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Fossil_bed_at_Nilpena_Ediacara_National_Park
Photo credit: Citronnel, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Are Ediacaran “Fishing Hooks” a Breakthrough Discovery of Precambrian Animals?

Let’s have a look at the newest edition of the Precambrian animal guessing game. Read More ›
fuse
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Taphonomy Study Shortens Fuse for the Cambrian Explosion

The “molecular clock” must be wrong, a study concludes. Cambrian animal ancestors are not there in the fossil record as hoped. 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.

Let’s Help “Professor Dave” Understand the Precambrian

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 ›
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).

“Lying on the Internet”? Debunking Dave Farina on Stephen Meyer

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 ›
Pravda
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This Cambrian Explosion “Explanation” Qualifies as Propaganda

It’s interesting to see what Derek E. G. Briggs is willing to admit about the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›
Dickinsonia
Cambrian explosion
Photo: Dickinsonia, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ediacarans Are Not Animals

Even Evans et al. (2021) themselves admitt that "phylogenetic affinities for most of the Ediacara Biota remain enigmatic." Read More ›
Tribrachidium heraldicum
Photo: Tribrachidium heraldicum from the Ediacaran period
, by Aleksey Nagovitsyn (User:Alnagov), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Precambrian House of Cards

Wow, that's cool, they not only found the elusive Ediacaran animals but even could unravel their genomes!? Read More ›
Kimberella
Kimberella
Photo: Kimberella, by Ghedoghedo / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

#2 Story of 2020: Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum

None of the Cambrian animal phyla is represented in the Ediacaran fossil record. Read More ›
Günter Bechly
Photo: Günter Bechly.

Günter Bechly: Welcome to the Underground

It’s become suffocating on the surface, so truth seeks shelter. The experience of being canceled is no longer limited to speakers on college campuses. 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).

Bechly Series: No Ancestors for Cambrian Animals; Darwin’s Doubt Remains

I urge you to review this important series. Humbly place it at the feet of your favorite Darwinist, atheist, or theistic evolutionist. Read More ›

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