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361p-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/haeckel-plants-1-600x417.jpg)"><header class="">haeckel-plants</header><center class=""><img src="https://iconsofevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/02/haeckel-plants-1-600x417.jpg" alt=""/></center></figure>		<header class="article-header">
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366	<dt class="article-type"><span>Type</span></dt>
367  <dd class="article-type">post</dd>
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369		<dt class="article-author">Author</dt>
370  <dd class="article-author">Jonathan Wells</dd>
371	
372  <dt class="article-date"><span>Date</span></dt>
373  <dd class="article-date">February 1, 2018</dd>
374
375  <dl class="categories"><dt>Categories</dt><dd class="articles pcategory"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" target="_blank">Articles</a></dd><dd class="book-review"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/book-review/" target="_blank">Book Review</a></dd></dl>
376  
377</dl></sup>
378		<h2><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/victorian-mythmaker/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Review of Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker">Review of Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker</a></h2>
379	  <sub class="byline">
380<dl class="article-meta article-byline">
381
382  <dd class="article-author"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/author/jwells/" target="_blank">Jonathan Wells</a></dd>
383  <dd class="article-date">February 1, 2018</dd>
384
385    <dd class="article-categories"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" rel="category tag">Articles</a>, <a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/book-review/" rel="category tag">Book Review</a></dd>
386  
387  
388  <dd class="article-ert" data-length=short>5</dd>
389
390</dl></sub>
391
392	</header>
393
394	<center class="article-center">
395
396	  On February 12, followers of Charles Darwin around the world will reverently celebrate his birthday, which they have christened “Darwin Day.” Known to most Americans as Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, February 12 has become for some people the secular equivalent of Christmas. <a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/victorian-mythmaker/" class="article-more"><span class="excerpt-more-default"> Read More &rsaquo;</span></a>
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405
406	
407	<figure class="tease-figure figured has-title is-portrait ar-3-2 ar-35mm" style="background-image: url(https://iconsofevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/AdobeStock_93623023-600x400.jpeg)"><header class="">Warts - Skin Tag Disease</header><center class=""><img src="https://iconsofevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/AdobeStock_93623023-600x400.jpeg" alt=""/></center></figure>		<header class="article-header">
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409		<sup class="meta">
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412	<dt class="article-type"><span>Type</span></dt>
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415		<dt class="article-author">Author</dt>
416  <dd class="article-author">Jonathan Wells</dd>
417	
418  <dt class="article-date"><span>Date</span></dt>
419  <dd class="article-date">September 12, 2017</dd>
420
421  <dl class="categories"><dt>Categories</dt><dd class="articles pcategory"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" target="_blank">Articles</a></dd></dl>
422    <dt class="article-tags"><span>Tagged</span></dt>
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424  
425</dl></sup>
426		<h2><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/mutant-destruction/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Mutant Destruction">Mutant Destruction</a></h2>
427	  <sub class="byline">
428<dl class="article-meta article-byline">
429
430  <dd class="article-author"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/author/jwells/" target="_blank">Jonathan Wells</a></dd>
431  <dd class="article-date">September 12, 2017</dd>
432
433    <dd class="article-categories"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" rel="category tag">Articles</a></dd>
434  
435  
436  <dd class="article-ert" data-length=short>1</dd>
437
438</dl></sub>
439
440	</header>
441
442	<center class="article-center">
443
444	  Critics of intelligent design (ID) sometimes argue that if the human body were designed, it would be perfect. Among other things, we would not suffer from diseases such as cancer.
