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rope bridge
Photo credit: Tony Webster, via Flickr (cropped).

A Bridge Too Far? In Search of Precambrian Sponges

The most celebrated Precambrian sponge may not be a sponge at all. Watch Darwinians try to coax it into spongehood. Read More ›
Kimberella
Kimberella
Photo: Kimberella, by Ghedoghedo / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum

The fossil record speaks clearly and cries out loud: the history of life on Earth is a history of saltations. Read More ›
Kimberella quadrata
Kimberella quadrata
Photo: Dorsal mold of Kimberella quadrata from the Ediacaran of Russia,
showing the cuticular dorsal shield with tubercular nodes and the tapered oral end; by Aleksey Nagovitsyn: Wikimedia, GNU FDL).

Kimberella and Controversial Relationships — A Chronological Synopsis

It is remarkable, indeed, how detailed a medusoid morphology was projected onto Kimberella fossils and later recognized as pure fantasy. Read More ›
Kimberella quadrata
Kimberella quadrata
Photo: Kimberella quadrata, by Ghedoghedo / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Kimberella — Interpreting the Fossils

One of the few features that are uncontroversial is the body size: The fossils measure usually 1-5 cm in length. Read More ›
Kimberella
Kimberella
Masahiro miyasaka / CC Photo: Kimberella fossil, BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

Kimberella — Conflicting Evidence from Taphonomy

The fossilization of Kimberella specimens was most likely based on rapid burial with sand during storm events. Read More ›
Kimberella
Kimberella
Photo: Kimberella, by Ghedoghedo / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Conflicting Views about Kimberella’s Ecology

Based on the same fossil evidence, there is obviously much room for speculation and quite different opinions. Read More ›
Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore
Photo: Mount Rushmore, by National Park Service.

Here Is How to Teach Intelligent Design to Young People

The first principle is helping participants discover the evidence for design themselves. Read More ›
whale response II

Whales — Time to Put Evolution’s Exhausted “Poster Child” to Rest

The argument about whales turns on two points: “Population genetics calculations say no,” and “New fossil find throws the series into disarray.” Read More ›
Ediacaran-sea
Image: An artist imagines a scene from Ediacaran seafloor, by James St. John / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0).

In Carbon Isotope Excursions, Darwinists Lose Another Excuse for the Cambrian Explosion

The claim that a spike in carbon isotope concentrations led to the explosion of biological diversity in the Cambrian doesn’t hold up, as if it would have helped, anyway. Read More ›
Tesla factory
Photo: Tesla factory, by Steve Jurvetson / CC BY.

On the Evolution of Automobiles

In automobile evolution, for example (or in the evolution of software), as in the history of life, we see major new features appear suddenly. Read More ›

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