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Showing posts with label Insects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Insects. Show all posts
Monday, 21 April 2025

Unintelligent Design - Stupidly Doing The Same Thing In Two Different Ways

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A green stick insect ( Timema cristinae ) blends in on a California lilac, Ceanothus spinosus . Photo Credit: Aaron Comeault...
Sunday, 20 April 2025

Creationism Refuted - Isolated Evolution of a Curious Butterfly

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The Curiously Isolated Hairstreak, Satyrium curiosolus. A freshly eclosed S. curiosolus on silvery lupine ( L...
Thursday, 6 February 2025

Unintelligent Design - An Arms Betwen The Sexes!

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Females position their legs to make their bodies look more attractive to a male Male flies' better vision ca...
Monday, 27 January 2025

Refuting Creationism - How Leaf Beetles Got New Genes

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The leaf beetle Spilopyra sumptuosa lives in the rainforests of eastern Australia. Its spectacular, colourful appearance is an e...
Monday, 9 December 2024

Refuting Creationism - Another Gap Closed - No God Found

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A mating pair of wild-type (left) and mir-193 mutant (right) Bicyclus anynana butterflies. Photo credit: Shen TIAN ...
Friday, 4 October 2024

Refuting Creationism - How Ants Were Cultivating Crops 66 Million Years Before 'Creation Week'.

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A lower-fungus-farming worker of the rare fungus-farming ant species Mycetophylax asper , collected in Santa Catarina, Brazil, in...
Tuesday, 20 August 2024

Malevolent Designer News - How A Spider Manipulates Captured Firefles To Become Lures To Catch More Fireflies.

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Araneus ventricosus with captured firefly, Abscondita terminalis Photograph by Xinhua Fu Abscondita terminalis C...
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Saturday, 4 May 2024

Creationism in Crisis - More Lousy News For Creationists - Human Evolution Mapped In The Genome Of Head Lice Symbiotic Bacteria

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Human head louse, Pediculus humanus capitis Gilles San Martin via Wikimedia ( CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Phylogenetic trees for...
Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Unintelligent Designer - How Creationism's Idiot Designer Competes With Itself To Overcome The Problems It Designs

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Ornate Bella moth, Utetheisa ornatrix . Photo: Andrei Sourakov. Ornate Bella moth, Utetheisa ornatrix Phot...
Monday, 11 March 2024

Malevolent Design - How a Bacterium Carries a Virus That Selectively Kills Male Insects And Only Allows Infected Females To Breed

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How does a virus hijack insect sperm to control disease vectors and pests? | Penn State University Wolbachia are a genus of bac...
Friday, 8 March 2024

Creationism in Crisis - Like Humans, Bumblebees Learn Through Social Interaction And May Have Cumulative Culture

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Bumblebees teaching each other to solve a complex puzzle Buff-tailed Bumblebee, Bombus terrestris Source: Wikiped...
Monday, 26 February 2024

Unintelligent Design - How The Same Function Evolved Twice - Once in Vertebrates And Again in Insects

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Sunset over University of California - Irvine Diagram of an insect compound eye. Credit: Bugboy52.40 via Wikipedi...
Friday, 23 February 2024

Creationism in Crisis - 250 Million Years of Butterfly And Moth Evolution

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Butterfly and moth genomes mostly unchanged despite 250 million years of evolution It'll no doubt come as a surprise to thos...
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Wednesday, 2 August 2023

Creationism in Crisis - The Evolution of Batesian Mimicry in a New Zealand Stonefly

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Similar ‘warning’ colouration of the non-toxic mimic Zelandoperla fenestrata stonefly (left), and cya...
Monday, 6 February 2023

The Humble Earwig - Not a Pest But a Kind And Caring Insect

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The Humble Earwig Not a Pest But A Kind and Caring Insect Forficula auricularia Credit: Pudding4brains / Wikipedia Earwigs are the hero si...