protist Type post Author Günter Bechly Date November 17, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionPaleontology Tagged , Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, Darwin's Dilemma, Ernst Haeckel, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Lower Cambrian, Middle Triassic, Mongolia, Namibia, Precambrian, protists, Richard Dawkins, snowball Earth, The Greatest Show on Earth, Upper Triassic, zooplankton Fossil Friday: Protists Add to the Cambrian Explosion Günter Bechly November 17, 2023 Evolution, Paleontology 9 Not even the tiniest and most abundant organisms seem to confirm the gradualist predictions of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
A_Guantanamo_sponge_-a Type post Author Günter Bechly Date May 12, 2020 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , animals, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, China, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian theory, Donald Prothero, Ediacaran biota, embryos, fossil record, Jerry Coyne, Metazoa, metazoans, microfossils, Namibia, New York Times, Nick Matzke, Norway, paleontology, precambrian fossils, protists, Russia, snowball Earth, South Australia, spicules, sponges, Stephen Meyer, Trilobozoa, White Sea, Wikipedia The Myth of Precambrian Sponges Günter Bechly May 12, 2020 Evolution 54 Evolutionists would expect to find sponges as the earliest animals in the fossil record. Read More ›
vitalism Type post Date May 17, 2019 CategoriesEvolutionPhilosophy Tagged , __k-review, Ann Gauger, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, cobalt, Darwinists, Dickinsonia, evolution, Illustra Media, logic, materialists, math, nickel, Origin, Second Law of Thermodynamics, snowball Earth, vitalism, zinc Darwinism as Pantheism or Vitalism Science & Culture May 17, 2019 Evolution, Philosophy 7 That evolutionary scientists are materialists seems to be belied by the way some of them write. Read More ›
Snowball-Earth Type post Date May 24, 2018 CategoriesOrigin of LifePhysical Sciences Tagged , __k-review, astrophysics, biologists, Cambrian Explosion, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, evolutionary theory, Goldilocks Zone, habitability, intelligent design, macroevolution, planetary fine-tuning, PNAS, snowball Earth, University of Washington When Evolving Life, Don’t Forget the Astrophysics Science & Culture May 24, 2018 Origin of Life, Physical Sciences 7 What happens down here depends a lot on what’s going on up there. Read More ›
