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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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Bruce Gordon
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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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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

flowering plants

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Photo credit: Blue Ridge Kitties, via Flickr (cropped).
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Author
David Coppedge
Date
October 5, 2023
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Botany
Evolution
Life Sciences
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Plant Evolution: All Gaps and Miracles

David Coppedge
October 5, 2023
Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences
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A major study looks for evolution, but finds huge disparities, stasis, gaps, periodic explosions, and miracles of emergence held together with imagination. Read More ›
Triassic Pollen
Photo: Angiosperm-like pollen Type I from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland, modified after Hochuli & Feist-Burkhardt 2013 in Frontiers, CC BY 4.0.
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Günter Bechly
Date
December 2, 2022
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Is Triassic Angiosperm-Like Pollen a Solution to Darwin’s Abominable Mystery?

Günter Bechly
December 2, 2022
Evolution, Paleontology
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There is one remaining issue to address, which is palynology, the science of fossil pollen. Read More ›
Florigerminis
Photo: Florigerminis jurassica, NIGPAS 2022, fair use.
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Günter Bechly
Date
November 18, 2022
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Florigerminis, Another Failed Candidate for a Jurassic Flowering Plant

Günter Bechly
November 18, 2022
Evolution, Paleontology
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You are in good company if you are as skeptical about these claims as I am myself. Read More ›
grass
Photo credit: Ochir-Erdene Oyunmedeg via Unsplash.
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David Coppedge
Date
August 10, 2022
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Life Sciences
Science
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Biology Helps Us Understand the Blessing of Grasses

David Coppedge
August 10, 2022
Life Sciences, Science
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Don’t walk on the grass, that “often undervalued” form of life, without looking down. It’s amazing down there. Read More ›
Gunter Bechly
Photo: Günter Bechly in a scene from the documentary Revolutionary, via Discovery Institute.
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Date
April 25, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
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Bechly: “Life’s Second ‘Big Bang'”

Science & Culture
April 25, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences
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He touches on other biological explosions, including the Avalon explosion, the Triassic explosion, and the origin of flowering plants. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig.
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Date
January 10, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Abstract: Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
January 10, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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All orders and families of the angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record (the same for most lower systematic categories). Read More ›
water lily
Photo: A water lily from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil, copyright by G. Bechly.
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Günter Bechly
Date
June 15, 2021
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Life Sciences
Paleontology
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Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Mesozoic Cupules Come to the Rescue?

Günter Bechly
June 15, 2021
Life Sciences, Paleontology
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Darwin's "abominable mystery" is not only very much alive and kicking, but it also suggests intelligent design. Read More ›
Tropidogyne pentaptera
Photo: Tropidogyne pentaptera, a mid Cretaceous flower from Burmese amber, by Oregon State University (license CC BY-SA 2.0), via Flickr.
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Günter Bechly
Date
June 14, 2021
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Evolution
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Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Jurassic Flowering Plants After All?

Günter Bechly
June 14, 2021
Evolution
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This year a new article by Silvestro et al. (2021), "Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants," was published. Read More ›
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Photo: The Jurassic seed fern Sagenopteris belongs to the extinct gymnosperm clade Caytoniales, which is believed to be the closest relative of flowering plants, via Wikimedia.
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Günter Bechly
Date
June 11, 2021
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Evolution
Life Sciences
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Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Still Alive and Kicking

Günter Bechly
June 11, 2021
Evolution, Life Sciences
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Darwinists had hoped that 150 years of paleontological research since Darwin would surely make this nagging problem go away. Read More ›

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