Günter Bechly

Günter Bechly (1963-2025) was a German paleo-entomologist who specialized in the fossil history and systematics of insects (esp. dragonflies), the most diverse group of animals. He served as curator for amber and fossil insects in the department of paleontology at the State Museum of Natural History (SMNS) in Stuttgart, Germany. He was also a Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Dr. Bechly earned his Ph.D. in geosciences from Eberhard-Karls-University in Tübingen, Germany.

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Fossil Friday: A Scientific Controversy About Warm-Blooded Animals

_{Günter Bechly
January 3, 2025}

How do popularizers of Darwinism such as Richard Dawkins react? Unsurprisingly, they just ignore the evidence.

No. 4 Story of 2024: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Again

_{Günter Bechly
December 29, 2024}

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.

No. 5 Story of 2024: New Evidence Against Dino-Bird Ancestry

_{Günter Bechly
December 28, 2024}

Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs.

Fossil Friday: A Fossil That Kept Scientists Guessing

_{Günter Bechly
December 27, 2024}

Could intelligent design better explain this weird feeding apparatus? Of course.

No. 9 Story of 2024: Suppressed Dissent About Neanderthal DNA in Modern Humans

_{Günter Bechly
December 24, 2024}

The case of Professor William Amos represents an interesting parallel with dissenters in the intelligent design community.

Fossil Friday: Nakridletia — The Rise and Fall (and Possible Resurrection) of a Fossil Insect Order

_{Günter Bechly
December 20, 2024}

So, were strashilids a distinct order of parasitic insects or just aquatic flies?

Fossil Friday: Say Hello to Our Microscopic Granddaddy?

_{Günter Bechly
December 13, 2024}

What we do know is that it is definitely not our earliest ancestor. Another overhyped missing link bites the dust.

Fossil Friday: Are Ediacaran “Fishing Hooks” a Breakthrough Discovery of Precambrian Animals?

_{Günter Bechly
December 6, 2024}

Let’s have a look at the newest edition of the Precambrian animal guessing game.

Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Beetles

_{Günter Bechly
November 29, 2024}

Natural selection is the great magician in evolutionary fantasy land, where it explains rapid change in explosive radiations as well as no change at all.

Fossil Friday: New Fossil Stem Bird Is Surprisingly Modern

_{Günter Bechly
November 22, 2024}

Why do we mostly hear only one side of the story in the media? I suppose we must be protected from dangerous questions that could come up.

Postcard from Venice: First Pan-European Conference on Intelligent Design

_{Günter Bechly
November 16, 2024}

Recently I had the great privilege and honor to attend a remarkable event in the beautiful and historic city of Venice, Italy.

Fossil Friday: New Research on How Delicate Soft-Bodied Organisms Can Be Perfectly Preserved

_{Günter Bechly
November 15, 2024}

All the just-so-stories of macroevolution are completely dispensable in real (experimental) biology.

Fossil Friday: An Ediacaran Animal with a Question Mark

_{Günter Bechly
November 8, 2024}

To claim that such undefinable blobs in sandstone represent fossils of the oldest motile animals is massively overselling the evidence to say the least.

Fossil Friday: New Fossil Evidence Challenges Another Icon of Evolution

_{Günter Bechly
November 1, 2024}

This would have been very interesting news to my friend and colleague Jonathan Wells, who had described many such cases in his ground-breaking books.

Fossil Friday: An Extinct Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
October 25, 2024}

One of the strongest arguments in favor of Darwinian evolution gets more and more dismantled, which totally vindicates the critique by Michael Denton.

Fossil Friday: Chitinozoa — Enigmatic Microfossils from the Paleozoic Era

_{Günter Bechly
October 18, 2024}

We may now add the mysterious Chitinozoa to this ever-growing list of products of the burst of biological creativity in the Early Cambrian.

Fossil Friday: The Avalon Explosion and the Power of Maybe

_{Günter Bechly
October 11, 2024}

While evolutionary biology has no explanation even according to the authors themselves, intelligent design theory does.

Fossil Friday: Hobbits Thwart Darwinian Predictions Again

_{Günter Bechly
October 4, 2024}

Evolutionists reliably tend to follow one foundational principle: “What must not be, cannot be!”

Fossil Friday: When Paleontologists Let Turtles Fly

_{Günter Bechly
September 27, 2024}

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

Oceanic Design: The Fine-Tuned Balance of Trace Elements for Marine Life

_{Günter Bechly
September 23, 2024}

This long-term cycling is again indicative of a system that was well designed for sustainability.