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Photo credit: Yves Bousquet, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Beetles

Natural selection is the great magician in evolutionary fantasy land, where it explains rapid change in explosive radiations as well as no change at all. Read More ›
Navaornis_hestiae_holotype
Photo credit: Luis M. Chiappe, Guillermo Navalón, Agustín G. Martinelli, Ismar de Souza Carvalho, Rodrigo Miloni Santucci, Yun-Hsin Wu & Daniel J. Field, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: New Fossil Stem Bird Is Surprisingly Modern

Why do we mostly hear only one side of the story in the media? I suppose we must be protected from dangerous questions that could come up. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: New Research on How Delicate Soft-Bodied Organisms Can Be Perfectly Preserved

All the just-so-stories of macroevolution are completely dispensable in real (experimental) biology. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: An Ediacaran Animal with a Question Mark

To claim that such undefinable blobs in sandstone represent fossils of the oldest motile animals is massively overselling the evidence to say the least. Read More ›
Cynognathus
Photo credit: Ghedoghedo, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: New Fossil Evidence Challenges Another Icon of Evolution

This would have been very interesting news to my friend and colleague Jonathan Wells, who had described many such cases in his ground-breaking books. Read More ›
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Photo credit: en:User:Verisimilus, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Chitinozoa — Enigmatic Microfossils from the Paleozoic Era

We may now add the mysterious Chitinozoa to this ever-growing list of products of the burst of biological creativity in the Early Cambrian. Read More ›
Charnia_Spun
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Fossil Friday: The Avalon Explosion and the Power of Maybe

While evolutionary biology has no explanation even according to the authors themselves, intelligent design theory does. Read More ›
Hobbit-man
Photo credit: Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 FR <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/fr/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Hobbits Thwart Darwinian Predictions Again

Evolutionists reliably tend to follow one foundational principle: “What must not be, cannot be!” Read More ›
Thalassodromeus_in_Japan
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Fossil Friday: When Paleontologists Let Turtles Fly

Do such misidentifications and interpretational problems show that Darwinism is false and intelligent design is true? Of course not. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Update on the Dubious Nature of the Precambrian Gabonionta

What we definitely do not find here is any credible evidence for an evolutionary transition to genuine multicellular eukaryotes. Read More ›

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