445
446Defenders of ID point out that this criticism is misplaced. Design does not imply perfection. Many things we know to be designed (such as cars) are imperfect. The “argument from imperfection” against ID is implicitly a theological argument, namely, that God is the designer and anything designed by God must be perfect. ID does not make that claim.  <a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/mutant-destruction/" class="article-more"><span class="excerpt-more-default"> Read More &rsaquo;</span></a>
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455
456	
457	<figure class="tease-figure figured has-title has-description is-portrait ar-3-2 ar-35mm" style="background-image: url(https://iconsofevolution.com/w
457p-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/3880251210_5a86a874ee_b-600x400.jpg)"><header class="">Whales Hervery Bay 0307</header><center class=""><img src="https://iconsofevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/06/3880251210_5a86a874ee_b-600x400.jpg" alt=""/></center><footer class=""><small class="description toggler "><span>"Whales Hervery Bay _0307" by Michael Dawes @flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)</span></small></footer></figure>		<header class="article-header">
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462	<dt class="article-type"><span>Type</span></dt>
463  <dd class="article-type">post</dd>
464
465		<dt class="article-author">Author</dt>
466  <dd class="article-author">Jonathan Wells</dd>
467	
468  <dt class="article-date"><span>Date</span></dt>
469  <dd class="article-date">June 5, 2017</dd>
470
471  <dl class="categories"><dt>Categories</dt><dd class="articles pcategory"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" target="_blank">Articles</a></dd></dl>
472    <dt class="article-tags"><span>Tagged</span></dt>
473  <dd class="article-tags">, <a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/tag/offsite/" rel="tag">offsite</a></dd>
474  
475</dl></sup>
476		<h2><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/whale-of-a-tale/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Whale of a Tale">Whale of a Tale</a></h2>
477	  <sub class="byline">
478<dl class="article-meta article-byline">
479
480  <dd class="article-author"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/author/jwells/" target="_blank">Jonathan Wells</a></dd>
481  <dd class="article-date">June 5, 2017</dd>
482
483    <dd class="article-categories"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" rel="category tag">Articles</a></dd>
484  
485  
486  <dd class="article-ert" data-length=short>1</dd>
487
488</dl></sub>
489
490	</header>
491
492	<center class="article-center">
493
494	  Charles Darwin wrote in the first edition of On the Origin of Species that North American black bears had been seen “swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure... <a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/whale-of-a-tale/" class="article-more"><span class="excerpt-more-default"> Read More &rsaquo;</span></a>
495	</center>
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497	<footer class="article-footer"></footer>
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503
504	
505	<figure class="tease-figure figured has-title has-alt has-description is-portrait ar-3-2 ar-35mm" style="background-image: url(https://iconsofevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/8658360640_c70fcbbba5_o-600x402.jpg)"><header class="">Geese Stepping</header><center class=""><img src="https://iconsofevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/8658360640_c70fcbbba5_o-600x402.jpg" alt="Geese Stepping"/></center><footer class=""><small class="description toggler "><span>"geese4" by Scott Grassmann @flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)</span></small></footer></figure>		<header class="article-header">
506
507		<sup class="meta">
508<dl class="article-meta">
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510	<dt class="article-type"><span>Type</span></dt>
511  <dd class="article-type">post</dd>
512
513		<dt class="article-author">Author</dt>
514  <dd class="article-author">Jonathan Wells</dd>
515	
516  <dt class="article-date"><span>Date</span></dt>
517  <dd class="article-date">April 19, 2017</dd>
518
519  <dl class="categories"><dt>Categories</dt><dd class="articles pcategory"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" target="_blank">Articles</a></dd></dl>
520    <dt class="article-tags"><span>Tagged</span></dt>
521  <dd class="article-tags">, <a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/tag/offsite/" rel="tag">offsite</a></dd>
522  
523</dl></sup>
524		<h2><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/goose-stepping-for-science/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Goose Stepping for Science">Goose Stepping for Science</a></h2>
525	  <sub class="byline">
526<dl class="article-meta article-byline">
527
