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baby green sea turtle
Photo: Baby green sea turtle, by Tyler Karaszewski, via Flickr (cropped).

Sea Turtles Display Elegant Design Solutions; They’re Also Really Cute

Apart from their being adorable, what many may not realize is that their motion on the sand is also amazingly efficient. Read More ›
Lateral line
Photo credit: Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Lateral Line: A “Sixth Sense” for Fish (And Other Cool Tricks)

What’s remarkable is that this organ constitutes an analog-to-digital converter, as pressure waves (analog) are converted to electrical signals. Read More ›
humpback whale
humpback whale
Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Whales Give More “Design of Life” Evidence, Defying Explanations Based on Natural Selection

Biologist Richard Sternberg explains how the whale-evolution sequence is more “artistic license” than demonstrable fact. Read More ›
Richard-Dawkins
Photo: Richard Dawkins, by Anders Hesselbom, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Does Darwinian Theory Make the Same Predictions as Intelligent Design?

Richard Dawkins predicted that “a large fraction” of our genomes has no function, because, “The true ‘purpose’ of DNA is to survive, no more and no less." Read More ›
topoisomerase
Image: Topoisomerase II, by Discovery Institute.

Teleology in Biology — Our Topoisomerase Webinar Is Now Up

Materialists want us to twist our minds into knots: we’re supposed to describe a world of purpose and direction as if it had no purpose and direction. Read More ›
embryo of pallid sturgeon
Photo: embryo of pallid sturgeon, by USFWS Mountain-Prairie via Flickr (cropped).

“Evidence for Evolution”? Khan Academy Pushes Haeckel’s Phony Embryo Drawings

I’ve watched many Khan Academy videos over the years — sometimes just for fun, and sometimes to advise teachers on whether they are good tools to use. Read More ›
Fireworks over Seattle
fireworks
Photo credit: Shannon Kringen from Seattle [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Happy New Year! #1 Story of 2021: Cambrian Explosion Goes Nuclear

Here are two very interesting updates to my recent articles on alleged Ediacaran animals and the Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›
Miocene ape Oreopithecus bambolii
Photo: Miocene ape Oreopithecus bambolii, by Ghedoghedo, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

#4 Story of 2021: Human Origins Research Is a Big Mess

Considering the number of fossils attributed to the human lineage, an absence of such fossils for the great African ape lineages raises an obvious suspicion. Read More ›
Homo heidelbergensis
Photo: Depiction of Homo heidelbergensis, Natural History Museum, London, by Emőke Dénes, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Traditional or Not? Assessing William Lane Craig’s Model on Adam and Eve

I’m having trouble making sense of exactly what his model holds. And it seems I’m not alone. Read More ›
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Photo: White Sands National Park, by uncredited NPS employee, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Follies from Around the Science Literature

Evolutionary anthropologists will have to drastically revise the timeline of the first human arrivals in North America. Read More ›

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