Evolution's Repeat Performances

Would you believe that the blind, unguided process of evolution repeats itself? Would you believe that evolution somehow repeats striking patterns of change? Evolutionists do. They must because the evidence reveals such patterns in the history of life. As one science writer explained:

An international team of researchers ... has discovered a group of closely related living species that independently repeated the different step-like changes that occurred in the major diversification of their kind during the Cretaceous Period, roughly 100 to 90 million years ago. But this group of species arose 80 million years later!

This evidence contradicts evolutionary expectations, but what's new?