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Scansoriopterygidae
Photo credit: i qi, Xu et al. 2015 fig. 1a, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Scansoriopterygidae, Bizarre Bird-Like Dinosaurs, Illustrate Darwinist Trickery

Common descent is assumed and the evidence interpreted accordingly, rather than common descent being deduced from the evidence. Read More ›
Wightonia
Photo credit and copyright: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: Abrupt Appearance of a Distinct Dragonfly Group

The fossil is almost complete, only the abdomen is missing and was likely bitten off by a predator. Read More ›
Angiosperm
Photo: Undescribed putative angiosperm from the Crato Formation, by G. Bechly 2008.

Fossil Friday: Flowering Plants — Darwin’s Abominable Mystery

Flowering plants or angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Lower Cretaceous (about 130 million years ago). Read More ›
Xiaotingia
Photo: Xiaotingia, by Bruce McAdam, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: The Temporal Paradox of Early Birds

Wherever you look in the fossil record you stumble upon problems for the Darwinian story and evidence that is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›
shrimp
Photo credit: Giant tiger prawn, by CSIRO, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolution and That Shrimp on Your Plate

Explosions of new life forms followed by stasis are emphatically not what evolution expects to find, but it is what paleontologists do find. Read More ›
Sagenopteris_phillipsi_Natural_History_Museum_v18596_Retallack_1980
Photo: The Jurassic seed fern Sagenopteris belongs to the extinct gymnosperm clade Caytoniales, which is believed to be the closest relative of flowering plants, via Wikimedia.

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Still Alive and Kicking

Darwinists had hoped that 150 years of paleontological research since Darwin would surely make this nagging problem go away. Read More ›
Haeckel_Orchidae
Image credit: Ernst Haeckel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Botany Journal Revisits Charles Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

A recent paper by Richard Buggs shows that a problem for evolutionary theory has grown more acute since Darwin’s time. Read More ›

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