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Dinos Meet Carl Sagan and a Marriage on the Rocks

The family has put together the Big Premise (a solar flare has flung Oak Street back to the Mesozoic era). The dad predicts, “God's not gonna let us die here.” Read More ›
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Photo: Giant squid, by Stephanemartin, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Life at the Limits of the Possible

Dr. Stuart Burgess suggests that organisms at the extremes not only exemplify ultimate engineering but specifically point to theistic design. Read More ›
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After K–T Extinction Event, Life’s Unexpected Rebound Was “Ridiculously Fast”

Although the welfare of plankton may not be at the very top of most people’s minds, these tiny organisms fill an important ecological niche. Read More ›
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We Are Still Learning About the Wonderful Design of Humpback Whales

Design aspects of whales defy explanations based on Darwinian evolution, such as their complex vocal communications and the internal testes of the males. Read More ›
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Oldest Ancestor of Modern Sea Turtles Was — A Sea Turtle

There are seven species of sea turtles in the world today, all beautifully designed and, sadly, all endangered. Read More ›
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How We Bite with Apatite: The Wonders of a Hard Mineral

Explore the features of a remarkable mineral erupted from volcanoes that is found in our teeth. How did it get there? Read More ›
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Walt Disney’s Views on Evolution

On the Magic Skyway, animatronics were used to tell stories of ages past, from the age of the dinosaurs to the arrival of man. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: A Scientific Controversy About Warm-Blooded Animals

How do popularizers of Darwinism such as Richard Dawkins react? Unsurprisingly, they just ignore the evidence. Read More ›
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No. 5 Story of 2024: New Evidence Against Dino-Bird Ancestry

Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: More Evidence That “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds

It definitely looks like the common dino-to-bird narrative has been massively oversold to the public. Read More ›

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