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

Darwin Devolves (Again): Circular Thinking and the Debilitating Assumptions

"There is a reason why evolutionists focus on the human body as a prime example of bad design." Read More ›
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Photo: Giant squid, by Stephanemartin, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Life at the Limits of the Possible

Dr. Stuart Burgess suggests that organisms at the extremes not only exemplify ultimate engineering but specifically point to theistic design. Read More ›
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Listen: Stuart Burgess Details Examples of Your Body’s Ultimate Engineering

He’ll relate the time he and famed biologist Richard Dawkins debated, and he’ll remind us why we are all qualified to evaluate scientific theories of origins. Read More ›
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Photo: Archaeopteryx Berlin specimen, M Jorge Guimaraes via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fossil Friday: Imagining Eggs in the Famous Archaeopteryx Fossils

Neither lack of evidence nor conflicting evidence stopped the author from drawing far-reaching conclusions. Read More ›
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Photo: A comb jelly, by Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Earliest Comb Jellies Wore Armor — “Remarkable,” Say Researchers

It would be surprising, under an evolutionary view, to find such a complex system in the earliest animal fossils. Read More ›
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Photo: Walt Whitman, by Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Let’s Sing the Body Electric

The emerging science of “bioelectricity” is opening new vistas into the electrical energy powering our nerves, organs, and tissues. Read More ›
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Why Their Separate Ancestry Model Is “Wildly Unrealistic”

On Monday, I will look at the consistency of the phylogenetically informative sites for the Baum et al. (2016) paper. Spoiler alert: It looks like design. Read More ›
Miracle of the Cell
Miracle of the Cell
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Michael Denton Explores the “Third Infinity”

The diversity of cells — their variety of form, function, and locomotion — is beyond describing, with some cells almost seeming sentient, indeed ingenious. Read More ›
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Kimberella quadrata with associated scratch marks
Photo: Kimberella quadrata with associated scratch marks as putative feeding traces, by Masahiro miyasaka / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Kimberella — Controversial Scratch Marks

A former teacher of mine was the late Adolf Seilacher, who was a leading authority on trace fossils and who for obvious reasons preferred to be called "Dolf." Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: The Design of the Human Nervous System

Our skin and our insides are laced with an invisible, highly sophisticated, selective, neurological netting. Read More ›

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