Tag: angiosperms

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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

6}

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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post

Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
August 28, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Philosophy
Tagged
, aboutness, angiosperms, biosphere, breeding, cell membrane, combustion, dispositionalism, intentionality, migration, ozone, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, Thomas Aquinas, transcription, Unmoved Mover}

Intentionality in Living Systems: What Does It Mean?

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 28, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Philosophy

6}

One historically dominant position on intentionality has been the Brentano thesis, proffered by 19th-century German philosopher and psychologist Franz Brentano. 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

5}

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

12}

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
Günter Bechly

Date
October 27, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, angiosperms, Charles Darwin, Crato Formation, Darwinism, Evolution News, flowering plants, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, Lower Cretaceous, Nature Plants, Philip Donoghue, Queen Mary University of London, Richard Buggs, sudden appearance, Twitter, water lily}

Fossil Friday: New Study Confirms Discontinuities in the History of Plants

_{Günter Bechly
October 27, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

5}

I have elaborated on the sudden appearance of flowering plants in the Lower Cretaceous, which was called an “abominable mystery” by Charles Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 12, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, angiosperms, birds, butterflies, Chicxulub impact, Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs, evolution, Field Museum, flowering plants, frogs, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, Israel, Jordan, Jurassic Park, Lebanon, mammals, Mars rover, orchids, Paleogene, Palestine, Patagonia, Penn State, pterosaurs, roses, Science Advances, storytelling, Syria, Turkey, UC Santa Barbara, University of Bath, worms}

Chinks in the Chicxulub Story

_{David Coppedge
October 12, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

If an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs as believed by the scientific consensus, its effects on evolution seem strained and inconsistent. Read More ›

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post

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

9}

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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post

Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 21, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", angiosperms, animals, atheism, bears, boars, Darwinian theory, Energy, fire, hunger, insects, life, lions, matter, modern times, Mount St. Helens, natural selection, nutrition, purpose, religions, sharks, struggle, succession, volcanoes, wisdom}

“Why Life?”: A Question Atheist Scientists Never Ask

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 21, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

4}

Even something as catastrophic as the eruption of Mount St. Helens was, in the end, a life-giving event. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 18, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, angiosperms, China, Dilcherifructus mexicana, flowering plants, Fossil Friday (series), gymnosperm, Jurassic period, Mario Coiro, paleobotanists, paleontology, Richard Buggs, Twitter}

Fossil Friday: Florigerminis, Another Failed Candidate for a Jurassic Flowering Plant

_{Günter Bechly
November 18, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

4}

You are in good company if you are as skeptical about these claims as I am myself. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 21, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Paleontology
Tagged
, angiosperms, Aphrodite, Brazil, Charles Darwin, Crato limestone, Cretaceous, Dilcherifructus mexicana, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, gymnosperms, ID the Future, Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous, Mario Coiro, Middle Jurassic, paleobotany, Richard Buggs, Twitter}

Fossil Friday: Flowering Plants — Darwin’s Abominable Mystery

_{Günter Bechly
October 21, 2022

Evolution, Life Sciences, Paleontology

5}

Flowering plants or angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Lower Cretaceous (about 130 million years ago). Read More ›