Tag: biological novelty

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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
Günter Bechly

Date
June 7, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, biological novelty, Cambrian Explosion, Communications Earth & Environment, complex life, diversification, earth, Ediacaran biota, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), intelligent design, magnetic field, oxygenation, sudden appearance, The Privileged Planet, University of Rochester}

Fossil Friday: No, Magnetic Field Collapse Did Not Trigger the Emergence of Animals

_{Günter Bechly
June 7, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Paleontology, Physical Sciences

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This adds to the many points of fine-tuning that make Earth a privileged planet that can uniquely sustain life. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, biological novelty, Cambrian Explosion, evolution, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, intelligent agents, intelligent design, naturalism, oxygen, oxygen theory, paleontology, podcast, science stopper, specified information}

Günter Bechly on Why Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom Was Wrong

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 17, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Is it a science stopper to propose mind as the source of these great infusions of biological information? Quite the opposite. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 26, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, amniotes, biological novelty, birds, Encyclopedia Britannica, evolution, feathers, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Francis Collins, Germany, homology, intelligent design, Karl Giberson, keratin, ontogeny, paleontology, scales, Stuttgart Natural History Museum, The Language of Science and Faith, theropod, theropod dinosaurs}

Fossil Friday: A Dinosaur Feather and an Overhyped New Study on the Origin of Feathers

_{Günter Bechly
May 26, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Feathers, which are the most complex integumental structures known in the animal kingdom, without doubt required coordinated changes in numerous genes. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Altenberg 16, athletes, biological novelty, body size, Cambrian Explosion, Communications Biology, evolution, Gerd Müller, gradualism, humans, Jeffrey Schwartz, Jerry Fodor, lamprey, mammals, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Nature (journal), Nature Communications, New Zealand, Paul Nelson, PowerPoint, Richard Goldschmidt, Royal Society, Science Daily, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Material Basis of Evolution, What Darwin Got Wrong}

Nature Communications Retroactively Concedes a Lack of Evidence for Darwinian Gradualism

_{Casey Luskin
March 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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Explaining the origin of complex phenotypic novelty is the million-dollar question in evolutionary biology. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 7, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, animals, biological novelty, cosmic fine-tuning, Discovery Institute, DNA, evolution, Evolution News, homology, human origins, humans, intelligent design, Long Story Short, molecular machines, natural selection, origin of the universe, PragerU, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma, video}

Reader Seeks Intelligent Design in a Nutshell

_{David Klinghoffer
February 7, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Cutting to the heart of even a very big subject is possible and desirable and important. Here’s an attempt an answer. Read More ›

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Date
July 31, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, biological novelty, bioRxiv, cichlid fish, Darwin Devolves, devolution, East Africa, Ernst Mayr, evolution, evolutionary biology, finches, grizzly bears, Hank Green, Lake Victoria, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Michael Behe, Nature Scientific Reports, polar bears, preprints, species, taxpayers, The Conversation, The Edge of Evolution}

Time to Put a Lid on Cichlid Evolution Propaganda

_{Science and Culture
July 31, 2019

Evolution

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If cichlid evolution is a central paradigm in evolutionary biology, then Darwinism’s sphere of explanatory inference is too small to matter. Read More ›