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giantsquid
Photo: Giant squid, by Stephanemartin, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Life at the Limits of the Possible

Dr. Stuart Burgess suggests that organisms at the extremes not only exemplify ultimate engineering but specifically point to theistic design. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Copyright © 2005 David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

How We Bite with Apatite: The Wonders of a Hard Mineral

Explore the features of a remarkable mineral erupted from volcanoes that is found in our teeth. How did it get there? Read More ›
Monarch butterly
Photo credit: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Battle Butterflies

Every year, around a billion monarchs travel from across North America to gather overwinter in a few specific locations in Mexico. Read More ›
dolphins
Photo: Dolphins, by Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Convergent Evolution: An Argument That Comes at a Price

Rope Kojonen sees convergence as evidence that laws of form "play a significant role" in helping evolutionary processes cluster around similar solutions. Read More ›
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Photo credit: James St. John, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: The Devonian Nekton Revolution

Such explosions and revolutions dominate the history of life, which was rather a series of abrupt saltations than the gradual change predicted by Darwinism. Read More ›
Plesioplatecarpus planifroms
Photo: <I>Plesioplatecarpus planifroms</I>, MCDinosaurhunter via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Mosasaurs in the Cretaceous

The math of population genetics precludes a Darwinian origin of these new genes in such a short time. Read More ›
Megalodon
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

#6 Story of 2022: Megalodon and Intelligent Design in Sharks

Megalodon was a specialized apex predator and fed mainly on large baleen whales. Read More ›
Mount St. Helens
Photo: Mount St. Helens, 1982, by Lyn Topinka, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Why Life?”: A Question Atheist Scientists Never Ask

Even something as catastrophic as the eruption of Mount St. Helens was, in the end, a life-giving event. Read More ›
Megalodon
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: Megalodon and Intelligent Design in Sharks

Megalodon was a specialized apex predator and fed mainly on large baleen whales. Read More ›

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