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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 12, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, burial, Cambrian News, digestive system, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, feeding apparatus, fossils, Kimberella, Kimberella series, mantle, Mikhail Fedonkin, mollusks, muscles, Ordovician Period, Parvancorina, proboscis, shells, teeth}

Reconstructing Kimberella — The Disputed Anatomy in Detail

_{Günter Bechly
September 12, 2020

Evolution

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Fossils often leave much room for very different interpretations of relatively poor evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 4, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Period, holotype, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Mark McMenamin, mollusks, Precambrian strata, Tribrachidium, White Sea}

Kimberella — A Checkered History

_{Günter Bechly
September 4, 2020

Evolution

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John Kimber collected the first fossils of this organism and died tragically at age 38 during an expedition in South Australia in 1964. 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}

Was Kimberella a Precambrian Mollusk?

_{Günter Bechly
September 3, 2020

Evolution

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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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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 19, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, amino acids, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, camera eye, Dan-Eric Nilsson, engineer, evolution, François Jacob, indoctrination, intelligent design, mollusks, mutations, natural selection, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, vertebrates, Wistar Institute}

Squeezing Out the Mystery: Final Comments on Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
August 19, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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The phenomenon of convergent evolution suggests that natural selection fits better with the analogy of the engineer than it does the tinkerer. Read More ›

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Date
November 27, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cilia, Cnidaria, comb jellies, crabs, crustaceans, Ctenophora, ctenophores, Current Biology, Darwin's Black Box, fossil record, honeycomb, jellyfish, lobsters, Michael Behe, mollusks, nacre, Porifera, Precambrian, shrimp, Swansea University, The Edge of Evolution, Tohoku University, University of Michigan}

Design in the First Animals

_{Science & Culture
November 27, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Scientists debate whether ctenophores are the earliest animals to appear in the Cambrian explosion. If so, they arrived with multiple tissues, a nervous system, and a digestive system. Read More ›

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Date
October 21, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, biomineralization, convergent evolution, Darwinian evolution, genetic code, Golden Ratio, hammer, intelligent design, mollusks, Nature Communications, Newton, Pajaro Dunes, Paul Nelson, Phys.org, snails, teeth, University of Wisconsin-Madison}

Teeth, Mollusks: Design in Biominerals

_{Science & Culture
October 21, 2019

Intelligent Design

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The subject of biomineralization also allows comparing the explanatory power of design over Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Date
July 15, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Anomalocaris, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian radiation, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, fossil record, intelligent design, microbes, mollusks, Nature Communications, Nature Geoscience, oxygen, Stephen Meyer, University of Exeter, Wiwaxia}

Should There Be a Time Limit for Cambrian Explosion Excuses?

_{Science & Culture
July 15, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Evolutionary scientists have had 160 years to figure out this dilemma. Read More ›

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Date
May 3, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, arthropods, Biomimetics, blood, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cilia, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian evolution, exoplanets, Hallucigenia, intelligent design, Live Science, Mars, Michael Behe, mollusks, Nature (journal), New Scientist, Science (journal), Texas A&M, University of Alberta, University of Warwick, white blood cells}

Read Carefully, Nature News Conspires to Refute Darwinism

_{Science & Culture
May 3, 2019

Intelligent Design

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The kingfisher bird has to dive after fish rapidly without busting its beak. Japanese scientists looked into the physics of this, and redesigned the noses of their bullet trains. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Reeves

Date
December 5, 2018

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, bacterial flagellum, Center for Science and Culture, classroom, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, evolution, Galápagos finches, gene regulatory networks, HarperOne, Hawaii, high school, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lehigh University, media, Michael Behe, mollusks, mosses, neo-Darwinian theory, outboard motor, stator, textbooks, The Edge of Evolution, video course}

Behe’s New Video Course — No Spoilers Here

_{Daniel Reeves
December 5, 2018

Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Let’s just say that Michael Behe’s latest work has further refined his edge of evolution, in a highly significant way. Intrigued? Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 30, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, American Scientific Affiliation, antibodies, bacteria, binding site, Christians, Denis Lamoureux, Dennis Venema, Didier Raoult, Discovery Institute, Donald Prothero, evolutionary theory, fruit flies, Immune System, information, insects, intelligent design, Lawrence Krauss, mammals, mollusks, nylonase, probabilistic resources, protein folds, Randy Isaac, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, Tree of Life, trees, UC Davis, whales}

Examining Critiques of Theistic Evolution, a Year After the Volume’s Publication

_{Brian Miller
October 30, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Attacks by Christian theistic evolutionists have often followed the same patterns as those of their secular colleagues. Read More ›