Tag: vertebrates

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
December 8, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, Alexander von Middendorff, amphibians, bacteria, birds, complexity, cryptochromes, Efthimis Gkoudinakis, electric current, electromagnetic induction, electrons, electroreceptor circuit, fish, Flavin Adenoside Dinucleotide, flavoproteins, gyroscope, Iannis Kominis, insects, intelligent design, iron oxide magnetite, magnetic compass, magnetic field, magnetite, magnetoreception, mammals, microTesla, microwave oven, Monarch butterflies, navigation, P. J. Hore, radical, radical pair theory, radical pairs, refrigerator magnet, reptiles, Science (journal), trout, University of Crete, vertebrates, zoology}

Three Animal Magnetic Compass Mechanisms, All by Design

_{Eric Cassell
December 8, 2025

Intelligent Design, Zoology

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It appears likely that different animals are designed to detect the geomagnetic field using different mechanisms. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, abstractions, animal intelligence, birds, brains, chickadees, cockatoos, common sense, crows, evolution, evolutionary biology, Germany, Giacomo Gattoni, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, logic, mammals, Maria Antonietta Tosches, Niklas Kempynck, Onur Güntürkün, ornithology, paleornithologists, problems, ravens, Ruhr University Bochum, Science (journal), vertebrates, Yasemin Saplakoglu}

High Bird Intelligence Is Consistent with Design, Not Evolution

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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A discussion of animal intelligence that refuses to acknowledge human exceptionalism becomes a script for suppressing discussions we need to have. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, antitrochanter, birds, dinosaur-bird hypothesis, dinosaurs, evidence for evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, Hesperornis gracilis, iliac, ischium, Jurassic Park, Karlsruhe, Late Cretaceous, marine birds, microraptorids, paleontology, paleornithologists, penguins, phylogenetics, Temporal Paradox, theropod dinosaurs, troodontids, University of North Carolina, vertebrates}

No. 5 Story of 2024: New Evidence Against Dino-Bird Ancestry

_{Günter Bechly
December 28, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

4}

Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
September 10, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Energy, insects, intelligent design, size, spiders, vertebrates}

Intelligent Design — In Miniature

_{Eric Hedin
September 10, 2024

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

5}

Small vertebrates may be a thousand times larger than single-cell organisms, but they occupy a region of parameter space that presents unique properties. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, birds, body plans, common ancestry, computers, David Coppedge, design framework, Emily Reeves, evolution, forelimb, genes, homologies, intelligent design, Mac OS, mammals, programming, software engineers, Stuart Burgess, vertebrate limbs, vertebrates}

Developmental Biology of Vertebrate Skeletons Shows Similarities are Better Explained by Design

_{Brian Miller
September 5, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Evolutionists assume that the traits they classify as homologous share similarities due to their having evolved from a common ancestor. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
May 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, amphibians, animal behavior, animals, ants, bats, brains, Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, crustaceans, fish, fruit flies, great apes, honeybees, invertebrates, Mary Olmstead, mollusks, Nature (journal), Occam's Razor, pain, philosophers, play, reptiles, scientists, Thomas Nagel, tortoises, Valerie Kuhlmeier, vertebrates, worms}

Being a Bat: Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness

_{Eric Cassell
May 2, 2024

Evolution, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

7}

A group of scientists and philosophers have published a declaration that there is evidence that a wide range of animals exhibit signs of consciousness. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, chronospecies, evolution, foraminiferans, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, marine invertebrates, marine protozoans, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, saltation, species, species-to-species transitions, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: Chronospecies, a Sinking Ship

_{Günter Bechly
February 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

9}

The concept of chronospecies in paleontology was introduced by George (1956) for the naming of successive species in a single evolving lineage. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, antitrochanter, birds, dinosaur-bird hypothesis, dinosaurs, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, Hesperornis gracilis, iliac, ischium, Jurassic Park, Karlsruhe, Late Cretaceous, marine birds, microraptorids, paleontology, paleornithologists, penguins, phylogenetics, Temporal Paradox, theropod dinosaurs, troodontids, University of North Carolina, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: New Evidence Against Dinosaur Ancestry of Birds

_{Günter Bechly
January 5, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

4}

Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
November 30, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, birds, cerebral cortex, cochlea, ear, eardrum, electrical signals, equilibrium, fish, foresight, hair cells, hearing, Howard Glicksman, incus, malleus, middle ear, natural selection, ossicles, outer ear, pinna, reptiles, sound waves, Steve Laufmann, tympanic membrane, vertebrates, vibrations, Your Designed Body}

The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering

_{Jonathan McLatchie
November 30, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

It strains credulity to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
November 28, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwinians, Donald R. Prothero, Ernst Haeckel, François Jacob, hagfish, humans, kidneys, mammals, museum, natural selection, vertebrates, vestigial structures}

Human Vestigial Organs: Some Contradictions in Darwinian Thinking

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
November 28, 2023

Evolution, Medicine

5}

Among these organs, the pronephros was taken as an outstanding illustration for the assertion that man is “a veritable walking museum of antiquities.” Read More ›