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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 21, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, artifact hypothesis, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian evolution, Ediacaran, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, microfossils, New York Times, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Richard Dawkins}

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 ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 31, 2024

Categories
Biology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, butterflies, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ghost lineages, lineages, molecular clocks, phylogeny, Stuttgart Natural History Museum}

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
Jonathan Witt

Date
May 29, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, aborigines, Africans, Alfred Russel Wallace, baboons, Caucasians, Charles Darwin, Europeans, fossil record, gorillas, history, HMS Beagle, humans, intelligence, John Stuart Mill, On the Origin of Species, Racism, Richard Weikart, species, stem, Texas, The Descent of Man, Tierra del Fuego, United Nations}

Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps

_{Jonathan Witt
May 29, 2024

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Scientific Reasoning

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A defender of Darwinism might object that it’s silly to ding Darwin for his racism, since just about every white person in Victorian England was racist. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 15, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, antibodies, atheism, beta-lactamase, Big Bang, BioLogos, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, Cell (journal), Christians, COVID-19, Dan Tawfik, Darrel Falk, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, enzymes, evolution, Explore Evolution, fossil record, Graham Budd, Günter Bechly, information, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, peer-reviewed literature, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, precambrian fossils, protein evolution, readers, Return of the God Hypothesis, rhetoric, RNA, RNA world, Stephen Meyer, theism, Theistic Evolution (book), universal common ancestry, universe}

From a Theistic Evolutionist, Long-Ago Answered Critiques of Stephen Meyer’s Book

_{Casey Luskin
May 15, 2024

Cosmology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Scott Buchanan's review is now being recirculated because of the positive attention that Meyer has received from his recent Piers Morgan interview. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, Early Cambrian, Ediacaran Period, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, marine invertebrates, paleontology, phylogenetic analysis, South China, tardigrades}

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 ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, Archaeopteryx, Bavaria, birds, Darwinian evolution, Darwinists, dinosaurs, evolution, Evolution News, Flight, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, Occam's Razor, paleontology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: New Study Confirms “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds

_{Günter Bechly
April 5, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Darwinists may have to say goodbye to some cherished assumed transitional forms and the evolutionary just-so stories built upon them. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
March 15, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, brachiopods, bryozoans, cephalopods, Charles Darwin, corals, Ernst Mayr, evolution, fossil record, genera, Georges Cuvier, ghost lineages, hippos, intelligent design, Louis Agassiz, Martin Pickford, National Geographic, natural selection, species, stasis, trilobites}

Notes on the Mysterious Origin of Hippos

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
March 15, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The family Hippopotamidae appears abruptly in the fossil record — like all the other groups that I have so far investigated in detail. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, ancestors, ancestral species, cladistics, common descent, Darwinism, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, microevolution, phylogenetic systematics, Pleistocene, Pliocene, stem group, Willi Hennig, wolves}

Fossil Friday: Direct Fossil Ancestors of Living Species?

_{Günter Bechly
March 8, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Willi Hennig, the founder of phylogenetic systematics (cladistics), recognized that finding and demonstrating direct ancestors would be a very hard task. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, American Museum of Natural History, arachnids, Bayesian reasoning, Casey Luskin, common descent, Cretaceous, Darwinism, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, molecular biologists, molecular clock studies, New York Times, Paleogene, phylogenomics}

Fossil Friday: The Big Bang of Tertiary Birds and a Phylogenetic Mess

_{Günter Bechly
February 23, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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There was an abrupt origin, a burst of biological creativity, which is best explained by an infusion of new information from an intelligent agent. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, caterpillars, Darwinian theory, entomology, evolution, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, larvae, Metamorphosis}

How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs…Or Not

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 10, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Almost 400 years after its discovery, the process of metamorphosis is still a thorny conundrum for evolutionary biologists. Read More ›