Evolutionists Love Upsets – To a Point

As long as King Charley
survives, upsets keep Darwinians
gainfully employed and busy

What scientist wants to work in a field where everything is known? Kuhnian ‘normal science’ requires continual puzzle solving within a paradigm, and the Darwinian paradigm has lots of puzzles. Fortunately for them, Darwin’s Stuff Happens Law offers an infinity of solutions. The project of connecting ‘stuff ‘ to ‘happenings’ gives the Darwinians, therefore, an infinity of tasks —job security for storytellers. They can even break apart puzzle pieces that earlier Darwinists joined together, and fight and argue about new pieces that are discovered, as long as the picture on the imaginary box top—a big, branching Tree of Life—is not threatened.

What the Darwinists cannot tolerate is the insertion of design – Lewontin’s dreaded Divine Foot in the door. Intelligent design anywhere in the cover picture threatens the whole paradigm. This explains modern biology, where new upsets and anomalies appear on a weekly basis and yet Darwinism thrives. Almost any part of the Tree can be contested, with complex features appearing “earlier than thought” and relationships changing constantly. But no biologist dare utter the acronym “ID” in a scientific paper, lest the Big Science Cartel send out the Paradigm Police to administer Consensus Protection.

Let’s see how this picture of modern biology plays out in the news this week.

A tiny dinosaur bone just rewrote the origin of bird flight (Yale University via Science Daily, 24 July 2025). Yale scientists dumped a large dollop of Darwin sauce on a tiny wrist bone. As a result, the whole chapter on the origin of bird flight will have to be rewritten in the Official Darwin Dogma Textbook of Biology.

A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved far earlier than scientists thought. Fossils from bird-like dinosaurs in Mongolia reveal that this bone, once thought to vanish and reappear, was actually hiding in plain sight. Thanks to pristine preservation and 3D scans, researchers connected the dots between ancient theropods and modern birds, uncovering a deeper, more intricate story of how dinosaurs evolved the tools for powered flight.

Ancient squid-like creatures are not squid after all, study finds (University of Bristol, 24 July 2025). Hail Darwin! He survives another look at the Cambrian explosion! A Cambrian organism has been reclassified from pre-cephalopod to a pre-arrow worm. One implication is that the Cambrian ancestor of arrow worms was more complex than its modern living descendants. That implies devolution, but that’s OK; anything goes in the Stuff Happens world of Darwin.

“Nectocaridids have complex camera eyes just like ours. Living arrow worms can hardly form an image beyond working out roughly where the sun shines. So, the ancestors of arrow worms were really complex predators, just like the squids that only evolved about 400 million years later,” Dr Vinther added.

Squid and camera eyes are exquisitely functional with complex, interconnected parts, but don’t worry. Darwin can handle it.

New fossil reveals hidden diversity of ancient reptiles before Earth’s largest mass extinction (Natural History Museum of Berlin, 24 July 2025). Supposed ancestors of dinosaurs were more diverse than expected before a major extinction event, these Darwinians concluded after using divination on a single vertebral bone. The story goes on with the power of suggestion acting as glue at key points. For instance, did you know that parts of a body can evolve at different rates than other parts? One must feel the cryptic nature of evolution to understand.

A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis places Manistropheus kulicki at the base of Archosauromorpha, suggesting it was among the earliest members of this major reptile lineage.

The study also used morphological diversity analysis to assess variety in neck vertebrae across time. Results indicate that archosauromorphs were already morphologically diverse before the extinction, and that their neck anatomy diversified rapidly in the early Triassic—faster than other parts of the skeleton, according to previous research.

“This fossil not only reveals a new species but also supports the idea that there was a ‘cryptic’ diversity of archosauromorphs in the Permian,” notes Prof. Hans-Dieter Sues from the Smithsonian Institution, leader of the excavations at the Korbach fissure in the 1990s and co-author of the study.

A dusty fossil drawer held a 300-million-year-old evolutionary game-changer (Harvard University via Science Daily, 24 July 2025). It’s a game-changer, but only an evolutionary game-changer, you see. It doesn’t change the game. It only changes the plays within the game, like in Calvinball. This fossil wasn’t a caterpillar after all. It was the first lobopodian!

A century-old fossil long mislabeled as a caterpillar has been reidentified as the first-known nonmarine lobopodian—rewriting what we know about ancient life. Discovered in Harvard’s museum drawers, Palaeocampa anthrax predates even the famous Cambrian lobopodians and reveals that these soft-bodied ancestors of arthropods once lived not only in oceans, but in freshwater environments too.

And so, the Darwin Party spokesperson says, this bristly fossil “has emerged as a key discovery in early animal evolution.” Hurrah for Darwin! He wins again. He can’t lose: the rules guarantee it.

How evolution sent deer mice scurrying down two different paths of escape (Harvard via Phys.org, 23 July 2025). Evolution is like a drill sergeant or coach. It sends organisms scurrying sometimes when they are crawling too slowly. This story starts with deer mice and ends with deer mice, but Darwin gets credit, as the Chief DODO explains.

“In this case, we were able to pinpoint where evolution acted to make species from different environments have different behaviors to the same stimulus,” said Felix Baier, who conducted the study in Hopi Hoekstra’s lab in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology as a Ph.D. student in the Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Now a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Baier added, “The paper shows that evolution can act anywhere, including in more central brain regions.”

Evolution can act. It does act. You never know where it will act. That’s because stuff happens. The press author was sure to rub this in, using the e-word evolution 17 times in this one short article.

Beneath the scales: The secret bone armor that helped lizards survive Australia (Museum Victoria via Science Daily, 22 July 2025). Can you keep a secret? Do you like a mystery? Darwin’s helpers are here to scratch that itch. Did you know that Australia’s monitor lizards, called goannas, have tiny bones in their scales? How they survived was an “evolutionary mystery” till now. Something happened and now they have armor. Evolution has done it again!

Scientists have uncovered hidden bony armor—called osteoderms—beneath the skin of 29 goanna species across Australasia, a discovery that radically changes what we thought we knew about lizard evolution. Using museum specimens and advanced scanning, researchers found these structures are far more widespread than previously known, suggesting they may help with survival in harsh environments, not just offer protection. The revelation redefines how we understand lizard adaptation, ancient evolution, and the untapped potential of museum collections.

How radically does this change what Darwinians thought they knew about lizard evolution? Just a couple of furlongs shy of falsification. Turn up the hype to make the Darwinian scientists shine who figured this out:

This landmark study not only tells a new chapter in the story of Australia’s goannas, it provides a powerful new dataset for exploring how skin, structure, and survival have intertwined across millions of years of evolution.

Tune in again next week for another exciting episode of Darwin Can’t Lose.

Evolution is a fact; do you know why? Young Darwinists grow up under the teaching of Old Darwinists. That’s all they hear. That’s all the textbooks say. That’s all the science reporters hear, too, so that is all they write. That’s all the journals publish. The bookstores and school libraries put the Darwinist books under “Science” and the intelligent design or creation books under “Religion.” Liberal judges read the books and the precedents, and after watching Inherit the Wind, learn that skepticism about Darwin masks a religious motive. The Big Science Cartel runs the Paradigm KGB that silences all opposing voices.

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Result: evolution is a fact, all right: an imposed fact that every educated person is expected to believe to keep out of trouble. This isn’t science. This is a totalitarian regime. If Darwinism were a country, it would be Iran or North Korea.

Kuhn did teach, however, that revolutions are possible.