Tag: scorpions

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 27, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bananas, biofluorescence, bioluminescence, corals, Darwinism, Design Inference, flowers, fluorescence, honeybees, intelligent design, jellyfish, parrots, photonic crystals, PNAS, pollinators, radiation, scorpions, structural color, terrestrial animals, tetrapods}

Fluorescent Animals: Can They Be Darwinized?

_{David Coppedge
June 27, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Many animals and plants exhibit fluorescence, changing color in ultraviolet light. Whether this property is adaptive has never been thoroughly investigated. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Arachnida, arachnids, arthropods, Charles Darwin, chelicerates, common descent, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, dependency graph model, England, eurypterids, evolution, Evolution News, flagellum, Fossil Friday (series), Germany, horseshoe crabs, intelligent design, materialism, molecular clock studies, Parioscorpio venator, parsimony, phylogeny, predictions, respiratory organs, Richard Dawkins, scorpions, spider silk, spiders, spinnerets, tiktaalik, Tree of Life, whip scorpions, Winston Ewert, Wisconsin}

Fossil Friday: The Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny, and Why I’ve Become More Skeptical of Common Descent

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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True skeptics should question everything, and not just everything apart from Darwinism and materialism. Read More ›

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Date
June 8, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American Chemical Society, arachnids, Australia, cancer, dragline silk, horseshoe crabs, Jurgen Otto, mites, Nature Communications, scorpions, spiders, ticks, toxins, University of Melbourne, University of Queensland, venom}

Make Like a Scorpion, and Other Arachnid Designs

_{Evolution News
June 8, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Long shunned for their bites and toxins, arachnids are gaining respect for biomimetic inspiration. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 22, 2020

Categories
Biology
Ethics
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, abortion, corruption, culture, Discovery Institute, evolution, fetal pain, fossils, Günter Bechly, homology, ideology, Jeffrey Epstein, Journal of Medical Ethics, Long Story Short, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, newborns, premature babies, scientists, scorpions, unborn}

Scientific “Decadence” and the Myth of Objectivity

_{David Klinghoffer
January 22, 2020

Biology, Ethics, Evolution, Medicine

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Scientists aren’t like “everyone else”: because of the prestige they enjoy, the impact of their being “uncritical of things that [they] want to believe” is tremendous. It can be quite corrosive, quite malign. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 21, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Bioscience, CNN, evolution, exoskeleton, fossils, horseshoe crabs, Nature Scientific Reports, Ohio, Ohio State University, paleontology, Parioscorpio venator, poison, publish or perish, Science (journal), scorpions, Smithsonian Magazine, Uncommon Descent, Wall Street Journal, Wisconsin}

The Oldest Scorpion and the Decadence of Evolutionary Science

_{Günter Bechly
January 21, 2020

Evolution

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What do we learn from this case? In today’s science world it is no longer sufficient to objectively describe some nicely preserved ancient fossils. Read More ›