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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, birds, dinosaurs, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, Jurassic Park, Late Cretaceous, paleontology, paleornithologists, penguins, phylogenetics, Temporal Paradox, theropod dinosaurs, University of North Carolina, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: New Evidence Against Dinosaur Ancestry of Birds

_{Günter Bechly
January 5, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 29, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, Alan Feduccia, birds, Darwinists, data, evolutionary biology, footprints, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ghost lineages, PLOS ONE, Poland, Temporal Paradox, theory, theropod dinosaurs, tiktaalik, Upper Triassic}

Fossil Friday: Fossil Bird Tracks Expand the Temporal Paradox

_{Günter Bechly
December 29, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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The origin of birds involves a severe problem for Darwinists, which paleo-ornithologist Alan Feduccia has called a temporal paradox. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 15, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bats, birds, common descent, convergence, evolution, homology, intelligent design, Jurassic, Karl Popper, nested hierarchy, synapomorphy, thought police}

Fossil Friday: Scansoriopterygidae, Bizarre Bird-Like Dinosaurs, Illustrate Darwinist Trickery

_{Günter Bechly
December 15, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Common descent is assumed and the evidence interpreted accordingly, rather than common descent being deduced from the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
December 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amygdala, birds, brain, brainstem, dopamine, dreaming, Flight, hippocampus, Howard Glicksman, humans, insects, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, mammals, mice, neurotransmitters, reptiles, sleep, speed, Steve Laufmann, strength, thalamus, unconsciousness, wakefulness, Your Designed Body}

Sleep — Designed for Our Good

_{Eric Hedin
December 12, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The evolutionary mindset operates as a major obstacle to the scientific understanding of sleep. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
November 30, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, birds, cerebral cortex, cochlea, ear, eardrum, electrical signals, equilibrium, fish, foresight, hair cells, hearing, Howard Glicksman, middle ear, natural selection, ossicles, reptiles, sound waves, Steve Laufmann, vertebrates, vibrations, Your Designed Body}

The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering

_{Jonathan McLatchie
November 30, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It strains credulity to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 2, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, animals, anthropology, birds, death, Dogs, Eurasia, Homo naledi, humans, Israel, Live Science, Neanderthals, Oxford University Press, paleontologists, skeletons, South Africa, University of Arizona}

When Did Humans Start Burying the Dead?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 2, 2023

Bioethics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Only humans understand death as the inevitable and final reality for all mortal beings no matter what we do. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 12, 2023

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

Chinks in the Chicxulub Story

_{David Coppedge
October 12, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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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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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 6, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, adaptation, birds, China, empirical data, evolution, Flight, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ichthyosaur, mechanics, muscles, paleontology, storytelling, wings}

Fossil Friday: A Popular Just-So Story on the Origin of Bird Flight Bites the Dust

_{Günter Bechly
October 6, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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There is a long-running about whether birds first took off by running and flapping from the ground up, or whether they jumped as gliders from the tree down. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 3, 2023

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstractions, animals, birds, cats, cuttlefish, dolphins, dreaming, horses, information, learning, memory, rapid eye movement, sleep, Smithsonian Magazine, spiders, thought, whales}

Dreaming Animals and Human Exceptionalism

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 3, 2023

Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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Researchers have detected something like REM (rapid eye movement) sleep — which is associated with dreaming in humans — in jumping spiders. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 27, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bioengineering, birds, cells, communication, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, human body, human consciousness, humans, illusion, insects, Integrated information theory, intelligence, jellyfish, Macquarie University, Michael Levin, Nature (journal), octopuses, panpsychism, physicalism, Tufts University, University of Montreal}

Can a Brainless Jellyfish Learn? How About Individual Cells? Do Molecules Communicate?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 27, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Cells are intelligent, in a way. But that fact is a much better argument for intelligent design than for the idea that the human intellect is insignificant. Read More ›