sponges Type post Author David Coppedge Date August 3, 2022 CategoriesIntelligent DesignScience Tagged , architecture, arthropods, astronauts, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian strata, collagen, Current Biology, DNA, epithelial tissue, European Union, intelligent design, Mars, self-organization, spicules, sponges, temperature, termite mounds, termites, vertebrates Complex Specified Information in the Lowly Sponge David Coppedge August 3, 2022 Intelligent Design, Science 8 Sponges are outliers in biology’s big bang, the Cambrian explosion. Their embryos appear in Precambrian strata, leading some to consider them primitive. Read More ›
Pearl Oysters Type post Date August 6, 2021 CategoriesIntelligent Design Tagged , amino acids, biomineralization, Charles Darwin, evolution, Germany, intelligent design, Japan, mother-of-pearl, nacre, Natural History Museum, oysters, pearls, PNAS, Scientific Reports, sea urchins, spicules By Design — How Pearls Get Their Luster Science and Culture August 6, 2021 Intelligent Design 7 The highly valued optical properties of pearls come from sophisticated processes of biomineralization involving proteins and crystals. Read More ›
Ventogyrus Type post Author Günter Bechly Date March 25, 2021 CategoriesEvolution 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 ›
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, 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 54 Evolutionists would expect to find sponges as the earliest animals in the fossil record. Read More ›
