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Eberlin
Photo credit: Myriams-Fotos, via Pixabay.

Ignorance of Evolutionary Theory as a “Superpower”

Early in her career, Celeste Nelson tried to publish a paper on chicken lung development. The reviewers were not very interested in her findings. Read More ›
Michael-Denton
Photo: Michael Denton, by Daniel Reeves.

Summer Seminars: Beyond the Evolutionary Firewall

The Center for Science and Culture is populating a community of dissenters in academia with the annual all-expenses-paid Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design. Read More ›
bean plant
Photo credit: Kolforn (Wikimedia), CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Can the Laws of Nature Design Life? Emily Reeves Considers the Compatibility of Evolution and ID

As an example, Dr. Reeves describes how the law of gravity interacts with a growing plant. Read More ›
Rhynchaeites_sp
Photo; Haplochromis, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: The Big Bang of Tertiary Birds and a Phylogenetic Mess

There was an abrupt origin, a burst of biological creativity, which is best explained by an infusion of new information from an intelligent agent. Read More ›
Hesperornis skeleton
Photo: Hesperornis skeleton, Ghedoghedo via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fossil Friday: New Evidence Against Dinosaur Ancestry of Birds

Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs. Read More ›
bird tracks
Photo: Trisauropodiscus and bird tracks, Abrahams et al., CC-BY-4.0.

Fossil Friday: Fossil Bird Tracks Expand the Temporal Paradox

The origin of birds involves a severe problem for Darwinists, which paleo-ornithologist Alan Feduccia has called a temporal paradox. Read More ›
Tetrapodophis
Image: Tetrapodophis, photo Tischlinger in Gramling 2016, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Is the Four-Legged Snake Tetrapodophis a Missing Link or Not?

There should have existed transitional forms, which exhibit at least some typical features of basal snake anatomy. Read More ›
Cambrian Bryozoa
Photo: Fossil bryozoan, Carboniferous of Ohio, James St. John via Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0 DEED.

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go

This is a field that often has more in common with the interpretation of inkblots in Rorschach tests than with hard science. Read More ›
trilobite
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Why Evolutionary Biologists Are “Fatigued” by Darwin

Says Stephen Meyer, “The neo-Darwinian math is itself showing that the neo-Darwinian mechanism cannot build complex adaptations." Read More ›
BST
Photo: Fossil algae, Ediacaran Lantian Formation, Zhang et al. 2021: fig. 4, fair use. Source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110449.

Fossil Friday: New Study Challenges the Artifact Hypothesis

It is time for Darwinists to stop their science denial and face the fact that empirical data consistently contradict core predictions of their theory. Read More ›

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