Tag: scales

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 5, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, architecture, armadillos, arthropods, beauty, beehive, biodiversity, biology, Biomimetics, butterfly wings, compound eyes, Darwinism, design, engineering, evolution, False Messiah, function, Gothic cathedrals, honeycomb, intelligent design, multifunctionality, Neil Thomas, phylogeny, reptiles, scales, sunflowers}

Tiled Beauty: Functional Aesthetics in Biology

_{David Coppedge
December 5, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Tessellated patterns are surprisingly prevalent in biology. Are these forms necessary for function, or mere consequences of natural laws? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 26, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, amniotes, biological novelty, birds, Encyclopedia Britannica, evolution, feathers, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Francis Collins, Germany, homology, intelligent design, Karl Giberson, ontogeny, paleontology, scales, Stuttgart Natural History Museum, The Language of Science and Faith, theropod, theropod dinosaurs}

Fossil Friday: A Dinosaur Feather and an Overhyped New Study on the Origin of Feathers

_{Günter Bechly
May 26, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Feathers, which are the most complex integumental structures known in the animal kingdom, without doubt required coordinated changes in numerous genes. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Marshall, creationists, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, feathers, homology, information, intelligent design, mammals, marine reptiles, PragerU, Professor Dave, proteins, Richard Buggs, Richard Lenski, Royal Society, scales, Stephen Meyer, Twitter, Wikipedia}

Educating “Professor Dave” on the Fossil Record and Genetics

_{Günter Bechly
December 8, 2022

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Farina says that if you want to make “creationists’ head explode” you just have to mention that reptile scales and bird feathers are made of the same keratin. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, antennae, Baltic amber, Darwinism, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, nested hierarchy, phylogenetics, scales}

Fossil Friday: New Kind of Silverfish Trapped in Sticky Resin

_{Günter Bechly
June 24, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

3}

These incongruent or homoplastic characters are a notorious problem for phylogenetics and contradict the evolutionary prediction of a nested hierarchy. Read More ›

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Date
October 17, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, birds, blind evolution, developmental biology, evolution, evolutionists, feathers, Flight, Francis Collins, ID the Future, Karl Giberson, podcast, scales, The Language of Science and Faith}

Listen: Scale-to-Feather Evolution Doesn’t Fly

_{Science and Culture
October 17, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

1}

Giberson and Collins point to the feather as a prime example of a novel feature arising via blind evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
August 23, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Africa, baby, bats, blood clotting, diarrhea, Doctor's Diary (series), egg, esophagus, hypoxia, Modernizing Darwin (series), oxygen, scales, Southeast Asia, sperm, teeth, uterus}

Doctor’s Diary: Porcupine Quills and Other Examples of Nature’s Foresight

_{Geoffrey Simmons
August 23, 2018

Intelligent Design

5}

A newborn porcupine passes through its mother’s birth canal without causing her any injuries. How? Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
May 24, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Aristotelianism, common ancestry, evolution, feathers, hair, scales, teeth}

New Paper from Gareth Fraser’s Group Confirms Common Ancestry?

_{Cornelius Hunter
May 24, 2017

Evolution, Life Sciences, Science

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Such fallacious reasoning is ubiquitous in evolutionary thought. It is everywhere. Read More ›