Tag: South Australia

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 18, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beginning, Big Bang, Brian Miller, cosmology, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, Joe Rogan, Lawrence Krauss, materialistic philosophy, physicists, physics, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science Uprising, South Australia, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, universe}

Why the “Universe from Nothing” Model Points to Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 18, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Did our universe come from nothing, as some physicists have proposed? This episode is built around a suggestion I recently received from a listener. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Doolittle Walcott, China, Emu Bay Shale, evolution, eyes, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, intelligent design, Karl Popper, microbes, paleontologists, preservation, South Australia, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

Fossil Friday: New Research on How Delicate Soft-Bodied Organisms Can Be Perfectly Preserved

_{Günter Bechly
November 15, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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All the just-so-stories of macroevolution are completely dispensable in real (experimental) biology. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, dickinsoniids, Ediacaran biota, Epibaion, flatworms, Fossil Friday (series), jello, microbial mats, muscles, nervous system, Precambrian, protists, South Australia, trace fossils, Tribrachidium}

Fossil Friday: An Ediacaran Animal with a Question Mark

_{Günter Bechly
November 8, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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To claim that such undefinable blobs in sandstone represent fossils of the oldest motile animals is massively overselling the evidence to say the least. Read More ›

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post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 7, 2023

Categories
Geology
Paleontology
Tagged
, circular reasoning, creationism, creationists, dating, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran Period, evolution, falsified theories, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Gregory Retallack, hype, India, interpretation, paleomagnetography, paleontology, peer-reviewed literature, Precambrian, radiometric dating, rocks, South Australia, stratigraphy, University of Florida, University of Oregon, zircon}

Fossil Friday: Alleged Precambrian Fossil Unmasked as Rotten Beehive

_{Günter Bechly
July 7, 2023

Geology, Paleontology

6}

The scientists revisited the site and discovered that the assumed Ediacaran fossils are neither of Ediacaran age nor represent fossils at all. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 25, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Seilacher, Australia, cnidarians, ctenophorans, Ediacaran organisms, Ediacaran Period, Mark McMenamin, morphology, Precambrian House of Cards Series, publish or perish, Rugoconites enigmaticus, South Australia, spicules, symmetry, Trilobozoa, trilobozoans}

Examining Potential Other Trilobozoans

_{Günter Bechly
March 25, 2021

Evolution

4}

Last but not least, there is this gem: In 1986 strange mushroom-shaped deep-sea animals were collected offshore South Australia. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 22, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, begging the question, Dickinsonia, DNA, Ediacaran animals, Ediacarans, Evolution News, genomes, humans, Ikaria, Kimberella, logical fallacy, Mary Droser, Precambrian House of Cards Series, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Russia, South Australia, Tribrachidium, White Sea assemblage}

A Precambrian House of Cards

_{Günter Bechly
March 22, 2021

Evolution

3}

Wow, that's cool, they not only found the elusive Ediacaran animals but even could unravel their genomes!? Read More ›

Kimberella quadrata with associated scratch marks

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 14, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Seilacher, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, feeding apparatus, grazing, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Kimberichnus, Kimberichnus teruzzii, locomotion, microbial mats, Russia, South Australia, teeth, trace fossils, Tübingen University, White Sea}

Kimberella — Controversial Scratch Marks

_{Günter Bechly
September 14, 2020

Evolution

5}

A former teacher of mine was the late Adolf Seilacher, who was a leading authority on trace fossils and who for obvious reasons preferred to be called "Dolf." Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 12, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, Namapoikia rietoogensis, Namibia, Neoproterozoic, New York Times, Newfoundland, Nick Matzke, Norway, paleontology, precambrian fossils, protists, Rugoconites enigmaticus, Russia, snowball Earth, South Australia, spicules, sponges, Stephen Meyer, Trilobozoa, Triradialomorpha, White Sea, Wikipedia}

The Myth of Precambrian Sponges

_{Günter Bechly
May 12, 2020

Evolution

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Evolutionists would expect to find sponges as the earliest animals in the fossil record. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 26, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, annelids, arthropods, bilaterian animals, burrowing, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, cnidarians, Deuterostomia, Ediacaran animals, Germany, Helminthoidichnites, microbial mats, Nephrozoa, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Protostomia, Scyphozoa, South Australia, UC Riverside, University of California, Yilingia spiciformis}

Ancestor of All Animals in 555-Million-Year-Old Ediacaran Sediments?

_{Günter Bechly
March 26, 2020

Evolution

10}

Ikaria wariootia is just another problematic Ediacaran fossil that could be anything from inorganic artifact to protozoan to cnidarian and yes, maybe a bilaterian worm. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 27, 2018

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, anus, bacteria, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cnidarians, ctenophores, Darwinian evolution, decomposition, Dickinsonia, dickinsoniids, Ediacaran biota, Epibaion, Facebook, fossils, fungi, glide symmetry, GUT, Ilya Bobrovskiy, Jochen Brocks, Mary Droser, Metazoa, morphology, mouth, paleontology, placozoans, protists, South Australia, sponges, Stanford University, University of California, Vendobionta}

#6 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Dickinsonia Probably Not an Ediacaran Animal

_{Günter Bechly
December 27, 2018

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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So, do high levels of cholesterol biomarkers really suggest an animal affinity of Dickinsonia? Read More ›