Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Doug Axe
Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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Carl Linnaeus
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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Jonathan Witt

Topic

cnidarians

Low-ResSoft-bodied-fossils-from-the-Huayuan-biota
Photo credit: ZHU Maoyan’s team, via EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/1112620.
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David Coppedge
Date
February 9, 2026
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Evolution
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Get to Know the Name: Huayuan Is a Major New Cambrian Fossil Site Found in China

David Coppedge
February 9, 2026
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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Another Cambrian fossil site that rivals the original Burgess Shale has been announced to the world. Read More ›
Fossil_bed_at_Nilpena_Ediacara_National_Park
Photo credit: Citronnel, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
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December 6, 2024
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Fossil Friday: Are Ediacaran “Fishing Hooks” a Breakthrough Discovery of Precambrian Animals?

Günter Bechly
December 6, 2024
Evolution, Paleontology
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Let’s have a look at the newest edition of the Precambrian animal guessing game. Read More ›
Octocorallia
Photo: Octocorallia, by Alexander Vasenin, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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David Coppedge
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May 22, 2024
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Let There Be Bioluminescence

David Coppedge
May 22, 2024
Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Biological light switched on in the Cambrian — for what reason, evolutionists are not sure. It just happened, like all the other natural miracles. Read More ›
Burgess Shale
Photo: Burgess Shale, by Mark A. Wilson (Wilson44691) (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster).[1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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David Coppedge
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August 17, 2023
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From Bad to Worse for Darwinism, as New Cambrian Explosion Finds Arrive

David Coppedge
August 17, 2023
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Less time and more complexity are compressed into an impossible challenge for evolution. Read More ›
Cloudina
Photo credit: James St. John, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
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July 14, 2023
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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 ›
Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata
Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata
Kimberella quadrata, an Edicaran organism, by Masahiro miyasaka / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).
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Günter Bechly
Date
December 1, 2022
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“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 ›
Cambrian animal
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David Coppedge
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June 15, 2022
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Molecular Clocks Can’t Save Darwinists from the Cambrian Dilemma

David Coppedge
June 15, 2022
Evolution, Paleontology
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To explain away the Cambrian explosion has been and remains a high priority for Darwinists. Read More ›
Ventogyrus
Photo: Ventogyrus, by Retallack, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
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March 25, 2021
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Examining Potential Other Trilobozoans

Günter Bechly
March 25, 2021
Evolution
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Last but not least, there is this gem: In 1986 strange mushroom-shaped deep-sea animals were collected offshore South Australia. Read More ›
Namacalathus and Cloudina
Namacalathus and Cloudina fossils
Photo: Namacalathus and Cloudina fossils, collection of Redpath Museum, McGill University, by Daderot / CC0, via Wikimedia.
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Günter Bechly
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January 19, 2021
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Namacalathus Revisited — Not Much to See

Günter Bechly
January 19, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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The new evidence is very ambiguous and totally inconclusive. No far-reaching conclusions should be drawn from such dubious material. Read More ›
Ikaria-wariootia
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Günter Bechly
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March 26, 2020
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Ancestor of All Animals in 555-Million-Year-Old Ediacaran Sediments?

Günter Bechly
March 26, 2020
Evolution
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Ikaria wariootia is just another problematic Ediacaran fossil that could be anything from inorganic artifact to protozoan to cnidarian and yes, maybe a bilaterian worm. Read More ›

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