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pipistrelle
Photo credit: Dave, via Flickr (cropped).

In Bats and Other Animals, Evidence of Common Design in a Magnetic Compass

There has been little data previously to confirm that mammals navigate long distances using the earth’s geomagnetic field. Read More ›
sleep
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Sleep — Designed for Our Good

The evolutionary mindset operates as a major obstacle to the scientific understanding of sleep. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Human Vestigial Organs: Some Contradictions in Darwinian Thinking

Among these organs, the pronephros was taken as an outstanding illustration for the assertion that man is “a veritable walking museum of antiquities.” Read More ›
octopus eye
Photo credit: Nathan Rupert, via Flickr (cropped).

Will the Octopus Ever Find Its Place in the Evolutionary Tree?

New finds in genetics and neuroscience both shed light and deepen the puzzle of the almost "alien" species. Read More ›
oocyte
Photo: An oocyte, by Jakub Friedl, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Best and Worst Heuristics for Biological Discovery

"We don’t know what this structure does, so it probably does nothing. Remember, evolution produces a lot of non-functional debris." Read More ›
Keichousaurus_hui_fossil
Photo credit: Ninjatacoshell, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Rapid Elongation of Plesiosaur Necks Points to Intelligent Design

The breaking of the conserved number of cervical vertebrae is hard to reconcile with an unguided evolutionary mechanism. Read More ›
Chicxulub
Image credit: Donald E. Davis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Chinks in the Chicxulub Story

If an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs as believed by the scientific consensus, its effects on evolution seem strained and inconsistent. Read More ›
Morganucodon
Photo credit: All photos in this article are by Casey Luskin.

Visitor’s Guide: At Nation’s Natural History Museum, Misinformation on Human Origins, and More

Mammalian fossil exhibits at the Smithsonian claim that humans and all mammals descended from the “first mammal," perhaps Morganucodon. Read More ›
woman and dog
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Intelligent Design in Human-Animal Friendships

A man and his emotional support alligator, Wally, made headlines last week when they tried to attend a baseball game together in Philadelphia. Read More ›
Edaphosaurus pogonias
Photo: Edaphosaurus pogonias, by Jonathan Chen, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Study Debunks Textbook Wisdom on the Evolution of Mammalian Gait

In other words: evolutionists make up fancy just-so stories that do not stand up to scrutiny when they are checked with actual empirical data. Read More ›

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