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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 ›
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Photo: A flat-fish, by Kevin Mc Loughlin via Pixabay .

Darwin’s Top 10 Arguments Against His Own Theory

In its youth the flat-fish is symmetrical with one eye on each side. However, as the body matures, one eye “begins to glide slowly round the head.” Read More ›
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Photo: Lithomantis, courtesy of Lutz Koch.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Winged Insects

According to Darwinism, the evolution of such a system would have required a plethora of intermediate stages that brought this locomotory apparatus into being. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Daniel Reeves.

Günter Bechly: A Scientist’s Path from Atheism to Christian Theism

There are many stories of the evidence for intelligent design bringing individuals to a general belief in a cosmic designer. Read More ›
Eurotamandua
Photo: <I>Eurotamandua joresi</I> holotype, by Günter Bechly 2009.

Fossil Friday: Eurotamandua — Anteater or Not Even Close?

Darwinists have to appeal to the ad hoc hypothesis of convergent adaptation to similar lifestyles, which of course increases their problem. Read More ›
Gunter Bechly
Photo: Günter Bechly in a scene from the documentary Revolutionary, via Discovery Institute.

Günter Bechly’s Journey to Faith

I can identify with the last paragraph, in the context of my own different religious tradition, with certain other difference as well. Read More ›
Svante Pääbo
Photo: Svante Pääbo, by Jonathunder, GFDL 1.2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Nobel Laureate, Svante Pääbo, on the “Politics” of Paleontology and Humans Origins

These are welcome and candid observations, refuting notions that human origins is a fully objective area of research. Read More ›
Dickinsonia
Photo: Dickinsonia, by Smith609 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Dickinsonia, the Ediacaran Animal that Wasn’t

Gregory Retallack is a kind of maverick paleontologist, who endorses a fringe hypothesis that Ediacaran organisms were not marine but terrestrial lichens. Read More ›
Cicada
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: Unknown Cicada from the Cretaceous

Only the infusion of new information from outside the system can explain these bursts of biological creativity. Read More ›
Centrosaurus
Photo: Skull of Centrosaurus, by Sainterx, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Could We Ever Recover Dinosaur DNA?

There have been a number of unexpected finds from dinosaurs besides bones; some paleontologists dig hopefully. Read More ›

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