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Florigerminis
Photo: Florigerminis jurassica, NIGPAS 2022, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Florigerminis, Another Failed Candidate for a Jurassic Flowering Plant

You are in good company if you are as skeptical about these claims as I am myself. Read More ›
Angiosperm
Photo: Undescribed putative angiosperm from the Crato Formation, by G. Bechly 2008.

Fossil Friday: Flowering Plants — Darwin’s Abominable Mystery

Flowering plants or angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Lower Cretaceous (about 130 million years ago). Read More ›
Adam and Eve
First Couple
Image: Adam and Eve, by Tintoretto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Lessons from the Evangelical Debate About Adam and Eve

The standard evolutionary account of human origins holds that our population has always been in the thousands and humanity did not descend from an initial pair. Read More ›
chimp liberation
animal rights
Image credit: Hannes Richter via Unsplash.

Human-Chimp Similarity: What Is It and What Does It Mean?

For years we’ve been told that human and chimp DNA is some 99 percent identical. Is that true? Read More ›
Tropidogyne pentaptera
Photo: Tropidogyne pentaptera, a mid Cretaceous flower from Burmese amber, by Oregon State University (license CC BY-SA 2.0), via Flickr.

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Jurassic Flowering Plants After All?

This year a new article by Silvestro et al. (2021), "Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants," was published. Read More ›
Sagenopteris_phillipsi_Natural_History_Museum_v18596_Retallack_1980
Photo: The Jurassic seed fern Sagenopteris belongs to the extinct gymnosperm clade Caytoniales, which is believed to be the closest relative of flowering plants, via Wikimedia.

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Still Alive and Kicking

Darwinists had hoped that 150 years of paleontological research since Darwin would surely make this nagging problem go away. Read More ›
Haeckel_Orchidae
Image credit: Ernst Haeckel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Botany Journal Revisits Charles Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

A recent paper by Richard Buggs shows that a problem for evolutionary theory has grown more acute since Darwin’s time. Read More ›
The Temptation of Adam by Jacopo Tintoretto
The Temptation of Adam by Jacopo Tintoretto
Image: The Temptation of Adam by Jacopo, by Jacopo Tintoretto / Public domain

On the Swamidass Hypothesis — The Cheese Stands Alone

We have a lonely hypothesis standing by itself in the center of the room, which no one, including its author, will own as true. Read More ›
Behe Swamidass debate

Behe and Swamidass Debate Evolution and Intelligent Design at Texas A&M

When Michael Behe’s slide show flashed to a close up of the gears, a murmur of astonishment rolled through the audience. Read More ›
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Neo-Darwinism and the Big Bang of Man’s Origin 

Proponents of the ruling theory tell us that we are all undoubtedly intelligent enough to fully grasp their theory, as long as we concur with it. Read More ›

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