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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 ›
humpback whale
humpback whale
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Systems Biology Cracks Life’s Engineered Intricacies — A Report from CELS

The cherished evolutionary story of whales' “vestigial” pelvic bones joins the growing pile of discredited icons of evolution. Read More ›
Jumping Spider
Photo: Phidippus audax, a North American jumping spider, via Wikimedia Commons.

Dreaming Animals and Human Exceptionalism

Researchers have detected something like REM (rapid eye movement) sleep — which is associated with dreaming in humans — in jumping spiders. Read More ›
dolphins
Photo: Dolphins, by Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

From Winston Ewert, New Peer-Reviewed Paper on Dependency Graph Model

Ewert's model represents a valuable tool in the developing theory of biological design, which should eventually supplant phylogenetic analyses. Read More ›
humpback whale
humpback whale
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Pentadactyl Whale Flipper Is an Engineering Masterstroke

Does the five-digit design of the whale flipper, akin to the five-digit design of so many different kinds of animal limbs, point to evolutionary common descent? Read More ›
Darwin's finch
Photo: Darwin's finch, by Victor Gleim, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Jonathan Wells Evaluates Darwinian Evolution in New Online Course

How strong is the evidence for Darwinian evolution? What are the limits of the Darwinian mechanism? Read More ›
swimming bear
Photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar, via Flickr.

From Bears to Whales: A Difficult Transition

Critics laughed, and he removed it from later editions, but Charles Darwin privately continued to believe that whales evolved from a “race of bears.” Read More ›
polar bear
Image Credit: Andrii IURLOV - Adobe Stock

Natural Selection Subtracts, It Doesn’t Add — And That Matters

In the wild, all organisms must live within their niche. There are no wild polar bears in Arizona, and no iguanas in Alaska. Read More ›
Stenopterygius quadriscissus
Photo credit: Haplochromis, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Scientist: Ichthyosaurs Evolved “Astonishingly Rapidly”

This is a case of evolutionary biology trying to explain away the data that otherwise was not directly expected under their model. Read More ›
Sirenia
Photo: Pezosiren, Thesupermat via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fossil Friday: Sea Cows and the Abrupt Origin of Sirenia and Desmostylia

So, is every thing OK with Darwinism after all? No so fast. Actually, there are some problems that do not square well with a Darwinian scenario. Read More ›

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