Scandentia Type post Author Günter Bechly Date February 3, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionPaleontology Tagged , bats, Cretaceous Period, Darwinian theory, Early Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Late Paleocene, Myanmar, North America, Pakistan, Paleocene, Paleogene, paleontology, phylogenetics, Plesiadapiformes, primates, Thailand Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Treeshrews (Scandentia) and Colugos (Dermoptera) Günter Bechly February 3, 2023 Evolution, Paleontology 59 Even as a paleontologist I admit that calling this a real scientific discipline seems like an insult to sciences like physics or chemistry or molecular biology. Read More ›
Proboscidea Type post Author Günter Bechly Date January 27, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignPaleontologyScience Tagged , Africa, Early Eocene, Egypt, elephants, Embrithopoda, Euarchontoglires, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Late Paleocene, Morocco, primates, Proboscidea, radiations, sea cows, teeth, Tethytheria Fossil Friday: Elephants and the Abrupt Origin of Proboscidea Günter Bechly January 27, 2023 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology, Science 26 Is this what Darwinism would predict? Of course not! Is it instead what intelligent design theory would predict? Indeed it is. Read More ›
Afrosoricida Type post Author Günter Bechly Date January 6, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionPaleontologyScience Tagged , Afrotheria, Darwinism, deforestation, elephant shrews, Eocene, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, K/Pg impact event, Late Paleocene, Madagascar, molecular data, Morocco, Namibia, Theodosius Dobzhansky Fossil Friday: Golden Moles and the Abrupt Origin of Afrosoricida Günter Bechly January 6, 2023 Evolution, Paleontology, Science 21 Should we draw any conclusions from such consistent empirical failures of a theory? Read More ›