Tag: Burgess Shale

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bioRxiv, Bright Angel Shale, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canadian Rockies, chelicerates, China, compound eyes, cosmos, Current Biology, Darwin's Dilemma, Douglas Axe, Ediacaran strata, fossil record, Grand Canyon, Hallucigenia, Illustra Media, Intelligent Design Collection, jellyfish, Jerry Harned, Jonathan Wells, Lad Allen, marine worms, Mark Edward Lewis, mites, Nature (journal), New York Times, olfactory organs, paleontology, Paul Nelson, PNAS, polychaetes, priapulids, Richard Sternberg, salmon, Science Advances, Science and Culture Today, scorpions, South Australia, spiders, stars, Stephen Meyer, The Origin of Species, The Privileged Planet, trilobites, Unlocking the Mystery of Life, Utah}

Cambrian Explosion Remains the Gift that Keeps on Giving

_{David Coppedge
June 5, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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These representative papers show that the Cambrian Explosion remains a huge enigma for evolutionists. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, arthropods, body plans, British Columbia, Burgess Shale, Burgess Shale Type, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Chengjiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, chordates, cnidarians, comb jellies, complex body plans, ctenophores, Darwin's Doubt, fossils, gills, guts, Han Zeng, Huayuan, Huayuan County, Huayuan site, James Woodford, jellyfish, Lagerstätte, lobopodians, magical thinking, Marble Canyon, molluscs, mutation/selection mechanism, Nature (journal), nerves, New Scientist, oxygen molecules, oxygen theory, poriferans, priapulids, Sinsk Event, soft tissues, transitional forms, worms}

Get to Know the Name: Huayuan Is a Major New Cambrian Fossil Site Found in China

_{David Coppedge
February 9, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Another Cambrian fossil site that rivals the original Burgess Shale has been announced to the world. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, China, evolution, eyes, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, intelligent design, Karl Popper, microbes, paleontologists, preservation, South Australia, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

Fossil Friday: New Research on How Delicate Soft-Bodied Organisms Can Be Perfectly Preserved

_{Günter Bechly
November 15, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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All the just-so-stories of macroevolution are completely dispensable in real (experimental) biology. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 25, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Chengjiang biota, convergence, Early Cambrian, echinoderms, Michael Denton, Paleozoic}

Fossil Friday: An Extinct Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
October 25, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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One of the strongest arguments in favor of Darwinian evolution gets more and more dismantled, which totally vindicates the critique by Michael Denton. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 26, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, atmosphere, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Ediacaran, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Hallucigenia, Nature Geoscience, oxygen, oxygenation}

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Explosion Bingo Continues

_{Günter Bechly
July 26, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

5}

What if scientists were to discover next month that there was no oxygenation in the Cambrian but the exact opposite? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, arthropods, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Fossil Friday (series), Hallucigenia, holotype, lancelets, Royal Ontario Museum, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould}

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Fossils Turned Upside Down Yet Again

_{Günter Bechly
July 12, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

7}

Most of these reconstructions are based on very weak evidence and are highly speculative. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 21, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, artifact hypothesis, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian evolution, Ediacaran, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, microfossils, New York Times, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Richard Dawkins}

Fossil Friday: Ediacaran Animal Embryos Put to Test and Put to Rest

_{Günter Bechly
June 21, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

7}

There are no fossil animals in the Ediacaran, when they should be found according to the gradualistic predictions of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 22, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bioluminescence, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, cnidarians, comedy, corals, credulity, entertainment, enzymes, evolution, intelligent design, just-so stories, light, Live Science, marine biology, materialists, methodological naturalism, Nature (journal), Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Smithsonian Institution}

Let There Be Bioluminescence

_{David Coppedge
May 22, 2024

Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Biological light switched on in the Cambrian — for what reason, evolutionists are not sure. It just happened, like all the other natural miracles. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, acorn worms, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Chengjiang biota, China, Darwinian theory, Fossil Friday (series), ghost lineages, paleontology, sea floor}

Fossil Friday: Hemichordate Body Plan and Lifecycle Goes Back to the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
April 12, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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This Fossil Friday we will discuss the abrupt origin of yet another animal phylum during the famous Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, artifact hypothesis, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, cnidarian, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, empirical data, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, molecular clock studies, paleontology, Precambrian strata, Stephen Meyer, transitional forms, Trends in Ecology and Evolution}

Fossil Friday: New Study Challenges the Artifact Hypothesis

_{Günter Bechly
October 20, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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It is time for Darwinists to stop their science denial and face the fact that empirical data consistently contradict core predictions of their theory. Read More ›