Tag: animal phyla

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animal phyla, bilaterians, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Chengjiang biota, China, Disney, Ediacaran creatures, Ediacaran fauna, Ediacaran Period, evolutionists, fossil record, fungi, Günter Bechly, Ikaria, Kimberella, lichens, Luskin’s First Law, paleobiologists, phyla, retroactive confession of ignorance, Science (journal), Scientific American, seafloor, Stephen Meyer, The Conversation, Uncus, Yilingia, Yunnan Province}

Retroactive Confessions Permeate Around Science Paper on Ediacaran “Bilaterians”

_{Casey Luskin
April 16, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology

6}

What you just read is an amusing example of what some of my friends affectionally call “Luskin’s First Law.” It goes like this. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 18, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animal phyla, asexual reproduction, Cambrian Explosion, Early Cambrian, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, great Ordovician biodiversification event, microfossils, protists, single-celled organisms, sudden appearance, Sweden, transitional fossils}

Fossil Friday: Chitinozoa — Enigmatic Microfossils from the Paleozoic Era

_{Günter Bechly
October 18, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

7}

We may now add the mysterious Chitinozoa to this ever-growing list of products of the burst of biological creativity in the Early Cambrian. 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

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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
September 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, animal phyla, Anomalocaris, body plans, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Carboniferous Period, cephalopods, chordates, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Lophotrochozoa, Macquarie University, new york, paleontology, Simon Conway Morris, squid, stem group}

Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid

_{Günter Bechly
September 2, 2022

Biology, Paleontology, Science

11}

Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 29, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Zoology
Tagged
, animal phyla, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, evolution, experiment, fossil record, Homo, hypothesis, information, intelligent agents, intelligent design, observation, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series)}

The Positive Case for Intelligent Design in Paleontology

_{Casey Luskin
April 29, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology, Zoology

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The dominant pattern in the fossil record is explosions of new biological forms. The Cambrian explosion is a prime example. 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, Darwin's Doubt, discontinuity, Ediacaran fauna, evolutionary biologists, fossil record, paleontologists, Princeton University Press, Stephen Meyer, U.S. National Academy of Sciences}

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

_{Günter Bechly
June 12, 2021

Evolution

5}

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

Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 24, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animal phyla, Bilateria, bilaterians, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, creativity, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, Ediacaran Period, Günter Bechly, inventiveness, Kimberella, mollusk, precambrian fossils, professors, saltation, Stephen Meyer, students}

Bechly Series: No Ancestors for Cambrian Animals; Darwin’s Doubt Remains

_{David Klinghoffer
September 24, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

I urge you to review this important series. Humbly place it at the feet of your favorite Darwinist, atheist, or theistic evolutionist. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animal phyla, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Period, Eumetazoa, evidence, evolution, evolutionary biology, intelligent design, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Lophotrochozoa, Metazoa, molecular clock, mollusks}

Was Kimberella a Precambrian Mollusk?

_{Günter Bechly
September 3, 2020

Evolution

3}

If identified as an animal, it would “predate the Cambrian explosion of bilaterian animal phyla as a kind of ‘advance guard.’” Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
June 19, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino-acid sequences, animal phyla, Claude Shannon, computer science, coordination, DNA, Douglas Axe, enzymes, evolutionary theory, foresight, functional information, Hubert Yockey, information, intelligent design, Intelligent Design YouTube Festival, No Free Lunch theorems, Robert J. Marks II, Shannon information, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

The Information Enigma: A Closer Look

_{Brian Miller
June 19, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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I will flesh out the concept of biological information, and I will explain why significant quantities of it cannot be generated through natural processes. Read More ›

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Date
February 7, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, ACLU, animal phyla, bias, Cambrian Explosion, complex specified information, Darwin's Doubt, Dover trial, evolution, Evolution News, genetic information, goal-directedness, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan Wells, Judge John Jones, Manyuan Long, Michael Behe, peer review, scientific literature, Stephen Meyer, teleology, Twitter, William A. Dembski}

ID Literature and the Great Evolutionary Firewall

_{Science & Culture
February 7, 2020

Intelligent Design

6}

If you’re going to engage people on the topic of intelligent design publications, don’t let them force two false assumptions on you. Read More ›