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Author
David Swift

Date
March 30, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, biologists, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, common ancestry, common descent, complexity, embryo, embryonic development, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary processes, evolutionists, fish, gastrulation, homology, mammals, mutations, natural selection, PZ Myers, reptiles, vertebrates}

Will Evolutionists Ever Take Falsification Seriously? A Response to P. Z. Myers

_{David Swift
March 30, 2023

Evolution, Life Sciences

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Can there be a better example of trying to argue that whatever the evidence, evolution is the answer? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 9, 2023

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, beavers, carnivores, Darwinism, ecosystem, elephants, engineers, evolution, herbivores, humans, intelligent design, lions, mammals, Stanford University, stewardship, trunks, vertebrates}

Beyond Evolutionary Fitness, Mammals Are Ecosystem Engineers

_{David Coppedge
February 9, 2023

Ecology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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When animals give back more than they take, does that fit the model of selfishness that Darwinism promotes? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 27, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Illustra Media, intelligent design, jaws, Living Waters, Miocene, paleontology, Pliocene, sea floor, sediments, sharks, South Carolina, teeth, vertebrates, whales}

#6 Story of 2022: Megalodon and Intelligent Design in Sharks

_{Günter Bechly
December 27, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Megalodon was a specialized apex predator and fed mainly on large baleen whales. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 9, 2022

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, apes, brain, crows, cuttlefish, Dogs, dolphins, elephants, intelligence, MicroRNAs, nervous system, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, octopuses, Oregon, RNA, squid, vertebrates, whales}

MicroRNAs: A New Clue About Octopus Intelligence?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 9, 2022

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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While octopus brains are very different from vertebrate brains, they share with vertebrates, a huge number of microRNAs. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 16, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, chordates, Darwinism, Devonian Period, echinoderms, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, Henry Gee, homology, Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), paleontology, Paleozoic, tunicates, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: Rhenocystis and the Controversial Calcichordate Hypothesis

_{Günter Bechly
September 16, 2022

Anatomy, Paleontology, Science

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It looks a bit like a tadpole with body and tail, and this indeed points towards one of the great scientific controversies of the 20th century. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 7, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Amazonia, biosphere, Cambrian Explosion, carbon, chlorophyll, Goldilocks Zone, Hunga-Tonga volcano, intelligent design, Michael Denton, Nature (journal), Nature Scientific Reports, nitrogen, oxygen theory, Paleozoic, phosphorus, phytoplankton, prior fitness, supply chain, vertebrates, volcanoes}

Is There Enough Phosphorus for Us?

_{David Coppedge
September 7, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The element phosphorus, on which life heavily depends for its codes and metabolic processes, is a limiting factor for complex beings on habitable planets. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 26, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Illustra Media, intelligent design, jaws, Living Waters, Miocene, paleontology, Pliocene, sea floor, sediments, sharks, South Carolina, teeth, vertebrates, whales}

Fossil Friday: Megalodon and Intelligent Design in Sharks

_{Günter Bechly
August 26, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

6}

Megalodon was a specialized apex predator and fed mainly on large baleen whales. 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, collagen, Current Biology, DNA, 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

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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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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 14, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Australia, birds, brain, Canada, cephalopods, consciousness, crickets, Dogs, evolution, intelligence, Japan, London School of Economics, mammals, memory, New Zealand, octopuses, spinal cord, vertebrates}

If Octopuses Are So Smart, Should We Eat Them?

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 14, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We have tended to assume that intelligence rose with the development of a spinal cord and brain (vertebrates), and warmbloodedness (mammals and birds). Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 1, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, bees, crabs, crustaceans, cuttlefish, emotion, entomologists, Eric Cassell, insects, intelligent design, invertebrates, lobsters, neuroscience, octopuses, predators, snails, squid, University of Minnesota, vertebrates}

Do Invertebrates Have Feelings?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 1, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Just as vertebrates differ greatly in intelligence and sentience, invertebrates may differ greatly too. Read More ›