528  <dd class="article-author"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/author/jwells/" target="_blank">Jonathan Wells</a></dd>
529  <dd class="article-date">April 19, 2017</dd>
530
531    <dd class="article-categories"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" rel="category tag">Articles</a></dd>
532  
533  
534  <dd class="article-ert" data-length=short>4</dd>
535
536</dl></sub>
537
538	</header>
539
540	<center class="article-center">
541
542	  Imagine yourself in Moscow in 1950, taking part in a March for Science. Science in the Soviet Union had been suffering for many years under Trofim Lysenko, a third-rate biologist who promoted unsound agricultural policies. Lysenko’s ideas appealed to Joseph Stalin, who elevated him to a high position. Eventually, all criticisms of Lysenko were prohibited. Thousands of scientists lost their jobs. Some were even imprisoned or executed.  <a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/goose-stepping-for-science/" class="article-more"><span class="excerpt-more-default"> Read More &rsaquo;</span></a>
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551
552	
553	<figure class="tease-figure figured has-title has-description is-portrait ar-3-2 ar-35mm" style="background-image: url(https://iconsofevolution.com/w
553p-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/one-way-863138_1920-600x400.jpg)"><header class="">one-way-863138_1920</header><center class=""><img src="https://iconsofevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/one-way-863138_1920-600x400.jpg" alt=""/></center><footer class=""><small class="description toggler "><span>Pubic Domain, https://pixabay.com/en/one-way-arrow-brick-wall-863138/</span></small></footer></figure>		<header class="article-header">
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555		<sup class="meta">
556<dl class="article-meta">
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558	<dt class="article-type"><span>Type</span></dt>
559  <dd class="article-type">post</dd>
560
561		<dt class="article-author">Author</dt>
562  <dd class="article-author">Jonathan Wells</dd>
563	
564  <dt class="article-date"><span>Date</span></dt>
565  <dd class="article-date">April 18, 2017</dd>
566
567  <dl class="categories"><dt>Categories</dt><dd class="articles pcategory"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" target="_blank">Articles</a></dd></dl>
568    <dt class="article-tags"><span>Tagged</span></dt>
569  <dd class="article-tags">, <a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/tag/offsite/" rel="tag">offsite</a></dd>
570  
571</dl></sup>
572		<h2><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/the-march-for-science-is-really-a-march-for-conformity/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to The March for Science is Really a March for Conformity">The March for Science is Really a March for Conformity</a></h2>
573	  <sub class="byline">
574<dl class="article-meta article-byline">
575
576  <dd class="article-author"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/author/jwells/" target="_blank">Jonathan Wells</a></dd>
577  <dd class="article-date">April 18, 2017</dd>
578
579    <dd class="article-categories"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" rel="category tag">Articles</a></dd>
580  
581  
582  <dd class="article-ert" data-length=short>5</dd>
583
584</dl></sub>
585
586	</header>
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588	<center class="article-center">
589
590	  I am a scientist, but I won’t be joining the worldwide March for Science April 22. That’s because it’s really a march for something that undermines good science. March organizers say “our diversity is our greatest strength.” They say “a wealth of opinions, perspectives, and ideas is critical for the scientific process.”  <a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/the-march-for-science-is-really-a-march-for-conformity/" class="article-more"><span class="excerpt-more-default"> Read More &rsaquo;</span></a>
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599
600	
601	<figure class="tease-figure figured has-title has-description is-portrait ar-4-3" style="background-image: url(https://iconsofevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/10155680455_1bcb09cb9d_o-600x425.jpg)"><header class="">10155680455_1bcb09cb9d_o</header><center class=""><img src="https://iconsofevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/10155680455_1bcb09cb9d_o-600x425.jpg" alt=""/></center><footer class=""><small class="description toggler "><span>"Chengjiang Fossil Site, World Heritage Site, China" by IUCNweb @flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)</span></small></footer></figure>		<header class="article-header">
602
603		<sup class="meta">
604<dl class="article-meta">
605
606	<dt class="article-type"><span>Type</span></dt>
607  <dd class="article-type">post</dd>
608
609		<dt class="article-author">Author</dt>
610  <dd class="article-author">Jonathan Wells</dd>
611	
