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Walking_whales
Photo: Pakicetus and Ambulocetus by Thewissen 2009, via Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Fossil Friday: Walking Whales and Why All Critiques of the Waiting Time Problem Fail

These fossils are often celebrated as missing links and a success story for Darwinism. Read More ›
Darwinius
Photo: Darwinius marsillae, Franzen et al. 2009, via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Fossil Friday: Darwinius, or How Wishful Thinking Makes a Missing Link

The media campaign lead to headlines that were not content with calling the fossil a missing link but simply “THE link” or “the eighth wonder of the world.” Read More ›
Rhenocystis
Photo: Rhenocystis latipendunculata, (c) Christel Schuhmacher, Hunsrück Museum Simmern, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Fossil Friday: Rhenocystis and the Controversial Calcichordate Hypothesis

It looks a bit like a tadpole with body and tail, and this indeed points towards one of the great scientific controversies of the 20th century. Read More ›
Sahelanthropus
Photo: Sahelanthropus, by Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Sahelanthropus, to Be or Not to Be Bipedal

On the morning of July 19, 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Sahara Desert. Read More ›
young Darwin statue
young Darwin statue
Statue of a young Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury School, by Ailurus~frwiki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Acquainting Darwin with the Fossil Record

Romjue’s Darwin explores what we’ve learned about the fossil record since Darwin’s time on Earth — and it’s not what he expects. Read More ›
Nectocaris
Photo credit: Martin R. Smith, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid

Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill. Read More ›
Megalodon
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: Megalodon and Intelligent Design in Sharks

Megalodon was a specialized apex predator and fed mainly on large baleen whales. Read More ›
Makarkinia
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: A Fossil Butterfly Lookalike

An intelligent design paradigm can easily accommodate convergences as a natural consequence of a designer reusing the same ideas in different constructions. Read More ›
Gunter Bechly
Photo: Günter Bechly in a scene from the documentary Revolutionary, via Discovery Institute.

A Paleontologist Explains Intelligent Design to You

Günter Bechly describes the species pair challenge, the waiting time problem, and much more that Darwinists can't explain. Read More ›
Pravda
Photo: <I>Pravda</I> editorial offices, via Wikimedia Commons.

This Cambrian Explosion “Explanation” Qualifies as Propaganda

It’s interesting to see what Derek E. G. Briggs is willing to admit about the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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