Tag: carnivorous plants

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 21, 2024

Categories
Anatomy
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Aldovanda, carnivorous plants, carnivory, Charles Darwin, chitinase, Cologne, convergence, Darwin's Black Box, digestion, digestive enzymes, Dionaea, enzymes, evolution, Genlisea, Germany, Heinz-Albert Becker, insects, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, morphology, Nepenthes, nutrients, On the Origin of Species, prey, tentacles, Utricularia, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Carnivory in Plants: A Problem for Evolution

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 21, 2024

Anatomy, Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The paper highlights features of carnivorous plants that exhibit irreducible complexity, a characteristic of designed systems, citing the work of Michael Behe. Read More ›

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post

Date
February 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Brazil, carnivorous plants, convergent evolution, evolution, evolutionary pathway, Foresight (book), ID the Future, insects, intelligent design, Marcos Eberlin, natural selection, podcast, Venus flytrap}

Venus Flytrap Takes a Bite Out of Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
February 18, 2023

Biology, Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The evolutionary mechanism of natural selection selects for current function, not potential future function. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Africa, Americas, cactus, camera eye, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, common ancestry, convergent evolution, echidna, evolution, homology, human beings, octopuses, On the Origin of Species, porcupine, Simon Conway Morris, spines, Top Scientific Problems with Evolution (series), UC Berkeley}

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig: An Intelligent Design Pioneer

_{Granville Sewell
April 21, 2021

Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Zoology

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Darwinism sounds superficially plausible until one looks at real plants and animals with their irreducibly complex details. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 13, 2020

Categories
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Aldovanda, aquatic bladderwort, carnivorous plants, Dionaea, foresight, Genlisea, Granville Sewell, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, John Innes Centre, Marcos Eberlin, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, mousetrap, Utricularia, Venus flytrap, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Lesson from a Carnivorous Plant

_{David Klinghoffer
March 13, 2020

Life Sciences

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The aquatic bladderwort lacks the charm of a rose, a lily, cherry blossoms, or many other plants you can think of, but it has something else to recommend it. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
February 28, 2020

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Aldovanda, aquatic bladderworts, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, components, Darwin's Black Box, Dionaea, Genlisea, Heinz-Albert Becker, Irreducible Complexity, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, mice, Michael Behe, mousetrap, nature, Utricularia}

Aquatic Bladderworts — Michael Behe’s “Irreducibly Complex” Mousetrap in Nature

_{Granville Sewell
February 28, 2020

Botany, Life Sciences

6}

Behe offered the mousetrap as an example of a simple everyday device that is “irreducibly complex.” Read More ›

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Date
August 31, 2019

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, carnivorous plants, evolutionary theory, foresight, genera, ID the Future, intelligent design, podcast, Venus flytrap}

Venus Flytrap Takes a Bite Out of Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
August 31, 2019

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design

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The Venus flytrap, like all carnivorous plants, had no use for its insect-trapping function unless it also had an insect-digesting function. And vice versa. Read More ›

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Author
Marcos Eberlin

Date
July 12, 2019

Categories
Botany
Chemistry
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, animal kingdom, bacteria, BBC, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, devolution, digestive system, Dionaea muscipula, evolution, evolutionary pathway, foresight, homology, homoplasy, insects, Marcos Eberlin, natural selection, Nepenthes, Nobel Prize, prey, Rainer Hedrich, United States, Venus flytrap}

The Lovable Venus Flytrap: A Design Analysis

_{Marcos Eberlin
July 12, 2019

Botany, Chemistry, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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A correspondent sends along this remarkable nature video from the BBC and asks a good question. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
August 6, 2018

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, ancestors, automobiles, bats, BIO-Complexity, Boeing, carnivorous plants, classes, convergence, Cornelius Hunter, dependency graph, DNA, echolocation, evolution, Ford, GPS systems, intelligent design, jets, Mathematical Intelligencer, modules, orders, phyla, programmer, software, textbooks, Tree of Life, whales, Winston Ewert}

More on Winston Ewert’s “Dependency Graph of Life” — An Important New Paper

_{Granville Sewell
August 6, 2018

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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The evolution of life mimics the evolution of software or other human technology. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 20, 2016

Categories
Biology
Botany
Evolution
Tagged
, __tedited, aquatic bladderworts, carnivorous plants, common sense, critical thinking, intuitions, Irreducible Complexity, Nature, physical causes, scientific reasoning, simplicity, transitional forms, unguided natural processes}

Carnivorous Plants, and Why 0 Really Is Not Equal to 1

_{Granville Sewell
June 20, 2016

Biology, Botany, Evolution

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There is a little mathematics game that people sometimes play. You start with x=0, do some long, complicated algebraic manipulations, and end up with x=1. Read More ›