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Günter Bechly

Gunter Bechly
Photo: Günter Bechly in a scene from the documentary Revolutionary, via Discovery Institute.

Bechly: “Life’s Second ‘Big Bang'”

He touches on other biological explosions, including the Avalon explosion, the Triassic explosion, and the origin of flowering plants. Read More ›
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Photo: Trilobites, by Kevin Walsh [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Bechly: Problems with Universal Common Ancestry Posed by the Fossil Record

Paleontologist Günter Bechly was a proponent of Darwinism until he discovered significant scientific reasons to doubt the evolutionary story. Read More ›
Australopithecus-africanus
Photo: Australopithecus africanus skull, by José Braga; Didier Descouens [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Günter Bechly: Goodbye to Darwinian Gradualism

Bechly touches on the oldest australopithecine fossil skull ever found, from 3.8 million years ago. Read More ›
Archaeopteryx
Photo: Archaeopteryx, by H. Raab (User: Vesta), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Debunked Transitional Fossils Are the Tip of the Iceberg

Darwinian evolution predicts a gradually branching tree of living forms, with one form shading into another over long periods of evolution. Read More ›
Gunter Bechly
Photo: Günter Bechly in a scene from the documentary Revolutionary, via Discovery Institute.

A Darwin Day Exhibit Backfires

Hear the story of how leading German paleo-entomologist and Darwinist Günter Bechly became convinced of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig.

Abstract: Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

All orders and families of the angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record (the same for most lower systematic categories). Read More ›
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#3 Story of 2021: In Mainstream Journal, ID Theorists on “Waiting Time” Problem for Coordinated Mutations

The paper is authored by three key scientists in the intelligent design (ID) research program: Ola Hössjer, Günter Bechly, Ann Gauger. 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.

#4 Story of 2021: 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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Image credit: Tim Reckmann, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Year in Review: Three Major Advances for Intelligent Design

The situation resembles a poorly constructed dam holding back water that is continuously rising. Read More ›
Spriggina
Photo: Spriggina, by Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Was Spriggina an Evolutionary Ancestor of Arthropods?

For those wedded to an evolutionary interpretation of life’s history, the fossil and genetic evidence leave the origin of arthropods a major mystery.  Read More ›

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