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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Will Evolutionists Ever Take Falsification Seriously? A Response to P. Z. Myers

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Can there be a better example of trying to argue that whatever the evidence, evolution is the answer? Source
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Engineering Brings Life and Vice Versa

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An uplifting video about a life-saving invention encapsulates several running themes about intelligent design, with only one brief flaw. Source
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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
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