Tag: Metamorphosis

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 2, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, Charles Ives, circatidal rhythms, conductors, crustaceans, Current Biology, frogs, fruit flies, homeostasis, Irreducible Complexity, kicking, Krisha Aghi, life cycle, lunar cycles, Metamorphosis, orbital cycles, order, Patrick Emery, randomness, Richard Kinkead, sand flea, signal transducers, solar cycles, stability, stroking, synapse, tadpole, Tara A. Janes, tempos, treading water, Victoria Lewis}

Homeostasis Is More than Treading Water

_{David Coppedge
July 2, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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From bacterium to brontosaur, stability in a dynamic environment requires an astonishing array of systems for sensing, signaling, and responding to change. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Zoology
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, butterflies, Charles Darwin, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, immaterial genome, materialist explanations, Metamorphosis, Metamorphosis (book), Michael Flannery, natural selection, naturalists, Paul Nelson, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, teleology}

Butterly Metamorphosis as a Test Case for Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome

_{David Klinghoffer
May 15, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Zoology

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What is the “it” (in “itself”) that carries through from beginning to end? The creature’s “self” seems to be lost along the way, in the goo. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 16, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, biology, brain tumor, caterpillars, chrysalis, CT scan, Denyse O'Leary, earth, epicycles, German, Guillermo Gonzalez, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, heliocentric model, Johannes Kepler, Karina Kofman, Kevin Mitchell, materialism, Metamorphosis, methodological materialism, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, mind, neuroscience, planets, Plato, Richard Sternberg, solar system, The Immortal Mind, Tufts University}

Biologist Michael Levin Is at It Again, Now Pushing at the Mind-Brain Equation

_{Daniel Witt
April 16, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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When caterpillars are in their chrysalises, their brains physically dissolve (along with the rest of their bodies) and are rebuilt as butterfly brains. Read More ›

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Date
February 1, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, body plans, Casey Luskin, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, Daniel Reeves, Discovery Institute, Emily Reeves, Eric Hedin, events, habitat, honeybees, intelligent design, John West, Metamorphosis, Michael Egnor, music, Paul Nelson, Ray Bohlin, Richard Sternberg, science and faith, Stephen Dilley, Stephen Meyer}

February 8! 2025 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith

_{Evolution News
February 1, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

2}

From the smallest honeybee to the greatest whale, planet Earth is swarming with creatures of all shapes and sizes — each designed for their habitat. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 24, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, butterfly, chrysalis, Darwinism, dragonflies, foresight, Free University, genes, grasshoppers, Illustra Media, insects, lice, Metamorphosis, Metamorphosis: The Beauty and Design of Butterflies, Model T, organs, Paul Nelson, phenotypes, Princeton University, proboscis, promissory note}

“Notions” About Metamorphosis Fall Short of Scientific Explanations

_{David Coppedge
October 24, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Saying that a mathematical model “supports the notion” of how metamorphosis evolved should not grace the pages of an esteemed scientific journal. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, body plans, Carboniferous Insect Explosion, common descent, evolution, Flight, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ghost lineages, Holometabola, information, intelligent design, Metamorphosis, molecular clock studies, neo-Darwinian theory, Palaeodictyoptera, paleontology, winged insects, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Carboniferous Explosion of Winged Insects

_{Günter Bechly
August 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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This represents just one of the many discontinuities in the history of life that strongly contradict the predictions from a neo-Darwinian theory of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 22, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biologists, Department of Defense, engineers, GPS, helicopter, humanity, Illustra Media, intelligent design, magnetic field, Metamorphosis, Metamorphosis: The Beauty and Design of Butterflies, Mexico, military, monarch butterfly, sharks, submarine, whales}

Battle Butterflies

_{Daniel Witt
April 22, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Every year, around a billion monarchs travel from across North America to gather overwinter in a few specific locations in Mexico. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, caterpillars, Darwinian theory, entomology, evolution, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, larvae, Metamorphosis, prolegs}

How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs…Or Not

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 10, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Almost 400 years after its discovery, the process of metamorphosis is still a thorny conundrum for evolutionary biologists. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Carboniferous Period, caterpillar, crustaceans, Darwinism, Dollo’s Law, evo-devo, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Holometabola, holometabolan insects, homology, hybridization, Illustra Media, insects, intelligent design, irreversibility, Lepidoptera, Maria Sybilla Merian, Metamorphosis, paleontology, prolegs, tree resin, Trichoptera}

Fossil Friday: How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs, or Not

_{Günter Bechly
November 10, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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In spite of all the scientific efforts by Darwinists, the origin of complete metamorphosis in holometabolan insects remains an unsolved mystery. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 13, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, Adrian Dyer, Air Force, beetles, bugs, butterflies, caterpillars, cockroaches, CUNY, Current Biology, ecosystems, flies, Metamorphosis, mollusks, Monash University, moths, Nature Communications, pollinators, proteins, snails, Space Force, spiders, University of Adelaide, wasps}

Intelligent Design in Unlovable Creatures

_{David Coppedge
September 13, 2023

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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Between cells and humans, there are millions of "ugly duckling" species that are beautiful in their own way. Read More ›