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Photo: Lithomantis, courtesy of Lutz Koch.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Winged Insects

According to Darwinism, the evolution of such a system would have required a plethora of intermediate stages that brought this locomotory apparatus into being. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Dragonflies Make the Most of a Tiny Brain

For an animal whose brain is the size of a pinhead, one would think its capabilities would be hopelessly limited. Not so. Read More ›
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Photo: Chrismooreia michaelbehei, a fossil dragonfly species, 191 million years old, named in honor of ID scientist Michael Behe, by Günter Bechly.

Insect Evolution: Another Illustration of How Darwinism “Explains Away”

Dr. Günter Bechly notes three contradictions at odds with Darwinian gradualism. Read More ›
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Image source: Shutterstock, modified by Ryan Axe. 

Evolution by Blind Guidance Is Really Just Unguided Evolution

As a theistic evolutionist, Hans Vodder thinks God may well have used Darwinian evolution to create the full diversity of life. Read More ›
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Photos: Michael Behe in a screenshot from Revolutionary: Michael Behe and the Mystery of Molecular Machines, courtesy of Discovery Institute

Let Us Now Praise Courageous Men

It is a fitting homage that Günter Bechly should name this fossil for Michael Behe. Read More ›
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Photo: Chrismooreia michaelbehei, by Günter Bechly, Biologic Institute, Redmond, WA.

New Species of Fossil Dragonfly Named for ID Proponent Michael Behe

The paradigm of cladistic classification based on assumed common ancestry should be reconsidered in favor of a traditional phenetic classification based on maximum similarity. Read More ›
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The Calculation-Free Design Intuition and the Calculations That Validate It

From childhood, we all naturally ascribe things like spiders and hummingbirds to a “God-like designer.” But are we right to do this? Read More ›

Stenophlebia amphitrite, a Stunningly Gorgeous Dragonfly from the Upper Jurassic

Take a moment and absorb the beauty of two photographs by our colleague Günter Bechly. Read More ›

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