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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 27, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinism, England, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, neo-Darwinian evolution, paleontology, pseudoscience, Triassic period}

Fossil Friday: When Paleontologists Let Turtles Fly

_{Günter Bechly
September 27, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Do such misidentifications and interpretational problems show that Darwinism is false and intelligent design is true? Of course not. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, Archaeopteryx, birds, China, dinosaurs, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, paleontology, University of Southampton}

Fossil Friday: More Evidence That “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds

_{Günter Bechly
September 13, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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It definitely looks like the common dino-to-bird narrative has been massively oversold to the public. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 6, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Paleontology
Tagged
, arachnids, compound eyes, convergence, Darwin critics, empirical evidence, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, gigantism, intelligent design, paleontology, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, speculation, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: Sea Scorpions Defy Darwinian Expectations

_{Günter Bechly
September 6, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Paleontology

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Wait, what? That's it? Mere speculation based on the fact that they found nothing! Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, body plans, common descent, evolution, Flight, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ghost lineages, information, intelligent design, Metamorphosis, molecular clock studies, neo-Darwinian theory, paleontology, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Carboniferous Explosion of Winged Insects

_{Günter Bechly
August 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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This represents just one of the many discontinuities in the history of life that strongly contradict the predictions from a neo-Darwinian theory of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, biological novelty, Charles Darwin, diversification, Early Cretaceous, evolution, flowering plants, Fossil Friday (series), genomes, intelligent design, jumps, Late Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous, nature, Nature (journal), paleontology, Philip Donoghue, Spain}

Fossil Friday: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Once Again

_{Günter Bechly
June 14, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 24, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, biogeography, dinosaurs, Eurasia, Fossil Friday (series), Late Cretaceous, New World monkeys, North America, paleontology, rafting animals, seafaring, swimming}

Fossil Friday: Did Giant Dinosaurs Swim Across Oceans?

_{Günter Bechly
May 24, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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More rafting animals! Who cares about probability or empirical evidence, when a simple just-so-story can do the job? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, Australopithecus, biologic institute, computer simulation, coordinated mutations, Daniel Stern Cardinale, Discovery Institute, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Fossil Friday (series), generations, gradualism, Indohyus, macroevolution, Michael Behe, Michael Shermer, Neo-Darwinism, neutral evolution, objections, Ola Hössjer, paleontology, population genetics, radiometric dating, recombination, Richard Dawkins, saltationism, The Edge of Evolution, tiktaalik, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: Three Modern Scientific Challenges to the Causal Adequacy of Darwinian Explanations

_{Günter Bechly
May 17, 2024

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Paleontology

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As a consequence of the collapsing tree problem, I suggest abandoning evolutionary classifications and return to a pre-Darwinian Linnaean classification. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Paleontology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", abduction, anomalies, artifacts, Avalon explosion, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Doubt, explosions, Fossil Friday (series), George Gaylord Simpson, gradualism, great Ordovician biodiversification event, Lower Cambrian, molecular biology, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, photosynthesis, population genetics, predictions, random mutations, revolutions, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, specified complexity, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Greatest Show on Earth}

Fossil Friday: Discontinuities in the Fossil Record — A Problem for Neo-Darwinism

_{Günter Bechly
May 10, 2024

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Paleontology

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The fossil record generally documents a discontinuous history of life with sudden appearances of new body plans and new forms of life in saltational events. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, Early Cambrian, Ediacaran Period, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, marine invertebrates, paleontology, phylogenetic analysis, South China, tardigrades}

Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha, Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
May 3, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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The earliest kinorhynchs were more complex than modern ones. So much for the evolutionary narrative from simple to complex. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, butterflies, cladogram, cockroach, convergence, Fossil Friday (series), Lepidoptera, mimicry, paleontology, unguided evolution}

Fossil Friday: Three Dubious New Fossil Insect Orders from Cretaceous Burmese Amber

_{Günter Bechly
April 26, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Apart from this more general critique, are there any implications from these amber insects for intelligent design theory? You bet! Read More ›