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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 19, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Central Asia, Crurotarsi, dinosaurs, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genetic code, intelligent design, legs, Mammaliaformes, Pappochelys, Peter Ward, Preondactylus, pterosaurs, search engines, Simon Conway Morris, teleology, tetrapods, turtles, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Flying Reptiles in the Mid Triassic

_{Günter Bechly
May 19, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Paleontology

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Personally, I am quite sympathetic to the dissenting view of my paleontologist colleague Simon Conway Morris. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
May 16, 2023

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptability, Alaska, Arizona, biologists, biosphere, birds, cars, cetaceans, Charles Darwin, designer, echolocation, elephants, evolution, fossil record, iguanas, intelligent design, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, kerosene, mammals, middle ear, natural selection, naturalists, penguins, physiology, polar bears, whales}

Natural Selection Subtracts, It Doesn’t Add — And That Matters

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
May 16, 2023

Biochemistry, Biology, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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In the wild, all organisms must live within their niche. There are no wild polar bears in Arizona, and no iguanas in Alaska. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
May 10, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bedtime story, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, DNA, evolution, fossil record, Gareth Nelson, geological time, Henry Gee, Niles Eldredge, On the Origin of Species, paleontology, phyla, punctuated equilibria, skeletons, Stephen Jay Gould, Top Scientific Problems with Evolution (series), transitional links}

Fossil Friday: The Stubborn Mystery of the Tully Monster

_{Günter Bechly
May 5, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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How much confidence should we really place in dubious fossil evidence when it is boldly claimed to prove Darwinian evolution as a fact? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 28, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinism, ecological niches, flukes, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genes, genetic changes, genetic coding, just-so stories, Late Cretaceous, marine reptiles, mosasaurs, mutations, North America, population genetics, sharks, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Mosasaurs in the Cretaceous

_{Günter Bechly
April 28, 2023

Evolution, Mathematics, Paleontology

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The math of population genetics precludes a Darwinian origin of these new genes in such a short time. Read More ›

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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 ›