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Delicate Spider Fossil Discovered - Feb 21, 2019
/article/delicate-spider-fossil-discoveredFrank Sherwin, M.A. - Discovering fossil spiders has become fairly common.1 Each time they have been 100% spiders, not vague evolutionary ancestors with partial or transitional features.2 Now a whole collection of “ancient” spiders from the...
Are People and Fruit Flies Related? - Jan 31, 2019
/article/are-people-and-fruit-flies-relatedFrank Sherwin, M.A. - There are around 152,000 named species of flies (the order Diptera) representing approximately 10% of all species on Earth. One genus in particular, the pesky fruit fly Drosophila, is found all around the globe. It’s used in fields of...
Geckos Have Holes in Their Heads - Dec 18, 2018
/article/geckos-have-holes-in-their-headsFrank Sherwin, M.A. - The lovable, designed gecko makes the news again this year.1 In 2009, it was discovered the gecko had amazing nocturnal vision.2 Even their sophisticated feet that secrete phospholipids, complex membrane molecules, are a wonder of...
Not-So-Simple Plankton - Dec 13, 2018
/article/not-so-simple-planktonFrank Sherwin, M.A. - Plankton is a generic term for small marine creatures such as algae, bacteria, and protozoa. Although tiny, they are packed with incredibly intricate submicroscopic structures. This complexity isn’t surprising since many of these entities...
Amazing Design of Black Widow Web Silk - Dec 6, 2018
/article/amazing-design-of-black-widow-web-silkFrank Sherwin, M.A. - Evidence for creation is seen in both the sudden origin1 of spiders, as demonstrated in the fossil record, and their amazing design.2 All spiders are created with four pairs of walking legs. Spider fossils are rare. Only about a thousand fossil...
Secular Root Origins Appear Groundless - Oct 9, 2018
/article/secular-root-origins-appear-groundlessFrank Sherwin, M.A. - The biblical model of origins maintains the first forms of life created by God were the land plants complete with root systems on Day 3 of creation week. The first life did not evolve from inorganic non-life in some unknown primal ocean some...
Newly-Discovered Brain Cell - Sep 13, 2018
/article/newly-discovered-brain-cellFrank Sherwin, M.A. - Someone said the three-pound human brain is the most complex and least-understood biological structure in the known universe. Scientific research regarding this incredibly intricate organ will never end. In fact, a fascinating new...
Massive Megashark Teeth Discovered - Aug 30, 2018
/article/massive-megashark-teeth-discoveredFrank Sherwin, M.A. - In 2015, schoolteacher and amateur fossil hunter Philip Mullaly discovered a number of three-inch teeth of what would later be classified as the large Great Jagged Narrow-Toothed shark (Carcharocles angustidens).1 The teeth were found along a beach...
More Exceptional Preservation of Organic Material - Aug 23, 2018
/article/more-exceptional-preservation-of-organic-materialFrank Sherwin, M.A. - The scientific community continues to reel and exhibit bewilderment that well-preserved carbon-based (organic) fossil material regularly appears in sediments supposedly many millions of years old. One recent discovery of organic matrix...
Are the Galápagos Islands a Laboratory of Evolution? - Aug 14, 2018
/article/galapagos-islands-laboratory-of-evolutionFrank Sherwin, M.A. - A recent Livescience article1 is entitled “The Galápagos Islands: Laboratory of Evolution.” It addresses, among other things, “unique examples of plant and animal life.” The islands contain a variety of biota (the...