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Cretaceous Period

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Image credit: Édouard Manet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fruit Is Designed for Life

This type of multi-purpose optimization speaks more of intelligent foresight and design than random adaptation.  Read More ›
Chicxulub
Image credit: Donald E. Davis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Chinks in the Chicxulub Story

If an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs as believed by the scientific consensus, its effects on evolution seem strained and inconsistent. Read More ›
Scandentia
Photo: Eudaemonema webbi, after Scott 2010 fig. 3, fair use.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Treeshrews (Scandentia) and Colugos (Dermoptera)

Even as a paleontologist I admit that calling this a real scientific discipline seems like an insult to sciences like physics or chemistry or molecular biology. Read More ›
Xiaotingia
Photo: Xiaotingia, by Bruce McAdam, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: The Temporal Paradox of Early Birds

Wherever you look in the fossil record you stumble upon problems for the Darwinian story and evidence that is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›
coelacanth
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: A Dead “Living Fossil”

Coelacanths are considered to be "living fossils," which do not sit well with Darwinian assumptions. Read More ›
Tropidogyne pentaptera
Photo: Tropidogyne pentaptera, a mid Cretaceous flower from Burmese amber, by Oregon State University (license CC BY-SA 2.0), via Flickr.

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Jurassic Flowering Plants After All?

This year a new article by Silvestro et al. (2021), "Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants," was published. Read More ›
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Photo: The Jurassic seed fern Sagenopteris belongs to the extinct gymnosperm clade Caytoniales, which is believed to be the closest relative of flowering plants, via Wikimedia.

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Still Alive and Kicking

Darwinists had hoped that 150 years of paleontological research since Darwin would surely make this nagging problem go away. Read More ›
Haeckel_Orchidae
Image credit: Ernst Haeckel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Botany Journal Revisits Charles Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

A recent paper by Richard Buggs shows that a problem for evolutionary theory has grown more acute since Darwin’s time. Read More ›
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A Theory in Crisis: Darwinian Anomalies Accumulate

Darwin Day is just a week from today! To help celebrate, here are a few recent findings that contradict Darwinism. Read More ›

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