Tag: Venus flytrap

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 2, 2024

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __recommended, catapult, Current Biology, dandelion seeds, DNA, evolution, fungi, intelligent design, Live Science, mushrooms, Nicholas P. Money, spores, Venus flytrap}

Plant Missile Technology: A Peek in the Armory

_{David Coppedge
December 2, 2024

Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

5}

Ballistic missiles are common in plants and fungi. Take a look at how they launch their payloads. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Environment & Climate
Fine-tuning
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, autotrophs, complexity, dignity, evolution, house plants, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, light, mainstream media, New York Times, peas, personhood, Swiss Constitution, The Atlantic, Venus flytrap, wildflowers, Zoë Schlanger}

Again with the “Plants Are Intelligent” Nonsense

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 9, 2024

Bioethics, Botany, Environment & Climate, Fine-tuning, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

5}

We all know that plants respond to stimuli, such as flowers opening with the sun or growing toward light. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 16, 2023

Categories
Biology
Botany
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, bioelectricity, C. elegans, codes, communication, cows, Current Biology, Darwinism, Dionaea muscipula, Duke University, human body, information, Linköping University, Michael Faraday, microbes, Phys.org, rabbits, Science Advances, Sweden, ticks, Velcro, Venus flytrap}

Bioelectricity Gives Biologists a Jolt

_{David Coppedge
August 16, 2023

Biology, Botany, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

We’ve explored bioelectricity in cells. We’ve looked at it within the human body. Now, electrical engineering is being found in the realms between. Read More ›

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post

Date
February 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Brazil, carnivorous plants, convergent evolution, evolution, evolutionary pathway, Foresight (book), ID the Future, insects, intelligent design, Marcos Eberlin, natural selection, podcast, Venus flytrap}

Venus Flytrap Takes a Bite Out of Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
February 18, 2023

Biology, Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The evolutionary mechanism of natural selection selects for current function, not potential future function. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 30, 2022

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, anesthesia, chimpanzees, cognition, consciousness, dolphins, intelligence, invertebrates, Paco Calvo, panpsychism, ResearchGate, spiders, Venus flytrap}

Researcher Says Plants May Be Conscious, Too

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 30, 2022

Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

Paco Calvo has authored many papers in respected journals; his view is another instance of panpsychism overtaking materialism in science. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algebra, ants, brains, counting, fish, honeybees, humans, infants, interpretation, neurons, neuroscience, Silke Goebel, Venus flytrap}

Claim: Honeybees, “Like Humans,” Can Tell Odd Vs. Even Numbers

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 17, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

Ants, fruit flies, and even plants can also calculate but it does not follow that they are conscious of what they are doing. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 15, 2022

Categories
Biology
Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, anesthesia, Claude Bernard, consciousness, fungi, gene expression, glutamate, heliotropism, miRNAs, nervous system, Rainer Hedrich, RNA, Venus flytrap, worms}

How Plants Talk When We’re Not Around

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 15, 2022

Biology, Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

5}

One genuine surprise in recent decades has been the discovery that plants have nervous systems like animals. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 13, 2020

Categories
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Aldovanda, aquatic bladderwort, carnivorous plants, Dionaea, foresight, Genlisea, Granville Sewell, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, John Innes Centre, Marcos Eberlin, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, mousetrap, Utricularia, Venus flytrap, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Lesson from a Carnivorous Plant

_{David Klinghoffer
March 13, 2020

Life Sciences

4}

The aquatic bladderwort lacks the charm of a rose, a lily, cherry blossoms, or many other plants you can think of, but it has something else to recommend it. Read More ›

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post

Date
August 31, 2019

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, carnivorous plants, evolutionary theory, foresight, genera, ID the Future, intelligent design, podcast, Venus flytrap}

Venus Flytrap Takes a Bite Out of Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
August 31, 2019

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design

2}

The Venus flytrap, like all carnivorous plants, had no use for its insect-trapping function unless it also had an insect-digesting function. And vice versa. Read More ›

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Author
Marcos Eberlin

Date
July 12, 2019

Categories
Botany
Chemistry
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, animal kingdom, bacteria, BBC, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, devolution, digestive system, Dionaea muscipula, evolution, evolutionary pathway, foresight, homology, homoplasy, insects, Marcos Eberlin, natural selection, Nepenthes, Nobel Prize, prey, Rainer Hedrich, United States, Venus flytrap}

The Lovable Venus Flytrap: A Design Analysis

_{Marcos Eberlin
July 12, 2019

Botany, Chemistry, Engineering, Intelligent Design

7}

A correspondent sends along this remarkable nature video from the BBC and asks a good question. Read More ›