Category: Paleontology | Page 18 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 11, 2022

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Biomimetics, Brazil, Crato Formation, evolution, forewings, Fossil Friday (series), holotype, intelligent design, Lower Cretaceous, origami, Permian period, Stuttgart Natural History Museum, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Complex Wing Folding of Earwigs

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November 11, 2022

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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This highly complex mode of wing folding is one of the many examples of engineering marvels in insects that strongly suggest intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 4, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Desmostylia, dugongs, elephants, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, hippos, homologies, hyraxes, mammals, Miocene, Natural History Museum, Neo-Darwinism, phylogenetics, sirenians, synapomorphies, Tethytheria}

Fossil Friday: Desmostylia, and the Problem of Horizontal Tooth Displacement

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November 4, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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Nature appears to be deceptive. Are Darwinists bothered by such problems? Not at all. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 1, 2022

Categories
Arts
Cultural Anthropology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Technology
Tagged
, Australopithecines, burial, creativity, culture, Donald Johanson, footprints, fossil record, Fossils and Human Evolution (series), habilines, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, human origins, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, Oxford University Press, paintings, paleoanthropologists, paleontology, Siegrid Hartwig-Scherer, total energy expenditure, Washington University}

Human Origins: All in the Family

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November 1, 2022

Arts, Cultural Anthropology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology, Technology

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If a Neanderthal walked down the street, appropriately dressed, you probably wouldn’t notice. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 28, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Crato Formation, fish, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, holotype, Late Triassic, Lower Cretaceous, Preondactylus, pterosaur, Scleromochlus, Upper Triassic}

Fossil Friday: Ludodactylus and the Origin of Pterosaurs

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October 28, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Outside of Darwinian fantasy land, we lack any transitional fossils to document an assumed gradual evolutionary development of characteristic pterosaur wings. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 27, 2022

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Australopithecines, Australopithecus sediba, Bernard Wood, burial, Carol Ward, chronology, CNN, Daily Mail, Daniel Lieberman, fossil record, Fossils and Human Evolution (series), George Washington University, hominins, Homo erectus, Homo naledi, human origins, humans, Ian Tattersall, Mark Collard, morphology, mosaic, Sigrid Hartwig-Scherer, South Africa, University of Missouri}

The Human Fossil Record Lacks Intermediaries

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October 27, 2022

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The news media might be heavily biased toward evolution, but at least it is predictable. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 26, 2022

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Ardipithecus, Associated Press, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, Australopithecus anamensis, balance, Bernard Wood, bipedalism, fossil record, Fossils and Human Evolution (series), human evolution, human origins, humans, inner ear canals, Leslie Aiello, Lucy, lumpers, National Geographic, paleontology, splitters, teeth}

Australopithecines and Retroactive Confessions of Ignorance

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October 26, 2022

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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If a few teeth of intermediate size and shape make “the most complete chain of human evolution,” then the evidence for human evolution must be quite modest. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 25, 2022

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Ardipithecus ramidus, Bernard Wood, bipedalism, fossil record, Fossils and Human Evolution (series), hominins, human origins, Kenya, Nature (journal), New York Times, paleoanthropologists, pelvis, Rosetta Stone, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Science (journal), Smithsonian Institution, textbooks, Tim White, UC Berkeley, University of Tübingen}

The Standard Story of Human Evolution: A Critical Look

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October 25, 2022

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Whatever Ardi was, everyone agrees the fossils was initially badly crushed and needed extensive reconstruction. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 21, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Paleontology
Tagged
, angiosperms, Aphrodite, Brazil, Charles Darwin, Crato limestone, Cretaceous, Dilcherifructus mexicana, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, gymnosperms, ID the Future, Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous, Mario Coiro, Middle Jurassic, paleobotany, Richard Buggs, Twitter}

Fossil Friday: Flowering Plants — Darwin’s Abominable Mystery

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October 21, 2022

Evolution, Life Sciences, Paleontology

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Flowering plants or angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Lower Cretaceous (about 130 million years ago). Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 14, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Afrotheria, anteaters, armadillos, biogeography, convergence, Darwinists, Fossil Friday (series), Laurasiatheria, mammals, paleontologists, sloths, Xenarthra, zoologists}

Fossil Friday: Eurotamandua — Anteater or Not Even Close?

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October 14, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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Darwinists have to appeal to the ad hoc hypothesis of convergent adaptation to similar lifestyles, which of course increases their problem. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 7, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Paleontology
Tagged
, Christianity, conversion, evidence, faith, Gospels, Günter Bechly, Holy Spirit, intelligent design, miracles, Neo-Darwinism, Old Testament, paleontologists, religious tradition, Salvo Magazine, Science, theism}

Günter Bechly’s Journey to Faith

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October 7, 2022

Faith & Science, Paleontology

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I can identify with the last paragraph, in the context of my own different religious tradition, with certain other difference as well. Read More ›