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Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 1, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, China, Cloudina, cnidarians, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, Dickinsonia, Doushantuo fossils, embryos, Eumetazoa, evolution, fossils, Gregory Retallack, homology, Ikaria, intelligent design, Internet, Kimberella, Metazoa, microfossils, Namacalathus, New York Times, Precambrian animals, Professor Dave, Spiralicellula, sponges, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, straw man, Tribrachidium, Vernanimalcula, White Sea assemblage, Yilingia, YouTubers}

“Lying on the Internet”? Debunking Dave Farina on Stephen Meyer

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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A lot of nonsense gets published in peer-reviewed journals and it needs expertise to separate the wheat from the chaff. Farina lacks any expertise to do this. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, birds, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Casey Luskin, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, Douglas Erwin, Ediacaran fauna, Ediacaran Period, evolution, Fortunian, fossil record, great Ordovician biodiversification event, homology, insects, Nick Matzke, phylum, Professor Dave, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, synapomorphy, The Blind Watchmaker, wings, YouTubers}

Untangling “Professor Dave’s” Confusion about the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
November 29, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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We have seen the absurdly low quality of this individual’s video. But there is much more. I have added timecodes in square brackets for easier reference. 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, Emu Bay Shale, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Lophotrochozoa, Macquarie University, molluscs, 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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Date
June 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, body plans, Darwinism, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, living systems, Louis Agassiz, Michael Denton, Privileged Species, Richard Owen, The Miracle of Man}

Denton: Animal Body Types as “Adaptive Masks”

_{Science and Culture
June 17, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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These recurrent forms extend from original “primal patterns,” much as argued by such 19th-century opponents of Darwinism as Richard Owen and Louis Agassiz. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, body plans, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cnidarians, Cryogenian Period, Current Biology, Darwin's Doubt, emergence, heat, information problem, innovation, intelligence, Maximilian Telford, Metazoa, molecular clock, molecular data, molluscs, natural selection, oxygen, Philip Donoghue, phylum, Precambrian, sponges, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma}

Molecular Clocks Can’t Save Darwinists from the Cambrian Dilemma

_{David Coppedge
June 15, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

10}

To explain away the Cambrian explosion has been and remains a high priority for Darwinists. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 9, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, Archaeopteryx, Bavaria, body plans, Darwinian theory, evolution, fossil record, Germany, gradual development, intelligent design, Late Triassic, museums, nests, predictions, pterosaurs, sea floor, transitional fossils}

Rare Fossil Preserves a Moment of Deadly Battle — And Recalls a Problem for Darwin

_{Günter Bechly
June 9, 2022

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Pterosaurs appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Late Triassic, which agrees with the predictions of intelligent design theory. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
May 31, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, body plans, camouflage, caterpillars, Charles Darwin, Current Biology, Darwinian evolution, evolution, humans, industrial melanism, larvae, Michael Majerus, New York Times, On the Origin of Species, organs, peppered moths, pollution, sampling, second coming, tree trunks}

Peppered Moths: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again

_{Jonathan Wells
May 31, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

4}

At most, the story shows a change in the proportions of two varieties of the same species. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, African elephants, amphibians, Asian elephants, Avalon explosion, Bayesian reasoning, birds, body plans, bottlenose dolphin, Cambrian Explosion, cattle, cedars, cetaceans, chimpanzees, European common frog, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Genesis, gorilla, great apes, Homo sapiens, horse, house sparrow, humans, hybridization, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, marine iguanas, moor frog, pygmy hippo, reptiles, river hippo, spectacled bear, whale evolution}

Species Pairs: A New Challenge to Darwinists

_{Günter Bechly
April 25, 2022

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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I consider this simple argument as a final nail in the coffin of Darwinian unguided evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bilateria, biological complexity, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Marshall, Darwin's Doubt, eLife, Eumetazoa, gene regulatory networks, genes, genetic information, homology groups, Hoover Institution, Hox genes, Larry Moran, Metazoa, multiverse, Nature Communications, neo-Darwinian theory, paleontology, Peter Robinson, Planulozoa, Response to Criticism, Return of the God Hypothesis, rewiring, Stanford University, Stephen Meyer, U.C. Berkeley, Uncommon Knowledge, University of Toronto}

Did the Origin of Animals Require New Genes?

_{Casey Luskin
May 6, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Materialists who purport to explain the origin of nature's complexity by smuggling in information unwittingly demonstrate the need for intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 15, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Anaxagoras, ancient Greeks, Aristotle, atheism, atomists, body plans, Christianity, cognition, demiurge, Democritus, evolutionary theory, idealism, intelligent design, materialism, Mr. Potato Head, natural selection, Plato, purposefulness, Scott Turner, Socrates}

Scott Turner Explains Philosophical Traditions Shaping Biology

_{Brian Miller
April 15, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Turner classifies the intelligent design movement as a resurgence of Platonic idealism. Read More ›