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stasis

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 6, 2022
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Cambrian explosion, Intelligent Design, stasis

Stasis: Mating behavior unchanged from Cambrian era

Denyse O'Leary
May 6, 2022
Cambrian explosion, Intelligent Design, stasis
Researcher: And it provides strong evidence to suggest that a Limulus, or horseshoe crab-like behavior, already existed in the Cambrian completely by convergence. So, it really helps us to get a sense of how these animals were actually living millions of years ago." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 31, 2022
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Cambrian explosion, Ediacaran, Intelligent Design, stasis
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Those awful comb jellies betray the Darwinians again: They were even more complex than feared, starting at maybe 635 million years ago

Denyse O'Leary
March 31, 2022
Cambrian explosion, Ediacaran, Intelligent Design, stasis
They’re said to have appeared between 634 and 604 million years ago (Peterson and Butterfield, 2005) and figure in the Cambrian Explosion. Darwinians have been trying to Cancel the Cambrian Explosion since practically forever but it keeps coming back into the fact base. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 23, 2022
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Genomics, Intelligent Design, stasis
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Researchers: Sand dollars and sea biscuits emerged earlier than thought

Denyse O'Leary
March 23, 2022
Genomics, Intelligent Design, stasis
They are using the “molecular clock” technique to determine that. One wonders if that technique is not too risky in the absence of a fossil record. But “earlier than thought” has been a good bet in principle. Not so good for the “long, slow process of evolution” stuff though. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 11, 2022
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, stasis
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The oldest cephalopods — much older than thought — had 10 working arms, not 8

Denyse O'Leary
March 11, 2022
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, stasis
Wouldn’t that mean that the cephalopods had an even more complex nervous system in the past? For that matter, why do we hear about so much stasis and so little about evolution? The evolution must be happening very fast, punctuated by long periods of stasis. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 8, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, stasis
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How Darwinians deal with the lack of evidence for gradualism

Denyse O'Leary
March 8, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, stasis
They pick an easy target like body size, for one thing. A supposedly slam dunk paper deals with body size in mammals. Trouble is, says Casey Luskin, it’s too easy a topic. Body size is — everyone agrees — easily malleable, compared to say, the development of vision. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 9, 2021
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Convergent evolution, Evolution, Intelligent Design, stasis
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Claim: Modern crocodiles are evolving rapidly

Denyse O'Leary
October 9, 2021
Convergent evolution, Evolution, Intelligent Design, stasis
Into what? Crocobirds? Smithsonian Magazine is anxious for us to know that they are NOT "living fossils." They have evolved a lot, we are told, though admittedly they are evolving around in a circle. It would be interesting to know why stasis became such a threatening concept in some quarters. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 16, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Plants, stasis

Stanford: Plants evolved complexity in two rapid bursts — 250 million years apart

Denyse O'Leary
September 16, 2021
Intelligent Design, Plants, stasis
Researcher: "The most surprising thing is this kind of stasis, this plateau in complexity after the initial evolution of seeds and then the total change that happened when flowering plants started diversifying," said lead study author Andrew Leslie, an assistant professor of geological sciences at Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences (Stanford Earth). "The reproductive structures look different in all these plants, but they all have about the same number of parts during that stasis." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 29, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, stasis
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Reptile’s skull changed little in 22 million years

Denyse O'Leary
August 29, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, stasis
At ScienceDaily: ""Basically, in anything except living fossils, you don't go 22 million years without evolving," said [Louis] Jacobs, professor emeritus of Earth Sciences at SMU and president of ISEM at SMU." (Well, first, if that’s true, maybe they were the “living fossils” of their day. Maybe it is not even that unusual. Any chance there is a pattern here that devotion to Darwinism prevents people from seeing?) Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 24, 2021
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience, stasis
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At Mind Matters News: Do brains really evolve? The horseshoe crab’s brain didn’t

Denyse O'Leary
August 24, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience, stasis
At Science News: "The preserved central nervous system lends insight into the ancient crab’s behavior, the researchers say. Because the fossil brain is so similar to the brains of modern horseshoe crabs, Bicknell says, it’s safe to say the ancient animal’s walking, breathing and even feeding habits were probably similar to horseshoe crabs’ today, including eating with their legs. " Read More ›