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Photo: A featherwing beetle (shown at left) is comparable in size to a large amoeba (right), by SKOLKOVO INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, via EurekAlert! (no usage restrictions).

New Mode of Flight Found in Tiny Beetle

A millimeter-sized beetle flies efficiently with feathery wings and a beat mode not seen before. Did it evolve by natural selection? Read More ›
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Photo: Human retina, by rdowns via Pixabay.

Why Junk Design Arguments Are Junk Science

Examples of so-called “convergent” evolution are ubiquitous, including the camera eye design shared by the squid and human. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Aarón Blanco Tejedor, via Unsplash.

Teleophobia: Cassell on the Unreasonable Fear of Intelligent Design

What do biologists make of the apparently purposive nature of all these different kinds of complex programmed behaviors? Read More ›
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Photo: Ornithorhynchus anatinus, by Goddard Photography, via EurekAlert!

Biofluorescence in the Platypus — Design at Its Whackadoodliest

Those paragraphs are, not surprisingly, a de rigueur nod to evolutionary theory, and as usual, it's pure gloss, no substance. Read More ›
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Photo: Ernst Mayr, by University of Konstanz / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5).

Ignoring the Obvious: Convergent Evolution in Strickberger’s Evolution

Remarkably, even Ernst Mayr was forced to tacitly acknowledge the challenge to Darwinism posed by convergence. Read More ›
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Whale of a Webinar Debuts a Delightful “Long Story Short” Video

Whales are held up as a model of what unguided evolution can do in a short time: in this case, just 8 million years, or perhaps even half that. Read More ›
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A First Couple? Here’s the Backstory

Could humanity have had its origin in a first pair, or did it have to come from a population of at least several thousand? Read More ›
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Teeth, Mollusks: Design in Biominerals

The subject of biomineralization also allows comparing the explanatory power of design over Darwinian evolution.  Read More ›
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To Solve a (Cambrian) Problem: Declare It Solved!

Frustrated by abrupt appearance, some evolutionists are simply declaring that there is no problem with the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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