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Sunflower Science Without Darwinism

August 13, 2021

Researchers do good work on sunflowers without descending into Darwinian storytelling Is it possible to do biology without evolution? Can you even talk about fitness and reproductive success without attributing it to blind forces of nature? After all, healthy species do reproduce successfully, or else they would be extinct. Noting that does not require […]

Fossils

Fossil Leaves Contain DNA

April 7, 2021

Are these leaves really 16 million years old? They retain color, odor, and even DNA. Bruce Malone shares a remarkable find.

Botany

Recent Plants Found Under Greenland Ice

March 16, 2021

Plant materials in an ice core cannot be a million years old. They look like they were buried in the recent past.

Fossils

Was Antarctica Once a Land of Forests?

March 11, 2021

Perfectly preserved leaves under Antarctic ice tell a story. But what is the correct plot?

Darwin and Evolution

“It Evolved” Is Not Science

March 10, 2021

Secular scientists have a bad habit of carelessly appealing to evolution as a default explanation for everything.

Botany

How Wood Is Made

March 5, 2021

Arboreal Artistry: The Amazing Talents of Wood Forming Cells By Margaret Helder As the major component of trees, wood seems useful and even beautiful in finished products, but scarcely biologically dramatic. Yet recent research on the development of wood portrays an elaborate ballet which proceeds inside young developing xylem cells. This performance culminates in […]