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Darwinism as an All-Purpose Story Plot

March 23, 2018

Observations are just props. The play is, “The Evolution of Whatever” or “How Whatever Evolved.” Now playing in science media near you. As a play, Darwinism has two subplots: natural selection and sexual selection. With a little creative screenwriting, any observation in nature can be fit into either or both subplots, provided the perhapsimaybecouldness index […]

Fossils

More Fossil Forests Found in Antarctica

March 22, 2018

The extent of fossil forests buried in the coldest continent on earth continues to grow and astound explorers.

Mammals

Elephants and Mammoths Were All One Kind

March 19, 2018

A new study of elephants, mammoths and mastodons show they were all interfertile or capable of hybridization. Our present world is impoverished of elephants, or “elephantids” as scientists dub the family. Mammoths and mastodons roamed throughout America and Asia, evidenced by the massive fossil beds, where millions of mammoth bones can be found in permafrost. […]

Fossils

Pterosaurs and Birds Flew Together

March 14, 2018

Archaeopteryx flew as well as a pheasant, say paleontologists, and pterosaurs prospered right up to the moment of extinction.

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 […]

Geology

Geology: A Science Where Theories Undergo Subduction

March 8, 2018

In plate tectonics, continental plates get subducted and melt under pressure. That’s like what happens to geological theories. Read enough geology papers, and you will find old theories constantly being replaced. Classic examples include plate tectonics becoming the new normal after Wegener’s theory had been viciously attacked, and megaflood theory for the Channeled Scablands becoming […]

Fossils

Misreading Soft Tissue

March 5, 2018

When organic remains are found in fossils said to be hundreds of millions of years old, what questions should be asked?

Dinosaurs

Most Armored Dinosaurs Found Upside Down

March 2, 2018

Why are 81% of ankylosaur fossils found belly up? With clever storytelling, you can accommodate this to evolution's long ages.

Early Man

Neanderthal Art Found: Last Barrier to Full Human Status Falls

February 23, 2018

They were strong, skilled hunters, with large brains. They interbred with 'modern humans.' But they have always been disparaged because they left no art. Till now.

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.

Fossils

Dinosaur and Mammal Tracks Found Together

February 1, 2018

In what is being called the mother lode of Cretaceous tracks, mammals, dinosaurs and pterosaurs left their prints in a table-sized rock.

Early Man

Setback to Out-of-Africa Theory of Human Origins

January 27, 2018

A new modern human skeleton found in Israel is dated much earlier than a long-accepted theory can bear.

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.

Darwin and Evolution