Tag: Carboniferous Period

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Carboniferous Period, caterpillar, crustaceans, Darwinism, Dollo’s Law, evo-devo, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Holometabola, holometabolan insects, homology, hybridization, Illustra Media, insects, intelligent design, irreversibility, Lepidoptera, Maria Sybilla Merian, Metamorphosis, paleontology, prolegs, tree resin, Trichoptera}

Fossil Friday: How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs, or Not

_{Günter Bechly
November 10, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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In spite of all the scientific efforts by Darwinists, the origin of complete metamorphosis in holometabolan insects remains an unsolved mystery. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 5, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, Carboniferous Period, cephalopods, Darwinian evolution, deuterostome, fin rays, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Illinois, lampreys, Mazon Creek, missing links, mollusk, Nature (journal), vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: The Stubborn Mystery of the Tully Monster

_{Günter Bechly
May 5, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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How much confidence should we really place in dubious fossil evidence when it is boldly claimed to prove Darwinian evolution as a fact? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 24, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, Carboniferous Period, Darwinism, dragonfly, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, insects, intelligent design, Palaeodictyoptera, paleontologists, Paleozoic, sensory hairs, wing venation, winged insects, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Winged Insects

_{Günter Bechly
March 24, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology, Science

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According to Darwinism, the evolution of such a system would have required a plethora of intermediate stages that brought this locomotory apparatus into being. 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

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Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Bavaria, Carboniferous Period, dragonflies, Fossil Friday (series), Germany, intelligent design, larvae, males, Odonata, penis, sperm, Upper Jurassic, veins, venation, vertebrate}

Fossil Friday: Dragonfly from the Upper Jurassic

_{Günter Bechly
July 8, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Almost everything in the wonderful construction of dragonflies cries out for a design explanation. Read More ›

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Date
December 21, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Carboniferous Period, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Darwinians, extinction, Graham Budd, Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill, machine learning, On the Origin of Species, Paleobiology Database, paleontologists, Phanerozoic Eon, Tokyo Institute of Technology}

Grandeur in Extinctions?

_{Science and Culture
December 21, 2020

Evolution

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New corollary to an old law: Put Darwinian assumptions in, and you will get Darwinian models out. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 2, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Carboniferous Period, charcoal, evaporative cooling, fire, Fire-Maker series, fire-making, fitness, Goldilocks, iron, lignin, metallurgy, metals, Nature, organic compounds, oxygen, photosynthesis, physiology, plant cells, pottery, radiation, steam engine, trees, wood}

The Role of Lignin for Fire, Explained

_{Michael Denton
August 2, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Without lignin, there would be no woody plants, no wood, no coal, no charcoal, no fire, no pottery, and certainly no iron or metallurgy. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 27, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ambient temperatures, anaerobic bacteria, Arthur C. Clarke, atmosphere, Carboniferous Period, combustion, earth, enzymes, extremophiles, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness, hemoglobin, oxygen, rivers, spontaneous combustion, swamps, water}

Why Do We Not Spontaneously Combust?

_{Michael Denton
July 27, 2020

Intelligent Design

6}

James Lovelock has pointed out that atmospheric levels of oxygen much above about 25 percent, let alone 30 percent, would cause raging conflagrations today. Read More ›

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Date
February 23, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, butterfly, Carboniferous Period, cockroach, Current Biology, flagellum, Living Waters, Metamorphosis, odor, Olfactory Sensory Neurons, Pacific Salmon, sensors, smell, U.C. Riverside}

A Smell Test for Design v. Evolutionary Explanations

_{Science and Culture
February 23, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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One of the reasons cockroaches are so successful is their keen sense of smell. Read More ›