kraken Type post Author Günter Bechly Date November 3, 2023 CategoriesIntelligent DesignPaleontology Tagged , academic freedom, Amazon, beak, cephalopod, creationists, Darwin's Doubt, dissidents, Donald Prothero, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, Mark McMenamin, Mesozoic, Neo-Darwinism, paleontologist, peer-reviewed journals, PZ Myers, Stephen Meyer, suckers, Switzerland, tentacles, thought police, vertebrae Fossil Friday: Triassic Kraken Hypothesis Provoked Scornful Darwinist Revenge Günter Bechly November 3, 2023 Intelligent Design, Paleontology 9 Instead of a reasonable and fair scientific debate, McMenamin’s hypothesis has been ridiculed by other scientists and science journalists. Read More ›
Keichousaurus_hui_fossil Type post Author Günter Bechly Date October 13, 2023 CategoriesIntelligent DesignPaleontology Tagged , allometric growth, crocodilians, Darwinian mechanisms, Early Triassic, fish, flippers, fossil record, giraffes, humans, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, lizards, macromutations, mammals, marine reptiles, Mesozoic, mutations, neck, nothosaurs, paleontology, Permian, plesiosaurs, population genetics, sea snake, sea turtle, sloths, stem group, vertebrae, vertebrates Fossil Friday: Rapid Elongation of Plesiosaur Necks Points to Intelligent Design Günter Bechly October 13, 2023 Intelligent Design, Paleontology 7 The breaking of the conserved number of cervical vertebrae is hard to reconcile with an unguided evolutionary mechanism. Read More ›
Phiomicetus anubis Type post Author Casey Luskin Date September 1, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionScience Reporting Tagged , BBC, Egypt, evolution, fossils, geologists, holotype, imagination, legs, mandible, National Public Radio, New York Post, Newsweek, Sahara Desert, skeleton, vertebrae, whale evolution Evolutionary Imagination and Belief Drive False Claims of a “Four-Legged Whale” Casey Luskin September 1, 2021 Evolution, Science Reporting 4 Perhaps this organism had four legs. Perhaps it had flippers. Perhaps it was closely related to whales. Perhaps it has nothing to do with whales. Read More ›