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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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Image: Adam and Eve after the Expulsion from Paradise, by Paolo Veronese [Public domain], c. 1580-1588, via Wikimedia Commons.

#4 of Our Top Stories of 2018: A First Human Couple? New Evidence and Arguments

A bottleneck of two, or a first pair at our origin older than 500,000 years, is possible. Read More ›
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Ewert’s Dependency Graph Proposal: A Forest of Compositions

To help further explain this concept, I would like to introduce readers to my pet bunny, Daisy.  Read More ›
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Photo: Humpback whale, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder

Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry.  Read More ›
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Photo credit: Dolphins, by werdepate, via Pixabay.

Awe at Echolocation? Nah, Convergence Again

The passionate focus on evolutionary relationships in biology papers tends to obscure awe at the wonders in life. Read More ›
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Photo: A falcon’s eye, by Oussama dzlion [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Modern Software and Biological Organisms: Object-Oriented Design

Let’s consider the eye, which is but one of many subsystems (along with the brain, heart, liver, lungs, etc.) in higher animals that coordinate their tasks to keep an organism alive. Read More ›
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Image: A traditional Tree of Life, via Wikimedia Commons.

BIO-Complexity Presents Better Model than Common Ancestry for Explaining Pattern of Nature

One of the central pillars of the standard evolutionary model is the belief that all living species evolved from a common ancestor through a gradually unfolding tree of life. Read More ›
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Photo credit: t4berlin, via Pixabay.

Of Whales and Timescales

The changes involved in adapting a generic mammalian template into a whale are certainly not all simple, independent, single-letter changes. Read More ›
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Image: Adam and Eve after the Expulsion from Paradise, by Paolo Veronese [Public domain], c. 1580-1588, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is There a First Human Couple in Our Past? New Evidence and Arguments

A bottleneck of two, or a first pair at our origin older than 500,000 years, is possible. Read More ›

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