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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Walcott, China, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, Donald Prothero, Ediacaran era, Evolution News, fossilization, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Kimberella, Metazoa, Mongolia, Namacalathus, paleontologists, Ross P. Anderson, Royal Society, Stephen Meyer, taphonomy, trilobites}

The Demise of the Artifact Hypothesis

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July 6, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwinists have to face the fact that a core prediction of their theory miserably failed an important empirical test. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 12, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, animals, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, China, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian theory, Donald Prothero, Ediacaran biota, embryos, fossil record, Jerry Coyne, Metazoa, metazoans, microfossils, Namapoikia rietoogensis, Namibia, Neoproterozoic, New York Times, Newfoundland, Nick Matzke, Norway, paleontology, precambrian fossils, protists, Rugoconites enigmaticus, Russia, snowball Earth, South Australia, spicules, sponges, Stephen Meyer, Trilobozoa, Triradialomorpha, White Sea, Wikipedia}

The Myth of Precambrian Sponges

_{Günter Bechly
May 12, 2020

Evolution

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Evolutionists would expect to find sponges as the earliest animals in the fossil record. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 26, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, annelids, arthropods, bilaterian animals, burrowing, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, cnidarians, Deuterostomia, Ediacaran animals, Germany, Helminthoidichnites, microbial mats, Nephrozoa, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Protostomia, Scyphozoa, South Australia, UC Riverside, University of California, Yilingia spiciformis}

Ancestor of All Animals in 555-Million-Year-Old Ediacaran Sediments?

_{Günter Bechly
March 26, 2020

Evolution

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Ikaria wariootia is just another problematic Ediacaran fossil that could be anything from inorganic artifact to protozoan to cnidarian and yes, maybe a bilaterian worm. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 21, 2020

Categories
Evolution
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, __edited, Bioscience, CNN, evolution, exoskeleton, fossils, horseshoe crabs, Nature Scientific Reports, Ohio, Ohio State University, paleontology, Parioscorpio venator, poison, publish or perish, Science (journal), scorpions, Smithsonian Magazine, Uncommon Descent, Wall Street Journal, Wisconsin}

The Oldest Scorpion and the Decadence of Evolutionary Science

_{Günter Bechly
January 21, 2020

Evolution

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What do we learn from this case? In today’s science world it is no longer sufficient to objectively describe some nicely preserved ancient fossils. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, bilaterian animals, bilaterian worms, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian Small Shelly Fauna, Chengjiang biota, China, Cloudina, cloudinids, cloudinomorphs, cnidarian, Conotubus, Costatubus, Darwinian evolution, Dickinsonia, digestive tract, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Period, Ediacaran Small Shelly Fauna, Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary, Germany, GUT, James D. Schiffbauer, Nature Communications, Nevada, polyp, Saarina, skeleton, University of Missouri, Wood Canyon Formation}

Did Cloudinids Have the Guts to Be Worms?

_{Günter Bechly
January 17, 2020

Evolution

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I promised last year to follow up on more alleged Ediacaran animals. Now is a good moment to come back to this, with a new study having just been published in the journal Nature Communications. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 29, 2019

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, Afar region, Australopithecines, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus anamensis, Charles Darwin, Darwinian gradualism, Daspletosaurus, David Gelernter, Ethiopia, Galápagos Islands, Germany, Homo (genus), Little Foot, Lucy, Modern evolutionary synthesis, mount improbable, National Geographic, Natural History Museum, Neo-Darwinism, Niles Eldredge, paleontology, Paranthropus, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, Sabine Hossenfelder, stasis, Stephen Jay Gould, stickleback fish, Stuttgart, vertebrate}

#4 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Apeman Waves Goodbye to Darwinian Gradualism

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December 29, 2019

Human Origins and Anthropology

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A few days ago a sensational new paleontological discovery made headlines around the globe. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 24, 2019

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Ann Gauger, Austria, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, causal circularity, Douglas Axe, ethology, fossil record, German, Günter Bechly, Homo (genus), Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, intelligent design, Martin Nowak, Michael Chaberek, Michael Denton, neo-Darwinian model, Ola Hössjer, proteins, Siegfried Scherer, Sigrid Hartwig-Scherer, Stephen Meyer, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, waiting-time problem, Zentrum für BioKomplexität & NaturTeleologie}

Watch: Videos Now Available from the Recent ID Conference In Austria

_{Günter Bechly
October 24, 2019

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Several prominent members of the ID movement presented talks at the conference, including Stephen Meyer, Ann Gauger, Michael Denton, and Brian Miller. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 6, 2019

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, Afar region, Australopithecines, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus anamensis, Charles Darwin, Darwinian gradualism, Daspletosaurus, David Gelernter, Ethiopia, Galápagos Islands, Germany, Homo (genus), Little Foot, Lucy, Modern evolutionary synthesis, mount improbable, National Geographic, Natural History Museum, Neo-Darwinism, Niles Eldredge, paleontology, Paranthropus, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, Sabine Hossenfelder, stasis, Stephen Jay Gould, stickleback fish, Stuttgart, vertebrates}

Apeman Waves Goodbye to Darwinian Gradualism

_{Günter Bechly
September 6, 2019

Human Origins and Anthropology

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A few days ago a sensational new paleontological discovery made headlines around the globe. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 8, 2019

Categories
Evolution
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, __edited, arthropods, biologists, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin critics, dinosaurs, evolutionary biology, fish, Gerhard Mickoleit, gigantism, intelligent design, Late Cretaceous, Late Jurassic, lungfish, lungs, Morocco, paleobiology, paleontologists, sauropods, swim bladder, tiktaalik, Tübingen University, Wikipedia}

PBS Eons Teaches Nonsense about Evolution

_{Günter Bechly
August 8, 2019

Evolution

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Where do you think your curious kids will look for answers to their questions about the world — in the local bookstore or online? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 4, 2019

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, Center for Biocomplexity and Teleology in Nature, conference, cosmic fine-tuning, creationism, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, evolutionary biology, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, materialism, nature, neo-Darwinian mechanism, quantum mechanics, Siegfried Scherer, symposium, teleology, Zentrum für BioKomplexität & NaturTeleologie}

Why a New Center on Teleology in Nature?

_{Günter Bechly
June 4, 2019

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physics

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Clearly a naturalistic bias is at work here and imposes a limit on the spectrum of alternative explanations that is even considered to be permissible. Read More ›