Tag: arachnids

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 6, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Paleontology
Tagged
, arachnids, compound eyes, convergence, Darwin critics, empirical evidence, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, gigantism, intelligent design, paleontology, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, speculation, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: Sea Scorpions Defy Darwinian Expectations

_{Günter Bechly
September 6, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Paleontology

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Wait, what? That's it? Mere speculation based on the fact that they found nothing! Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, American Museum of Natural History, arachnids, Bayesian reasoning, Casey Luskin, common descent, Cretaceous, Darwinism, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, molecular biologists, molecular clock studies, New York Times, Paleogene, phylogenomics}

Fossil Friday: The Big Bang of Tertiary Birds and a Phylogenetic Mess

_{Günter Bechly
February 23, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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There was an abrupt origin, a burst of biological creativity, which is best explained by an infusion of new information from an intelligent agent. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, arachnids, arthropods, Charles Darwin, common descent, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, England, evolution, Evolution News, flagellum, Fossil Friday (series), Germany, horseshoe crabs, intelligent design, materialism, molecular clock studies, parsimony, phylogeny, predictions, Richard Dawkins, scorpions, spider silk, spiders, tiktaalik, Tree of Life, Winston Ewert, Wisconsin}

Fossil Friday: The Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny, and Why I’ve Become More Skeptical of Common Descent

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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True skeptics should question everything, and not just everything apart from Darwinism and materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Bijan Nemati

Date
January 5, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Science
Tagged
, arachnids, Darwinian theory, Irreducible Complexity, Oregon State University, sensors}

Minimal Complexity Problem in Prey Detection by the Sand Scorpion

_{Bijan Nemati
January 5, 2023

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Science

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The scorpion can detect tiny vibrations, of order 1 Angstrom (the size of a hydrogen atom) in amplitude, that emanate from its prey. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 11, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Science
Tagged
, abstract thought, animals, arachnids, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, bacteria, bats, biological machines, cats, consciousness, Dogs, dreaming, dreams, flies, Franz Brentano, future, human beings, intentionality, justice, mental states, mind, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, spiders, Thomas Nagel, viruses}

What Is It Like to Be a Spider?

_{Michael Egnor
August 11, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Science

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A recent research article from Germany has made quite a splash in the popular media and raises some very interesting questions about animal minds. Read More ›

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Date
June 8, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American Chemical Society, arachnids, Australia, cancer, horseshoe crabs, mites, Nature Communications, scorpions, spiders, toxins, University of Melbourne, University of Queensland}

Make Like a Scorpion, and Other Arachnid Designs

_{Science and Culture
June 8, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Long shunned for their bites and toxins, arachnids are gaining respect for biomimetic inspiration. Read More ›