Category: Paleontology | Page 18 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
April 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwin Devolves, elephants, evolution, extinction, genes, genetic information, genomes, machinery, mutations, proteins, The Blind Watchmaker, woolly mammoth}

Even More Mammoth Devolution

_{Michael Behe
April 11, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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The lesson from woolly mammoth studies, and many other ones, is that it is much faster and easier to break or blunt a gene than to improve or make a new one. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
April 5, 2023

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, bison, Brave New World, carbon dioxide, CRISPR-Cas9, de-extinction, DNA, elephants, epigenetics, extinction, global warming, Great Lakes, Ice Age, marsupials, methane, North America, Pleistocene, settled science, Siberia, South Africa, The Atlantic}

Pleistocene Park: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

_{Rob Sheldon
April 5, 2023

Ecology, Evolution, Paleontology

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The idea is to recreate some of the DNA from the sequencing of frozen mammoths, and inject it into an Asian elephant egg. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 31, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwin critics, Darwinists, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ichthyosaurs, marine reptiles, Permian period}

Fossil Friday: The Triassic Explosion of Marine Reptiles

_{Günter Bechly
March 31, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

2}

It is not like we Darwin critics make this stuff up. We just look at all the evidence and draw our conclusions. Read More ›

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Author
Herman B. Bouma

Date
March 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, ants, bees, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cancel culture, Charles Darwin, evolution, eyes, females, flies, Giraffe, honeycomb, insects, Louis Agassiz, males, National Science Teaching Association, natural selection, naturalists, On the Origin of Species, organs, paleontologists, Precambrian strata, random variations, sudden appearance}

Darwin’s Top 10 Arguments Against His Own Theory

_{Herman B. Bouma
March 29, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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In its youth the flat-fish is symmetrical with one eye on each side. However, as the body matures, one eye “begins to glide slowly round the head.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 24, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, Carboniferous Period, Darwinism, dragonfly, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, insects, intelligent design, paleontologists, Paleozoic, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Winged Insects

_{Günter Bechly
March 24, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology, Science

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According to Darwinism, the evolution of such a system would have required a plethora of intermediate stages that brought this locomotory apparatus into being. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 17, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, biodiversity, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, fossils, Germany, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, marine reptiles, Norway, population genetics, Sweden, theists, Uppsala University, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Ichthyosaurs

_{Günter Bechly
March 17, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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With increasing knowledge of the fossil record, the mainstream narrative is rendered more and more untenable and inconsistent with the empirical evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 10, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, birds, Brazil, dinosaurs, evolution, feathers, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genetic information, intelligent design, Lower Cretaceous, mutations, natural selection, random mutations, theropod, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: A Waiting Time Problem for Feathers

_{Günter Bechly
March 10, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

2}

Wherever you look in the history of life you stumble upon overwhelming evidence for design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 3, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Paleontology
Physics
Tagged
, Australia, Bavaria, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genus, Germany, hard science, magic wand, Natural History Museum, Neo-Darwinism, species, Stuttgart, Upper Jurassic}

Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Fossil Damselflies Challenges Darwinism

_{Günter Bechly
March 3, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Paleontology, Physics

2}

In the hard sciences such explanations that can explain everything and rule out no possible observations are usually considered empirically empty and worthless. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, antennae, Brazil, dragonfly, Early Cretaceous, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, larvae, legs}

Fossil Friday: A Strange Dragonfly Larva

_{Günter Bechly
February 24, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

1}

In a monograph in 2007, I suggested that these larvae may not be genuine dragonflies of the suborder Anisoptera. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Brazil, dragonflies, Early Cretaceous, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Jurassic, paleontology, predators, Upper Jurassic}

Fossil Friday: Abrupt Appearance of a Distinct Dragonfly Group

_{Günter Bechly
February 17, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

1}

The fossil is almost complete, only the abdomen is missing and was likely bitten off by a predator. Read More ›