Günter Bechly

_{Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture}

Günter Bechly is a German paleo-entomologist who specializes 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 is 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.

Archives

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.

Fossil Friday: Update on the Dubious Nature of the Precambrian Gabonionta

_{Günter Bechly
September 20, 2024}

What we definitely do not find here is any credible evidence for an evolutionary transition to genuine multicellular eukaryotes.

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

_{Günter Bechly
September 13, 2024}

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

Fossil Friday: Sea Scorpions Defy Darwinian Expectations

_{Günter Bechly
September 6, 2024}

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

Fossil Friday: The Sudden Appearance of Crocs in the Triassic Fossil Record

_{Günter Bechly
August 30, 2024}

The Triassic period proves to be a real carpet bombing of bursts of biological creativity.

Fossil Friday: The Mystery of the Frankenstein Dinosaur

_{Günter Bechly
August 23, 2024}

Different studies based on different data do not converge on one true tree of life.

Fossil Friday: Human Nature of Neanderthals Supported Again

_{Günter Bechly
August 16, 2024}

Extended caregiving for a strongly disabled child is a highly non-Darwinian behavior that indeeds suggests compassion on a level only found in humans.

Fossil Friday: The Carboniferous Explosion of Winged Insects

_{Günter Bechly
August 9, 2024}

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.

Fossil Friday: Controversial Gradualism in Tyrannosaurids

_{Günter Bechly
August 2, 2024}

History will tell who is right in this scientific controversy, but personally I am more convinced by the evidence against anagenesis.

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Explosion Bingo Continues

_{Günter Bechly
July 26, 2024}

What if scientists were to discover next month that there was no oxygenation in the Cambrian but the exact opposite?

Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times

_{Günter Bechly
July 19, 2024}

No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them.

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Fossils Turned Upside Down Yet Again

_{Günter Bechly
July 12, 2024}

Most of these reconstructions are based on very weak evidence and are highly speculative.

Fossil Friday: Time Wanderers Debunk Popular Scenario of Mammalian Evolution

_{Günter Bechly
July 5, 2024}

The crude Darwinist presumption of more advanced descendants outcompeting their primitive ancestors turned out to be wrong once again.

Fossil Friday: Snake Origins —Yet Another Biological Big Bang

_{Günter Bechly
June 28, 2024}

The authors commented in the press releases that this burst of biological novelty suggests that “snakes are like the Big Bang ‘singularity’ in cosmology.”

Fossil Friday: Ediacaran Animal Embryos Put to Test and Put to Rest

_{Günter Bechly
June 21, 2024}

There are no fossil animals in the Ediacaran, when they should be found according to the gradualistic predictions of Darwinian evolution.

Fossil Friday: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Once Again

_{Günter Bechly
June 14, 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.

Fossil Friday: No, Magnetic Field Collapse Did Not Trigger the Emergence of Animals

_{Günter Bechly
June 7, 2024}

This adds to the many points of fine-tuning that make Earth a privileged planet that can uniquely sustain life.