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Hoatzin
Photo credit: Kate from UK, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

“Bizarre Bird” Highlights the Problem of Biogeography

While hoatzins are bad at flying, evolutionists have been forced to credit these birds with some impressive rafting — unbelievably impressive. Read More ›
elephant shrew
Photo: A round-eared elephant shrew, by Vassil, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Study: “Most of Our Evolutionary Trees Could Be Wrong”

This refutes one of the favorite talking points of popularizers of Darwinism like Richard Dawkins. Read More ›
forest for the trees
Nathan Lents
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Troubles with the Tree of Life

Sixty years ago, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn listed what he described as the “symptoms” of a research field undergoing destabilizing change. Read More ›
Beetles collected by Charles Darwin
Photo: Beetles collected by Charles Darwin, by Emőke Dénes, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Sara Walker and Her Crew Publish the Most Interesting Biology Paper of 2022 (So Far, Anyway)

Universal functional requirements, but without the identity of material components — sounds like design. Read More ›
fallen tree
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Lukas Ruegger: Homology and Phylogenetics Topple Darwin’s Tree

Evolutionists have all the evidence they need in genes and morphology to draw the one true tree of life. Or do they? Read More ›
Archaeopteryx
Photo: Archaeopteryx, by H. Raab (User: Vesta), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Debunked Transitional Fossils Are the Tip of the Iceberg

Darwinian evolution predicts a gradually branching tree of living forms, with one form shading into another over long periods of evolution. Read More ›
DNA
Image credit: Arek Socha, via Pixabay.

Top Scientific Problems with Evolution: Molecular Phylogeny

Common ancestry does not emerge from the inconsistent findings of molecular phylogenetics. Read More ›
Man playing chess with monkey
Paul Nelson
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Khan Academy Misleads with Human-Chimp Genetic Similarity Argument for Common Ancestry

The video compares humans and chimps, saying the latter’s behaviors and facial expressions are “eerily human.” I could say the same thing about my cat. Read More ›
octopus eye
Photo credit: Nathan Rupert, via Flickr (cropped).

Engineering-Based Models Better Explain the Pattern of Nature than Does Common Ancestry

Eyes with lenses are believed to have evolved independently multiple times, but all evolutionary scenarios face insurmountable barriers. Read More ›
Plasmodium falciparum
Photo: Plasmodium falciparum, by Lukas.S at English Wikipedia(Original text: Lukas 05:24, 5 October 2006 (UTC)), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Two Recent Papers Buttress Michael Behe’s Thesis in Darwin Devolves

Evolution’s grand tree-of-life story requires constructive evolution, not more and more cases of organisms tossing parts overboard. Read More ›

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