Category: Paleontology | Page 8 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 4, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, apes, Australopithecines, Down syndrome, evolutionists, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Homo floresiensis, Homo habilis, Indonesia, modern humans, morphology, paleontology}

Fossil Friday: Hobbits Thwart Darwinian Predictions Again

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October 4, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Evolutionists reliably tend to follow one foundational principle: “What must not be, cannot be!” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 27, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinism, England, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, neo-Darwinian evolution, paleontology, pseudoscience, Triassic period}

Fossil Friday: When Paleontologists Let Turtles Fly

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September 27, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Do such misidentifications and interpretational problems show that Darwinism is false and intelligent design is true? Of course not. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 20, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Gabon, Metazoa, morphology, Natural History Museum, nutrients, precambrian fossils, protists, Vienna, word salad}

Fossil Friday: Update on the Dubious Nature of the Precambrian Gabonionta

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September 20, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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What we definitely do not find here is any credible evidence for an evolutionary transition to genuine multicellular eukaryotes. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, Archaeopteryx, birds, China, dinosaurs, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, paleontology, University of Southampton}

Fossil Friday: More Evidence That “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds

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September 13, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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It definitely looks like the common dino-to-bird narrative has been massively oversold to the public. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 6, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Paleontology
Tagged
, arachnids, compound eyes, convergence, Darwin critics, empirical evidence, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, gigantism, intelligent design, paleontology, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, speculation, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: Sea Scorpions Defy Darwinian Expectations

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September 6, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Paleontology

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Wait, what? That's it? Mere speculation based on the fact that they found nothing! Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, dinosaurs, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Nevada, Peter Ward, Texas, Triassic period}

Fossil Friday: The Sudden Appearance of Crocs in the Triassic Fossil Record

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August 30, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The Triassic period proves to be a real carpet bombing of bursts of biological creativity. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, astrology, birds, Charles Darwin, dinosaurs, Fossil Friday (series), hybridization, Jerry Coyne, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins}

Fossil Friday: The Mystery of the Frankenstein Dinosaur

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August 23, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Different studies based on different data do not converge on one true tree of life. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 16, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, antibiotics, burial, cave art, compassion, Darwin critics, Darwinian evolution, Down syndrome, fire, gene pool, genetic admixture, Homo sapiens, humankind, jewelry, music, Neanderthals, Science (journal), Spain}

Fossil Friday: Human Nature of Neanderthals Supported Again

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August 16, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Extended caregiving for a strongly disabled child is a highly non-Darwinian behavior that indeeds suggests compassion on a level only found in humans. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, body plans, common descent, evolution, Flight, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ghost lineages, information, intelligent design, Metamorphosis, molecular clock studies, neo-Darwinian theory, paleontology, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Carboniferous Explosion of Winged Insects

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August 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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This represents just one of the many discontinuities in the history of life that strongly contradict the predictions from a neo-Darwinian theory of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, anagenesis, Canada, Darwinian gradualism, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Montana, natural selection, speciation, Tyrannosaurus rex}

Fossil Friday: Controversial Gradualism in Tyrannosaurids

_{Günter Bechly
August 2, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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History will tell who is right in this scientific controversy, but personally I am more convinced by the evidence against anagenesis. Read More ›