Casey Luskin Answers Common Objections to Intelligent Design

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Dr. Luskin highlights a “large unbridged gap” in the fossil record between ape-like species like Lucy and human-like species. Source
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Teleology: Anticipation and Necessity

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Imagine a primordial grizzly bear on the northern edge of the forest adjacent to the Arctic. His soma senses the differences of the new environment. Source
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No. 4 Story of 2024: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Again

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This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute. Source
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“Doesn’t the Fossil Record Prove Darwinian Theory?”

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You’ve heard that challenge a million times. But as paleontologist Günter Bechly explains, the opposite is true. Source
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Fossil Friday: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Once Again

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This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute. Source
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Plant Evolution: All Gaps and Miracles

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A major study looks for evolution, but finds huge disparities, stasis, gaps, periodic explosions, and miracles of emergence held together with imagination. Source
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Botany Journal Revisits Charles Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

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A recent paper by Richard Buggs shows that a problem for evolutionary theory has grown more acute since Darwin’s time. Source
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Ignoring the Obvious: Convergent Evolution in Strickberger’s Evolution

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Remarkably, even Ernst Mayr was forced to tacitly acknowledge the challenge to Darwinism posed by convergence. Source
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