Tag: abrupt appearance

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Zoology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, ancestors, bedtime story, blood circulation, cells, Darwinian theory, evolution, fossil record, giraffe evolution, giraffe’s neck, giraffes, heart, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, missing link, okapi, Samotherium major, taxon, transitional fossils, variations, vertebrae, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Is This a Transitional “Missing Link” for Giraffes? Nope

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 28, 2026

Evolution, Zoology

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The giraffe’s fossil record reflects a pattern of abrupt appearance rather than the infinitesimally small variations. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, bilaterian animals, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cnidaria, ctenophores, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, history of life, jellyfish, life cycle, Lower Cambrian, neo-Darwinian model, precambrian fossils, South China, sponges, tentacles, Utah}

Fossil Friday: Jellyfish Body Plan and Life Cycle Originated in the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
September 22, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

3}

Remarkably, these animals can be placed within the crown group of the living cnidarian clade Medusozoa, which is not exactly what Darwinists should expect. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, animal phyla, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Darwinian theory, Early Cretaceous, Eocene, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, Lepidoptera, Mesozoic}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Butterflies

_{Günter Bechly
April 14, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

3}

This phenomenon could rightfully be called a Tertiary Butterfly Explosion analogous to the Cambrian Explosion of animal phyla. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 9, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, Archaeopteryx, Bavaria, body plans, Darwinian theory, evolution, fossil record, Germany, intelligent design, museums, predictions, pterosaurs, sea floor, transitional fossils}

Rare Fossil Preserves a Moment of Deadly Battle — And Recalls a Problem for Darwin

_{Günter Bechly
June 9, 2022

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

2}

Pterosaurs appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Late Triassic, which agrees with the predictions of intelligent design theory. Read More ›

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Date
April 23, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Crossway, Darwinism, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, paleontology, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, Stephen Meyer, Theistic Evolution (book), universal common ancestry}

Bechly: Problems with Universal Common Ancestry Posed by the Fossil Record

_{Science & Culture
April 23, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

1}

Paleontologist Günter Bechly was a proponent of Darwinism until he discovered significant scientific reasons to doubt the evolutionary story. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwinian gradualism, evolution, fossil record, Ian Tattersall, National Academy of Sciences, Niles Eldredge, paleontologists, punctuated equilibrium, Science Uprising, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer}

Yes, the Punctuated Equilibrium Model Was Developed to Explain the Lack of Transitional Fossils

_{Casey Luskin
January 5, 2022

Evolution, Geology, Paleontology

20}

Why would Eldredge and Gould propose such a model? Because they knew the data showed that potential transitional fossils are an extreme rarity. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 11, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, __edited, abrupt appearance, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwinism, En Arche Foundation, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, paleontology, Poland, waiting-time problem}

Paleontologist Günter Bechly: What We Mean by the Missing Transitional Fossil Forms

_{David Klinghoffer
December 11, 2019

Evolution, Paleontology

2}

Certainly, we find organisms that are “morphologically intermediate,” bearing resemblances to organisms that came before and others that came later. Read More ›

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Date
June 8, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, abrupt appearance, academic freedom, Amazon, BioLogos, critics, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, fossil record, gradualism, Greg Cootsona, Günter Bechly, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, Matti Leisola, Neo-Darwinism, Ola Hössjer, paleontology, reviews, scientists, stasis, Stockholm University}

Heretic Is for the ID Critic, or the Curious Reader, in Your Life

_{Science & Culture
June 8, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Yesterday on Twitter we had the opportunity to recommend it to an ID critic who wrote a book chapter on intelligent design without first doing his homework. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 7, 2013

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, __nedited, abrupt appearance, assembly, begging the question, body plans, Darwin's Doubt, DNA, information, Meyer's Responses, morphology, ORfan genes, Response to Criticism}

To Build New Animals, No New Genetic Information Needed? More in Reply in Charles Marshall

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 7, 2013

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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To rebut the central argument of Darwin's Doubt, Marshall must deny (or push from view) what we know about what new forms of animal life require as a condition of their existence. Read More ›