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Spiral galaxy NGC 628
Photo: Spiral galaxy NGC 628, by NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Janice Lee (STScI), Thomas Williams (Oxford), and the PHANGS team.

Hidden, Now Revealed: Amazonia, Fitness Landscapes, and Fibonacci Numbers

The caption for one image of spiral galaxy NGC 628 notes: “The spiraling filamentary structure looks somewhat like a cross section of a nautilus shell.” Read More ›
swiss-cheese
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Trapdoors in the Fitness Landscape: Scientists Revive Worries About an Evolutionary Metaphor            

What if the structure of the landscape is like a block of Swiss cheese, flat and riddled with holes? Read More ›
human yolk sac
Photo credit: Ed Uthman, via Flickr (cropped).

Merry Christmas! No. 8 Story of 2023: Another “Vestigial” Organ Has “Absolutely Critical” Functions

Unfortunately, despite the importance of this “absolutely critical” organ, some are still intent upon retaining evolutionary interpretations. Read More ›
Mount Rushmore
Photo credit: David Coppedge.

Ahead of New Book Edition, Geoglyphs and Natural Features Test Dembski’s Design Inference

Designed features can hide in plain sight. A closer look can sometimes reveal the intentional acts of a mind. Read More ›
human yolk sac
Photo credit: Ed Uthman, via Flickr (cropped).

Another “Vestigial” Organ Turns Out to Have “Absolutely Critical” Functions: The Human Yolk Sac

Unfortunately, despite the importance of this “absolutely critical” organ, some are still intent upon retaining evolutionary interpretations. Read More ›
driverless car
Photo credit: BP63Vincent, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection. Read More ›
axe tree

Biologists Take a Hatchet to Tree of Life, Biology Keeps Going Anyway

Early in his presentation, McInerney says that he hopes to persuade his audience that this familiar LUCA-based hypothesis “has been falsified.” Read More ›
marrellomorph
Photo: A marrellomorph from the Fezouata Formation, by Muséum de Toulouse, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionists Spin the Cambrian Explosion — But Alas, All in Vain

Fossils are great; the more the better. Experience from spectacular discoveries assures us that no surprises will change Charles Darwin's own cause for doubt. Read More ›
Tetrahymena thermophila
Image: Tetrahymena thermophila, CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Compact Factory Optimizes Shape for Efficiency — A New Level of Intelligent Design in Life

A microbe was found to organize its electron transport machinery in a way that bends the membrane for optimum energy utilization. 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 ›

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