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chimera
Photo: Neuropteran larva from Burmese amber, Haug et al. 2019 fig. 1, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Cretaceous Insect Chimera Illustrates a Design Principle

Why does this fossil insect specimen have implications for intelligent design? The reason lies in the striking convergences it exhibits. Read More ›
water lily
Photo: Fossil water lily, Lower Cretaceous of Brazil, by G. Bechly.

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

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 ›
Earwig
Photo: Cratoborellia gorbi, paratype MSF Z10, G. Bechly 2006.

Fossil Friday: The Complex Wing Folding of Earwigs

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 ›
Pterosaur
Photo: Ludodactylus sibbicki, by G. Bechly 2008.

Fossil Friday: Ludodactylus and the Origin of Pterosaurs

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

Fossil Friday: A Fossil Butterfly Lookalike

An intelligent design paradigm can easily accommodate convergences as a natural consequence of a designer reusing the same ideas in different constructions. Read More ›
Cicada
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: Unknown Cicada from the Cretaceous

Only the infusion of new information from outside the system can explain these bursts of biological creativity. Read More ›
Croc's smile
Photo: Susisuchus anatoceps, by Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: A Croc Smile from the Cretaceous

Ubiquitous discontinuities contradict the gradualist predictions of Darwin’s theory and thus should count as empirical falsifications of that theory. Read More ›
coelacanth
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: A Dead “Living Fossil”

Coelacanths are considered to be "living fossils," which do not sit well with Darwinian assumptions. Read More ›
Whip Spider
Photo: Whip spider, by Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: Whip Spider from the Lower Cretaceous

These fossiliferous limestones are about 115 million years old. In spite of this age the animal is not primitive in any way. Read More ›

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