Tag: molecular clock

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 31, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, ancestors, animals, biological information, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian radiation, Current Biology, Darwin-skeptics, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionists, fossils, genetic information, Günter Bechly, molecular clock, oxygen, oxygen theory, oxygenation, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Richard Sternberg, Science Advances, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, trace fossils, University of Bristol, University of Edinburgh}

Dodging the Main Issue in the Cambrian Explosion

_{David Coppedge
January 31, 2025

Evolution, Paleontology

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In three papers, scientists babble about irrelevant details but ignore the main question: the origin of new genetic information for new body plans and organs. 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
David Coppedge

Date
February 8, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alison Abbott, Biomimetics, cephalopods, convergence, cuttlefish, Darwin's Doubt, David Klinghoffer, genes, giant squid, hydrothermal vents, Living Waters, molecular clock, Mollusca, narrative gloss, Nature (journal), Nautilus, neo-Darwinian processes, Paul Nelson, propulsion, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Meyer, University of Chicago}

Geneticists Puzzled by Octopus’s Unique Genes: Seem to Have Appeared Out of Nowhere

_{David Coppedge
February 8, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

“Evolution of novel genes”? Isn’t that the question at hand? Where do novel genes come from? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 16, 2022

Categories
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Afrotheria, America, Antarctica, anteaters, Argentina, armadillos, clades, Darwinists, Early Eocene, megafauna, molecular clock, Natural History Museum of Vienna, New World, Patagonia, phylogenetic systematics, placental mammals, Pleistocene, primates, sloths, Tubulidentata, Xenarthra}

Fossil Friday: The Giant Armadillo Glyptodon and the Abrupt Origin of Xenarthrans

_{Günter Bechly
December 16, 2022

Paleontology, Science

20}

Should we dare to consider the possibility that something is wrong with the Darwinist assumptions? Heaven forbid! Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, body plans, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cnidarians, Cryogenian Period, Current Biology, Darwin's Doubt, emergence, heat, information problem, innovation, intelligence, Maximilian Telford, Metazoa, molecular clock, molecular data, molluscs, natural selection, oxygen, Philip Donoghue, phylum, Precambrian, sponges, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma}

Molecular Clocks Can’t Save Darwinists from the Cambrian Dilemma

_{David Coppedge
June 15, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

10}

To explain away the Cambrian explosion has been and remains a high priority for Darwinists. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 3, 2022

Categories
Biology
Botany
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Arthur Hunt, Basilosaurus, bilaterian animals, central nervous system, cichlid fish, compound eyes, Darwinists, dog breeds, Dunning-Kruger effect, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, Evolution News, exoskeleton, fact check, fossil record, Hawaiian Silverswords, honeycreepers, Joe Felsenstein, John Harshman, Lake Malawi, molecular clock, no true Scotsman, otters, Pakicetus, Panda's Thumb, Peaceful Science, phenotypic plasticity, Puck Mendelssohn, Rusophycus, species pair challenge, trace fossils, University of Kentucky, Young Earth Creationists}

Fact Check: Hawaiian Silverswords Fail the Species Pair Challenge

_{Günter Bechly
May 3, 2022

Biology, Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences

20}

Even though the differences appear superficially striking, they do not involve any novel body plans (i.e., no new proteins, new tissues, or new organs). Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animal phyla, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Period, Eumetazoa, evidence, evolution, evolutionary biology, intelligent design, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Lophotrochozoa, Metazoa, molecular clock, mollusks, Nephrozoa, Protostomia}

Was Kimberella a Precambrian Mollusk?

_{Günter Bechly
September 3, 2020

Evolution

3}

If identified as an animal, it would “predate the Cambrian explosion of bilaterian animal phyla as a kind of ‘advance guard.’” Read More ›

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Date
September 25, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, chimpanzees, common ancestor, common ancestry, Darwin's Doubt, evolutionary biology, genetic data, humans, Journal of Molecular Evolution, mice, Molecular Biology and Evolution, molecular clock, Nature (journal), organisms, rats, S. Joshua Swamidass, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, Y chromosome}

Response to Swamidass: Rats, Mice, and Discrepant Molecular Clocks

_{Science and Culture
September 25, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science

15}

Molecular clocks are a relatively simple concept. Read More ›

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Date
September 24, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, BIO-Complexity, chimpanzees, Colin Reeves, common ancestor, common descent, common design, Darwinian mechanism, David Snoke, DNA, genetic similarity, genome, humans, mice, molecular clock, Ola Hössjer, population genetics, rats, S. Joshua Swamidass, sequencing, theistic evolution, Washington University, Winston Ewert}

Response to Swamidass: Confusion in a Review of Theistic Evolution

_{Science and Culture
September 24, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science

8}

It’s worth engaging him, since Swamidass is the relatively rare critic of ID who works at tackling arguments for design in a substantive fashion. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 27, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Atlantic Ocean, biogeography, Casey Luskin, common ancestry, Donald Prothero, George Gaylord Simpson, Gondwana, iguanas, Madagascar, molecular clock, New World monkeys, New Zealand, platypus, Platyrrhini, rafting, South America}

Rafting Stormy Waters: When Biogeography Contradicts Common Ancestry

_{Günter Bechly
June 27, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The orderly pattern of biogeographic distribution of plants and animals was one of the lines of evidence that Charles Darwin mentioned in support of his theory. Read More ›