morphology – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

22Nov 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: New Fossil Stem Bird Is Surprisingly Modern

Archaeopteryx, birds, brain, Brazil, crown birds, CT scanning, Enantiornithes, Euornithes, Evolution, Fossil Friday (series), modern birds, morphology, Nature (journal), Navaornis hestiae, paleontology, primitive birds, Reuters, SciNews, stem birds

Why do we mostly hear only one side of the story in the media? I suppose we must be protected from dangerous questions that could come up. Source

14Nov 2024 by Post

Design, Engineering, Specified Complexity: Appreciating the Fruit Fly Brain

brains, C. elegans, coherence, Complexity, cortex, crystals, Drosphila melanogaster, efficiency, flight control, fruit flies, Intelligent Design, mating courtship, morphology, mouse, navigation, neural network, neurons, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, optimization, pheromones, Research, snowflake, specified complexity, subnetworks, swarming

Groundbreaking new research has documented the complexity and design of the brains of fruit flies. Source

03May 2023 by Post

Farewell to My Teacher, Gerhard Mickoleit

Arnold Staniczek, biologists, cladistics, East Prussia, Eberhard Frey, entomologists, entomology, Evolution, Frank Torsten Krell, Gerhard Mickoleit, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, Martin S. Fischer, mecopteran insects, morphology, naturalists, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, phylogenetics, polymath, Protestantism, Rainer Schoch, Ralf Britz, Rolf Beutel, Stuttgart Natural History Museum, systematics, University of Tübingen, vertebrate phylogeny, Willi Hennig

He had rather secretly always been a devout Protestant Christian and he too had some doubts about the causal adequacy and sufficiency of neo-Darwinism. Source

20Jul 2022 by Post

This Cambrian Explosion “Explanation” Qualifies as Propaganda

arthropods, brain, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, crap theory, Current Biology, Debating Darwin's Doubt, Derek E. G. Briggs, Ediacaran Period, evo-devo, Evolution, fecal material, fossil record, Intelligent Design, Izvestia, Kimberella, morphology, nervous system, newspapers, oxygen level, Palaeophragmodictya, phyla, Pravda, stem taxa, Stephen Meyer, USSR

It’s interesting to see what Derek E. G. Briggs is willing to admit about the Cambrian explosion. Source

15Dec 2021 by Post

Evolution and That Shrimp on Your Plate

Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Evolution, evolutionary change, fossil record, genetic diversity, giant tiger prawn, grocery store, Jurassic, morphology, National Geographic, paleontology, Permo-Triassic, Richard Sternberg, shrimp, supermarket

Explosions of new life forms followed by stasis are emphatically not what evolution expects to find, but it is what paleontologists do find. Source

19Nov 2020 by Post

On the “Sisyphean Evolution of Darwin’s Finches”

ALX1, American Museum of Natural History, Bailey McKay, Bell Museum, Biological Reviews, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Finches, Evolution, finch beaks, Frank Sulloway, Galápagos Finches series, Galápagos Islands, Geospiza fortis, haplotypes, Jonathan Wells, Katma Award, Michael Behe, morphology, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Robert Zink, Sisyphus, University of Minnesota

Scientific data are followed by the myth: “Finch beak morphology observed on the Galápagos Islands was used by Darwin to formulate his theory of evolution.” Source

15Sep 2020 by Post

Kimberella — Traces and a Trace-maker

Ediacaran fossils, Ediacaran organisms, Evolution, feeding apparatus, fossils, gastropods, grazing, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Kimberichnus, microbial mats, Mikhail Fedonkin, Milan, molluscan radula, morphology, pellets, proboscis, pyrite crystals, scratch marks, trace fossils, tubercles, White Sea

The body fossils are generally positioned at the focal points of the fan-shaped scratch marks. Source

Category: morphology