Category: Paleontology | Page 10 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 15, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bats, birds, common descent, convergence, evolution, homology, intelligent design, Jurassic, Karl Popper, nested hierarchy, phylogenetic position, synapomorphy, thought police}

Fossil Friday: Scansoriopterygidae, Bizarre Bird-Like Dinosaurs, Illustrate Darwinist Trickery

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December 15, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Common descent is assumed and the evidence interpreted accordingly, rather than common descent being deduced from the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 8, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Brazil, Burmese amber, Crato Formation, Darwinian evolution, dependency graph model, dragonflies, empirical data, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, insects, intelligent design, larvae, Natural History Museum, paleoentomology, Pegasus, phylogenetic systematics, phylogenetics, Stuttgart, stylets, Tübingen University, Willi Hennig, Winston Ewert}

Fossil Friday: Cretaceous Insect Chimera Illustrates a Design Principle

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December 8, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Why does this fossil insect specimen have implications for intelligent design? The reason lies in the striking convergences it exhibits. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Arachnida, arachnids, arthropods, Charles Darwin, chelicerates, common descent, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, dependency graph model, England, eurypterids, evolution, Evolution News, flagellum, Fossil Friday (series), Germany, horseshoe crabs, intelligent design, materialism, molecular clock studies, Parioscorpio venator, parsimony, phylogeny, predictions, respiratory organs, Richard Dawkins, scorpions, spider silk, spiders, spinnerets, tiktaalik, Tree of Life, whip scorpions, Winston Ewert, Wisconsin}

Fossil Friday: The Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny, and Why I’ve Become More Skeptical of Common Descent

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December 1, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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True skeptics should question everything, and not just everything apart from Darwinism and materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, body plans, Bryozoa, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, chordates, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, great Ordovician biodiversification event, green algae, invertebrates, Lower Cambrian, metazoans, microCT, molecular clock studies, moss animals, Nevada, Ohio, paleontology, South China, tentacles}

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go

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November 24, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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This is a field that often has more in common with the interpretation of inkblots in Rorschach tests than with hard science. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, coccolithophores, Darwin's Dilemma, dinoflagellates, Ernst Haeckel, foraminiferans, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Lower Cambrian, Middle Triassic, Mongolia, Namibia, Precambrian, protists, Richard Dawkins, snowball Earth, The Greatest Show on Earth, Upper Triassic, zooplankton}

Fossil Friday: Protists Add to the Cambrian Explosion

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November 17, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Not even the tiniest and most abundant organisms seem to confirm the gradualist predictions of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 15, 2023

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, burial, cave walls, chronology, erosion, fossils, geochemistry, hominins, Homo naledi, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, human origins, hype, IFL Science, intelligence, Journal of Human Evolution, Lee Berger, media, micromorphology, Netflix, paleoanthropologists, Rising Star Cave, South Africa, spectroscopy, taphonomy, tools}

Journal Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Made Rock Art, Used Fire

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November 15, 2023

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Researchers, led by Lee Berger, had claimed in a Netflix documentary that the species buried its dead, used fire, used tools, and made rock art. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Carboniferous Period, caterpillar, crustaceans, Darwinism, Dollo’s Law, evo-devo, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Holometabola, holometabolan insects, homology, hybridization, Illustra Media, insects, intelligent design, irreversibility, Lepidoptera, Maria Sybilla Merian, Metamorphosis, paleontology, prolegs, tree resin, Trichoptera}

Fossil Friday: How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs, or Not

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November 10, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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In spite of all the scientific efforts by Darwinists, the origin of complete metamorphosis in holometabolan insects remains an unsolved mystery. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 3, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, academic freedom, Amazon, beak, cephalopod, creationists, Darwin's Doubt, dissidents, Donald Prothero, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, Mark McMenamin, Mesozoic, Neo-Darwinism, paleontologist, peer-reviewed journals, PZ Myers, Stephen Meyer, suckers, Switzerland, tentacles, thought police, vertebrae}

Fossil Friday: Triassic Kraken Hypothesis Provoked Scornful Darwinist Revenge

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November 3, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Instead of a reasonable and fair scientific debate, McMenamin’s hypothesis has been ridiculed by other scientists and science journalists. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 27, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, angiosperms, Charles Darwin, Crato Formation, Darwinism, Evolution News, flowering plants, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, Lower Cretaceous, Nature Plants, Philip Donoghue, Queen Mary University of London, Richard Buggs, sudden appearance, Twitter, water lily}

Fossil Friday: New Study Confirms Discontinuities in the History of Plants

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October 27, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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I have elaborated on the sudden appearance of flowering plants in the Lower Cretaceous, which was called an “abominable mystery” by Charles Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, artifact hypothesis, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, cnidarian, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, Derek Briggs, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, empirical data, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, molecular clock studies, paleontology, Precambrian strata, sponge, Stephen Meyer, transitional forms, Trends in Ecology and Evolution}

Fossil Friday: New Study Challenges the Artifact Hypothesis

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October 20, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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It is time for Darwinists to stop their science denial and face the fact that empirical data consistently contradict core predictions of their theory. Read More ›