Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 21, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, Big Bangs, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charnia, Cnidaria, comb jellies, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, explosions, fossil record, intelligent design, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Lophotrochozoa, macro-organisms, metazoan animals, precambrian fossils, Richard Dawkins, saltations, stem mollusk, Yilingia spiciformis}

Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum

_{Günter Bechly
September 21, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The fossil record speaks clearly and cries out loud: the history of life on Earth is a history of saltations. Read More ›

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Date
September 20, 2020

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Tagged
, bacteria, Big Bang, Center for Science and Culture, extraterrestrial life, Henry F. (Fritz) Schaefer, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Tour, john lennox, multiverse, podcast, quantum cosmology, Rice University, Stephen Meyer, theology, viruses}

Tour, Meyer on the Multiverse, and More

_{Science and Culture
September 20, 2020

Astronomy, Cosmology

1}

In this third of three episodes with Stephen Meyer, James Tour draws from questions sent in by listeners to his own podcast. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 19, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, circulatory system, Cnidaria, Ediacaran fossils, evolution, feeding apparatus, feeding traces, fossils, Kimberella, Kimberella quadrata, Kimberella series, Kimberellomorpha, Kimberichnus, mollusks, movement, oxygenation, Paleobiology Database, Parvancorina, Precambrian, radula, scratch marks, Silurian Period, Solza}

Kimberella and Controversial Relationships — A Chronological Synopsis, Continued

_{Günter Bechly
September 19, 2020

Evolution

13}

One researchers has preferred to classify Kimberella among the Ediacaran "fossil problematica.” Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
September 18, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Calvin College, Christianity, complex systems, design triangulation, Discovery Institute, evolutionary biology, Hamlet, intelligent design, macroevolution, Michael Lynch, Michael Scriven, natural selection, naturalism, Naturalistic Parabola, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminar, Wayne State University, William A. Dembski}

Reform It Altogether — More on the Naturalistic Parabola

_{Paul Nelson
September 18, 2020

Biology, Evolution

6}

I’ve fussed about this point for a long time. And Discovery Institute colleagues have occasionally chided me for my obsession. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 18, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Ediacaran organisms, fossil record, gonads, intelligent design, Kimberella, Kimberella series, limpets, Lophotrochozoa, medusoid, Mollusca, monoplacophorans, Odontogriphus, scratch marks, Simon Conway Morris, Solza, tentacles, Wiwaxia}

Kimberella and Controversial Relationships — A Chronological Synopsis

_{Günter Bechly
September 18, 2020

Evolution

12}

It is remarkable, indeed, how detailed a medusoid morphology was projected onto Kimberella fossils and later recognized as pure fantasy. Read More ›

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Date
September 17, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Brian Miller, Discovery Institute, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Tour, Jeremy England, podcast, Rice University, Stephen Meyer}

Tour to Meyer: Make Your Best Case for the Theory of Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
September 17, 2020

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Philosophy of Science

1}

James Tour and Stephen Meyer assess an exchange between two physicists about the origin of life, and Tour notes his hesitance about ID. Read More ›

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Date
September 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, Ann Gauger, antibodies, bioRxiv, biosphere, coral reefs, Darwinian evolution, environmental science, evolution, fish, homeostasis, hydrocarbons, intelligent design, Michael Behe, microbes, mutations, oceans, physiologists, plastic, PNAS, pollution, polyethylene, Saudi Arabia, sea turtles, The Edge of Evolution, waste products, Wired Magazine}

Plastic-Eating Microbes — “Rapid Evolution” May Not Be Darwinian at All

_{Science and Culture
September 17, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Environmental scientists warn frequently that the world is drowning in plastic. Here is some unexpected good news. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cows, Dickinsonia, Germany, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Kimberichnus teruzzii, microbial mats, Middle Triassic, Mikhail Fedonkin, mollusks, mouthparts, Odontogriphus, protozoans, radula, scratch marks, trace fossils, Wiwaxia}

Kimberella — The Oldest Radula (Not)

_{Günter Bechly
September 17, 2020

Evolution

4}

There is a strange fact that shows that any interpretation of these trace fossils has to be taken with a grain of salt. Read More ›

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Date
September 16, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood pressure, chronotype variation, circadian clock, clocks, Cyanobacteria, Harvard Medical School, Japan, jet lag, Nature (journal), Nature Scientific Reports, neurons, PLOS ONE, PNAS, rats, sleep, suprachiasmatic nucleus, University of Illinois, University of Rochester, William Paley}

Design on Time — Paley’s Watch Was Inside Him

_{Science and Culture
September 16, 2020

Intelligent Design

8}

Watches are everywhere on the heath. Look up, look down, look inside; biology runs on time. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 16, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Australia, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, feeding traces, fossils, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Kimberichnus, motility, mucus, scratch marks, sediments, White Sea}

Kimberella — Locomotory Tracks

_{Günter Bechly
September 16, 2020

Evolution

3}

But what about tracks of the moving animal? There are indeed some fossils from the White Sea. Read More ›