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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, artifact hypothesis, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, cnidarian, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, empirical data, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, molecular clock studies, paleontology, Precambrian strata, Stephen Meyer, transitional forms, Trends in Ecology and Evolution}

Fossil Friday: New Study Challenges the Artifact Hypothesis

_{Günter Bechly
October 20, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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It is time for Darwinists to stop their science denial and face the fact that empirical data consistently contradict core predictions of their theory. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, biological novelty, Cambrian Explosion, evolution, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, intelligent agents, intelligent design, naturalism, oxygen, oxygen theory, paleontology, podcast, science stopper, specified information}

Günter Bechly on Why Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom Was Wrong

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 17, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Is it a science stopper to propose mind as the source of these great infusions of biological information? Quite the opposite. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 13, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinian mechanisms, fish, flippers, fossil record, giraffes, humans, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, lizards, macromutations, mammals, marine reptiles, Mesozoic, mutations, neck, paleontology, population genetics, sloths, stem group, vertebrae, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: Rapid Elongation of Plesiosaur Necks Points to Intelligent Design

_{Günter Bechly
October 13, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The breaking of the conserved number of cervical vertebrae is hard to reconcile with an unguided evolutionary mechanism. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Emily Reeves, Howard Glicksman, human beings, human vision, ID the Future, intelligent design, mankind, Michael Denton, Michael Egnor, paleontology, physiology, podcast, The Miracle of Man, theology, vision, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith}

The Miracle of Man: Reflections on the Westminster Conference

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 11, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Dr. Miller gives a brief summary of his talk on the fine-tuning of human vision. We’ll be doing a full episode with him on that subject soon. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 6, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, adaptation, birds, China, empirical data, evolution, Flight, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ichthyosaur, mechanics, muscles, paleontology, storytelling, wings}

Fossil Friday: A Popular Just-So Story on the Origin of Bird Flight Bites the Dust

_{Günter Bechly
October 6, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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There is a long-running about whether birds first took off by running and flapping from the ground up, or whether they jumped as gliders from the tree down. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 29, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, birth, cannibalism, Darwinists, embryos, evolutionary biology, falsification, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, London, marine reptiles, Mesozoic, mothers, Natural History Museum, paleontology, pseudoscience, science denial, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart}

Fossil Friday: Ichthyosaur Birth, Another Evolutionist Just-So Story Falls Apart

_{Günter Bechly
September 29, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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This is not how good science is supposed to work but is rather typical for pseudoscience that shields itself against empirical falsification. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 21, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Andrew Knoll, animals, annelids, arthropods, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Charnia, Cnidaria, Darwin's Doubt, Douglas Erwin, echinoderms, Ediacaran biota, fact check, flatworms, James Valentine, On the Origin of Species, paleontology, photosynthesis, precambrian fossils, Science Alert, seafloor, Sean B. Carroll, Stephen Meyer, sunlight}

Fact Check: No, Two Teens Did NOT “Accidentally Solve” Darwin’s Dilemma

_{Casey Luskin
September 21, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Paleontology

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"It looked like a fern. But as a budding geologist, [UK teenager Tina] Negus knew these 600 million year old rocks were too old to host such a plant." Read More ›

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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
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 ›