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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, begging the question, Cambrian Explosion, common ancestry, Darwinists, evolutionary biology, falsification, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, immunization, just-so stories, materialists, opium, phylogeny, pseudoscience, Stephen Meyer, trilobites}

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Complex Eyes in Trilobites

_{Günter Bechly
April 21, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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The theory has been made immune to empirical falsification because it is simply assumed to be true by default as the only viable option for materialists. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, animal phyla, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Darwinian theory, Early Cretaceous, Eocene, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, Lepidoptera, Mesozoic, moth}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Butterflies

_{Günter Bechly
April 14, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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This phenomenon could rightfully be called a Tertiary Butterfly Explosion analogous to the Cambrian Explosion of animal phyla. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 31, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwin critics, Darwinists, Early Triassic, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ichthyosaurs, marine reptiles, nothosaurs, Permian period, plesiosaurs}

Fossil Friday: The Triassic Explosion of Marine Reptiles

_{Günter Bechly
March 31, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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It is not like we Darwin critics make this stuff up. We just look at all the evidence and draw our conclusions. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 24, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, Carboniferous Period, Darwinism, dragonfly, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, insects, intelligent design, Palaeodictyoptera, paleontologists, Paleozoic, sensory hairs, wing venation, winged insects, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Winged Insects

_{Günter Bechly
March 24, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology, Science

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According to Darwinism, the evolution of such a system would have required a plethora of intermediate stages that brought this locomotory apparatus into being. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 17, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Arctic Ocean, biodiversity, Cartorhynchus, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, fossils, Germany, Holzmaden, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, Lower Jurassic, marine reptiles, Norway, Permian-Triassic extinction, population genetics, Posidonia shale, Stenopterygius quadricissus, Sweden, theists, Uppsala University, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Ichthyosaurs

_{Günter Bechly
March 17, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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With increasing knowledge of the fossil record, the mainstream narrative is rendered more and more untenable and inconsistent with the empirical evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
March 13, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood pressure, cud, Dean Kenyon, esophagus, evolution, fossil record, geneticists, Giraffe, giraffe’s neck, grass, heart, intelligent design, jackpot, leaves, Live Science, lottery, mutations, Nature (journal), necks, okapi, Percival Davis, President, rete mirabile, Richard Dawkins, ruminants, South Africa, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe, University of Cape Town, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Evolution’s Tall Tale — The Giraffe Neck

_{Jonathan Witt
March 13, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The engineering marvel that is the giraffe, long neck and all, was intelligently designed. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 10, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, birds, Brazil, Crato limestones, dino-fuzz, dinosaurs, evolution, feathers, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genetic information, intelligent design, Lower Cretaceous, mutations, natural selection, random mutations, theropod, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: A Waiting Time Problem for Feathers

_{Günter Bechly
March 10, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Wherever you look in the history of life you stumble upon overwhelming evidence for design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 3, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Paleontology
Physics
Tagged
, Australia, Bavaria, damselfly, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genus, Germany, hard science, magic wand, Natural History Museum, Neo-Darwinism, species, Stuttgart, Upper Jurassic}

Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Fossil Damselflies Challenges Darwinism

_{Günter Bechly
March 3, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Paleontology, Physics

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In the hard sciences such explanations that can explain everything and rule out no possible observations are usually considered empirically empty and worthless. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Aeschnidiidae, antennae, Brazil, Crato limestone, dragonfly, Early Cretaceous, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, larvae, legs}

Fossil Friday: A Strange Dragonfly Larva

_{Günter Bechly
February 24, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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In a monograph in 2007, I suggested that these larvae may not be genuine dragonflies of the suborder Anisoptera. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Aeschnidiidae, Brazil, Crato limestones, dragonflies, Early Cretaceous, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Jurassic, paleontology, predators, Upper Jurassic, wing venation}

Fossil Friday: Abrupt Appearance of a Distinct Dragonfly Group

_{Günter Bechly
February 17, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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The fossil is almost complete, only the abdomen is missing and was likely bitten off by a predator. Read More ›