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Sauropods
Photo: Skeletal Reconstruction of <I>Mamenchisaurus youngi</I>, though other sources speak of the very closely related <I>Omeisaurus</I>, in the Dinosaur Museum of Zigong, by Einar Fredriksen, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Günter Bechly on Life’s Sudden Information Explosions

“There’s no reasonable way,” Bechly concludes, “to get from bacteria to mammals via evolutionary processes.” Read More ›
humpback whale
humpback whale
Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Pentadactyl Whale Flipper Is an Engineering Masterstroke

Does the five-digit design of the whale flipper, akin to the five-digit design of so many different kinds of animal limbs, point to evolutionary common descent? 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 ›
Aardvarks
Photo: Amphiorycteropus gaudryi, Miocene Greece, modified after Koufos 2022 fig. 3, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Miocene Aardvarks and the Abrupt Origin of Tubulidentata

So much about the congruence of anatomical and genetic similarity predicted by Darwin’s theory. Read More ›
Glyptodon
Photo: Gylptodon, by Wolfman SF via Wikimedia, GFDL and CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fossil Friday: The Giant Armadillo Glyptodon and the Abrupt Origin of Xenarthrans

Should we dare to consider the possibility that something is wrong with the Darwinist assumptions? Heaven forbid! Read More ›
Gunter Bechly
Photo: Günter Bechly in a scene from the documentary Revolutionary, via Discovery Institute.

Bechly: “Life’s Second ‘Big Bang'”

He touches on other biological explosions, including the Avalon explosion, the Triassic explosion, and the origin of flowering plants. Read More ›
Marcos Eberlin

An Unintended Endorsement of Marcos Eberlin’s New Book, Foresight

Some reviews that try to make a book look bad are so ill-informed and malicious that they actually make a good book look better. Read More ›
Prosanta Chakrabarty

Here, Evidently, Is How They Teach Evolution at Louisiana State University

This has got to be one of the dopiest, most simple-minded presentations of the subject that I’ve seen. Read More ›
Alice Roberts and Perfect Human

Just Try Evolving That!

I’d like to point out a few things to Dr. Alice Roberts. None of this is evolutionarily possible. Read More ›
Alice Roberts

The Perfect Human Body?

For English anatomist Alice Roberts, however, the human body is a “hodge-podge” of parts assembled in an “untidy” fashion “with no foresight” by evolution. Read More ›

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