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Whale of a Webinar Debuts a Delightful “Long Story Short” Video

Whales are held up as a model of what unguided evolution can do in a short time: in this case, just 8 million years, or perhaps even half that. Read More ›
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No Harm, No Foul — What If Darwinism Were Excised from Biology?

Considering several recent papers shows that eliminating evolutionary words and concepts simplifies and improves scientific explanations.  Read More ›
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Photo credit: Joe Mabel from Seattle, US [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

First Review of Darwin Devolves Relies Heavily on Circular Reasoning

This line of argumentation only appears compelling to those who assume from that start that the core assumptions of the standard evolutionary model are true. Read More ›
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Ewert’s Dependency Graph Proposal: A Forest of Compositions

To help further explain this concept, I would like to introduce readers to my pet bunny, Daisy.  Read More ›
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Photo credit: A black-bellied seedcracker, by Dr. Tom Smith, UCLA, via EurekAlert!.

Encore Performances in the Design of Life

News from Princeton discusses the work of Tom Smith and Bridgett vonHoldt, who have solved a “long-standing finch beak mystery.” The answer turned out to be Mendelian, not Darwinian. Read More ›
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From Ewert’s Dependency Graph Paper – A “Gut Punch” to Darwin’s Tree?

I’m reminded again that the Bradley Center’s Robert Marks, among many other distinctions, was born to podcast. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder

Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry.  Read More ›
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Awe at Echolocation? Nah, Convergence Again

The passionate focus on evolutionary relationships in biology papers tends to obscure awe at the wonders in life. Read More ›
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More on Winston Ewert’s “Dependency Graph of Life” — An Important New Paper

The evolution of life mimics the evolution of software or other human technology. Read More ›
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Image: A traditional Tree of Life, via Wikimedia Commons.

BIO-Complexity Presents Better Model than Common Ancestry for Explaining Pattern of Nature

One of the central pillars of the standard evolutionary model is the belief that all living species evolved from a common ancestor through a gradually unfolding tree of life. Read More ›

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