612  <dt class="article-date"><span>Date</span></dt>
613  <dd class="article-date">April 17, 2014</dd>
614
615  <dl class="categories"><dt>Categories</dt><dd class="articles pcategory"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" target="_blank">Articles</a></dd></dl>
616  
617</dl></sup>
618		<h2><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/in-china-we-can-criticize-darwin/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to &#8220;In China We Can Criticize Darwin&#8221;">&#8220;In China We Can Criticize Darwin&#8221;</a></h2>
619	  <sub class="byline">
620<dl class="article-meta article-byline">
621
622  <dd class="article-author"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/author/jwells/" target="_blank">Jonathan Wells</a></dd>
623  <dd class="article-date">April 17, 2014</dd>
624
625    <dd class="article-categories"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" rel="category tag">Articles</a></dd>
626  
627  
628  <dd class="article-ert" data-length=long>17</dd>
629
630</dl></sub>
631
632	</header>
633
634	<center class="article-center">
635
636	  In June 1999, Paul Nelson and I flew to Kunming in southern China to attend an International Symposium on The Origins of Animal Body Plans and Their Fossil Record, held at Fuxian Lake Hot Springs Resort. According to the invitation letter, the symposium would take "an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to the study of the origin and evolution of animal body plans. <a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/in-china-we-can-criticize-darwin/" class="article-more"><span class="excerpt-more-default"> Read More &rsaquo;</span></a>
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645
646	
647	<figure class="tease-figure figured has-title has-description is-portrait ar-3-2 ar-35mm" style="background-image: url(https://iconsofevolution.com/w
647p-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/8001741433_356c8bf6d4_o-600x397.jpg)"><header class="">8001741433_356c8bf6d4_o</header><center class=""><img src="https://iconsofevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/8001741433_356c8bf6d4_o-600x397.jpg" alt=""/></center><footer class=""><small class="description toggler "><span>"Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man" by m01229 @flickr (CC BY 2.0)</span></small></footer></figure>		<header class="article-header">
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649		<sup class="meta">
650<dl class="article-meta">
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652	<dt class="article-type"><span>Type</span></dt>
653  <dd class="article-type">post</dd>
654
655		<dt class="article-author">Author</dt>
656  <dd class="article-author">Jonathan Wells</dd>
657	
658  <dt class="article-date"><span>Date</span></dt>
659  <dd class="article-date">April 17, 2014</dd>
660
661  <dl class="categories"><dt>Categories</dt><dd class="articles pcategory"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" target="_blank">Articles</a></dd></dl>
662  
663</dl></sup>
664		<h2><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/flailing-blindly/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Flailing Blindly">Flailing Blindly</a></h2>
665	  <sub class="byline">
666<dl class="article-meta article-byline">
667
668  <dd class="article-author"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/author/jwells/" target="_blank">Jonathan Wells</a></dd>
669  <dd class="article-date">April 17, 2014</dd>
670
671    <dd class="article-categories"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" rel="category tag">Articles</a></dd>
672  
673  
674  <dd class="article-ert" data-length=short>5</dd>
675
676</dl></sub>
677
678	</header>
679
680	<center class="article-center">
681
682	  I did not watch the sixth episode of Cosmos on April 13, but I’m told that it included animations to illustrate the molecular workings of a chloroplast — the organelle that carries out photosynthesis in a plant cell. In a review of the episode posted on the blog of the censor-everything-but-Darwinism National Center for Science Education, Josh Rosenau called the animations “cartoonish industrial machinery, rather than the messy complexity of the real molecular... <a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/flailing-blindly/" class="article-more"><span class="excerpt-more-default"> Read More &rsaquo;</span></a>
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691
692	
693	<figure class="tease-figure figured has-title has-description is-landscape" style="background-image: url(https://iconsofevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/2514561017_f5d6faab49_o-480x600.jpg)"><header class="">2514561017_f5d6faab49_o</header><center class=""><img src="https://iconsofevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/04/2514561017_f5d6faab49_o-480x600.jpg" alt=""/></center><footer class=""><small class="description toggler "><span>"Circus" by Michelle @flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)</span></small></footer></figure>		<header class="article-header">
