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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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Fruit Is Designed for Life

This type of multi-purpose optimization speaks more of intelligent foresight and design than random adaptation.  Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Sudden Appearance of Crocs in the Triassic Fossil Record

The Triassic period proves to be a real carpet bombing of bursts of biological creativity. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: The Mystery of the Frankenstein Dinosaur

Different studies based on different data do not converge on one true tree of life. Read More ›

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