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Plants

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 17, 2020
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Ediacaran, Evolution, Genomics, Intelligent Design, Plants
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Key points in plant evolution featured “fundamental genomic novelties”

Denyse O'Leary
January 17, 2020
Ediacaran, Evolution, Genomics, Intelligent Design, Plants
Researchers: "This approach reveals an unprecedented level of fundamental genomic novelties in two nodes related to the origin of land plants: the first in the origin of streptophytes during the Ediacaran and another in the ancestor of land plants in the Ordovician." Stuck for what to call this, some of us would call it creationism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 23, 2019
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, Plants, stasis
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Fossil forest update: “Pretty sophisticated” for nearly 400 million years ago

Denyse O'Leary
December 23, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Plants, stasis
Researcher: "Based on what we know from the body fossil evidence of Archaeopteris prior to this, and now from the rooting evidence that we've added at Cairo, these plants are very modern compared to other Devonian plants. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 22, 2019
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, Plants, stasis
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Did the mega dinosaurs grow so big on a “living fossil” grass?

Denyse O'Leary
October 22, 2019
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Plants, stasis
Equisetum, considered a “living fossil” is the only surviving member of a large family of spore-bearing vascular plants found as early as 150 mya. It's still here. The giant sauropods not so much. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 20, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Plants
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Asked seriously: What if plants are smarter than we think?

Denyse O'Leary
October 20, 2019
Intelligent Design, Plants
The question is not whether plants are “as smart as SMART animals” (no) but whether many plants can use information to the same degree as many animals can (yes). It would make more sense to see that the reason they can is that nature is full of intelligence (not personal intelligences). And that the intelligence clearly did not get there by Darwinian means, as the above example illustrates. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 13, 2019
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Animal minds, Mind, Plants
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Scientists: For the last time, plants are NOT conscious!!

Denyse O'Leary
August 13, 2019
Animal minds, Mind, Plants
We know something’s changed when scientists need to make these points. Maybe underestimating the significance of human intelligence plays a role. After all, if we are just clever apes, maybe lettuce is just-as-clever apes too. Maybe salad is murder... Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 10, 2019
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Cell biology, Ecology, Intelligent Design, Plants
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Who knew bacteria could trap light without chlorophyll?

Denyse O'Leary
August 10, 2019
Cell biology, Ecology, Intelligent Design, Plants
We are “trained,” if you like, to expect certain discoveries (dark matter, for example). Then we learn something significant that really surprises us and allows for new thinking about, for example, ecology. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 26, 2019
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Plants, stasis
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Researchers: Photosynthesis may be a billion years older than thought … But WAIT!

Denyse O'Leary
July 26, 2019
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Plants, stasis
“Dr Cardona also suggests that this might mean oxygenic photosynthesis was not the product of a billion years of evolution from anoxygenic photosynthesis, but could have been a trait that evolved much sooner, if not first.” So when did the billions of years of Darwinian evolution that “gradually evolved” photosynthesis happen? Read More ›