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DNA
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What Biologists Can Learn from Engineers, and Vice Versa

If biologists had thought more like engineers, stumbling into the myth of "Junk DNA" might have been avoided. Read More ›
Tropidogyne pentaptera
Photo: Tropidogyne pentaptera, a mid Cretaceous flower from Burmese amber, by Oregon State University (license CC BY-SA 2.0), via Flickr.

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Jurassic Flowering Plants After All?

This year a new article by Silvestro et al. (2021), "Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants," was published. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Axe: Why “No Free Lunch” for Darwin?

That there is a design to life is intuitive, but most of us, if challenged on it, would want to be able to defend our intuition persuasively. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer, via Discovery Institute.

God Hypothesis: Stephen Meyer Answers Your Questions

Daniel Reeves emceed, and in his introductory conversation with Meyer the two discuss a tidbit about Meyer’s time at Cambridge when he was working on his PhD. Read More ›
giraffe
Photo credit: Elizabeth Smith, via Unsplash.

Giraffe Genome Is Not Evolutionary

Ah, the giraffe. Darwin put his mechanism at war with Lamarck’s to explain the giraffe’s long neck. Evolutionists are still battling over the question. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Scott Turner: New Video Series on His Model for Evolution

Darwin’s ideas have become a flashpoint in the culture, so any discussion of the science can easily become highly polarized and politicized. Read More ›
Cambrian animal phyla
Image: Cambrian animal phyla, by CNX OpenStax, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Cambrian Explosion Has Just Gone Nuclear

Here are two very interesting updates to my recent articles on alleged Ediacaran animals and the Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›
C. elegans
Photo: C. elegans, by HoPo, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

To Build a Body Plan, Start with a Plan

What is a body plan if there is no plan behind it? It is not a body but a blob, a formless plop of biological matter. Read More ›
Earthrise
Photo: Earthrise, by Bill Anders, Apollo 8, via NASA.

Sewell: Top Five Evidences for Intelligent Design

Mathematician Granville Sewell describes how atheists often argue that scientists cannot appeal to design since they cannot explain the origin of the designer. Read More ›
altruism
Image, Belisarius Begging for Alms, by Jacques-Louise David.

To Say the Least, Altruism Is Not an Easy Fit with Darwinism

Evolutionists have made some progress (they think) explaining such things with theories of group selection or kin selection. Read More ›

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