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Khan Academy Video, “Evidence for Evolution,” Gives Circular Arguments for Common Ancestry

If you define homology as resulting from common ancestry, you can’t then turn around and use that as an argument for common ancestry. 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 ›
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Is the Human Neck a “Mistake of Evolution”?

Darwin asserted the “absurdity” of evolution designing a shared opening to the esophagus and trachea (windpipe). Read More ›
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Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed

Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature. Read More ›
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Whales — Time to Put Evolution’s Exhausted “Poster Child” to Rest

The argument about whales turns on two points: “Population genetics calculations say no,” and “New fossil find throws the series into disarray.” Read More ›
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Whale Song: Learning from Our Critics

A substantive argument is a lovely thing to behold, to watch or to listen to, even if punctuated (in Myers's case) by the usual grumpy insults. Read More ›
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Whale of a Webinar Debuts a Delightful “Long Story Short” Video

Whales are held up as a model of what unguided evolution can do in a short time: in this case, just 8 million years, or perhaps even half that. Read More ›
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Whale Evolution — Believe It or Not? Register by Thursday for Webinar with Sternberg and Wells!

Prominent atheist biologist Jerry Coyne calls whale fossils “one of our best examples of an evolutionary transition.” Read More ›

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