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Günter Bechly

Bechly and Swamidass
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Confronting Joshua Swamidass on Confrontation

Swamidass got it wrong, and it’s perfectly appropriate for me to confront him on that. I wasn’t talking about any approach to human argumentation at all. Read More ›
Bechly and Swamidass
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An ID Debate: Joshua Swamidass and Günter Bechly

Joshua Swamidass is a computational biologist at Washington University in Saint Louis who says ID may or may not be true in some part of what it affirms. Read More ›
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Günter Bechly
Photo: Günter Bechly at the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart, via Discovery Institute.

To an Italian ID Group, Günter Bechly Explains His Remarkable Journey

Having opened his mind to the possibility of design, Dr. Bechly saw it everywhere. Read More ›
Bechly and Swamidass
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Watch: Bechly and Swamidass Debate Intelligent Design

One highlight is Dr. Bechly’s summation of his scientific reasons for affirming intelligent design. This produces the response from host Justin Brierley: “Wow.” Read More ›
Miocene ape Oreopithecus bambolii
Photo: Miocene ape Oreopithecus bambolii, by Ghedoghedo, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists Conclude: Human Origins Research Is a Big Mess

Considering the number of fossils attributed to the human lineage, an absence of such fossils for the great African ape lineages raises an obvious suspicion. Read More ›
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Dinosaurs and More: Bechly on the Fossil Record vs. Neo-Darwinism

The evidence includes “explosions,” "jumps," and “revolutions” in the history of life that cannot be explained given the assumption of Darwinian gradualism. Read More ›
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Image credit: Ernst Haeckel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Botany Journal Revisits Charles Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

A recent paper by Richard Buggs shows that a problem for evolutionary theory has grown more acute since Darwin’s time. Read More ›
Casey Luskin
Photo: Casey Luskin in South Africa.

I’m Excited to Return to Discovery Institute to Find Intelligent Design Stronger Than Ever!

Over the past few years, I’ve seen ID critics advance some wild and amusing conspiracy theories about the reasons for my departure and absence. Read More ›
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Photo: Screenshot from John Lennox's debate with Christopher Hitchens.

Atheist Christopher Hitchens: Best Evidence for Intelligent Design?

Following Denyse O’Leary, I referred earlier to the curious but, on reflection, not surprising messy nature of the “magic” numbers that rule our universe. Read More ›
Namacalathus and Cloudina
Namacalathus and Cloudina fossils
Photo: Namacalathus and Cloudina fossils, collection of Redpath Museum, McGill University, by Daderot / CC0, via Wikimedia.

Paleontologist Buries Another Proposed Cambrian Precursor

Günter Bechly explains why the Precambrian fossil Namacalathus fails as a transitional precursor to the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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