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Authors

Doug Axe
Douglas Axe
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
Michael J. Behe
Photo courtesy of Celeste Behe.
David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
Photo provided by David Coppedge.
William A. Dembski
Image provided by Bill Dembski
Michael Denton
Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
Photo courtesy of Stephen Iacoboni
David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
Photo by Casey Sernaqué
Carl Linnaeus
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Photo provided by Katja Deborah Lönnig
Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
Photo by Casey Sernaqué
Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
Photo by Chris Morgan, © Discovery Institute
Daniel Witt
Photo provided by Daniel Witt.
Jonathan Witt

Topic

living fossils

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Photo credit: Yves Bousquet, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
Date
November 29, 2024
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Beetles

Günter Bechly
November 29, 2024
Evolution, Paleontology
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Natural selection is the great magician in evolutionary fantasy land, where it explains rapid change in explosive radiations as well as no change at all. Read More ›
Macroscelidea
Photo: <I>Namasengi mockeae</I>, mandible, Eocene, Namibia, from fig. 11 in Senut & Pickford 2021, fair use.
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Günter Bechly
Date
December 30, 2022
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Evolution
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Fossil Friday: Fossil Elephant Shrews and the Abrupt Origin of Macroscelidea

Günter Bechly
December 30, 2022
Evolution, Paleontology, Science
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Elephant shrews are sometimes considered to be living fossils, and their origin is believed to go back 57.5 million years in the Paleocene. Read More ›
Aardvarks
Photo: Amphiorycteropus gaudryi, Miocene Greece, modified after Koufos 2022 fig. 3, fair use.
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Günter Bechly
Date
December 23, 2022
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Evolution
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Fossil Friday: Miocene Aardvarks and the Abrupt Origin of Tubulidentata

Günter Bechly
December 23, 2022
Evolution, Paleontology, Science
10
So much about the congruence of anatomical and genetic similarity predicted by Darwin’s theory. Read More ›
coelacanth
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.
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Günter Bechly
Date
June 17, 2022
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: A Dead “Living Fossil”

Günter Bechly
June 17, 2022
Evolution, Paleontology
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Coelacanths are considered to be "living fossils," which do not sit well with Darwinian assumptions. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig.
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Date
January 10, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Abstract: Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
January 10, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
3
All orders and families of the angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record (the same for most lower systematic categories). Read More ›
Henry_at_Invercargill
Photo credit: KeresH / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0).
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Paul Nelson
Date
August 7, 2020
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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“Living Fossil”? Maybe. Tuatara Genome Is Now Sequenced and Published

Paul Nelson
August 7, 2020
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The tuatara genome is 5GB, making it enormous relative to other vertebrates — and full of surprises. Read More ›
snapdragons
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Date
November 27, 2017
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Evolution
Geology
Life Sciences
Paleontology
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Living Fossils, Ancient Oxygen, Colorful Snapdragons: Anomalies Challenge Darwin’s Story

Science and Culture
November 27, 2017
Evolution, Geology, Life Sciences, Paleontology
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Enough anomalies can wreck a paradigm. Read More ›
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Close-up of a fruit fly, fruit fly, vinegar fly (Drosophila Melanogaster) on apple, AI generated
Image Credit: Chiara Battaglia/imageBROKER - Adobe Stock
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David Klinghoffer
Date
December 23, 2010
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Evolution
Genetics
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Praised be Darwin! Do Fruit Flies Bust Behe?

David Klinghoffer
December 23, 2010
Evolution, Genetics
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Fruit flies are a cherished subject of such investigations because of their rapid reproduction, going from birth to death in thirty days. Read More ›

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