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On Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks, the Scientific Literature Supports Stephen Meyer

Mutations in genes that affect body plan characteristics don’t lead to new body plans — they lead to dead embryos. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer’s Extensive Treatment of Evo-Devo 

"On arriving at Caltech in 1971, Eric Davidson chose the purple sea urchin as his experimental model system." Read More ›
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Eminent Biologist Gerd Müller Responds to Stephen Meyer’s Arguments from the Joe Rogan Podcast

These are important statements that get at the very heart of the viability of evolutionary models. Read More ›
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Five Years Ago, Yale’s David Gelernter Gave Up on Darwin

David Gelernter is one of a growing number of scientists and thinkers bold enough to look beyond a Darwinian paradigm. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Ediacaran Animal Embryos Put to Test and Put to Rest

There are no fossil animals in the Ediacaran, when they should be found according to the gradualistic predictions of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
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A Secular Gay Agnostic Talks with Stephen Meyer

Why, by the way, do I tick off Moulton’s identities in the headline? I hate putting people into simplistic categories. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Discontinuities in the Fossil Record — A Problem for Neo-Darwinism

The fossil record generally documents a discontinuous history of life with sudden appearances of new body plans and new forms of life in saltational events. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Update on Cambrian Bryozoans

The authors emphasize that “the origin of the bryozoans remains a mystery” but explicitly confirm the reality of the Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›
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No. 3 Story of 2023: Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Read More ›
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Wisdom Wednesday: Yale Polymath David Gelernter’s Farewell to Darwinism

Writes Professor Gelernter, "The origin of species is exactly what Darwin cannot explain." Read More ›

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