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Dandelions, Darwin’s Bark Spider, and More: No Shortage of Biological Wonders

Those of us who find purpose in biology instead of random tinkering will not run out of material to get excited about any time soon. Read More ›
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“Designed for [a] Purpose” — Heme Production Defeats Evolution

Hemoglobin is well known as the molecule that transfers oxygen in blood, but its precursor, heme, is lesser known. Read More ›
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God Hypothesis: Meyer Performs “Gigaton Task,” Says Burgess of Cambridge and Bristol Universities

A gigaton, in case you wondered, is a measure of explosive power, “how many billion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.” Read More ›
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Photo: A humpback whale, by Whit Welles Wwelles14 / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0).

Human Engineers Can’t Top These Biological Intelligent Designs

In labs around the world, scientists are fascinated by living designs. Here are just a few examples of what is being reported on a weekly basis. Read More ›
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Intricate, Optimized Designs in Insects Beg a Question

The ingenious inventions found in insects summon us to ask: How did these small organisms get them? Read More ›
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Ignoring Other Research, New Study Explains (Away) the Origin of New Body Plans

Recently, a team of British paleontologists added a new pseudo-explanation. Read More ›
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Photo: Trilobite fossil, by Jakob Vinther, University of Bristol, via EurekAlert!

A Beautiful, Wonderful Solution to the Cambrian Puzzle?

It’s so elegantly simple, why didn’t anyone think of this before? Animals evolved because they evolved. Read More ›
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These Creatures Would Give Darwin Shivers

Darwin thought everything evolved from a simple cell by mindless chance processes. The animals don’t know that. Read More ›
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The Dinosaur “Explosion”

"First there were no dinosaur tracks, and then there were many," says the lead author of a new study out this week. Read More ›
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The Law of Zero Magic

The mystique of evolutionism is the idea that natural selection explains everything. In fact, natural selection itself explains nothing. Read More ›

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