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Gunter Bechly
Photo: Günter Bechly in a scene from the documentary Revolutionary, via Discovery Institute.

Bechly: “Life’s Second ‘Big Bang'”

He touches on other biological explosions, including the Avalon explosion, the Triassic explosion, and the origin of flowering plants. Read More ›
trilobites
Photo: Trilobites, by Kevin Walsh [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Bechly: Problems with Universal Common Ancestry Posed by the Fossil Record

Paleontologist Günter Bechly was a proponent of Darwinism until he discovered significant scientific reasons to doubt the evolutionary story. Read More ›
gr3_lrg
Photo source: Current Biology (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)).

Darwin Wept: Cambrian Brains and Other Challenges for Evolution

Whenever you find papers and articles dealing with the Cambrian fossil record in the usual science journals, there are commonalities. Read More ›
Australopithecus afarensis
human origins
Photo: An artist imagines Australopithecus afarensis, Hall of Human Origins, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History; reconstruction by John Gurche; photographed by Tim Evanson / CC BY-SA.

Ann Gauger Puts Ape-to-Man Evolution Under the Microscope

Among the tenets of theistic evolution is the idea that humans evolved from a large population of ape-like creatures. Read More ›
fallen tree
Photo credit: Mick Haupt via Unsplash.

Lukas Ruegger: Homology and Phylogenetics Topple Darwin’s Tree

Evolutionists have all the evidence they need in genes and morphology to draw the one true tree of life. Or do they? Read More ›
Stephen Jay Gould
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Lukas Ruegger: Three Problems with Punctuated Equilibrium

By the time of his death, Stephen Jay Gould had come full circle, in effect, returning to traditional Darwinism. Read More ›
Australopithecus-africanus
Photo: Australopithecus africanus skull, by José Braga; Didier Descouens [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Günter Bechly: Goodbye to Darwinian Gradualism

Bechly touches on the oldest australopithecine fossil skull ever found, from 3.8 million years ago. Read More ›
giraffe
Photo credit: Elizabeth Smith, via Unsplash.

Where Is the Evidence for Darwinism?

Notoriously, one of the shrewdest of Darwin’s “reticences” concerned the lack of fossil evidence. Read More ›
Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata
Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata
Kimberella quadrata, an Edicaran organism, by Masahiro miyasaka / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Lukas Ruegger on the “Ediacaran Explosion”— No Solution to the Cambrian Puzzle

Ruegger is the personable new intelligent design “explainer” whose videos take an approach similar to Khan Academy’s, but better. Read More ›
trilobite
Photo credit: Björn Wylezich on Adobe Stock.

“Darwin’s Nightmare”: First Episode of YouTube Series with Lukas Ruegger 

Relatively brief videos have emerged as one of the most dynamic and influential forms of education out there. Read More ›

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