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The MYTH of Junk DNA

Is the idea of junk DNA this one of the biggest mistakes in science in our lifetime? Only about 1% of our DNA codes for proteins, so what is the other 99% doing? Read More ›
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Challenge to Origin of Life Teaser

We’re often told that origin of life experiments have simulated the production of life’s building blocks under conditions that mimicked the early earth. Or at least that’s what many textbooks say. But is this really true? This is a teaser for a new video that will tackle one particular challenge to evolving life from chemicals: the challenge of creating biopolymers. The video is an episode in the Long Story Short series on YouTube. Read More ›
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Origin of Life: The Basic Building Blocks

We’re often told that origin of life experiments have simulated the production of life’s building blocks under conditions that mimicked the early earth. Or at least that’s what many textbooks say. But is this really true? This video shows how origin of life researchers “cheat” by using purified chemicals that don’t reproduce actual natural conditions. Another dirty little secret is Read More ›

Whale Evolution- A Further Rebuttal

Whale Evolution: A Further Rebuttal

We’re responding to additional critiques to our video on whale evolution. They say that we got some things wrong, but let’s look more closely and see if that’s the case.

Whale Evolution- A Rebuttal

Whale Evolution: A Rebuttal

This video responds to some critiques to our Long Story Short video on whale evolution. They say that we got some things wrong, but let’s look more closely and see if that’s the case.

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Image courtesy Discovery Institute.

A Whale of an Evolution Tale

Darwinists often point to the whale fossil record as one of the best examples of an evolutionary transition. But is it? Charles Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species: “I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.” Bears turning into whales? Scientists today disagree, instead claiming that other land animals were the real precursors to today’s whales. Read More ›