Tag: placental mammals

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, ancestral species, Avalon explosion, bacteria, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, common ancestry, genes, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, mammals, paleontologists, placental mammals, podcast, protein folds, Sarah Chaffee, Stephen Meyer, Triassic explosion}

Günter Bechly on Life’s Sudden Information Explosions

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 19, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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“There’s no reasonable way,” Bechly concludes, “to get from bacteria to mammals via evolutionary processes.” Read More ›

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Date
July 13, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, common descent, common design, dexterity, Eric Anderson, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, marsupials, pentadactyl design, placental mammals, vestigial structures, whale flipper, whale pelvic bones, whales}

Pentadactyl Whale Flipper Is an Engineering Masterstroke

_{Science and Culture
July 13, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Does the five-digit design of the whale flipper, akin to the five-digit design of so many different kinds of animal limbs, point to evolutionary common descent? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, beavers, China, Cretaceous, Dan Graur, Darwinism, Early Paleocene, East Asia, Euarchontoglires, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, guinea pigs, mammals, mice, molecular clock studies, Mongolia, Nebraska, Oligocene, Paleocene, PaleoDB, placental mammals, rabbits, rats, rodents, squirrels, stratigraphy}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Lagomorphs and Rodents

_{Günter Bechly
February 10, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

60}

Molecular biologist Dan Graur mentioned his weird idea that guinea pigs are not rodents at a lecture at my university in Tübingen when I was still a student. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 23, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, aardvarks, Africa, ants, Darwinists, Egypt, Fayum, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, fossils, Kenya, living fossils, mammals, Miocene, paleontology, placental mammals, Pleistocene, termites, Tubulidentata, Uganda}

Fossil Friday: Miocene Aardvarks and the Abrupt Origin of Tubulidentata

_{Günter Bechly
December 23, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

10}

So much about the congruence of anatomical and genetic similarity predicted by Darwin’s theory. 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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Date
April 25, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, evolution, flowering plants, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, intelligent design, placental mammals, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, Stephen Meyer, Theistic Evolution (book), Triassic explosion, universal common ancestry}

Bechly: “Life’s Second ‘Big Bang'”

_{Science and Culture
April 25, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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He touches on other biological explosions, including the Avalon explosion, the Triassic explosion, and the origin of flowering plants. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
May 15, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Amazon, amniotes, blood-clotting system, carnivory, causal circularity, cervix, DNA, evolution, foresight, homology, homoplasy, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, mammals, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Behe, Niles Eldredge, On the Origin of Species, paleontologists, placental mammals, proteins, Puck Mendelssohn, punctuated equilibria, punk eek, RNA, Royal Society, Stephen Jay Gould}

An Unintended Endorsement of Marcos Eberlin’s New Book, Foresight

_{Jonathan Wells
May 15, 2019

Intelligent Design

10}

Some reviews that try to make a book look bad are so ill-informed and malicious that they actually make a good book look better. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 10, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, academic freedom, automobiles, cars, education, evolution, Ford Model T, Granville Sewell, Louisiana, Louisiana Science Education Act, natural selection, placental mammals, retaliation, students, teachers}

Here, Evidently, Is How They Teach Evolution at Louisiana State University

_{David Klinghoffer
July 10, 2018

Evolution, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

4}

This has got to be one of the dopiest, most simple-minded presentations of the subject that I’ve seen. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
June 26, 2018

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Australia, climbing, gestation, horse, Jonathan Wells, jumping, koala, Live Science, marsupials, Nathan Lents, opossum, ostrich, Perfect Human Body, placental mammals, pouch, running, swimming, wombat}

Just Try Evolving That!

_{Ann Gauger
June 26, 2018

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

I’d like to point out a few things to Dr. Alice Roberts. None of this is evolutionarily possible. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
June 26, 2018

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, “backwards retina”, biologists, birth, blood vessels, brain, Darwinism, evolution, fetus, humans, marsupials, octopuses, ostrich, Perfect Human Body, placental mammals, prosthetics, retina, Richard Dawkins, vertebrates}

The Perfect Human Body?

_{Jonathan Wells
June 26, 2018

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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For English anatomist Alice Roberts, however, the human body is a “hodge-podge” of parts assembled in an “untidy” fashion “with no foresight” by evolution. Read More ›