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From Bears to Whales: A Difficult Transition

Critics laughed, and he removed it from later editions of his book, but Charles Darwin privately continued to believe that whales evolved from a “race of bears.” Read More ›
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Photo: A humpback whale, by Christopher Michel, via Flickr.

The Biggest Sea Animals: Whaling for Evolution

The largest animals that ever lived defy simple evolutionary stories. Read More ›
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Image: The Creation of Adam, by Michelangelo Buonarroti [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Dennis Venema’s Adam and the Genome: A Case Study in Cognitive Bias

In a previous article I described how scientific training can condition some scientists’ minds to resist the evidence in nature for intelligent design. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Fuxianhuia protensa, Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna, by Grahbudd [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Contradicting Darwinian Gradualism, Earliest Animals Show Complex Parental Behavior

Darwin himself realized that any kind of significant saltational change would imply a miracle-like intelligent intervention. 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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Photo: Whale flukes, by Free-Photos, via Pixabay.

Answering Simplistic Presentations of Darwinism

Design advocates have the advantage of looking at both sides of the origins debate. Read More ›
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Photo: Ambulocetus natans, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, by Momotarou2012 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Adam and the Genome and Whale Fossils

We don’t find the “pattern” that evolution predicts “should be found in the fossil record at certain times.” Rather, we find that truly aquatic whales appear abruptly. Read More ›
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“Convergent Evolution Is Even More Improbable than Evolution Itself”

Lee Spetner says of convergent evolution that it explains nothing but is simply a case of “giving a name to our ignorance.” Read More ›
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Photo: Fluke of a sperm whale, by Vilmos Vincze via Flickr.

Jonathan Wells on the “Fairy Tale” of Whale Evolution

Three massive acts of exquisitely complex re-engineering would be required, far beyond the reach of unguided natural processes. Read More ›
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Jonathan Wells: Biologist, Author of Zombie Science, and…Ex-Con?

Why is understanding Dr. Wells as a person important? Because in assessing anyone as a guide to anything, integrity must count for a great deal. Read More ›

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