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Photo: A humpback whale, by Whit Welles Wwelles14 / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0).

Similarities Between Vertebrate Limbs Are Best Explained Not by Common Ancestry but by Design

The challenge is particularly daunting in the case of whales. The flipper differs in almost every respect from that of its proposed terrestrial ancestor. Read More ›

2022 YouTube Film Festival: Long Story Short on Whale Evolution

Bears turning into whales? Scientists today disagree with Darwin, instead claiming that other land animals were the real precursors to today’s whales. Read More ›
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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 ›
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Photo: Basilosaurus, by Asmoth, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Species Pairs: A New Challenge to Darwinists 

I consider this simple argument as a final nail in the coffin of Darwinian unguided evolution. Read More ›
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Photo: Pakicetus, by Kevin Guertin from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

To Shave a Cow: Sternberg on Whale Evolution

That evolution, over a span of 11 million years or so, was once hailed as a “poster child” for the confirmation of Darwinian theory. Read More ›
Phiomicetus anubis
Image credit: Robert W. Booessenecker, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Imagination and Belief Drive False Claims of a “Four-Legged Whale”

Perhaps this organism had four legs. Perhaps it had flippers. Perhaps it was closely related to whales. Perhaps it has nothing to do with whales. Read More ›
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New “Long Story” on Bacterial Evolution Is Here!

As animator “Long Story” puts it in his video, the claim is an example of evolutionary equivocation”: “The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth.” Read More ›
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New “Long Story” on Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance — Premiere and Live Chat, November 12

“But what about bacterial antibiotic resistance!” This is one of the stock attempts to rebut arguments against the creative potential of unguided evolution. Read More ›
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Adam and the Genome — Review and Conclusion

In retrospect, where does the evidence stand? Here’s a summary: Venema’s main claims in light of the relevant science. Read More ›
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Of Whales and Timescales

The changes involved in adapting a generic mammalian template into a whale are certainly not all simple, independent, single-letter changes. Read More ›

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