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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 8, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, empirical data, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Harvard University, just-so stories, mammals, paleontology, reptiles, shells, skeletons, storytelling}

Fossil Friday: Study Debunks Textbook Wisdom on the Evolution of Mammalian Gait

_{Günter Bechly
September 8, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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In other words: evolutionists make up fancy just-so stories that do not stand up to scrutiny when they are checked with actual empirical data. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Avalon explosion, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, oxygen, Precambrian, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer}

Fossil Friday: Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

_{Günter Bechly
September 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 18, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, bioRxiv, birds, computer scientists, dinosaurs, eggs, evolutionary biology, feathers, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, just-so stories, locomotion, Munich, paleontology, pareidolia, peer review, taphonomy, Upper Jurassic, wings}

Fossil Friday: Imagining Eggs in the Famous Archaeopteryx Fossils

_{Günter Bechly
August 18, 2023

Evolution, Geology, Paleontology

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Neither lack of evidence nor conflicting evidence stopped the author from drawing far-reaching conclusions. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 11, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, fossil record, paleontology, preservation, radiation, sampling bias, Stephen Meyer, trilobite}

Fossil Friday: Did the Cambrian Explosion Really Happen?

_{Günter Bechly
August 11, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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The deniers of the well-established scientific consensus rest their argument on the recent publications of a few maverick paleontologists. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, humans, lancelets, phyla, preservation, sampling bias, Science (journal), South China, tunicates, Utah, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: Fossil Tunicate Confirms Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
August 4, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Almost on a monthly basis new fossil evidence corroborates the abruptness of the Cambrian Explosion as a genuine "Big Bang" of life. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Darwin's Doubt, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran Period, evolution, fossil record, intelligent design, Kimberella, molecular clock, New York Times, Norway, Oxford University, precambrian fossils, Precambrian strata, Russia, Siberia, Stephen Meyer, taphonomy}

Taphonomy Study Shortens Fuse for the Cambrian Explosion

_{David Coppedge
August 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The “molecular clock” must be wrong, a study concludes. Cambrian animal ancestors are not there in the fossil record as hoped. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 28, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Australopithecus, cannibalism, Darwin critics, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, hominins, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, New York Times, predictions, taxonomy}

Fossil Friday: Another Prediction Vindicated

_{Günter Bechly
July 28, 2023

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The virtual ink for my article had hardly dried when a story about a new discovery hit the news. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 26, 2023

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Chengjiang fossils, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, Ediacaran Period, evolution, fossil record, horseshoe crabs, intelligent design, Live Science, Marble Canyon, Morocco, National Science Foundation, Ordovician Period, PNAS, Porifera, Precambrian strata, Return of the God Hypothesis, sponges, Stephen Meyer, Vernanimalcula}

Evolutionists Spin the Cambrian Explosion — But Alas, All in Vain

_{David Coppedge
July 26, 2023

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Fossils are great; the more the better. Experience from spectacular discoveries assures us that no surprises will change Charles Darwin's own cause for doubt. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Canada, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, crustaceans, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, mollusks, On the Origin of Species, paleontology, protists, Stephen Meyer}

Fossil Friday: Eozoön, the Dawn Animal Fallen from Grace

_{Günter Bechly
July 21, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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In modern paleontology it is still a very common phenomenon that fossils are over-interpreted by the scientists and over-hyped in the media. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cloudina, cnidarians, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, digestive tract, Ediacaran Period, evolution, failed predictions, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, GUT, intelligent design, predictions}

Fossil Friday: Cloudina Still Lacks the Guts to Be a Worm

_{Günter Bechly
July 14, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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We intelligent design proponents make one successful prediction after another, while Darwinism's track record of failed predictions grows ever longer. Read More ›