Tag: Archaeopteryx

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 22, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, birds, brain, Brazil, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), modern birds, morphology, Nature (journal), Reuters}

Fossil Friday: New Fossil Stem Bird Is Surprisingly Modern

_{Günter Bechly
November 22, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Why do we mostly hear only one side of the story in the media? I suppose we must be protected from dangerous questions that could come up. 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, Liaoning, paleontology, University of Southampton}

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

_{Günter Bechly
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
May 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, Australopithecus, biologic institute, computer simulation, coordinated mutations, Daniel Stern Cardinale, Discovery Institute, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Fossil Friday (series), generations, gradualism, Indohyus, John Sanford, limits of evolution, macroevolution, Michael Behe, Michael Shermer, Neo-Darwinism, neutral evolution, objections, Ola Hössjer, paleontology, population genetics, radiometric dating, recombination, Richard Dawkins, saltationism, species pair challenge, species pairs, The Edge of Evolution, tiktaalik, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: Three Modern Scientific Challenges to the Causal Adequacy of Darwinian Explanations

_{Günter Bechly
May 17, 2024

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Paleontology

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As a consequence of the collapsing tree problem, I suggest abandoning evolutionary classifications and return to a pre-Darwinian Linnaean classification. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, Archaeopteryx, Bavaria, birds, Darwinian evolution, Darwinists, dinosaurs, evolution, Evolution News, Flight, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, Jurassic period, Microraptor, Occam's Razor, paleontology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: New Study Confirms “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds

_{Günter Bechly
April 5, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Darwinists may have to say goodbye to some cherished assumed transitional forms and the evolutionary just-so stories built upon them. 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

5}

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
March 24, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, Carboniferous Period, Darwinism, dragonfly, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, insects, intelligent design, Palaeodictyoptera, paleontologists, Paleozoic, sensory hairs, wing venation, winged insects, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Winged Insects

_{Günter Bechly
March 24, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology, Science

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According to Darwinism, the evolution of such a system would have required a plethora of intermediate stages that brought this locomotory apparatus into being. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anchiornis, Archaeopteryx, Aurornis, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Marshall, creationists, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, dino-fuzz, Early Triassic, feathers, homology, information, intelligent design, keratin, Luis Chiappe, mammals, marine reptiles, Mario Coiro, PragerU, Professor Dave, proteins, Richard Buggs, Richard Lenski, Royal Society, scales, Stephen Meyer, Twitter, Wikipedia, Xiaotingia}

Educating “Professor Dave” on the Fossil Record and Genetics

_{Günter Bechly
December 8, 2022

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Farina says that if you want to make “creationists’ head explode” you just have to mention that reptile scales and bird feathers are made of the same keratin. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 19, 2022

Categories
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Anchiornis, Archaeopteryx, Aurornis, birds, China, common descent, Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs, Dromaeosauridae, England, Fossil Friday (series), Germany, intelligent design, Jurassic, Late Jurassic, Luis Chiappe, Madagascar, Middle Jurassic, missing links, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, phylogenetic analysis, Portugal, Scotland, Temporal Paradox, The Guardian, Tree of Life, Upper Jurassic, Utah, Xiaotingia}

Fossil Friday: The Temporal Paradox of Early Birds

_{Günter Bechly
August 19, 2022

Paleontology, Science

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Wherever you look in the fossil record you stumble upon problems for the Darwinian story and evidence that is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 9, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, Archaeopteryx, Bavaria, body plans, Darwinian theory, evolution, fossil record, Germany, gradual development, intelligent design, Late Triassic, museums, nests, predictions, pterosaurs, sea floor, transitional fossils}

Rare Fossil Preserves a Moment of Deadly Battle — And Recalls a Problem for Darwin

_{Günter Bechly
June 9, 2022

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Pterosaurs appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Late Triassic, which agrees with the predictions of intelligent design theory. Read More ›

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Date
March 3, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, Cambrian Explosion, Casey Luskin, Darwinian theory, evolution, explosions, fake fossils, fossil record, Günter Bechly, history of life, ID the Future, morphology, paleontologists, podcast, sudden appearance, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, transitional forms, Tree of Life}

Debunked Transitional Fossils Are the Tip of the Iceberg

_{Science and Culture
March 3, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Darwinian evolution predicts a gradually branching tree of living forms, with one form shading into another over long periods of evolution. Read More ›