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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)

Boli-ischi_100
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Günter Bechly
Date
June 28, 2024
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Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Snake Origins —Yet Another Biological Big Bang

Günter Bechly
June 28, 2024
Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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The authors commented in the press releases that this burst of biological novelty suggests that “snakes are like the Big Bang ‘singularity’ in cosmology.” Read More ›
Fossils_from_the_Weng'an_biota
Photo credit: John A. Cunningham, Kelly Vargas, Zongjun Yin, Stefan Bengtson and Philip C. J. Donoghue, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Günter Bechly
Date
June 21, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Ediacaran Animal Embryos Put to Test and Put to Rest

Günter Bechly
June 21, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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There are no fossil animals in the Ediacaran, when they should be found according to the gradualistic predictions of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
Montsechia_vidalii_03
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Günter Bechly
Date
June 14, 2024
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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Once Again

Günter Bechly
June 14, 2024
Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute. Read More ›
Spriggina
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
June 7, 2024
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Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Physical Sciences
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Fossil Friday: No, Magnetic Field Collapse Did Not Trigger the Emergence of Animals

Günter Bechly
June 7, 2024
Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Paleontology, Physical Sciences
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This adds to the many points of fine-tuning that make Earth a privileged planet that can uniquely sustain life. Read More ›
Neurosymploca_oligocenica_holotype_MNHN.F.R55185_part-direct_lighting
Photo credit: Gaëlle Doitteau, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
May 31, 2024
Categories
Biology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Zygaenid Moths — Molecular Clock vs Fossil Record

Günter Bechly
May 31, 2024
Biology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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The ubiquitous mismatch between molecular clocks and the fossil record clearly represents data to be explained. Read More ›
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
May 24, 2024
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Did Giant Dinosaurs Swim Across Oceans?

Günter Bechly
May 24, 2024
Evolution, Paleontology
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More rafting animals! Who cares about probability or empirical evidence, when a simple just-so-story can do the job? Read More ›
Pakicetus
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Author
Günter Bechly
Date
May 17, 2024
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Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Paleontology
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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
May 10, 2024
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Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Discontinuities in the Fossil Record — A Problem for Neo-Darwinism

Günter Bechly
May 10, 2024
Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Paleontology
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The fossil record generally documents a discontinuous history of life with sudden appearances of new body plans and new forms of life in saltational events. Read More ›
kinorhyncha
Photo: Eokinorhynchus rarus, SEM, Dinghua Yang in Zhang et al. 2015, fair use (Source: http://english.nigpas.cas.cn/ns/RelatedNews/201511/t20151130_156623.html).
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Günter Bechly
Date
May 3, 2024
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Evolution
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha, Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion

Günter Bechly
May 3, 2024
Evolution, Paleontology
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The earliest kinorhynchs were more complex than modern ones. So much for the evolutionary narrative from simple to complex. Read More ›
Aethiocarenus_burmanicus 2
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Günter Bechly
Date
April 26, 2024
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
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Fossil Friday: Three Dubious New Fossil Insect Orders from Cretaceous Burmese Amber

Günter Bechly
April 26, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology
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Apart from this more general critique, are there any implications from these amber insects for intelligent design theory? You bet! Read More ›

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