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695		<sup class="meta">
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698	<dt class="article-type"><span>Type</span></dt>
699  <dd class="article-type">post</dd>
700
701		<dt class="article-author">Author</dt>
702  <dd class="article-author">Jonathan Wells</dd>
703	
704  <dt class="article-date"><span>Date</span></dt>
705  <dd class="article-date">June 15, 2010</dd>
706
707  <dl class="categories"><dt>Categories</dt><dd class="articles pcategory"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" target="_blank">Articles</a></dd></dl>
708  
709</dl></sup>
710		<h2><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/dawkins-and-darwins-three-ring-circus/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Dawkins and Darwin’s Three-Ring Circus">Dawkins and Darwin’s Three-Ring Circus</a></h2>
711	  <sub class="byline">
712<dl class="article-meta article-byline">
713
714  <dd class="article-author"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/author/jwells/" target="_blank">Jonathan Wells</a></dd>
715  <dd class="article-date">June 15, 2010</dd>
716
717    <dd class="article-categories"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" rel="category tag">Articles</a></dd>
718  
719  
720  <dd class="article-ert" data-length=medium>10</dd>
721
722</dl></sub>
723
724	</header>
725
726	<center class="article-center">
727
728	  Review: The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution byRichard Dawkins (New York: Free Press, 2009) Some years ago an anonymous well-wisher sent Richard Dawkins a T-shirt bearing the slogan “Evolution: The Greatest Show on Earth.” The T-shirt inspired Dawkins with the title for his latest book... <a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/dawkins-and-darwins-three-ring-circus/" class="article-more"><span class="excerpt-more-default"> Read More &rsaquo;</span></a>
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738	
739	<figure class="tease-figure figured has-title has-description is-portrait" style="background-image: url(https://iconsofevolution.com/w
739p-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/05/12137796226_ab452a5e53_o-300x191.jpg)"><header class="">Origin of Species</header><center class=""><img src="https://iconsofevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2009/05/12137796226_ab452a5e53_o-300x191.jpg" alt=""/></center><footer class=""><small class="description toggler "><span>"Origin of Species" by Paul Williams @flickr</span></small></footer></figure>		<header class="article-header">
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746
747		<dt class="article-author">Author</dt>
748  <dd class="article-author">Jonathan Wells</dd>
749	
750  <dt class="article-date"><span>Date</span></dt>
751  <dd class="article-date">May 18, 2009</dd>
752
753  <dl class="categories"><dt>Categories</dt><dd class="articles pcategory"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" target="_blank">Articles</a></dd></dl>
754  
755</dl></sup>
756		<h2><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/why-darwinism-is-false/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Why Darwinism is False">Why Darwinism is False</a></h2>
757	  <sub class="byline">
758<dl class="article-meta article-byline">
759
760  <dd class="article-author"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/author/jwells/" target="_blank">Jonathan Wells</a></dd>
761  <dd class="article-date">May 18, 2009</dd>
762
763    <dd class="article-categories"><a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/category/articles/" rel="category tag">Articles</a></dd>
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774	  Jerry A. Coyne is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at The University of Chicago. In Why Evolution is True, he summarizes Darwinism — the modern theory of evolution — as follows: “Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive species — perhaps a self-replicating molecule — that lived more than 3.5 billion years ago; it then branched out over time, throwing off many new and diverse species; and the mechanism  <a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/why-darwinism-is-false/" class="article-more"><span class="excerpt-more-default"> Read More &rsaquo;</span></a>
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820	  According to the online critique of Explore Evolution by the National Center for Science Education: (A) EE claims that natural selection produced only oscillations in beak size in Galápagos finches, but “in the course of a few years, the size changes within species were large enough to explain the differences among the various species... <a href="https://iconsofevolution.com/misrepresenting-the-galapagos-finches/" class="article-more"><span class="excerpt-more-default"> Read More &rsaquo;</span></a>
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