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Photo credit: Wilfredor, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times

No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them. Read More ›
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: New Dating of Pleistocene Fossils Rewrites the Story of Human Evolution

The most recent data on human fossils and their dating do not really support an evolutionary narrative from ape-like ancestors to modern humans. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Direct Fossil Ancestors of Living Species?

Willi Hennig, the founder of phylogenetic systematics (cladistics), recognized that finding and demonstrating direct ancestors would be a very hard task. Read More ›
cheetah
Photo: Forged fossil cheetah skull, Wang 2013, fair use.

Fossil Friday: The Supposed Oldest Cheetah Was Yet Another Fraud

Even before the publication, the Chinese scientists Deng Tao and Qiu Zhanxiang had revealed the skull to be a crude forgery. Read More ›
Mammoth
Image credit: Thomas Quine, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Pleistocene Park: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The idea is to recreate some of the DNA from the sequencing of frozen mammoths, and inject it into an Asian elephant egg. Read More ›
African savannah
Photo: African savannah, by Javier Puig Ochoa, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Human Psychology Better Explained by Evolution or Design?

“We are survival machines,” wrote atheist biologist Richard Dawkins, “robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.” Read More ›
Macroscelidea
Photo: <I>Namasengi mockeae</I>, mandible, Eocene, Namibia, from fig. 11 in Senut & Pickford 2021, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Fossil Elephant Shrews and the Abrupt Origin of Macroscelidea

Elephant shrews are sometimes considered to be living fossils, and their origin is believed to go back 57.5 million years in the Paleocene. Read More ›
Mammoth
Image credit: Thomas Quine, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

#7 Story of 2022: Mammoth Support for Devolution

The more science progresses, the more hapless Darwin seems. Consider woolly mammoth DNA. 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 ›

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