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Fossil Friday: Controversial Gradualism in Tyrannosaurids

History will tell who is right in this scientific controversy, but personally I am more convinced by the evidence against anagenesis. Read More ›
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Plant Evolution: All Gaps and Miracles

A major study looks for evolution, but finds huge disparities, stasis, gaps, periodic explosions, and miracles of emergence held together with imagination. Read More ›
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Photo: Agamous generation of red-pea gall of gall wasp Cynips divisa on oak leaf, by Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig.

Do Plant Galls Falsify Darwinism?

Charles Darwin was profoundly interested in plant galls, and Darwin himself proposed the challenge these and other forms may pose to his ideas. Read More ›
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Cites Stephen Meyer to Critique Darwinian Evolution

"Many life forms with essentially new body types appeared quickly and without precursors in the Burgess Shale in Kicking Horse Valley in British Columbia." Read More ›
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New Scientist: Ichthyosaurs Evolved “Astonishingly Rapidly”

This is a case of evolutionary biology trying to explain away the data that otherwise was not directly expected under their model. Read More ›
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Omega-3 Nutrition Pioneer Tells How He Saw Irreducible Complexity in Cells 40 Years Ago

Jorn Dyerberg, the Danish biologist, talks with physicist Brian Miller about finding irreducible complexity in cells. Read More ›
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Your Designed Respiratory System: Causal Circularities and Irreducible Complexities

There are individual systems that are irreducibly complex, and these are joined together into a higher-level system of systems. Read More ›
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Evolution With and Without Multiple Simultaneous Changes

Darwinism is committed to evolution happening gradually, one step at a time, by single mutational changes. Read More ›
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Rosenhouse and Discrete Hypercube Evolution

Why have I just gone through this exercise with the 100-dimensional discrete hypercube, giving it the full track 2 monty? Two reasons. Read More ›
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Photo: Australopithecus africanus skull, by José Braga; Didier Descouens [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Günter Bechly: Goodbye to Darwinian Gradualism

Bechly touches on the oldest australopithecine fossil skull ever found, from 3.8 million years ago. Read More ›

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