Guppy_Poecilia_reticulata Type post Author Emily Reeves Date May 7, 2024 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , adaptation, behavior, body size, Brown University, David N. Reznick, downstream, eggs, evolution, females, Finding Darwin's God, fish, genetic diversity, guppies, J.B.S. Haldane, Kenneth Miller, morphology, mutations, natural selection, physiology, population dynamics, predators, random mutation, upstream, variation Are Guppies Examples of Darwinian Macroevolution? Emily Reeves May 7, 2024 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design 8 It was 1961, in the steep mountain streams of Trinidad where cascading waterfalls create barriers which predatory fish can’t overcome. Read More ›
big-ben-stockpack-adobe-stock Type post Author David Coppedge Date June 12, 2023 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , amino acids, body size, cells, cilium, circadian rhythms, Cyanobacteria, hypothalamus, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, jet lag, Michael Behe, Science Advances, suprachiasmatic nucleus Compasses, Clocks — Intelligent Design in Time David Coppedge June 12, 2023 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design 12 The design inference can be used on static objects, but all the more on processes that move in space and time. Read More ›
Lamprey Type post Author Casey Luskin Date March 8, 2022 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionLife 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 15 Explaining the origin of complex phenotypic novelty is the million-dollar question in evolutionary biology. Read More ›
fruit fly Type post Author Brian Miller Date October 4, 2021 CategoriesBiologyEngineeringEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , body size, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Drosophila, eggs, embryo, fruit flies, gravity well, insect wings, intelligent design, macromutations, metabolism, natural genetic engineering, overpopulation, phenotype, phenotypic plasticity, stochasticity, transposable elements Studies on Insect Wings Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation Brian Miller October 4, 2021 Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design 7 The “long-winged” phenotype is generated if the environmental conditions deteriorate due to reduced food supply or overpopulation. Read More ›
Kimberella quadrata Type post Author Günter Bechly Date September 10, 2020 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , bilaterian animals, body size, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Ediacaran organisms, fossil record, interpretation, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Metamorphosis, microbial mats, motility, Precambrian, sexual dimorphism, tissues, trace fossils Kimberella — Interpreting the Fossils Günter Bechly September 10, 2020 Evolution 2 One of the few features that are uncontroversial is the body size: The fossils measure usually 1-5 cm in length. Read More ›