Tag: wings

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 20, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, China, Darwinian theory, evolution, fleas, forewings, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, holometabolan insects, insects, intelligent design, Middle Jurassic, mouthparts, parasites, pincers, pterosaurs, wings}

Fossil Friday: Nakridletia — The Rise and Fall (and Possible Resurrection) of a Fossil Insect Order

_{Günter Bechly
December 20, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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So, were strashilids a distinct order of parasitic insects or just aquatic flies? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, body plans, Carboniferous Insect Explosion, common descent, evolution, Flight, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ghost lineages, Holometabola, information, intelligent design, Metamorphosis, molecular clock studies, neo-Darwinian theory, Palaeodictyoptera, paleontology, winged insects, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Carboniferous Explosion of Winged Insects

_{Günter Bechly
August 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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This represents just one of the many discontinuities in the history of life that strongly contradict the predictions from a neo-Darwinian theory of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 23, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, appendages, bats, beetles, bioengineering, birds, butterflies, Caltech, dragonflies, Drosophila melanogaster, evolution, Flight, fruit flies, intelligent design, limbs, Michael Dickinson, Mona Lisa, Monarch butterflies, Nature (journal), neurons, smartphones, wasps, wings}

Fly Flight Is More Sophisticated than Imagined

_{David Coppedge
May 23, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Biological structures usually appear more complicated up close, and the fly wing is no exception. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 19, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antenna, compound eyes, development, entomology, evolution, eyes, Flight, fruit flies, gene expression, human mind, insects, intelligent design, lift, motor neurons, Nature Communications, Queen Mary University London, senses, thrust, wings}

Sophisticated Precision in Fruit Fly Sensory Systems

_{David Coppedge
February 19, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Pause before you swat. The sensory systems of fruit flies that let them discern their surroundings look as if they had been engineered. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
December 19, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, actuators, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, bristle worms, citations, critical thinking, dragonflies, Energy, engineers, flapping, flatworms, grasshoppers, innovation, intelligent design, lift, mantis shrimp, motion, sling-jaw wrasse, Stuart Burgess, wings}

Paper Digest: Ten Biomechanical Animal Joints Enable Extreme Performance

_{Emily Reeves
December 19, 2023

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Technology

7}

The amazing design structures in organisms provide engineers with inspiring templates for creating better products. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 6, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, adaptation, aerodynamics, birds, China, empirical data, evolution, flapping, Flight, forelimb, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ichthyosaur, Liaoning, mechanics, muscles, paleontology, storytelling, wings}

Fossil Friday: A Popular Just-So Story on the Origin of Bird Flight Bites the Dust

_{Günter Bechly
October 6, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

5}

There is a long-running about whether birds first took off by running and flapping from the ground up, or whether they jumped as gliders from the tree down. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 18, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, bioRxiv, birds, breeding, computer scientists, dinosaurs, eggs, evolutionary biology, feathers, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, just-so stories, locomotion, Munich, paleontology, pareidolia, peer review, taphonomy, Upper Jurassic, wings}

Fossil Friday: Imagining Eggs in the Famous Archaeopteryx Fossils

_{Günter Bechly
August 18, 2023

Evolution, Geology, Paleontology

5}

Neither lack of evidence nor conflicting evidence stopped the author from drawing far-reaching conclusions. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 19, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Central Asia, Crurotarsi, dinosaurs, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genetic code, intelligent design, legs, Mammaliaformes, Pappochelys, Peter Ward, Preondactylus, pterosaurs, search engines, Simon Conway Morris, teleology, tetrapods, turtles, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Flying Reptiles in the Mid Triassic

_{Günter Bechly
May 19, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Paleontology

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Personally, I am quite sympathetic to the dissenting view of my paleontologist colleague Simon Conway Morris. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
May 11, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, academia, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, antibiotics, beauty, body plans, butterfly wings, consciousness, creativity, creator, evolutionary processes, faith and science, foresight, free will, genetic code, God's Grandeur, goodness, human dignity, human origins, intelligent agents, intelligent design, intelligibility, materialistic science, molecular machines, monotheism, morality, natural law, podcasts, rationality, Roman Catholic, theism, transcendentals, truth, universe, wings}

God’s Grandeur: Some Resources to Explore

_{Ann Gauger
May 11, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Scientific Reasoning

2}

How many people are willing to give up morality, rationality, free will, truth, beauty, and goodness as valuable concepts based on reality? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 24, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, Carboniferous Period, Darwinism, dragonfly, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, insects, intelligent design, Palaeodictyoptera, paleontologists, Paleozoic, sensory hairs, wing venation, winged insects, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Winged Insects

_{Günter Bechly
March 24, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology, Science

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According to Darwinism, the evolution of such a system would have required a plethora of intermediate stages that brought this locomotory apparatus into being. Read More ›