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Photo: Aulacopleura koninckii, by Zavadluk, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ancient Eyes, Modern Design: The Remarkable Vision of Trilobites

Does this discovery suggest that the principles of compound vision emerged nearly half a billion years ago as the authors concluded? Read More ›
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Photo credit: Omnespsx (D•ES), CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Postcard from Santiago: Intelligent Design in Chile

Our class expanded to several hundred in our all-Saturday conference, as I was joined by Dr. Ricardo Bravo, a top Chilean oceanographer. Read More ›
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Notes on the Mysterious Origin of Hippos

The family Hippopotamidae appears abruptly in the fossil record — like all the other groups that I have so far investigated in detail. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Blue Ridge Kitties, via Flickr (cropped).

Plant Evolution: All Gaps and Miracles

A major study looks for evolution, but finds huge disparities, stasis, gaps, periodic explosions, and miracles of emergence held together with imagination. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Complex Eyes in Trilobites

The theory has been made immune to empirical falsification because it is simply assumed to be true by default as the only viable option for materialists. Read More ›
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All photos in this article are by David Coppedge.

Smithsonian Glosses Over the Cambrian Explosion

The nation’s museum cannot ignore the collection of fossils Walcott sent them from the Burgess Shale. But can they explain them away? Read More ›
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Photo credit: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 US <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Arthropod Architects Amaze Engineers

They appear in the early Cambrian fossil record: the first examples of the most diverse phylum on earth. Who knew their skills would become the envy of human engineers? Read More ›
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The Demise of the Artifact Hypothesis

Darwinists have to face the fact that a core prediction of their theory miserably failed an important empirical test. Read More ›
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Peppered Moths and More: Intelligent Design Takes Ownership of Evolution Icons

Darwinians never had a rightful claim to them in the first place. Read More ›
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To Solve a (Cambrian) Problem: Declare It Solved!

Frustrated by abrupt appearance, some evolutionists are simply declaring that there is no problem with the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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