Tag: Cambrian Explosion | Page 4 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 21, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academia, anti-Semitism, blessings, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Christmas, Congress, Discovery Institute, Emily Sandico, Evolution News, faith and science, Fossil Friday (series), genocide, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, intelligent design, James Tour, John West, Lee Cronin, New Year, October 7, paleontologists, Professor Dave, San Francisco, science writers, scientists, Seattle, Stephen Meyer, student conduct, The Joe Rogan Experience, YouTube videos}

Stepping in It: An Alternative to the Academic Wasteland

_{David Klinghoffer
December 21, 2023

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I walked out onto the sidewalk, enjoying the salty mist and the majestic Olympic Mountains. Then I looked down. 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
Günter Bechly

Date
November 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, coccolithophores, Darwin's Dilemma, dinoflagellates, Ernst Haeckel, foraminiferans, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Lower Cambrian, Middle Triassic, Mongolia, Namibia, Precambrian, protists, Richard Dawkins, snowball Earth, The Greatest Show on Earth, Upper Triassic, zooplankton}

Fossil Friday: Protists Add to the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
November 17, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Not even the tiniest and most abundant organisms seem to confirm the gradualist predictions of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 8, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brains, Cambrian Explosion, cephalopods, chimpanzees, chromosomes, evolution, evolutionary tree, intelligence, mammals, Marine Biological Laboratory, octopuses, oscillations, RNA editing, suckers, Tel Aviv University, worms}

Will the Octopus Ever Find Its Place in the Evolutionary Tree?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 8, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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New finds in genetics and neuroscience both shed light and deepen the puzzle of the almost "alien" species. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 24, 2023

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, annelids, antennae, bacteria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian Period, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Colorado State University, crustaceans, earthworms, eyes, fishing, food, GUT, legs, Michael Denton, mud dragons, muscles, NASA, nerves, Penn State, Privileged Species, roundworms, scalidophorans, soil, termites, underground, University of Birmingham, worms}

Hidden Service Animals: Earthworms Are Only the Beginning

_{David Coppedge
October 24, 2023

Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Soil biodiversity is still a black box. Some scientists are beginning to explore the global underground that services the health of plants and animals. 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, Derek Briggs, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, empirical data, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, molecular clock studies, paleontology, Precambrian strata, sponge, 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 ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, biological novelty, Cambrian Explosion, evolution, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, intelligent agents, intelligent design, naturalism, oxygen, oxygen theory, paleontology, podcast, science stopper, specified information}

Günter Bechly on Why Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom Was Wrong

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 17, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Is it a science stopper to propose mind as the source of these great infusions of biological information? Quite the opposite. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 5, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Education
Tagged
, Athena, Australopithecines, biological origins, butterfly, California Science Center, Cambrian Explosion, chimpanzees, Christmas, David Coppedge, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, free speech, French Revolution, Genetics (journal), Günter Bechly, human brains, human origins, Human Origins Program, Human Zoos, humans, intelligent design, Jeffrey Schwartz, John West, mammals, mosasaurs, National Museum of Natural History, Niles Eldredge, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Racism, Richard Sternberg, Rick Potts, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, scientific racism, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Washington DC, Zeus}

Visitor’s Guide: At Nation’s Natural History Museum, Misinformation on Human Origins, and More

_{Casey Luskin
October 5, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Education

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Mammalian fossil exhibits at the Smithsonian claim that humans and all mammals descended from the “first mammal," perhaps Morganucodon. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 5, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, abominable mystery, algae, angiosperms, Cambrian Explosion, conifers, Darwinian gradualism, ferns, flowering plants, gymnosperms, lycophytes, miracles, morphospace, mosses, Nature Plants, Philip C. J. Donoghue, pine tree, punctuated equilibria, The Conversation, trilobites, University of Bristol, vascular plants}

Plant Evolution: All Gaps and Miracles

_{David Coppedge
October 5, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences

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A major study looks for evolution, but finds huge disparities, stasis, gaps, periodic explosions, and miracles of emergence held together with imagination. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, bilaterian animals, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cnidaria, crown group, ctenophores, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, history of life, jellyfish, life cycle, Lower Cambrian, neo-Darwinian model, polyp, precambrian fossils, South China, sponges, tentacles, umbrella, Utah}

Fossil Friday: Jellyfish Body Plan and Life Cycle Originated in the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
September 22, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Remarkably, these animals can be placed within the crown group of the living cnidarian clade Medusozoa, which is not exactly what Darwinists should expect. Read More ›