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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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Jonathan Witt

Topic

Fossil Friday (series)

Eosinopteryx
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Günter Bechly
Date
September 13, 2024
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Evolution
Paleontology
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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 ›
Eurypterus_remipes_001
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Günter Bechly
Date
September 6, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Sea Scorpions Defy Darwinian Expectations

Günter Bechly
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 ›
fossil_croc
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Günter Bechly
Date
August 30, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: The Sudden Appearance of Crocs in the Triassic Fossil Record

Günter Bechly
August 30, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
4
The Triassic period proves to be a real carpet bombing of bursts of biological creativity. Read More ›
Chilesaurus_diegosarezi
Photo: Chilesaurus diegosarezi, by ケラトプスユウタ, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
Date
August 23, 2024
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: The Mystery of the Frankenstein Dinosaur

Günter Bechly
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 ›
Fouquea_superba_holotype_MNHN_direct_lighting
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Günter Bechly
Date
August 9, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: The Carboniferous Explosion of Winged Insects

Günter Bechly
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 ›
Tyrannosaurid_FMNH_PR308
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Günter Bechly
Date
August 2, 2024
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Controversial Gradualism in Tyrannosaurids

Günter Bechly
August 2, 2024
Evolution, Paleontology
6
History will tell who is right in this scientific controversy, but personally I am more convinced by the evidence against anagenesis. Read More ›
USNM_PAL_83935_Hallucigenia_sparsa_Image_1
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
July 26, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Cambrian Explosion Bingo Continues

Günter Bechly
July 26, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Paleontology
5
What if scientists were to discover next month that there was no oxygenation in the Cambrian but the exact opposite? Read More ›
Crâne_de_smilodon_exposé_au_Museu_de_Zoologia_da_Universidade_de_São_Paulo,_Brazil
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
July 19, 2024
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Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times

Günter Bechly
July 19, 2024
Intelligent Design, Paleontology
4
No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them. Read More ›
NMNH-USNMPAL57628Pikaia2
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Günter Bechly
Date
July 12, 2024
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Cambrian Fossils Turned Upside Down Yet Again

Günter Bechly
July 12, 2024
Evolution, Paleontology
7
Most of these reconstructions are based on very weak evidence and are highly speculative. Read More ›
Kayentatherium_wellesi
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Günter Bechly
Date
July 5, 2024
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Time Wanderers Debunk Popular Scenario of Mammalian Evolution

Günter Bechly
July 5, 2024
Evolution, Paleontology
12
The crude Darwinist presumption of more advanced descendants outcompeting their primitive ancestors turned out to be wrong once again. Read More ›

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