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Author
Michael Behe

Date
April 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwin Devolves, elephants, evolution, extinction, genes, genetic information, genomes, machinery, mutations, proteins, The Blind Watchmaker, woolly mammoth}

Even More Mammoth Devolution

_{Michael Behe
April 11, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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The lesson from woolly mammoth studies, and many other ones, is that it is much faster and easier to break or blunt a gene than to improve or make a new one. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
April 5, 2023

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, bison, Brave New World, carbon dioxide, CRISPR-Cas9, de-extinction, DNA, elephants, epigenetics, extinction, global warming, Great Lakes, Ice Age, marsupials, methane, North America, Pleistocene, settled science, Siberia, South Africa, The Atlantic}

Pleistocene Park: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

_{Rob Sheldon
April 5, 2023

Ecology, Evolution, Paleontology

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The idea is to recreate some of the DNA from the sequencing of frozen mammoths, and inject it into an Asian elephant egg. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 9, 2023

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, beavers, carnivores, Darwinism, ecosystem, elephants, engineers, evolution, herbivores, humans, intelligent design, lions, mammals, Stanford University, stewardship, trunks, vertebrates}

Beyond Evolutionary Fitness, Mammals Are Ecosystem Engineers

_{David Coppedge
February 9, 2023

Ecology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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When animals give back more than they take, does that fit the model of selfishness that Darwinism promotes? Read More ›

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Author
Melissa Cain Travis

Date
February 8, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astronomers, Christianity, cosmos, creator, crocodiles, earth, elephants, faith, Galileo Galilei, heliocentrism, history, intelligent design, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, natural theology, Nicolaus Copernicus, prayer, Saturn, sun}

Johannes Kepler on the Holy Work of Astronomy

_{Melissa Cain Travis
February 8, 2023

Astronomy, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Kepler rejected the idea that the enormous scale of the cosmos suggested that mankind is less important than in the cozier Aristotelian-Ptolemaic model. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 27, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Africa, Early Eocene, Egypt, elephants, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Morocco, primates, radiations, teeth}

Fossil Friday: Elephants and the Abrupt Origin of Proboscidea

_{Günter Bechly
January 27, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology, Science

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Is this what Darwinism would predict? Of course not! Is it instead what intelligent design theory would predict? Indeed it is. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 20, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Afrotheria, common descent, Darwinism, elephants, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, mammals, Paleocene, paleontology, synapomorphies, Washington State, whales}

Fossil Friday: Sea Cows and the Abrupt Origin of Sirenia and Desmostylia

_{Günter Bechly
January 20, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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So, is every thing OK with Darwinism after all? No so fast. Actually, there are some problems that do not square well with a Darwinian scenario. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, convergent evolution, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian mechanism, dolphins, elephants, evolution, foresight, fur, genes, Human, humans, intelligent design, mammals, planning, Science Alert, selection pressure, University of Pittsburgh}

More Evolution by Devolution: Mammalian Hairlessness

_{David Klinghoffer
January 11, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

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The mechanism of Darwinian evolution absolutely works — by breaking genes, when that provides a selective advantage, or turning them off. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 9, 2022

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, apes, brain, crows, cuttlefish, Dogs, dolphins, elephants, intelligence, MicroRNAs, nervous system, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, octopuses, Oregon, RNA, squid, vertebrates, whales}

MicroRNAs: A New Clue About Octopus Intelligence?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 9, 2022

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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While octopus brains are very different from vertebrate brains, they share with vertebrates, a huge number of microRNAs. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 9, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, asteroid, bats, Canada, carnivores, dinosaurs, Disney, elephants, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, mammals, Montana, North America, paleoanthropology, Paleocene, Paleogene, primates, rodents}

Fossil Friday: Purgatorius and the Abrupt Origin of Primates

_{Günter Bechly
December 9, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Primates not only appeared suddenly, but their different subgroups of lemurs, tarsier, and simians all appeared at about the same time. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 4, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, elephants, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, hippos, homologies, mammals, Miocene, Natural History Museum, Neo-Darwinism, phylogenetics, synapomorphies}

Fossil Friday: Desmostylia, and the Problem of Horizontal Tooth Displacement

_{Günter Bechly
November 4, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

10}

Nature appears to be deceptive. Are Darwinists bothered by such problems? Not at all. Read More ›