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Photo: No glacier built this boreal chickadee; by David Mitchell [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Despite Dozens of Authors, PNAS Paper Fails to Explain Bird Evolution

They reason backwards: Birds evolved, therefore some poorly understood mindless processes must have driven them to evolve. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Geospiza fuliginosa, one of Darwin’s finches, by Cayambe [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Behe on Darwin’s Finches — A Really, Really Long-Term Evolution Experiment

Of course finches don’t multiply and cycle through generations as rapidly as bacteria. Still, these birds have been isolated on the iconic islands for some 2 million years. Read More ›
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For Selling Evolution, a Little Knowledge Is a Glorious Thing

Many Americans reject evolution, a recent paper suggests, because they’re uninformed.  Read More ›
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Finch Varieties in New Guinea Undercut Iconic Galápagos Finch Story

Finches on another island “would leave even Charles Darwin scratching his head.” But do they “help solve an evolutionary puzzle”? Read More ›
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Photo credit: Big Bird, by P.R. Grant and B.R. Grant, via Princeton University.

Big Bird — Evolution’s “Smoking Gun”?

Against the backdrop of research of Princeton’s Peter and Rosemary Grant, Darwin’s finches are among the most hyped illustrations of evolution in action. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design Goes International — A Report from Istanbul

The beginning of May was quite interesting as audiences of scientists, scholars, and students in very different parts of the world examined the evidence for ID. Read More ›
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Photo: Collecting bacteria from a lake near campus, by Qianna Xu, via Georgia Tech.

Darwin’s Finches: An Icon Gets Retouched

What can bacteria collected around a university campus tell us about adaptive radiation? Read More ›
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Photo: Detail of Darwin statue, Natural History Museum, London, by Rept0n1x (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin and Data — “Cutting the Toes to Fit the Shoe”

The popular picture of Charles Darwin casts him as the assiduous, objective gatherer of scientific data, only reluctantly reaching the conclusion he did. Read More ›

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