Tag: Namacalathus

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 2, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cloudina, Dave Farina, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran, embryos, fossils, Kimberella, Mongolia, Namacalathus, Professor Dave, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, Trilobozoa}

Let’s Help “Professor Dave” Understand the Precambrian

_{Günter Bechly
December 2, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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We have much to teach the non-professor, and I trust that he is grateful for the education being rendered to him here. Read More ›

Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 1, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, China, Cloudina, cnidarians, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, Dickinsonia, embryos, Eumetazoa, evolution, fossils, Gregory Retallack, homology, Ikaria, intelligent design, Internet, Kimberella, Metazoa, microfossils, Namacalathus, New York Times, Professor Dave, sponges, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, straw man, Tribrachidium, Vernanimalcula, YouTubers}

“Lying on the Internet”? Debunking Dave Farina on Stephen Meyer

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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A lot of nonsense gets published in peer-reviewed journals and it needs expertise to separate the wheat from the chaff. Farina lacks any expertise to do this. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bilateral symmetry, brachiopods, bryozoans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Chengjiang fossils, cnidarians, Ediacaran animals, homology, Lophotrochozoa, lophotrochozoans, Namacalathus}

Namacalathus Revisited — Not Much to See

_{Günter Bechly
January 19, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The new evidence is very ambiguous and totally inconclusive. No far-reaching conclusions should be drawn from such dubious material. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 18, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran fossils, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, lophotrochozoans, metazoans, Nama Group, Namacalathus, Namibia, paleontology, Science Advances, Stephen Meyer}

Resurrecting Namacalathus as an Ediacaran Animal

_{Günter Bechly
January 18, 2021

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The new fossils stem from a layer in the Nama Group of Namibia, just below an ash bed that could be radiometrically dated to 547.32 ± 0.65 million years. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 5, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwinists, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary theory, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, intelligent design, Namacalathus, paleontologists, podcast, Precambrian, transitional forms}

Paleontologist Buries Another Proposed Cambrian Precursor

_{Jonathan Witt
January 5, 2021

Evolution

1}

Günter Bechly explains why the Precambrian fossil Namacalathus fails as a transitional precursor to the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 10, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, algae, bilateral symmetry, brachiopods, Bryozoa, Cambrian Explosion, Ediacaran biota, Namacalathus, Paleobiology Database, protists, sponges, Utah}

Namacalathus, Alleged Ediacaran “Animal,” Fails to Refute Abrupt Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
July 10, 2020

Evolution

13}

It could be anything, from a coelenterate-grade or sponge-grade organism to even a protist or an alga. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 9, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cloudina, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran animals, Ediacaran era, fossil record, lophotrochozoans, Nama Group, Namacalathus, Namibia, National Geographic, paleontology, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, University of Edinburgh, University of Toronto}

Namacalathus, an Ediacaran Lophophorate Animal?

_{Günter Bechly
July 9, 2020

Evolution

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I have been writing a series of articles on alleged Ediacaran animals that have been postulated as precursors of the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, China, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, Donald Prothero, Ediacaran era, Evolution News, fossilization, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Kimberella, Metazoa, Mongolia, Namacalathus, paleontologists, Royal Society, Stephen Meyer, taphonomy, trilobites}

The Demise of the Artifact Hypothesis

_{Günter Bechly
July 6, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwinists have to face the fact that a core prediction of their theory miserably failed an important empirical test. Read More ›