Category: Paleontology | Page 12 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Avalon explosion, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Christian Bjerrum, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Ken Towe, oxygen, Precambrian, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer}

Fossil Friday: Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

_{Günter Bechly
September 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 25, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, Atlantic Ocean, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), monkeys, New World monkeys, Oligocene, Paleogene, Platyrrhini, Powerball, rafting monkeys, reptiles, seafaring, South America, storytelling}

Fossil Friday: Did Monkeys Raft Four Times Across the Atlantic?

_{Günter Bechly
August 25, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Time is not the hero of the plot when actual improbabilities and probabilistic resources are ignored or glossed over with fancy storytelling. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 18, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, bioRxiv, birds, breeding, computer scientists, dinosaurs, eggs, evolutionary biology, feathers, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, just-so stories, locomotion, Munich, paleontology, pareidolia, peer review, taphonomy, Upper Jurassic, wings}

Fossil Friday: Imagining Eggs in the Famous Archaeopteryx Fossils

_{Günter Bechly
August 18, 2023

Evolution, Geology, Paleontology

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Neither lack of evidence nor conflicting evidence stopped the author from drawing far-reaching conclusions. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 11, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, biodiversification, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, fossil record, Great Ordovician Biodiversification, paleontology, preservation, radiation, sampling bias, Stephen Meyer, trilobite, undersampling}

Fossil Friday: Did the Cambrian Explosion Really Happen?

_{Günter Bechly
August 11, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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The deniers of the well-established scientific consensus rest their argument on the recent publications of a few maverick paleontologists. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 9, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, BBC News, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, centipedes, China, common ancestry, Current Biology, cuticle, Darwin's Doubt, euarthropods, Hallucigenia, Javier Ortega-Hernández, Jean-Bernard Caron, Live Science, Middle Cambrian, Morocco, Nature (journal), nervous system, New Scientist, Precambrian strata, Science (journal), software, spiders, Stephen Meyer, University of Cambridge, velvet worms}

In Resolving Darwin’s Doubt, These Cambrian Fossils Are No Help

_{David Coppedge
August 9, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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This is hierarchical organization, none of which is seen in the Precambrian layers beneath. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Chordata, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, humans, lancelets, Maotianshan Shales, Metaspriggina, phyla, preservation, sampling bias, Science (journal), sea squirts, South China, tunicates, Utah, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: Fossil Tunicate Confirms Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
August 4, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Almost on a monthly basis new fossil evidence corroborates the abruptness of the Cambrian Explosion as a genuine "Big Bang" of life. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Canada, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, crustaceans, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Mark Twain, mollusks, On the Origin of Species, paleontology, protists, Stephen Meyer}

Fossil Friday: Eozoön, the Dawn Animal Fallen from Grace

_{Günter Bechly
July 21, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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In modern paleontology it is still a very common phenomenon that fossils are over-interpreted by the scientists and over-hyped in the media. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterian worms, Cambrian Explosion, Charnwood Forest, Cloudina, cloudinomorphs, cnidarians, Costatubus, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, digestive tract, Ediacaran Period, evolution, failed predictions, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, GUT, intelligent design, Precambrian animals, predictions, Saarina}

Fossil Friday: Cloudina Still Lacks the Guts to Be a Worm

_{Günter Bechly
July 14, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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We intelligent design proponents make one successful prediction after another, while Darwinism's track record of failed predictions grows ever longer. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 12, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bounded adaptation, Casey Luskin, CELS, Center for Science and Culture, Conference on Engineering and Living Systems, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, earth, Eric Anderson, fossil record, ID the Future, intelligent causation, intelligent design, paleomagnetism, paleontology, podcast, punctuated equilibrium, stasis, Stephen Meyer, Theistic Evolution (book), University of Johannesburg}

Why Intelligent Design Best Explains the Fossil Record Data

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 12, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The fossil record is consistent with the engineering-based theory of bounded adaptation Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, ancestors, archeology, cave art, Czech Republic, David Coppedge, Howard University, human origins, humans, intelligence, Neanderthals, Racism, ravens, sexism, UNESCO, University of Tübingen, whiteness}

Our Ancestors Are Evolving, Just to Keep Up!

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 10, 2023

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Negative biases about our forebears have long been part of science, education, and popular culture. Why? Read More ›