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Photo: Ludodactylus sibbicki, by G. Bechly 2008.

No. 4 Story for 2025: Farewell to Günter Bechly

I told Richard Sternberg a story from own experience. I learned about more than paleontology from Bechly. Read More ›
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Cropped image of a sprinter getting ready to start at the stadium
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Do or Die: How Life’s Engineering Keeps Us Alive

Can purely material causes account for the coherent, interdependent, tightly coordinated, and precision-tuned systems that life requires? Read More ›
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Image: Bullfight in a Divided Ring, by Francisco Goya, Metropolitan Museum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Hemingway and the Scopes Trial

William Jennings Bryan had a hard time coming up with expert scientific witnesses who were dubious of Darwinian theory. He wouldn’t now. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Ashley98lee, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

More Than a Thumb: Integrated Design in the Giant Panda

Is the famous “panda’s thumb” evidence of unguided evolutionary processes, or is it a masterpiece of engineering. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Sacred Fiction

A book by Adrian Desmond and James Moore holds that Charles Darwin was significantly motivated in his scientific work by abolitionist sentiments. Read More ›
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Rescuing Evolution from Darwinian Myth

Does the public promotion of Darwin’s theory of natural selection match Darwin’s own private view of his theory? Read More ›
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Photo source: Sean McDowell via YouTube (screenshot).

Doug Axe on Darwinian Evolution: “One of the Weakest, Most Pathetic Scientific Theories”

Dr. Axe shared a particularly poignant memory of being a 19-year-old studying at UC Berkeley and attending a chemistry lecture. Read More ›
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Mother and baby koalas on the tree.
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How Evolutionists Overlook Signatures of Design — The Case of Koalas

I note and discuss an astounding case of convergence between humans and koalas, “the only non-primates with fingerprints.” Read More ›
Pterosaur
Photo: Ludodactylus sibbicki, by G. Bechly 2008.

Farewell to Günter Bechly

I told Richard Sternberg a story from own experience. I learned about more than paleontology from Bechly. Read More ›
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No. 2 Story of 2024: Darwinists Devolve

One sign of a robust scientific theory is the quality of its most prominent proponents. But serious advocates of Darwinism have become an endangered species. Read More ›

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