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Living Waters
Image source: Living Waters, via Illustra Media.

Sense of Smell Requires Optimized, Scalable Network Circuitry

The ability to smell is one of the most complex of our senses. It requires sorting, analyzing, and sifting a torrent of input data quickly. Read More ›
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Photo: An aerial view of fairy circles in Western Australia, by Stephan Getzin/University of Göttingen, via EurkeAlert!

Fairy Circles, Spider Silk, Epigenetics, and More: Intelligent Design in the News

So-called “fairy circles” yielded to a natural explanation, according to a research team: they are abandoned termite mounds. Now, however, another natural theory is rising. Read More ›
Black-Bellied Seedcracker
Photo credit: A black-bellied seedcracker, by Dr. Tom Smith, UCLA, via EurekAlert!.

Encore Performances in the Design of Life

News from Princeton discusses the work of Tom Smith and Bridgett vonHoldt, who have solved a “long-standing finch beak mystery.” The answer turned out to be Mendelian, not Darwinian. Read More ›
humpback whale
Photo: Humpback whale, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Relationships In Echolocation — An Obsession that Smothers Wonder

Perhaps it is awe-inspiring to evolutionary biologists to try to work a puzzle, trying to find how everything is connected by common ancestry.  Read More ›
dolphins
Photo credit: Dolphins, by werdepate, via Pixabay.

Awe at Echolocation? Nah, Convergence Again

The passionate focus on evolutionary relationships in biology papers tends to obscure awe at the wonders in life. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Little Mermaid statue, Copenhagen, by Charles Hutchins, via flickr.

Humans Are Not Evolving into Mermaids

Darwinists assert that humans are undergoing natural selection, too. Therefore, evolution is a fact. Read More ›
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Photo: A humpback whale, by Christopher Michel, via Flickr.

The Biggest Sea Animals: Whaling for Evolution

The largest animals that ever lived defy simple evolutionary stories. Read More ›
sea turtle
Photo: An olive ridley sea turtle at the Long Beach Aquarium, Long Beach, CA.

Sea Turtles Swim Against the Darwin Current

Was there ever a more incongruous animal to imagine being a swimming champion? Read More ›
Fuxianhuia protensa
Photo credit: Fuxianhuia protensa, Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna, by Grahbudd [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Contradicting Darwinian Gradualism, Earliest Animals Show Complex Parental Behavior

Darwin himself realized that any kind of significant saltational change would imply a miracle-like intelligent intervention. Read More ›
whale flukes
Photo: Whale flukes, by Free-Photos, via Pixabay.

Answering Simplistic Presentations of Darwinism

Design advocates have the advantage of looking at both sides of the origins debate. Read More ›

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