Tag: Dickinsonia

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 16, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, algae, Avalon explosion, Cambrian phyla, Darwinian evolution, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran fossils, evidence for evolution, fact check, falsified theories, Fossil Friday (series), India, junk science, microbial mats, Precambrian, radiometric dating, Spriggina, Tribrachidium, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: The Vindhyan Controversy and Debunking Alleged Ediacaran and Cambrian Fossils

_{Günter Bechly
February 16, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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The fancy speculations about the evolution of multicellular life and early animals turned out to be just smoke and mirrors. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, artifact hypothesis, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, cnidarian, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, Derek Briggs, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, empirical data, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, molecular clock studies, paleontology, Precambrian strata, sponge, Stephen Meyer, transitional forms, Trends in Ecology and Evolution}

Fossil Friday: New Study Challenges the Artifact Hypothesis

_{Günter Bechly
October 20, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

8}

It is time for Darwinists to stop their science denial and face the fact that empirical data consistently contradict core predictions of their theory. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Darwin's Doubt, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran Period, evolution, fossil record, intelligent design, Kimberella, molecular clock, Neoproterozoic Era, New York Times, Norway, Nunavut, Oxford University, precambrian fossils, Precambrian strata, Ross P. Anderson, Russia, Siberia, Stephen Meyer, Svalbard, taphonomy}

Taphonomy Study Shortens Fuse for the Cambrian Explosion

_{David Coppedge
August 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

The “molecular clock” must be wrong, a study concludes. Cambrian animal ancestors are not there in the fossil record as hoped. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 7, 2023

Categories
Geology
Paleontology
Tagged
, circular reasoning, creationism, creationists, dating, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran Period, evolution, falsified theories, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Gregory Retallack, hype, India, interpretation, paleomagnetography, paleontology, peer-reviewed literature, Precambrian, radiometric dating, rocks, South Australia, stratigraphy, University of Florida, University of Oregon, zircon}

Fossil Friday: Alleged Precambrian Fossil Unmasked as Rotten Beehive

_{Günter Bechly
July 7, 2023

Geology, Paleontology

6}

The scientists revisited the site and discovered that the assumed Ediacaran fossils are neither of Ediacaran age nor represent fossils at all. Read More ›

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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 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canada, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran organisms, Ediacaran Period, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), Gregory Retallack, lichens, Mistaken Point, paleontologists, trace fossils}

Fossil Friday: Dickinsonia, the Ediacaran Animal that Wasn’t

_{Günter Bechly
July 29, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

5}

Gregory Retallack is a kind of maverick paleontologist, who endorses a fringe hypothesis that Ediacaran organisms were not marine but terrestrial lichens. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 1, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arthropods, Cambrian biota, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, David Gelernter, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionists, first appearance date, fungus, glide symmetry, Gregory Retallack, Ilya Bobrovskiy, latest appearance date, Mongolia, Nama Basin, Namibia, Neo-Darwinism, Peaceful Science, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer, University of Zurich, Vendobionta, Yale University}

Happy New Year! #1 Story of 2021: Cambrian Explosion Goes Nuclear

_{Günter Bechly
January 1, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Here are two very interesting updates to my recent articles on alleged Ediacaran animals and the Cambrian Explosion. 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
April 8, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arthropods, Cambrian biota, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, China, Darwin's Doubt, David Gelernter, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran animals, Ediacaran organisms, Evolution News, evolutionists, first appearance date, fungus, glide symmetry, Gregory Retallack, Ilya Bobrovskiy, latest appearance date, Mongolia, Nama Basin, Namibia, Neo-Darwinism, Peaceful Science, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer, University of Zurich, Vendobionta, Yale University}

The Cambrian Explosion Has Just Gone Nuclear

_{Günter Bechly
April 8, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Here are two very interesting updates to my recent articles on alleged Ediacaran animals and the Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›