Tag: Charnia

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 25, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, Associated Press, Barbara Wagstaff, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian Period, Charnia, Cornelius Hunter, Current Biology, Devonian Period, Flinders University, Fractofusus, Günter Bechly, Joe Moysiuk, John Long, Journal of the Geological Society, Justin Jackson, Live Science, mammoth, Marcin Ambrozik, Modura, Nature Communications, New Scientist, Per Ahlberg, radiodont, Royal Ontario Museum, Royal Society Open Science, Saint James, The Conversation, tiktaalik, true cross, University of Melbourne, Vera Korasidis}

Fossils as Magical Darwin Relics

_{David Coppedge
May 25, 2025

Archaeology, Evolution, Paleontology

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Fossils can be handled in the present, but how they are used by evolutionists in stories of history resembles the practices of overeager medieval churchmen. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 11, 2024

Categories
Genetics
Paleontology
Tagged
, assemblages, Avalon explosion, biodiversity, biologists, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Charnia, Charnwood Forest, Ediacaran biota, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genetic information, intelligent design, interpretation, magical thinking, paleontologists, Precambrian, radiations, radiometric dating, Science Advances, sedimentary rock, University of Edinburgh}

Fossil Friday: The Avalon Explosion and the Power of Maybe

_{Günter Bechly
October 11, 2024

Genetics, Paleontology

5}

While evolutionary biology has no explanation even according to the authors themselves, intelligent design theory does. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 21, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Andrew Knoll, animals, annelids, arthropods, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Charnia, Cnidaria, Darwin's Doubt, Douglas Erwin, echinoderms, Ediacaran biota, fact check, flatworms, James Valentine, Mistaken Point, On the Origin of Species, paleontology, photosynthesis, precambrian fossils, Science Alert, seafloor, Sean B. Carroll, Stephen Meyer, sunlight}

Fact Check: No, Two Teens Did NOT “Accidentally Solve” Darwin’s Dilemma

_{Casey Luskin
September 21, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Paleontology

6}

"It looked like a fern. But as a budding geologist, [UK teenager Tina] Negus knew these 600 million year old rocks were too old to host such a plant." Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, Anomalocaris, behaviors, brains, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canada, cell types, Charles Darwin, Charnia, China, Darwin's Doubt, Dickinsonia, Ediacarans, evolution, Fossil Hall, fossil record, Hallucigenia, mollusks, National Museum of Natural History, Opabinia, organs, oxygen, Pikaia, Smithsonian Institution, Spriggina, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Woodward, Tribrachidium, trilobites, Wiwaxia}

Smithsonian Glosses Over the Cambrian Explosion

_{David Coppedge
November 19, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

8}

The nation’s museum cannot ignore the collection of fossils Walcott sent them from the Burgess Shale. But can they explain them away? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 31, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, Big Bangs, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charnia, Cnidaria, comb jellies, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, explosions, fossil record, intelligent design, Kimberella, Lophotrochozoa, macro-organisms, metazoan animals, precambrian fossils, Richard Dawkins, saltations, stem mollusk, Yilingia spiciformis}

#2 Story of 2020: Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum

_{Günter Bechly
December 31, 2020

Evolution

25}

None of the Cambrian animal phyla is represented in the Ediacaran fossil record. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 21, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, Big Bangs, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charnia, Cnidaria, comb jellies, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, explosions, fossil record, intelligent design, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Lophotrochozoa, macro-organisms, metazoan animals, precambrian fossils, Richard Dawkins, saltations, stem mollusk, Yilingia spiciformis}

Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum

_{Günter Bechly
September 21, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

24}

The fossil record speaks clearly and cries out loud: the history of life on Earth is a history of saltations. Read More ›