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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 27, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinism, England, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, neo-Darwinian evolution, paleontology, pseudoscience, Triassic period}

Fossil Friday: When Paleontologists Let Turtles Fly

_{Günter Bechly
September 27, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Do such misidentifications and interpretational problems show that Darwinism is false and intelligent design is true? Of course not. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 20, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Gabon, Metazoa, morphology, Natural History Museum, nutrients, precambrian fossils, protists, Vienna, word salad}

Fossil Friday: Update on the Dubious Nature of the Precambrian Gabonionta

_{Günter Bechly
September 20, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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What we definitely do not find here is any credible evidence for an evolutionary transition to genuine multicellular eukaryotes. 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, 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
September 6, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Paleontology
Tagged
, arachnids, compound eyes, convergence, Darwin critics, empirical evidence, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, gigantism, intelligent design, paleontology, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, speculation, Yale University}

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 ›

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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
August 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, body plans, common descent, evolution, Flight, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ghost lineages, information, intelligent design, Metamorphosis, molecular clock studies, neo-Darwinian theory, paleontology, wings}

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 ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, anagenesis, Canada, Darwinian gradualism, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Montana, natural selection, speciation, Tyrannosaurus rex}

Fossil Friday: Controversial Gradualism in Tyrannosaurids

_{Günter Bechly
August 2, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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History will tell who is right in this scientific controversy, but personally I am more convinced by the evidence against anagenesis. 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
Casey Luskin

Date
July 18, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, astrobiology, bacteria, Canada, cell division, common ancestry, common design, DNA replication, eukaryotes, fossil record, genetic code, genomes, Greenland, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, Nature Ecology and Evolution, prokaryotes, Ribosome, ScienceAlert, Stephen Jay Gould}

Study Finds Life’s Origin “Required a Surprisingly Short Interval of Geologic Time”

_{Casey Luskin
July 18, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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It’s certainly not impossible that life was already present on Earth at 4.2 Ga. And if it were true it would have intriguing implications. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
July 9, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, cells, devolution, earth, evolution, Fire-Maker, fossil record, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan Witt, Michael Denton, scientific discovery, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, The Privileged Planet}

Earth Left “A Path of Tools” to Scientific Discovery

_{Granville Sewell
July 9, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The fine-tunings for scientific discovery and technological progress are very interesting to me and not just because they defeat the anthropic principle. Read More ›