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embryo of pallid sturgeon
Photo: embryo of pallid sturgeon, by USFWS Mountain-Prairie via Flickr (cropped).

“Evidence for Evolution”? Khan Academy Pushes Haeckel’s Phony Embryo Drawings

I’ve watched many Khan Academy videos over the years — sometimes just for fun, and sometimes to advise teachers on whether they are good tools to use. Read More ›
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Photo: Entrance to Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp, by Nelson Pérez [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Listen: How Darwinism Fueled Nazi Racism, White Nationalism

Since Darwin was a peaceable Victorian gentleman and naturalist, what connection could there be between him and Hitler and contemporary white nationalism? Read More ›
Columbine Memorial
Photo: Columbine Memorial, Littleton, Colorado, by Denverjeffrey, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinian Racism: How Evolutionary Theory Shaped Nazi Thinking

It was the spring 1999, a Denver suburb. The day, April 20 — Hitler’s birthday. An 18-year-old white nationalist donned a shirt emblazoned “Natural Selection.” Read More ›
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Photo: Adolf Hitler, by Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H1216-0500-002 / CC-BY-SA, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Book Explores Darwinian Racism, Then and Now

To hear some tell it, Adolf Hitler was a Christian creationist who rejected Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
Haeckel's Embryos
Image: Haeckel's Embryos, via Wikimedia Commons.

So, Does Ontogeny Recapitulate Phylogeny? Nope

When I was younger, my family lived next-door to a retired dentist named Max. Before entering dentistry, Max studied biology at UC Berkeley. Read More ›
Ernst Haeckel
Photo: Ernst Haeckel, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Book: Social Darwinism Among the Biologists

The authors imply that social Darwinism was a position taken by non-scientists who just didn’t understand the science. Read More ›
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Photo: Some believe microfossils could be animal embryos; by Sebastian Willman, via EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/248210.php?from=483256

First Animals? Fossils Won’t Fit Cambrian Evolution

Evolutionists are still fighting over the first animals. Each new fossil creates new questions, but there is one constant: bluffing that Darwinism is true. Read More ›
Piltdown Man
Image: Examining Piltdown Man, by John Cooke, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

As Science Frauds Go, Haeckel Beats Piltdown Man

Piltdown Man is a historical curiosity. Haeckel continues to resound in our minds today. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Kasper Rasmussen via Unsplash.

Sleep on It: Design in the Subconscious Brain

An international team reasoned there had to be a purpose for sleep. In one of the largest datasets ever collected, they believe they found two functions. Read More ›
peppered moth
Photo credit: Ben Sale, via Flickr (cropped).

Strickberger’s Evolution Textbook Promotes False Evolutionary Icons

From crippled fruit flies we move to perhaps the most pervasive icon of them all, the peppered moth. Read More ›

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