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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 23, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bret Weinstein, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Darwinists, David Gelernter, evolutionary biology, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, jesus, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, The Selfish Gene, Yale University}

No. 10 Story of 2024: Evolutionary Biologist Concedes Intelligent Design Is Cutting Edge

_{David Klinghoffer
December 23, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying are well-known evolutionary biologists (and husband and wife) with a podcast. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 18, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, Big Bangs, Cambrian Explosion, Cambridge, creativity, Darwinian evolution, David Berlinski, Ediacaran biota, England, explosions, flowering plants, fossil record, Gerd Müller, gradualism, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, jumps, Neo-Darwinism, predictions, revolutions, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, saltations}

“Doesn’t the Fossil Record Prove Darwinian Theory?”

_{David Klinghoffer
December 18, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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You’ve heard that challenge a million times. But as paleontologist Günter Bechly explains, the opposite is true. Read More ›

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Author
Martin Hilbert

Date
December 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Baltic amber, Cambrian Explosion, cladistics, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Ludwig van Beethoven, On the Origin of Species, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Meyer, Tree of Life, University of Cambridge, University of Oklahoma}

Life’s History and the “Ode to Joy”

_{Fr. Martin Hilbert, C.O.
December 2, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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The history of life can perhaps be likened to a collection of different musical themes. In Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the four beginning notes are the theme. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, China, evolution, eyes, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, intelligent design, Karl Popper, microbes, paleontologists, preservation, South Australia, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

Fossil Friday: New Research on How Delicate Soft-Bodied Organisms Can Be Perfectly Preserved

_{Günter Bechly
November 15, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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All the just-so-stories of macroevolution are completely dispensable in real (experimental) biology. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 25, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Chengjiang biota, convergence, Early Cambrian, echinoderms, Michael Denton, Paleozoic}

Fossil Friday: An Extinct Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
October 25, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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One of the strongest arguments in favor of Darwinian evolution gets more and more dismantled, which totally vindicates the critique by Michael Denton. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 18, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animal phyla, asexual reproduction, Cambrian Explosion, Early Cambrian, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, great Ordovician biodiversification event, microfossils, protists, single-celled organisms, sudden appearance, Sweden, transitional fossils}

Fossil Friday: Chitinozoa — Enigmatic Microfossils from the Paleozoic Era

_{Günter Bechly
October 18, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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We may now add the mysterious Chitinozoa to this ever-growing list of products of the burst of biological creativity in the Early Cambrian. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 11, 2024

Categories
Genetics
Paleontology
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, biodiversity, biologists, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Charnia, Ediacaran biota, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genetic information, intelligent design, interpretation, magical thinking, paleontologists, Precambrian, radiations, radiometric dating, Science Advances, University of Edinburgh}

Fossil Friday: The Avalon Explosion and the Power of Maybe

_{Günter Bechly
October 11, 2024

Genetics, Paleontology

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While evolutionary biology has no explanation even according to the authors themselves, intelligent design theory does. 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

_{Günter Bechly
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
July 26, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, atmosphere, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Ediacaran, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Hallucigenia, Nature Geoscience, oxygen, oxygenation}

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Explosion Bingo Continues

_{Günter Bechly
July 26, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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What if scientists were to discover next month that there was no oxygenation in the Cambrian but the exact opposite? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, arthropods, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Fossil Friday (series), Hallucigenia, holotype, lancelets, Royal Ontario Museum, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould}

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Fossils Turned Upside Down Yet Again

_{Günter Bechly
July 12, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Most of these reconstructions are based on very weak evidence and are highly speculative. Read More ›