginkgo leaves, by Joe Schneid, Louisville, Kentucky, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

In Stories from Max Telford’s New Book, Failed Predictions of Common Descent

Well-documented examples of organisms show remarkable stasis over hundreds of millions of years. Read More ›
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For “Convergent Evolution,” Darwinists Offer Awkward Explanatory Tinkering

How clever of separate kingdoms of organisms to have figured all this out independently! Read More ›
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Photo credit: Philippe Garcelon, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

More to Love about Springtails, Those Adorable Gymnasts

Does it have to be called an “evolutionary success” instead of a success? The word “evolutionary” performs no function. It is also contrary to the evidence. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: New Fossil Evidence Challenges Another Icon of Evolution

This would have been very interesting news to my friend and colleague Jonathan Wells, who had described many such cases in his ground-breaking books. Read More ›
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Photo: Palawan swiftlets can hunt in the dark, another example of echolocation attributed to convergent evolution, along with bats, dolphins, and whales; by Andrea Giovanni Murachelli, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Lee Spetner’s Critique of Convergent Evolution

We bring you the last of three interviews with MIT-trained physicist Lee Spetner. We were saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Spetner at 91 years old. Read More ›
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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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Blind Cavefish: Evolutionary Icon, or an Example of Preprogrammed Adaptation?

There is another model that could explain the transformations of the cavefish. This model is called continuous environmental tracking and it is design-based. Read More ›

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