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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, cats, chimpanzees, common design, DNA, embryos, Emily Reeves, evolution, fossil record, genes, genomes, homology, horses, humans, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, Khan Academy, orphan genes, Paul Nelson, phylogenetic trees, proteins, Richard Dawkins, students, teachers, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Tree of Life, Zombie Science (book)}

Khan Academy Misleads with Human-Chimp Genetic Similarity Argument for Common Ancestry

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February 14, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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The video compares humans and chimps, saying the latter’s behaviors and facial expressions are “eerily human.” I could say the same thing about my cat. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 9, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, antibiotic resistance, bacteria, Darwin-skeptics, Discovering Intelligent Design, evolution, fossil record, horses, Icons of Evolution, Khan Academy, macroevolution, straw man, YouTube videos}

Khan Academy “Evidence for Evolution” Video Pushes the Fake Fossil Horses Series

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February 9, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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The video draws arrows from one species of fossil horses to the next and says “there is a constant change and we can see it directly through the fossil record.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, birds, circular reasoning, common ancestry, Dogs, evolution, Explore Evolution, homology, humans, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Khan Academy, limbs, students, teachers, vertebrates, whales}

Khan Academy Video, “Evidence for Evolution,” Gives Circular Arguments for Common Ancestry

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February 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If you define homology as resulting from common ancestry, you can’t then turn around and use that as an argument for common ancestry. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, common ancestry, embryology, embryos, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, fraud, gills, Haeckel’s embryos, humans, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, Khan Academy, ontogeny, phylogeny, Science (journal), Stephen Jay Gould, The Stream, YouTube videos}

“Evidence for Evolution”? Khan Academy Pushes Haeckel’s Phony Embryo Drawings

_{Casey Luskin
February 6, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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I’ve watched many Khan Academy videos over the years — sometimes just for fun, and sometimes to advise teachers on whether they are good tools to use. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 5, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Douglas Axe, gills, homology, humans, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Lewis Wolpert, mammals, neo-Darwinian theory, respiration, Stephen Meyer, The Paradigm Project, vertebrate}

Do Human Embryos Have Gills?

_{Casey Luskin
May 5, 2021

Evolution

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Jonathan Wells provide quotes from leading embryologists discussing how pharyngeal folds in humans only have an “illusory” similarity to fish gills. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
November 18, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Adaptive Radiation, beak size, biology textbooks, evolution, Federal Government, fitness, Galápagos finches, Galápagos Finches series, hybridization, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Sisyphean evolution, Sisyphus, weather, Winston Churchill, Zombie Science (book)}

Galápagos Finches and a Surprising Deletion

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November 18, 2020

Evolution

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How could the authors suddenly do this? Some of the following points may be considered. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 9, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Archaeoraptor, Ernst Haeckel, fossils, fraud, human evolution, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, National Geographic, Piltdown Man, University of Calgary}

As Science Frauds Go, Haeckel Beats Piltdown Man

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November 9, 2020

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Piltdown Man is a historical curiosity. Haeckel continues to resound in our minds today. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 20, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Biston betularia, Brian K. Hall, butterflies, embryos, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, fruit flies, gene regulation, gills, Haeckel’s embryos, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Michael Majerus, moths, Rosemary Grant, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, wings, Zombie Science (book)}

Strickberger’s Evolution Textbook Promotes False Evolutionary Icons

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July 20, 2020

Evolution

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From crippled fruit flies we move to perhaps the most pervasive icon of them all, the peppered moth. Read More ›

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Date
April 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, appendix, Charles Darwin, coccyx, Darwin-skeptics, diarrhea, disabilities, evolution, Foresight (book), Francis Collins, Icons of Evolution, Immune System, infection, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, John West, Jonathan Wells, Kenneth Miller, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Egnor, Nature Reviews Genetics, pseudogenes, The Biology of the Second Reich, The Myth of Junk DNA, vestigial structures, Wikipedia, Zombie Science (book)}

Pseudogenes Are Going the Way of Darwin’s “Rudimentary Organs”

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April 13, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Long described as useless leftovers of evolution, pseudogenes are rising from the junk pile as functional entities. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 26, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, behavior, creationism, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, En Arche Foundation, eugenics, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Fundacja En Arche, Grzegorz Malec, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, marriage, Marxism, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, morals, Phillip E. Johnson, Poland, Polish, relationships, restaurants, Signature in the Cell, slavery, Stephen Meyer, Warsaw, World War II}

Darwinism and Intelligent Design in Poland

_{Jonathan Wells
February 26, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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I told the staff of En Arche that the foundation reminded me of Discovery Institute twenty years ago. Read More ›