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Sleep — Designed for Our Good

The evolutionary mindset operates as a major obstacle to the scientific understanding of sleep. Read More ›
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Photo: Confuciusornis, by Tommy from Arad, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: A Popular Just-So Story on the Origin of Bird Flight Bites the Dust

There is a long-running about whether birds first took off by running and flapping from the ground up, or whether they jumped as gliders from the tree down. Read More ›
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Sandgrouse Takes the Royal Society to Design School

Episode guest Brian Miller talks with host Casey Luskin about the details of the ingenious design. Read More ›
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Photo: A featherwing beetle (shown at left) is comparable in size to a large amoeba (right), by SKOLKOVO INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, via EurekAlert! (no usage restrictions).

#9 Story of 2022: New Mode of Flight Found in Tiny Beetle

A millimeter-sized beetle flies efficiently with feathery wings and a beat mode not seen before. Did it evolve by natural selection? Read More ›
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Photo: An eastern towhee, by Shenandoah National Park, via Flickr.

Birds, Bats, Insects: Field Work on Animal Flight Reveals Wonders of Intelligent Design

The capabilities of flying animals continue to amaze scientists, and explanations challenge their best efforts. Does evolutionary theory help? Read More ›
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Photo: A featherwing beetle (shown at left) is comparable in size to a large amoeba (right), by SKOLKOVO INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, via EurekAlert! (no usage restrictions).

New Mode of Flight Found in Tiny Beetle

A millimeter-sized beetle flies efficiently with feathery wings and a beat mode not seen before. Did it evolve by natural selection? Read More ›
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Ants Do Trigonometry: A Problem for Darwinism

How can a trigonometric mathematical computation be programmed into the brain of an ant through a neo-Darwinian process of genetic mutation and natural selection? Read More ›
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Listen: Scale-to-Feather Evolution Doesn’t Fly

Giberson and Collins point to the feather as a prime example of a novel feature arising via blind evolution. Read More ›
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Here’s How to Use Precious Family Time, Wisely

Despite their sometimes-nonchalant attitudes as they try to act cool, children do care what their parents think. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design in Birds, Insects Inspires Aeronautics and More

Scientists in London filled a flight tunnel with thousands of tiny soap bubbles to reveal the motions of air as the owl flies through them. Read More ›

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