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Darwinism Is a Potemkin Theory of Evolution

As with the legendary fake villages, evolutionary theory consists of a thin façade cloaking a lack of substance. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Three Modern Scientific Challenges to the Causal Adequacy of Darwinian Explanations

As a consequence of the collapsing tree problem, I suggest abandoning evolutionary classifications and return to a pre-Darwinian Linnaean classification. Read More ›
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Another Call for a “New Synthesis”

I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch. Read More ›
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Happy New Year! #1 Story of 2022: Evolutionists Admit Their Field’s Failures

If you’ve ever owned an automobile toward the end of its life, the situation will be familiar. Read More ›
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Assessing Denis Noble’s (Non-ID) Critique of Darwinism

No matter what we do to the DNA of a fruit fly embryo, there are only three possible outcomes: a normal fruit fly, a defective fruit fly, or a dead fruit fly. Read More ›
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Donate Darwinism for a Tax Credit? Evolutionists Admit Their Field’s Failures

If you’ve ever owned an automobile toward the end of its life, the situation will be familiar. Read More ›
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Here’s a New Evolutionary Theory Based on Information

Information follows different rules from matter and energy, which might change the way we see evolution. Read More ›
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Species Pairs: A New Challenge to Darwinists 

I consider this simple argument as a final nail in the coffin of Darwinian unguided evolution. Read More ›
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Photo: Chrismooreia michaelbehei, a fossil dragonfly species, 191 million years old, named in honor of ID scientist Michael Behe, by Günter Bechly.

Günter Bechly: Why the Fossil Record Points to Intelligent Design

He covers how “a lightbulb went on” for him about Darwinism, the fatal waiting time problem, why the ballyhooed extended synthesis fails to save the day for evolution, and more. Read More ›
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Darrel Falk Downplays the Ramifications of the 2016 Royal Society Meeting

The meeting exposed the reality, hidden from the public, that leading evolutionary theorists recognize that natural selection has no real creative power. Read More ›

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