Tag: GUT

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 24, 2025

Categories
Historical Sciences
Paleontology
Tagged
, Aspidella, Ausia, Ausia fenestrata, Australia, California, Cambrian Explosion, certainty, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Dilemma, Darwin’s Doubt, Death Valley, debates, ecology, Ediacaran biota, fossils, Günter Bechly, GUT, metazoans, muscles, Nama Group, Namibia, nervous system, organs, peacock, Petalonamae, Pteridinium, Rangeomorpha, sea squirt, Simon Conway Morris, South Africa, Stephen Meyer, suspension feeders, taphonomy, urochordate}

Despite Exceptionally Well-Preserved Namibian Fossils, Ediacaran Mystery Remains

_{David Coppedge
November 24, 2025

Historical Sciences, Paleontology

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Simon Conway Morris described the Ediacaran ecology as a “sleepy” world of simple, passive creatures bearing no resemblance to what was to come. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, bamboo, Darwinian theory, dexterity, digits, engineering, giant pandas, GUT, ID the Future, intelligent design, mammals, manipulation systems, microbiome, optimal panda principle, Panda's Thumb, podcast, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, wrist bone}

More Than a Thumb: Integrated Design in the Giant Panda

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 9, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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Is the famous “panda’s thumb” evidence of unguided evolutionary processes, or is it a masterpiece of engineering. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
March 20, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beneficial design, creator, David Coppedge, earth, functionality, George Washington Carver, GUT, Heather Gerrie, hidden treasures, junk DNA, Mark A. Anthony, nature, netherworld, peanut, PNAS, searching, soil, University of British Columbia}

In Search of Nature’s Hidden Design Treasures

_{Eric Hedin
March 20, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Most people are familiar with George Washington Carver and his discoveries of multiple uses for the peanut. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 13, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Angewandte Chemie, Arabic, bacteria, biofilm, bioluminescence, Darwinian evolution, Denyse O'Leary, engineers, Finland, GUT, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, languages, microbes, migration, MIT, quorum sensing, rocks, slime molds, The Design Inference, words, World War II}

Quorum Sensing: A Clever Trick by Microbes

_{David Coppedge
December 13, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Robot designers are learning tricks from bacteria: how to communicate with and respond to other unseen members of a swarm. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 24, 2023

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, annelids, antennae, bacteria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian Period, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Colorado State University, crustaceans, earthworms, eyes, fishing, food, GUT, legs, Michael Denton, mud dragons, muscles, NASA, nerves, Penn State, Privileged Species, roundworms, scalidophorans, soil, termites, underground, University of Birmingham, worms}

Hidden Service Animals: Earthworms Are Only the Beginning

_{David Coppedge
October 24, 2023

Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Soil biodiversity is still a black box. Some scientists are beginning to explore the global underground that services the health of plants and animals. Read More ›

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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
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

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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 ›

Campylobacter jejuni bacteria 3d render illustration closeup

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Author
Marcos Eberlin

Date
June 21, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, appendix, Darwinian medicine, Darwinists, David Klinghoffer, dehydration, diarrhea, electrolytes, Escherichia coli, foresight, GUT, gut bacteria, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, mammals, Marcos Eberlin, microbes, physiology, poverty, Salmonella, The Descent of Man, toxins, vestigial structures}

Diarrhea and Design: A Response to Jerry Coyne

_{Marcos Eberlin
June 21, 2019

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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I respect Coyne’s position, but, lacking his faith, I interpret this evidence more naturally as pointing to an ingenious mind. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 27, 2018

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, anus, bacteria, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cnidarians, ctenophores, Darwinian evolution, decomposition, Dickinsonia, dickinsoniids, Ediacaran biota, Epibaion, Facebook, fossils, fungi, glide symmetry, GUT, Ilya Bobrovskiy, Jochen Brocks, Mary Droser, Metazoa, morphology, mouth, paleontology, placozoans, protists, South Australia, sponges, Stanford University, University of California, Vendobionta}

#6 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Dickinsonia Probably Not an Ediacaran Animal

_{Günter Bechly
December 27, 2018

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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So, do high levels of cholesterol biomarkers really suggest an animal affinity of Dickinsonia? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 27, 2018

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, anus, bacteria, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cnidarians, ctenophores, Darwinian evolution, decomposition, Dickinsonia, dickinsoniids, Ediacaran biota, Epibaion, Facebook, fossils, fungi, glide symmetry, GUT, Ilya Bobrovskiy, Jochen Brocks, Mary Droser, Metazoa, morphology, mouth, paleontology, placozoans, protists, South Australia, sponges, Stanford University, University of California, Vendobionta}

Why Dickinsonia Was Most Probably Not an Ediacaran Animal

_{Günter Bechly
September 27, 2018

Botany, Evolution

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So, do high levels of cholesterol biomarkers really suggest an animal affinity of Dickinsonia? Read More ›