Tag: abominable mystery

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 29, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, biological novelty, Charles Darwin, diversification, Early Cretaceous, evolution, flowering plants, Fossil Friday (series), genomes, intelligent design, jumps, Las Hoyas, Late Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous, nature, Nature (journal), paleontology, Philip Donoghue, Spain}

No. 4 Story of 2024: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Again

_{Günter Bechly
December 29, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, biological novelty, Charles Darwin, diversification, Early Cretaceous, evolution, flowering plants, Fossil Friday (series), genomes, intelligent design, jumps, Las Hoyas, Late Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous, nature, Nature (journal), paleontology, Philip Donoghue, Spain}

Fossil Friday: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Once Again

_{Günter Bechly
June 14, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 29, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, brood, cicadas, Corryn Wetzel, Darwinian theory, evolution, functional coherence, Günter Bechly, insects, intelligent design, Nature Communications, new york, On the Origin of Species, personification, prime numbers, stem, synchronization, Texas, urine}

Trillions of Cicadas Sing of Intelligent Design

_{David Coppedge
May 29, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Eastern U.S. states will see a natural phenomenon that hasn’t occurred for many years: the coordinated emergence of two broods of noisy cicadas. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 5, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abominable mystery, algae, angiosperms, Cambrian Explosion, conifers, Darwinian gradualism, ferns, flowering plants, gymnosperms, lycophytes, miracles, morphospace, mosses, Nature Plants, Philip C. J. Donoghue, pine tree, punctuated equilibria, The Conversation, trilobites, University of Bristol, vascular plants}

Plant Evolution: All Gaps and Miracles

_{David Coppedge
October 5, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences

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A major study looks for evolution, but finds huge disparities, stasis, gaps, periodic explosions, and miracles of emergence held together with imagination. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 2, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abominable mystery, flowering plants, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, gymnosperm, Middle Triassic, North America, Phanerozoic Eon, pollen, Switzerland, Young Earth Creationists}

Fossil Friday: Is Triassic Angiosperm-Like Pollen a Solution to Darwin’s Abominable Mystery?

_{Günter Bechly
December 2, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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There is one remaining issue to address, which is palynology, the science of fossil pollen. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
January 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, birds, Charles Darwin, evolution, flowering plants, fossil record, Granville Sewell, Günter Bechly, living fossils, mammals, Max Planck Institute, monocots, paleobotany, University of Tübingen, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Abstract: Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
January 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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All orders and families of the angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record (the same for most lower systematic categories). Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 15, 2021

Categories
Life Sciences
Paleontology
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, Charles Darwin, China, Early Cretaceous, failed predictions, flowering plants, fossil record, gradualism, gymnosperms, Lower Cretaceous, Middle Triassic, Nature (journal), Norway, paleobotanists, Switzerland}

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Mesozoic Cupules Come to the Rescue?

_{Günter Bechly
June 15, 2021

Life Sciences, Paleontology

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Darwin's "abominable mystery" is not only very much alive and kicking, but it also suggests intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 14, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, Charles Darwin, Cretaceous Period, evolution, evolutionists, flowering plants, fossil record, intelligent design, Joseph Hooker, Jurassic period, molecular clocks, Nature Ecology & Evolution, neo-Darwinian mechanism, Neo-Darwinism, New Scientist, Patrick Herendeen, Richard Buggs}

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Jurassic Flowering Plants After All?

_{Günter Bechly
June 14, 2021

Evolution

4}

This year a new article by Silvestro et al. (2021), "Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants," was published. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, abominable mystery, animal phyla, Big Bangs, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Critical Transitions in Nature and Society, Darwin's Doubt, discontinuity, Ediacaran fauna, evolutionary biologists, fossil record, Marten Scheffer, paleontologists, Princeton University Press, Stephen Meyer, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, undersampling}

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery” Is Not Alone: Gaps Everywhere!

_{Günter Bechly
June 12, 2021

Evolution

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There is clearly a pattern of discontinuities that requires an adequate explanation, and Darwinism is not it. Read More ›