Tag: oxygen theory

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, arthropods, body plans, British Columbia, Burgess Shale, Burgess Shale Type, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Chengjiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, chordates, cnidarians, comb jellies, complex body plans, ctenophores, Darwin's Doubt, fossils, gills, guts, Han Zeng, Huayuan, Huayuan County, Huayuan site, James Woodford, jellyfish, Lagerstätte, lobopodians, magical thinking, Marble Canyon, molluscs, mutation/selection mechanism, Nature (journal), nerves, New Scientist, oxygen molecules, oxygen theory, poriferans, priapulids, Sinsk Event, soft tissues, transitional forms, worms}

Get to Know the Name: Huayuan Is a Major New Cambrian Fossil Site Found in China

_{David Coppedge
February 9, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Another Cambrian fossil site that rivals the original Burgess Shale has been announced to the world. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, clades, Darwin’s Doubt, David Coppedge, Douglas Erwin, evolution, evolutionary precursors, Gizmodo, intelligent design, James Valentine, oxygen, oxygen theory, oxygen trigger model, oxygenation, paleontologists, paleontology, partial pressure of oxygen, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Cambrian Explosion (book)}

New Paper Has Bad News for Popular “Oxygen Theory” of the Cambrian Explosion

_{Casey Luskin
January 9, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

8}

The technical paper acknowledges that this level of oxygenation, if sustained, would indeed “challenge the view” that oxygen was a trigger for animal evolution. Read More ›

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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

9}

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
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, biological novelty, Cambrian Explosion, evolution, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, intelligent agents, intelligent design, naturalism, oxygen, oxygen theory, paleontology, podcast, science stopper, specified information}

Günter Bechly on Why Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom Was Wrong

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 17, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

2}

Is it a science stopper to propose mind as the source of these great infusions of biological information? Quite the opposite. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 2, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambridge University, DNA, Drosophila, fruit flies, metazoans, Nature (journal), oxygen theory, phosphate, phosphorus, phytoplankton, Rockefeller University}

The Phosphorus Cycle: Cause or Effect?

_{David Coppedge
June 2, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Phosphorus, oxygen, and microbes cooperate in a delicate balance that sustains our productive biosphere. How did they come to interact? Read More ›

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post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 7, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Amazonia, biosphere, Cambrian Explosion, carbon, chlorophyll, Goldilocks Zone, Hunga-Tonga volcano, intelligent design, Michael Denton, Nature (journal), Nature Scientific Reports, nitrogen, oxygen theory, Paleozoic, phosphorus, phytoplankton, prior fitness, supply chain, vertebrates, volcanoes}

Is There Enough Phosphorus for Us?

_{David Coppedge
September 7, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

10}

The element phosphorus, on which life heavily depends for its codes and metabolic processes, is a limiting factor for complex beings on habitable planets. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 12, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, annelids, arthropods, bird feathers, birds, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cancer theory, causation, Charles Marshall, chordates, clades, compound eyes, correlation, Günter Bechly, insects, mammals, mollusks, Neo-Darwinism, oxygen theory, Richard Dawkins, slime theory, Stephen Meyer, tetrapods, The Greatest Show on Earth, theistic evolution, University of Bristol}

Ignoring Other Research, New Study Explains (Away) the Origin of New Body Plans

_{Günter Bechly
September 12, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Recently, a team of British paleontologists added a new pseudo-explanation. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 13, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, atmosphere, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, genetic information, oxygen, oxygen theory, paleontology, Precambrian strata, Stephen Meyer, trilobites, University of Alberta}

Newly Identified Banded Iron Formation Puts Origins Theories on Horns of a Dilemma

_{Casey Luskin
July 13, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

4}

Many claim the Cambrian explosion was triggered by a sudden global increase in oxygen levels. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 25, 2018

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, animals, bacteria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cancer theory, comets, Darwinists, Denis Noble, evolution, Fred Hoyle, human origins, humans, intelligent design, monomers, nucleotides, octopuses, Oxford University, oxygen theory, panspermia, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Prometheus, slime theory, squid, viruses}

With New Theory of the Cambrian Explosion, Scientists Reach (Literally) for the Stars

_{Casey Luskin
May 25, 2018

Botany, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

6}

Darwinists will respond with the usual mirthless hyena laughter. But this is no joke. Read More ›

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Date
May 22, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Africa, Andrew Knoll, animals, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cell adhesion, cell cycle, Darwin's Doubt, Death Valley, evolution, gene regulation, genome, last common ancestor, metazoans, Nature Communications, oxygen theory, Planulozoa, Precambrian strata, signaling, slime theory, Stephen Meyer, UC Riverside}

What’s New in Cambrian Dodgeball?

_{Science & Culture
May 22, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Here are findings about Cambrian and Precambrian strata, and how evolutionists keep dodging the implications of rapid emergence of complex designs. Read More ›