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Photo: Sea turtles, by Claudio Giovenzana, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Magnetic Navigation May Be a Gift from Bacteria

New clues to the prevalence of magnetotactic bacteria suggest that diverse animals may employ microbes for help with long-distance navigation. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Kasper Rasmussen via Unsplash.

Sleep on It: Design in the Subconscious Brain

An international team reasoned there had to be a purpose for sleep. In one of the largest datasets ever collected, they believe they found two functions. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Ben Sale, via Flickr (cropped).

Strickberger’s Evolution Textbook Promotes False Evolutionary Icons

From crippled fruit flies we move to perhaps the most pervasive icon of them all, the peppered moth. Read More ›
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Optimized Insect Designs — via Evolution?

Cicadas and dragonflies use an exquisitely engineered “bed of nails” on their wings to disarm and neutralize bacteria. Read More ›
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Whale of a Webinar Debuts a Delightful “Long Story Short” Video

Whales are held up as a model of what unguided evolution can do in a short time: in this case, just 8 million years, or perhaps even half that. Read More ›
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Photo: Drosophila melanogaster, an engaging fly, by Sanjay Acharya / CC BY-SA.

The “Why” of the Fly “Y”: Reflections on “Junk” DNA

Let us give some thought to the Y chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, that engaging fly which is the bond-servant of genetics. Read More ›
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Bringing Past Articles Current to 2020: Butterflies, Hummingbirds, More

Here are items reported in 2019 that have made news in 2020: more on butterflies, hummingbirds, and the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›
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Your Witness, Mr. Johnson: A Retrospective Review of Darwin on Trial

In Darwinist argumentation, Phillip Johnson found a panoply of euphemism and wishful thinking masquerading as evidence. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Käpik [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Cornelius Hunter: More “Junk” DNA Is Crucial

Evolutionary theory predicts lots of “Darwinian detritus” that does nothing for organisms. That prediction keeps coming up false. Read More ›
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Photo: Hydrothermal vents, where some theories hypothesize that life originated, by NOAA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Inferential Science — What Could Go Wrong? 

There are many solid, trustworthy inferences in modern science, but there are those that are not very trustworthy at all. Read More ›

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