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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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Jonathan Witt

Topic

fossils

Carl Sagan
Photo credit: Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Granville Sewell
Date
March 5, 2023
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Technology
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Yes, Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence — Let’s Hear Some for Darwinian Evolution

Granville Sewell
March 5, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics, Technology
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Carl Sagan famously said, “I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Read More ›
cow
Photo credit: David Coppedge.
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David Coppedge
Date
January 25, 2023
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Biology
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Life Sciences
Science
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Darwin, We Have a Problem: Horse Teeth Are Not Less Evolved

David Coppedge
January 25, 2023
Biology, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Life Sciences, Science
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Time to debunk another evolutionary story by questioning underlying Darwinian assumptions about how things came to be. Read More ›
Aardvarks
Photo: Amphiorycteropus gaudryi, Miocene Greece, modified after Koufos 2022 fig. 3, fair use.
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Günter Bechly
Date
December 23, 2022
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Evolution
Paleontology
Science
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Fossil Friday: Miocene Aardvarks and the Abrupt Origin of Tubulidentata

Günter Bechly
December 23, 2022
Evolution, Paleontology, Science
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So much about the congruence of anatomical and genetic similarity predicted by Darwin’s theory. Read More ›
Purgatorius
Photo: High resolution CT scans of fossilized teeth and jaw bones of Purgatorius mckeeveri material from UCMP, Gregory Wilson Mantilla / Stephen Chester, fair use.
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Günter Bechly
Date
December 9, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Purgatorius and the Abrupt Origin of Primates

Günter Bechly
December 9, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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Primates not only appeared suddenly, but their different subgroups of lemurs, tarsier, and simians all appeared at about the same time. Read More ›
Namacalathus and Cloudina
Namacalathus and Cloudina fossils
Photo: Namacalathus and Cloudina fossils, collection of Redpath Museum, McGill University, by Daderot / CC0, via Wikimedia.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
December 2, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Let’s Help “Professor Dave” Understand the Precambrian

Günter Bechly
December 2, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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We have much to teach the non-professor, and I trust that he is grateful for the education being rendered to him here. Read More ›
Triassic Pollen
Photo: Angiosperm-like pollen Type I from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland, modified after Hochuli & Feist-Burkhardt 2013 in Frontiers, CC BY 4.0.
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Günter Bechly
Date
December 2, 2022
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Is Triassic Angiosperm-Like Pollen a Solution to Darwin’s Abominable Mystery?

Günter Bechly
December 2, 2022
Evolution, Paleontology
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There is one remaining issue to address, which is palynology, the science of fossil pollen. 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).
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Günter Bechly
Date
December 1, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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“Lying on the Internet”? Debunking Dave Farina on Stephen Meyer

Günter Bechly
December 1, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
22
A lot of nonsense gets published in peer-reviewed journals and it needs expertise to separate the wheat from the chaff. Farina lacks any expertise to do this. Read More ›
Homo_sapiens_neanderthalensis-Mr._N
Image credit: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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October 20, 2022
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Science
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Got These Bad Habits? Blame Neanderthals!

Science & Culture
October 20, 2022
Human Origins and Anthropology, Science
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Neanderthal man, long extinct as a separate human group, now explains why we smoke and drink to excess… Read More ›
Moniopterus
Photo: Moniopterus japonicus, modified after Haga et al. 2010, https://doi.org/10.1666/09-126.1, fair use.
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Günter Bechly
Date
October 7, 2022
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Moniopterus — Snake, Beetle, or Mollusk?

Günter Bechly
October 7, 2022
Evolution, Paleontology
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Scientists are only humans and many of them see what they want to see. Fossils often leave a lot of room for wild imagination and wishful thinking. Read More ›
Svante Pääbo
Photo: Svante Pääbo, by Jonathunder, GFDL 1.2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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David Klinghoffer
Date
October 3, 2022
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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New Nobel Laureate, Svante Pääbo, on the “Politics” of Paleontology and Humans Origins

David Klinghoffer
October 3, 2022
Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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These are welcome and candid observations, refuting notions that human origins is a fully objective area of research. Read More ›

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