Tag: Cloudina

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterian worms, Cambrian Explosion, Charnwood Forest, Cloudina, cloudinomorphs, cnidarians, Costatubus, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, digestive tract, Ediacaran Period, evolution, failed predictions, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, GUT, intelligent design, Precambrian animals, predictions, Saarina}

Fossil Friday: Cloudina Still Lacks the Guts to Be a Worm

_{Günter Bechly
July 14, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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We intelligent design proponents make one successful prediction after another, while Darwinism's track record of failed predictions grows ever longer. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, amniotes, bryozoans, Cambrian Explosion, cephalopods, Cloudina, common descent, creationism, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, dependency graph, dinosaurs, Donald Prothero, Ediacaran Period, Eunotosaurus, evolution, Fortunian, fossil record, genes, GOBE, intelligent design, lepidosaurs, Middle Permian, model, Nature Communications, New Scientist, SETI, Stephen Meyer, turtles, Winston Ewert, wormworld}

Dave Farina Criticizes Intelligent Design but Doesn’t Understand It

_{Günter Bechly
December 5, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Boom! There goes the “exquisitely documented” evolution of turtles. Sorry, Professor Dave. Read More ›

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post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 2, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cloudina, Conotubus, Dave Farina, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran, embryos, Fortunian, fossils, Kimberella, Mongolia, Namacalathus, Namapoikia, Permian, Precambrian animals, Professor Dave, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, Trilobozoa, wormworld}

Let’s Help “Professor Dave” Understand the Precambrian

_{Günter Bechly
December 2, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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We have much to teach the non-professor, and I trust that he is grateful for the education being rendered to him here. Read More ›

Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 1, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, China, Cloudina, cnidarians, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, Dickinsonia, Doushantuo fossils, embryos, Eumetazoa, evolution, fossils, Gregory Retallack, homology, Ikaria, intelligent design, Internet, Kimberella, Metazoa, microfossils, Namacalathus, New York Times, Precambrian animals, Professor Dave, Spiralicellula, sponges, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, straw man, Tribrachidium, Vernanimalcula, White Sea assemblage, Yilingia, YouTubers}

“Lying on the Internet”? Debunking Dave Farina on Stephen Meyer

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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A lot of nonsense gets published in peer-reviewed journals and it needs expertise to separate the wheat from the chaff. Farina lacks any expertise to do this. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 9, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian Small Shelly Fauna, Cloudina, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran animals, Ediacaran era, Ediacaran Small Shelly Fauna, Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary, fossil record, lophotrochozoans, Nama Group, Namacalathus, Namacalathus hermanastes, Namapoikia, Namibia, National Geographic, paleontology, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, University of Edinburgh, University of Toronto}

Namacalathus, an Ediacaran Lophophorate Animal?

_{Günter Bechly
July 9, 2020

Evolution

9}

I have been writing a series of articles on alleged Ediacaran animals that have been postulated as precursors of the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 23, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, algorithms, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Cloudina, cloudinids, cloudinomorphs, Columbia University, Darwinians, digestive tract, Ediacaran fauna, Evolution News, Field Museum of Natural History, Flight: The Genius of Birds, fossils, fruit flies, Günter Bechly, humans, hummingbirds, Illustra Media, intelligent design, James D. Schiffbauer, Nature Communications, optics, pancakes, PNAS, structural color, thermoregulation}

Bringing Past Articles Current to 2020: Butterflies, Hummingbirds, More

_{Science and Culture
January 23, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Here are items reported in 2019 that have made news in 2020: more on butterflies, hummingbirds, and the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, bilaterian animals, bilaterian worms, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian Small Shelly Fauna, Chengjiang biota, China, Cloudina, cloudinids, cloudinomorphs, cnidarian, Conotubus, Costatubus, Darwinian evolution, Dickinsonia, digestive tract, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Period, Ediacaran Small Shelly Fauna, Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary, Germany, GUT, James D. Schiffbauer, Nature Communications, Nevada, polyp, Saarina, skeleton, University of Missouri, Wood Canyon Formation}

Did Cloudinids Have the Guts to Be Worms?

_{Günter Bechly
January 17, 2020

Evolution

16}

I promised last year to follow up on more alleged Ediacaran animals. Now is a good moment to come back to this, with a new study having just been published in the journal Nature Communications. Read More ›

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Date
March 28, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, archaellum, bacterial flagellum, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cancer theory, Cloudina, Current Biology, Darwinian evolution, Ediacaran, eukaryotes, gene regulatory networks, Graham Budd, Great Oxidation Event, Greenland, oceans, oxygen theory, paleontology, Quanta, slime theory}

Cambrian Explosion Shrapnel Still Hitting Evolutionary Scenarios

_{Science and Culture
March 28, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Darwinian paleontologists try model after contradictory model to get blind chance to invent design. Read More ›

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Date
July 26, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, beta-lactamase, Cambrian Explosion, Cloudina, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, Ediacaran organisms, enzymes, evolution, innovation, intelligent design, Michael Behe, nylonase, precambrian fossils, proteins, rangeomorphs, Richard Lenski, Tom Bethell}

Desperately Seeking Evolutionary Innovation by Chance

_{Science and Culture
July 26, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

Ask evolutionists for a clear, unambiguous example of a new gain in function by chance at the genetic level. They will be hard pressed to show one. Read More ›