Tag: precambrian fossils

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 20, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Abderrazak El Albani, agglutinated protists, Eukaryota, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Francevillian Formation, Gabon, Gabonionta, Lake Michigan, Metazoa, morphology, Natural History Museum, nutrients, phosphates, precambrian fossils, protists, Vienna, word salad}

Fossil Friday: Update on the Dubious Nature of the Precambrian Gabonionta

_{Günter Bechly
September 20, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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What we definitely do not find here is any credible evidence for an evolutionary transition to genuine multicellular eukaryotes. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 15, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, antibodies, atheism, beta-lactamase, Big Bang, BioLogos, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, Cell (journal), Christians, COVID-19, Dan Tawfik, Darrel Falk, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, enzymes, evolution, Explore Evolution, fossil record, Graham Budd, Günter Bechly, information, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, peer-reviewed literature, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, precambrian fossils, protein evolution, Puck Mendelssohn, readers, Return of the God Hypothesis, rhetoric, RNA, RNA world, Scott Buchanan, Sören Jensen, Stephen Meyer, theism, Theistic Evolution (book), universal common ancestry, universe}

From a Theistic Evolutionist, Long-Ago Answered Critiques of Stephen Meyer’s Book

_{Casey Luskin
May 15, 2024

Cosmology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

18}

Scott Buchanan's review is now being recirculated because of the positive attention that Meyer has received from his recent Piers Morgan interview. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, Artificial Selection, Darwin Mythology, Darwin's bulldog, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian theory, debates, Dogs, history, Oxford, pigeons, precambrian fossils, Quarterly Review, Richard Owen, theology, Thomas Henry Huxley}

What Really Happened at the Huxley-Wilberforce Debate?

_{Robert Shedinger
February 26, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science

14}

The stereotype portraying Wilberforce as the pompous bishop rejecting Darwin on theological grounds is easily dispelled. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, bilaterian animals, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cnidaria, crown group, ctenophores, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, history of life, jellyfish, life cycle, Lower Cambrian, neo-Darwinian model, polyp, precambrian fossils, South China, sponges, tentacles, umbrella, Utah}

Fossil Friday: Jellyfish Body Plan and Life Cycle Originated in the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
September 22, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

3}

Remarkably, these animals can be placed within the crown group of the living cnidarian clade Medusozoa, which is not exactly what Darwinists should expect. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 21, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Andrew Knoll, animals, annelids, arthropods, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Charnia, Cnidaria, Darwin's Doubt, Douglas Erwin, echinoderms, Ediacaran biota, fact check, flatworms, James Valentine, Mistaken Point, On the Origin of Species, paleontology, photosynthesis, precambrian fossils, Science Alert, seafloor, Sean B. Carroll, Stephen Meyer, sunlight}

Fact Check: No, Two Teens Did NOT “Accidentally Solve” Darwin’s Dilemma

_{Casey Luskin
September 21, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Paleontology

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"It looked like a fern. But as a budding geologist, [UK teenager Tina] Negus knew these 600 million year old rocks were too old to host such a plant." 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

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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
Günter Bechly

Date
December 31, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, Big Bangs, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charnia, Cnidaria, comb jellies, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, explosions, fossil record, intelligent design, Kimberella, Lophotrochozoa, macro-organisms, metazoan animals, precambrian fossils, Richard Dawkins, saltations, stem mollusk, Yilingia spiciformis}

#2 Story of 2020: Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum

_{Günter Bechly
December 31, 2020

Evolution

25}

None of the Cambrian animal phyla is represented in the Ediacaran fossil record. Read More ›

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Date
December 15, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, Anomalocaris, artifact hypothesis, biofilms, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Chengjiang fossils, China, conservation, Croatia, Darwinism, Ediacaran Period, Ernst Haeckel, fossil record, Greenland, Live Science, microfossils, Molecular Biology and Evolution, mouse, multicellular organisms, Opabinia, precambrian fossils, Science (journal), Sebastian Willman, Stephen Meyer, The Scientist, Uppsala University, zebrafish}

First Animals? Fossils Won’t Fit Cambrian Evolution

_{Science and Culture
December 15, 2020

Evolution

7}

Evolutionists are still fighting over the first animals. Each new fossil creates new questions, but there is one constant: bluffing that Darwinism is true. Read More ›

Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 24, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animal phyla, Bilateria, bilaterians, biology teachers, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, creativity, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, Ediacaran Period, Günter Bechly, inventiveness, Kimberella, mollusk, precambrian fossils, professors, saltation, Stephen Meyer, students, Yilingia}

Bechly Series: No Ancestors for Cambrian Animals; Darwin’s Doubt Remains

_{David Klinghoffer
September 24, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

I urge you to review this important series. Humbly place it at the feet of your favorite Darwinist, atheist, or theistic evolutionist. Read More ›

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Date
September 22, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, annelids, Anomalocaris, arthropods, bristle worm, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Chengjiang fossils, Cryogenian Period, Darwinism, Darwinists, earthworms, Ediacaran organisms, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, Kimberella, microbes, Namapoikia rietoogensis, paleontologists, Porifera, precambrian fossils, sponges, stromatolites}

A Bridge Too Far? In Search of Precambrian Sponges

_{Science and Culture
September 22, 2020

Evolution

9}

The most celebrated Precambrian sponge may not be a sponge at all. Watch Darwinians try to coax it into spongehood. Read More ›