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swimming bear
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From Bears to Whales: A Difficult Transition

Critics laughed, and he removed it from later editions, but Charles Darwin privately continued to believe that whales evolved from a “race of bears.” Read More ›
polar bear
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Natural Selection Subtracts, It Doesn’t Add — And That Matters

In the wild, all organisms must live within their niche. There are no wild polar bears in Arizona, and no iguanas in Alaska. Read More ›
gymnastics
Photo credit: Pierre-Yves Beaudouin / Wikimedia Commons.

Balance: Bipeds Need It; Where Did It Come From?

“The calyx appeared,” says Dr. Rob Raphael. A more magical explanation could hardly be fabricated. Read More ›
steam train
Photo credit: David Coppedge.

There Was Berra’s Blunder; Now Lieberman’s Lapse

Tim Berra thought evolution was like the diversification and progress seen in Corvette models. Now, another evolutionist makes an analogy for extinction. Read More ›
chicken embryo
embryonic development
Photo: Chicken embryo, by Ben Skála (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Will Evolutionists Ever Take Falsification Seriously? A Response to P. Z. Myers

Can there be a better example of trying to argue that whatever the evidence, evolution is the answer? Read More ›
chicken embryo
embryonic development
Photo: Chicken embryo, by Ben Skála (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Peer-Reviewed Paper Shows Vertebrate Embryonic Variation Contradicts Common Ancestry

Evolutionary biologists often argue that vertebrate embryos develop in highly similar manners, reflecting their common ancestry. Read More ›
Glires
Photo: Palaeolagus haydeni, James St. John, Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Lagomorphs and Rodents

Molecular biologist Dan Graur mentioned his weird idea that guinea pigs are not rodents at a lecture at my university in Tübingen when I was still a student. Read More ›
beaver
Photo: A beaver, depicted on the Canadian Parliament Building, by D. Gordon E. Robertson, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Beyond Evolutionary Fitness, Mammals Are Ecosystem Engineers

When animals give back more than they take, does that fit the model of selfishness that Darwinism promotes? Read More ›
Sirenia
Photo: Pezosiren, Thesupermat via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fossil Friday: Sea Cows and the Abrupt Origin of Sirenia and Desmostylia

So, is every thing OK with Darwinism after all? No so fast. Actually, there are some problems that do not square well with a Darwinian scenario. Read More ›
zebrafish
Photo: Zebrafish, by Oregon State University, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design in Animal Self-Location and Navigation

A question is whether such mechanisms exist in more ancient brain regions of other animals. A new study has identified a self-location mechanism in zebrafish. Read More ›

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