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Nature Knows Best

June 13, 2018

Recent news articles show how engineers and inventors are helping mankind by imitating what plants, cells and animals do every day. A new kind of vaccine based on spider silk (Science Daily). Because spider silk is tough and yet biodegradable, it can be used as a delivery capsule for vaccines that might otherwise be resisted […]

Botany

This Plant Beats the Venus Flytrap for Speed

May 18, 2018

The waterwheel plant, an aquatic species with a snap-trap faster than the Venus flytrap, is different enough to challenge evolutionary speculations.

Mammals

Beavers Clean the Soil

May 12, 2018

Without beaver dams, loss of nutrients from soil would increase, and pollutants from upstream erosion would afflict waterways.

Intelligent Design

Living Things Show Cleverness in Many Ways

April 20, 2018

Wherever biologists and microbiologists look, they find organisms solving problems in remarkably clever ways.

Fossils

Do These Fossils Show Evolution?

April 17, 2018

Before taking an evolutionist's word for it that a fossil organism evolved, we should look at the evidence.

Biomimetics

Biomimetics Parade Marches Upward

April 14, 2018

Scientists continue to find amazing things about animals and plants that they wish to imitate in technology.

Dating Methods

How Long Does Geology Take?

April 13, 2018

Geological change can occur quickly, if conditions are right, affecting life and civilization.

Biomimetics

Earwig Origami and Maple Seed Rockets

March 28, 2018

Engineering solutions from unlikely organisms inspire applications for wide-ranging human needs.

Amazing Facts

City Trees Give More in Ecosystem Services Than They Cost

March 25, 2018

City planners need to plant more trees in urban areas, but the benefits go beyond beautifying pavement. Urban areas occupy 4% of the land surface of the planet, says Theodore A. Endreny in a Comment article in Nature Communications. That may strike readers as surprising, given most people’s attention to cities for work, travel and […]

Darwin and Evolution

Most Common Phrase in Evolution Media: “Earlier Than Thought”

March 9, 2018

Major innovations that should have required many millions of years of slow, gradual evolution keep turning up earlier than thought. But who thought? We coined a new word tontologism (look it up in the Darwin Dictionary) to account for a bad habit of Darwinians. They frequently say, when evidence goes against their previous beliefs, “we […]

Intelligent Design

The Creator Thought of Everything

February 10, 2018

Sometimes little things make a big difference to a plant or animal. Evolutionists can always make up just-so stories, but creationists see God's wisdom even in small things.

Darwin and Evolution

Darwin Report Card: How Useful Is Evolutionary Theory?

February 6, 2018

We examine numerous articles and papers that talk about evolution to see if neo-Darwinism (or even old Darwinism) actually contributes to the understanding of nature.

Terrestrial Zoology

Butterfly Evolution Pushed 70 Million Years Before Flowers

January 13, 2018

New fossil evidence puts the squeeze on Darwinians, making butterflies appear suddenly, with complex mouth parts, before there were any flowers to pollinate. Time to rescue the theory again.