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Darwin’s Doubt

trilobite
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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 ›
octopus eye
Photo credit: Nathan Rupert, via Flickr (cropped).

Geneticists Puzzled by Octopus’s Unique Genes: Seem to Have Appeared Out of Nowhere

“Evolution of novel genes”? Isn’t that the question at hand? Where do novel genes come from? Read More ›
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“Crazy Stuff”? Dave Farina on the Waiting Time Problem

The formulation “crazy stuff” of course implicitly suggests that this is a pseudo-problem invented by evil and stupid creationists. Read More ›
Archaeopteryx
Photo: Archaeopteryx, by H. Raab (User: Vesta), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Educating “Professor Dave” on the Fossil Record and Genetics

Farina says that if you want to make “creationists’ head explode” you just have to mention that reptile scales and bird feathers are made of the same keratin. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Dave Farina Criticizes Intelligent Design but Doesn’t Understand It

Boom! There goes the “exquisitely documented” evolution of turtles. Sorry, Professor Dave. Read More ›
Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata
Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata
Kimberella quadrata, an Edicaran organism, by Masahiro miyasaka / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

“Lying on the Internet”? Debunking Dave Farina on Stephen Meyer

A lot of nonsense gets published in peer-reviewed journals and it needs expertise to separate the wheat from the chaff. Farina lacks any expertise to do this. Read More ›
Opabinia regalis
Photo: Fossil of Opabinia regalis, a Cambrian animal, by Jstuby at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Untangling “Professor Dave’s” Confusion about the Cambrian Explosion

We have seen the absurdly low quality of this individual’s video. But there is much more. I have added timecodes in square brackets for easier reference. Read More ›
Dave Farina
Photo: Dave Farina, via YouTube.

Debunking “Professor Dave’s” Hit Piece Against Stephen Meyer

This YouTube video runs to about an hour and a quarter, so I will be answering him once again in a series, minute by minute. Read More ›
country junction
Photo: A country junction, by Michael Dibb, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinists’ Delusion: Closing Thoughts on Jason Rosenhouse

Does it really need to be pointed out that roads are designed? That where they go is designed? And that even badly laid out roads are laid out by design? Read More ›
Cambrian animal
Image: A scene from The Information Enigma, via Discovery Institute.

Molecular Clocks Can’t Save Darwinists from the Cambrian Dilemma

To explain away the Cambrian explosion has been and remains a high priority for Darwinists. Read More ›

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