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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 30, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinian mechanism, Dave Farina, Discovery Institute, evo-devo, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Living Waters, macroevolution, Martin Nowak, mathematical model, mutations, Ola Hössjer, Pakicetus, paleontology, peer-reviewed literature, population size, Professor Dave, recombination, waiting-time problem, walking whales}

Fossil Friday: Walking Whales and Why All Critiques of the Waiting Time Problem Fail

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September 30, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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These fossils are often celebrated as missing links and a success story for Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 23, 2022

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, apes, Apollo 11, BBC, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, History Channel, humans, Ida, media, Messel, missing links, monkeys, Norway, paleontology, primates, Wikipedia}

Fossil Friday: Darwinius, or How Wishful Thinking Makes a Missing Link

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September 23, 2022

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The media campaign lead to headlines that were not content with calling the fossil a missing link but simply “THE link” or “the eighth wonder of the world.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 16, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, chordates, Darwinism, Devonian Period, echinoderms, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genitals, Germany, Henry Gee, homology, Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), paleontology, Paleozoic, tunicates, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: Rhenocystis and the Controversial Calcichordate Hypothesis

_{Günter Bechly
September 16, 2022

Anatomy, Paleontology, Science

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It looks a bit like a tadpole with body and tail, and this indeed points towards one of the great scientific controversies of the 20th century. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 9, 2022

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alain Beauvilain, Ardipithecus, bipedality, Chad, femur, fossil record, Graecopithecus, hominins, John Hawks, mandible, Miocene, Miocene apes, Natural History Museum, Nature (journal), Orrorin, paleontology, Paris, Roberto Macchiarelli, Sahara Desert, Sahelanthropus, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, skull, University of Poitiers}

Fossil Friday: Sahelanthropus, to Be or Not to Be Bipedal

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September 9, 2022

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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On the morning of July 19, 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Sahara Desert. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, animal phyla, Anomalocaris, body plans, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Carboniferous Period, cephalopods, chordates, Emu Bay Shale, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Lophotrochozoa, Macquarie University, molluscs, new york, paleontology, Simon Conway Morris, squid, stem group}

Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid

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September 2, 2022

Biology, Paleontology, Science

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Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 26, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Adrianus Kalmjin, ampullae of Lorenzini, chondrichthyans, chondrocranium, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, great white shark, Illustra Media, intelligent design, jaws, Living Waters, mako shark, megalodon, Miocene, Morgan River, paleontology, Pliocene, sea floor, sediments, sharks, South Carolina, superpredators, tabloid journalists, teeth, vertebral column, vertebrates, whales}

Fossil Friday: Megalodon and Intelligent Design in Sharks

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August 26, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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Megalodon was a specialized apex predator and fed mainly on large baleen whales. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 19, 2022

Categories
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Anchiornis, Archaeopteryx, Aurornis, birds, China, common descent, Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs, Dromaeosauridae, England, Fossil Friday (series), Germany, intelligent design, Jurassic, Late Jurassic, Luis Chiappe, Madagascar, Middle Jurassic, missing links, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, phylogenetic analysis, Portugal, Scotland, Temporal Paradox, The Guardian, Tree of Life, Upper Jurassic, Utah, Xiaotingia}

Fossil Friday: The Temporal Paradox of Early Birds

_{Günter Bechly
August 19, 2022

Paleontology, Science

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Wherever you look in the fossil record you stumble upon problems for the Darwinian story and evidence that is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 12, 2022

Categories
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, beetles, Brazil, butterflies, convergence, Crato Formation, Darwinism, design pattern, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, insects, intelligent design, Kalligrammatidae, lacewing, Lower Cretaceous, Lower Jurassic, mouthparts, natural selection, paleontology, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, University of Tübingen}

Fossil Friday: A Fossil Butterfly Lookalike

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August 12, 2022

Paleontology, Science

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An intelligent design paradigm can easily accommodate convergences as a natural consequence of a designer reusing the same ideas in different constructions. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 20, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, barbarism, crime, Darwinism, Darwinism as religion, evolution, fossil record, intelligent design, paleontology, Seattle, theism}

A Paleontologist Explains Intelligent Design to You

_{David Klinghoffer
July 20, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Günter Bechly describes the species pair challenge, the waiting time problem, and much more that Darwinists can't explain. Read More ›

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Date
July 19, 2022

Categories
Arts
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, cave paintings, evolution, humans, Michael Marshall, Neanderthals, paleontology, Spain, Stone Age}

Neanderthal Art, if That’s What It Is, Would Upset the Evolutionary Paradigm

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July 19, 2022

Arts, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Paleontologists resist the idea that early humans called Neanderthals created any artworks. Their reasoning is sometimes circular. Read More ›