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Herpetogaster_collinsi
Image credit: Jean-Bernard Caron, Simon Conway Morris, Degan Shu, CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday:  An Extinct Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion

One of the strongest arguments in favor of Darwinian evolution gets more and more dismantled, which totally vindicates the critique by Michael Denton. Read More ›
Lithomantis_Lutz_Koch
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 ›
Rhenocystis
Photo: Rhenocystis latipendunculata, (c) Christel Schuhmacher, Hunsrück Museum Simmern, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Fossil Friday: Rhenocystis and the Controversial Calcichordate Hypothesis

It looks a bit like a tadpole with body and tail, and this indeed points towards one of the great scientific controversies of the 20th century. Read More ›
Hunga-Tonga blast
Photo: Hunga-Tonga blast from space, by NASA

Is There Enough Phosphorus for Us?

The element phosphorus, on which life heavily depends for its codes and metabolic processes, is a limiting factor for complex beings on habitable planets. Read More ›
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Blue iguana, National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C., by Jarek Tuszyński / CC-BY-SA-3.0 & GDFL [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons.

Extinct Four-Eyed Monitor Lizard Busts Myth of a Congruent Nested Hierarchy

Obviously, evolutionary “laws” are quite malleable and have to give way when they become too cumbersome. Read More ›

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