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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, begging the question, Cambrian Explosion, common ancestry, Darwinists, evolutionary biology, falsification, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, just-so stories, materialists, phylogeny, pseudoscience, Stephen Meyer, trilobites}

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Complex Eyes in Trilobites

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April 21, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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The theory has been made immune to empirical falsification because it is simply assumed to be true by default as the only viable option for materialists. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, animal phyla, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Darwinian theory, Early Cretaceous, Eocene, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, Lepidoptera, Mesozoic}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Butterflies

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April 14, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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This phenomenon could rightfully be called a Tertiary Butterfly Explosion analogous to the Cambrian Explosion of animal phyla. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 31, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwin critics, Darwinists, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ichthyosaurs, marine reptiles, Permian period}

Fossil Friday: The Triassic Explosion of Marine Reptiles

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March 31, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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It is not like we Darwin critics make this stuff up. We just look at all the evidence and draw our conclusions. 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, paleontologists, Paleozoic, 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 ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 17, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, biodiversity, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, fossils, Germany, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, marine reptiles, Norway, population genetics, Sweden, theists, Uppsala University, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Ichthyosaurs

_{Günter Bechly
March 17, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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With increasing knowledge of the fossil record, the mainstream narrative is rendered more and more untenable and inconsistent with the empirical evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 10, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, birds, Brazil, dinosaurs, evolution, feathers, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genetic information, intelligent design, Lower Cretaceous, mutations, natural selection, random mutations, theropod, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: A Waiting Time Problem for Feathers

_{Günter Bechly
March 10, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Wherever you look in the history of life you stumble upon overwhelming evidence for design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 3, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Paleontology
Physics
Tagged
, Australia, Bavaria, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genus, Germany, hard science, magic wand, Natural History Museum, Neo-Darwinism, species, Stuttgart, Upper Jurassic}

Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Fossil Damselflies Challenges Darwinism

_{Günter Bechly
March 3, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Paleontology, Physics

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In the hard sciences such explanations that can explain everything and rule out no possible observations are usually considered empirically empty and worthless. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, antennae, Brazil, dragonfly, Early Cretaceous, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, larvae, legs}

Fossil Friday: A Strange Dragonfly Larva

_{Günter Bechly
February 24, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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In a monograph in 2007, I suggested that these larvae may not be genuine dragonflies of the suborder Anisoptera. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Brazil, dragonflies, Early Cretaceous, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Jurassic, paleontology, predators, Upper Jurassic}

Fossil Friday: Abrupt Appearance of a Distinct Dragonfly Group

_{Günter Bechly
February 17, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

1}

The fossil is almost complete, only the abdomen is missing and was likely bitten off by a predator. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, beavers, China, Cretaceous, Dan Graur, Darwinism, East Asia, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, mammals, mice, molecular clock studies, Mongolia, Nebraska, Paleocene, placental mammals, rabbits, rats, rodents, squirrels, stratigraphy}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Lagomorphs and Rodents

_{Günter Bechly
February 10, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Molecular biologist Dan Graur mentioned his weird idea that guinea pigs are not rodents at a lecture at my university in Tübingen when I was still a student. Read More ›