Category: Paleontology | Page 14 | Science and Culture Today

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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, homology, hybridization, Illustra Media, insects, intelligent design, irreversibility, Lepidoptera, Metamorphosis, paleontology}

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

_{Günter Bechly
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, peer-reviewed journals, PZ Myers, Stephen Meyer, Switzerland, tentacles, thought police, vertebrae}

Fossil Friday: Triassic Kraken Hypothesis Provoked Scornful Darwinist Revenge

_{Günter Bechly
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, Philip Donoghue, Queen Mary University of London, Richard Buggs, sudden appearance, Twitter}

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

_{Günter Bechly
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, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, empirical data, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, molecular clock studies, paleontology, Precambrian strata, Stephen Meyer, transitional forms, Trends in Ecology and Evolution}

Fossil Friday: New Study Challenges the Artifact Hypothesis

_{Günter Bechly
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 ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, biological novelty, Cambrian Explosion, evolution, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, intelligent agents, intelligent design, naturalism, oxygen, oxygen theory, paleontology, podcast, science stopper, specified information}

Günter Bechly on Why Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom Was Wrong

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 17, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Is it a science stopper to propose mind as the source of these great infusions of biological information? Quite the opposite. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 13, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinian mechanisms, fish, flippers, fossil record, giraffes, humans, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, lizards, macromutations, mammals, marine reptiles, Mesozoic, mutations, neck, paleontology, population genetics, sloths, stem group, vertebrae, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: Rapid Elongation of Plesiosaur Necks Points to Intelligent Design

_{Günter Bechly
October 13, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The breaking of the conserved number of cervical vertebrae is hard to reconcile with an unguided evolutionary mechanism. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 6, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, adaptation, birds, China, empirical data, evolution, Flight, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ichthyosaur, mechanics, muscles, paleontology, storytelling, wings}

Fossil Friday: A Popular Just-So Story on the Origin of Bird Flight Bites the Dust

_{Günter Bechly
October 6, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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There is a long-running about whether birds first took off by running and flapping from the ground up, or whether they jumped as gliders from the tree down. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 29, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, birth, cannibalism, Darwinists, embryos, evolutionary biology, falsification, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, London, marine reptiles, Mesozoic, mothers, Natural History Museum, paleontology, pseudoscience, science denial, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart}

Fossil Friday: Ichthyosaur Birth, Another Evolutionist Just-So Story Falls Apart

_{Günter Bechly
September 29, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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This is not how good science is supposed to work but is rather typical for pseudoscience that shields itself against empirical falsification. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 22, 2023

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, ABC News, afterlife, Arizona State University, bioRxiv, brain, burial, Chris Stringer, documentary, eLife, evolution, fire, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, human origins, humans, intelligence, Lee Berger, Natural History Museum, Nature (journal), paleoanthropology, peer review, religion, skeletons, The Guardian, University of Western Australia}

Peer Review Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Used Fire, and Scrawled on Cave Wall

_{Casey Luskin
September 22, 2023

Cultural Anthropology, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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I could not find a single reviewer who accepted the claims of the papers. They were harshly critical of claims of intentional burial of the skeletons. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, bilaterian animals, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cnidaria, ctenophores, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, history of life, jellyfish, life cycle, Lower Cambrian, neo-Darwinian model, precambrian fossils, South China, sponges, tentacles, Utah}

Fossil Friday: Jellyfish Body Plan and Life Cycle Originated in the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
September 22, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Remarkably, these animals can be placed within the crown group of the living cnidarian clade Medusozoa, which is not exactly what Darwinists should expect. Read More ›