Tag: Cambrian animals

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, __featured2, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, clades, Darwin’s Doubt, David Coppedge, Douglas Erwin, evolution, evolutionary precursors, Gizmodo, intelligent design, James Valentine, oxygen, oxygen theory, oxygen trigger model, oxygenation, paleontologists, paleontology, partial pressure of oxygen, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Cambrian Explosion (book)}

New Paper Has Bad News for Popular “Oxygen Theory” of the Cambrian Explosion

_{Casey Luskin
January 9, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The technical paper acknowledges that this level of oxygenation, if sustained, would indeed “challenge the view” that oxygen was a trigger for animal evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 2, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Science Education
Tagged
, ACLU, Antony Flew, attorneys, biology, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Christians, cricket (sport), Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Dover trial, education, evolution, George W. Bush, H. L. Mencken, Harrisburg, Henry Quastler, Hollywood, information, Inherit the Wind, intelligent design, John E. Jones III, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Michael Behe, natural processes, Pennsylvania, philosophy of science, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Pulitzer Prize, Robert Crowther, Scopes Monkey Trial, Spencer Tracy, Stephen Meyer, Summer for the Gods, theists, theology, William Paley, Williams Jennings Bryan}

Dover Days: A Fatuous Decision Is About to Turn 20 Years Old

_{Jonathan Witt
December 2, 2025

Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence), Science Education

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Judge Jones looked my way, and his expression seemed full of fellow feeling, as if to say, “Don’t sweat it. I’m all about free speech. I’ve got your back.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, body plans, Bryozoa, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, chordates, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, great Ordovician biodiversification event, green algae, invertebrates, Lower Cambrian, metazoans, microCT, molecular clock studies, moss animals, Nevada, Ohio, paleontology, South China, tentacles}

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go

_{Günter Bechly
November 24, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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This is a field that often has more in common with the interpretation of inkblots in Rorschach tests than with hard science. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
October 26, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Bill Nye, Cambrian animals, college, Darwin's Doubt, earth, evolution, evolutionary biology, high school, intelligent design, Kindle, libraries, life, neo-Darwinian mechanism, paleontology, peer-reviewed literature, probabilistic resources, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Meyer, textbooks}

Why Evolutionary Biologists Are “Fatigued” by Darwin

_{Emily Sandico
October 26, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Says Stephen Meyer, “The neo-Darwinian math is itself showing that the neo-Darwinian mechanism cannot build complex adaptations." Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 22, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, carbon, Cnidaria, comb jellies, Ctenophora, ctenophores, Darwin's Doubt, entoprocts, intelligent design, jellyfish, locomotion, muscles, nervous system, paleontologists, phoronids, scalidophorans, Science Advances, Stephen Meyer}

Earliest Comb Jellies Wore Armor — “Remarkable,” Say Researchers

_{David Coppedge
June 22, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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It would be surprising, under an evolutionary view, to find such a complex system in the earliest animal fossils. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, ATP synthase, blood vessels, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cristae, Darwin's Dilemma, electricity, hierarchy, intelligent design, metabolites, mitochondrial membranes, muscle cells, muscles, National Institutes of Health, oxygen, Stephen Meyer}

A Power Grid in Muscle Cells Has Profound Design Implications

_{David Coppedge
March 27, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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To see why, we must remember that muscles first appear in the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 3, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, architecture, arthropods, astronauts, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian strata, collagen, Current Biology, DNA, epithelial tissue, European Union, intelligent design, Mars, self-organization, spicules, sponges, temperature, termite mounds, termites, vertebrates}

Complex Specified Information in the Lowly Sponge

_{David Coppedge
August 3, 2022

Intelligent Design, Science

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Sponges are outliers in biology’s big bang, the Cambrian explosion. Their embryos appear in Precambrian strata, leading some to consider them primitive. 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

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

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 5, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwinists, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary theory, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, intelligent design, Namacalathus, paleontologists, podcast, Precambrian, transitional forms}

Paleontologist Buries Another Proposed Cambrian Precursor

_{Jonathan Witt
January 5, 2021

Evolution

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Günter Bechly explains why the Precambrian fossil Namacalathus fails as a transitional precursor to the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 21, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arthropods, bilateral symmetry, bilaterians, body plans, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, eLife, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, fossil record, genes, genetic information, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Nature Communications, oxygenation, paleontology, Precambrian, Stephen Meyer}

Scientific Paper Reaffirms New Genes Required for Cambrian Explosion

_{Casey Luskin
October 21, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The notion that many genes would be required for the Cambrian explosion may seem unsurprising — what is surprising is that anyone would challenge the idea. Read More ›