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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 ›
ichthyosaur
Photo: Replica of birthing ichthyosaur fossil, Stephen O'Connor via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fossil Friday: Ichthyosaur Birth, Another Evolutionist Just-So Story Falls Apart

This is not how good science is supposed to work but is rather typical for pseudoscience that shields itself against empirical falsification. Read More ›
Plesioplatecarpus planifroms
Photo: <I>Plesioplatecarpus planifroms</I>, MCDinosaurhunter via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Mosasaurs in the Cretaceous

The math of population genetics precludes a Darwinian origin of these new genes in such a short time. Read More ›
Psephoderma
Photo: Psephoderma, modified after Ghedoghedo via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fossil Friday: The Triassic Explosion of Marine Reptiles

It is not like we Darwin critics make this stuff up. We just look at all the evidence and draw our conclusions. Read More ›
Stenopterygius quadriscissus_01
Photo credit: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Ichthyosaurs

With increasing knowledge of the fossil record, the mainstream narrative is rendered more and more untenable and inconsistent with the empirical evidence. Read More ›
Archaeopteryx
Photo: Archaeopteryx, by H. Raab (User: Vesta), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Educating “Professor Dave” on the Fossil Record and Genetics

Farina says that if you want to make “creationists’ head explode” you just have to mention that reptile scales and bird feathers are made of the same keratin. Read More ›

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