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23Mar 2023 by Post

Peer-Reviewed Paper Shows Vertebrate Embryonic Variation Contradicts Common Ancestry

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Evolutionary biologists often argue that vertebrate embryos develop in highly similar manners, reflecting their common ancestry. Source

18Mar 2023 by Post

Darwin and Agassiz: An Imaginary Picture

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Given the close relationship Louis Agassiz shared with pro-slavery factions in the South, Desmond and Moore focus much on Darwin’s relationship with Agassiz. Source

04Mar 2023 by Post

Why High School Biology Made Me Angry (And Why I Like It So Much Better Now)

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Your own body has something like 30 trillion cells in it. That’s 30 trillion large cities’ worth of complexity. Source

26Feb 2023 by Post

Cambridge UP Book Airbrushes Darwin’s Contribution to Scientific Racism

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Darwin’s racist and pro-eugenics thinking, combined with some implications of his theory that he expressed, laid the groundwork for Hitler’s diabolical outlook. Source

21Feb 2023 by Post

The Cruel Legacy of Social Darwinism in Nigeria

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Social Darwinism rests like a tiger moth on Darwinism, its mother theory; when challenged with facts, it just flits to a slightly different position. Source

15Feb 2023 by Post

Molecular Infertility: New Long Story Short on RNA Replication and Life’s Origin

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You might think that such severe impediments to prebiotic RNA formation would be enough to discourage fanciful proposals of RNA replication. Source

12Feb 2023 by Post

Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, and Intelligent Design

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Given Lincoln’s acknowledgment of the evidence of design in nature, he would be banned from expressing his views on evolution in most public schools today. Source

16Jan 2023 by Post