Tag: sponges

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Australia, bioRxiv, Bryozoa, bryozoans, Cambrian Explosion, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, evolution, evolutionary biologists, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, great Ordovician biodiversification event, green algae, Metazoa, ontogeny, paleontology, Porifera, sponges, Stephen Meyer}

Fossil Friday: Update on Cambrian Bryozoans

_{Günter Bechly
January 12, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

3}

The authors emphasize that “the origin of the bryozoans remains a mystery” but explicitly confirm the reality of the Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, bilaterian animals, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cnidaria, crown group, ctenophores, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, history of life, jellyfish, life cycle, Lower Cambrian, neo-Darwinian model, polyp, precambrian fossils, South China, sponges, tentacles, umbrella, Utah}

Fossil Friday: Jellyfish Body Plan and Life Cycle Originated in the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
September 22, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

3}

Remarkably, these animals can be placed within the crown group of the living cnidarian clade Medusozoa, which is not exactly what Darwinists should expect. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 5, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", abduction, adaptation, CELS, Charles Darwin, Columbia University, Current Biology, driver, equilibrium, Eric Anderson, gravity, Herbert Spencer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars, Mars rovers, molecular machines, New Zealand, orbits, planets, PNAS, Science Advances, Second Law of Thermodynamics, selective pressure, software, sponges, TEDx talk, University of Otago, University of Sydney, water}

What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

_{David Coppedge
September 5, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 26, 2023

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Chengjiang fossils, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, Doushantuo fossils, Ediacaran Period, evolution, fossil record, horseshoe crabs, intelligent design, Live Science, Marble Canyon, Morocco, National Science Foundation, Ordovician Period, PNAS, Porifera, Precambrian strata, Return of the God Hypothesis, sponges, Stephen Meyer, Vernanimalcula}

Evolutionists Spin the Cambrian Explosion — But Alas, All in Vain

_{David Coppedge
July 26, 2023

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Fossils are great; the more the better. Experience from spectacular discoveries assures us that no surprises will change Charles Darwin's own cause for doubt. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
January 5, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Zoology
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Cambrian Explosion, causal circularity, Center for Science and Culture, clams, coral, credentialism, doctorate, Drosophila melanogaster, evo-devo, evolution, genes, human origins, Illustra Media, intelligent design, invertebrates, jellyfish, Logan Gage, Nobel Prize, Nota Bene, PowerPoint, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Roman Catholic, sponges, Stephen Meyer, Unlocking the Mystery of Life, waiting-time problem, worms}

The Evolution of Dr. Ann Gauger

_{Stephen Dilley
January 5, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Zoology

8}

The year was 2004. Dr. Gauger’s scientific credentials had caught the eye of Stephen Meyer and he had invited her to come talk with him. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 31, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, asexual reproduction, budding, chromosome mosaicism, corals, egg, embryo, fetus, hermaphrodite, Homo fetus, Homo sapiens, human being, human development, human life, Jerry Coyne, mentation, microorganisms, morality, mother, murder, neonate, pain, person, pro-life, Roman Catholic, sperm, sponges, tissue, transient gestational hermaphroditism, womb, worms, zygote}

#2 Story of 2022: If a Fetus Isn’t a Human Being, What Is It?

_{Michael Egnor
December 31, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine

7}

How is it that a leading professor of biology could fundamentally misunderstand the biology of human development? Read More ›

Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 1, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, China, Cloudina, cnidarians, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, Dickinsonia, Doushantuo fossils, embryos, Eumetazoa, evolution, fossils, Gregory Retallack, homology, Ikaria, intelligent design, Internet, Kimberella, Metazoa, microfossils, Namacalathus, New York Times, Precambrian animals, Professor Dave, Spiralicellula, sponges, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, straw man, Tribrachidium, Vernanimalcula, White Sea assemblage, Yilingia, YouTubers}

“Lying on the Internet”? Debunking Dave Farina on Stephen Meyer

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

22}

A lot of nonsense gets published in peer-reviewed journals and it needs expertise to separate the wheat from the chaff. Farina lacks any expertise to do this. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 3, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
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 ›

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post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, body plans, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cnidarians, Cryogenian Period, Current Biology, Darwin's Doubt, emergence, heat, information problem, innovation, intelligence, Maximilian Telford, Metazoa, molecular clock, molecular data, molluscs, natural selection, oxygen, Philip Donoghue, phylum, Precambrian, sponges, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma}

Molecular Clocks Can’t Save Darwinists from the Cambrian Dilemma

_{David Coppedge
June 15, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

10}

To explain away the Cambrian explosion has been and remains a high priority for Darwinists. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 11, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, asexual reproduction, budding, chromosome mosaicism, corals, egg, embryo, fetus, hermaphrodite, Homo fetus, Homo sapiens, human being, human development, human life, Jerry Coyne, mentation, microorganisms, morality, mother, murder, neonate, pain, person, pro-life, Roman Catholic, sperm, sponges, tissue, transient gestational hermaphroditism, womb, worms, zygote}

If a Fetus Isn’t a Human Being, What Is It?

_{Michael Egnor
May 11, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine

7}

How is it that a leading professor of biology could fundamentally misunderstand the biology of human development? Read More ›