In Breath-Holding, Kate Winslet and a Croc Are Champions

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Kate Winslet, and other actors, for the sake of “the newest frontier in blockbuster moviemaking” are learning to hold their breath for several minutes. Source
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Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Complex Eyes in Trilobites

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The theory has been made immune to empirical falsification because it is simply assumed to be true by default as the only viable option for materialists. Source
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Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Butterflies

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This phenomenon could rightfully be called a Tertiary Butterfly Explosion analogous to the Cambrian Explosion of animal phyla. Source
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There Was Berra’s Blunder; Now Lieberman’s Lapse

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Tim Berra thought evolution was like the diversification and progress seen in Corvette models. Now, another evolutionist makes an analogy for extinction. Source
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Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better than Evolutionary Theory

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Hippocrates proposed in the late 5th or early 4th century BC a model for heredity and adaptation that Charles Darwin described as nearly identical to his own. Source
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Michael Behe on Why Lenski’s Experiments Show Devolution, Not Evolution

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Biochemist Michael Behe reviews the well-known Long Term Evolution Experiment at Michigan State. Source
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Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

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Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia. Source
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