What if a fossil no bigger than a grain of rice showed engineering so precise that it still puzzles scientists? That is the intrigue surrounding Salterella, a tiny cone-shaped creature recently studied by Virginia Tech researchers. Their work highlights a surprising feature—a shell made from two different minerals. They describe it as an evolutionary “experimentation” from the start of animal life.1 Yet t... More...
Evolutionary naturalism is locked into seeing the entire living world as having evolved from a single common ancestor many millions of years ago.1 If true, the fossil record should document this slow and gradual change with untold transitional forms that smoothly bridge one kind of creature to another as depicted by Darwin’s tree of life. But
Darwin’s tree illustrated a long macro... More...