Günter Bechly

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Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Complex Eyes in Trilobites

_{Günter Bechly
April 21, 2023}

The theory has been made immune to empirical falsification because it is simply assumed to be true by default as the only viable option for materialists.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Butterflies

_{Günter Bechly
April 14, 2023}

This phenomenon could rightfully be called a Tertiary Butterfly Explosion analogous to the Cambrian Explosion of animal phyla.

Fossil Friday: The Triassic Explosion of Marine Reptiles

_{Günter Bechly
March 31, 2023}

It is not like we Darwin critics make this stuff up. We just look at all the evidence and draw our conclusions.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Winged Insects

_{Günter Bechly
March 24, 2023}

According to Darwinism, the evolution of such a system would have required a plethora of intermediate stages that brought this locomotory apparatus into being.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Ichthyosaurs

_{Günter Bechly
March 17, 2023}

With increasing knowledge of the fossil record, the mainstream narrative is rendered more and more untenable and inconsistent with the empirical evidence.

Fossil Friday: A Waiting Time Problem for Feathers

_{Günter Bechly
March 10, 2023}

Wherever you look in the history of life you stumble upon overwhelming evidence for design.

Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Fossil Damselflies Challenges Darwinism

_{Günter Bechly
March 3, 2023}

In the hard sciences such explanations that can explain everything and rule out no possible observations are usually considered empirically empty and worthless.

Fossil Friday: A Strange Dragonfly Larva

_{Günter Bechly
February 24, 2023}

In a monograph in 2007, I suggested that these larvae may not be genuine dragonflies of the suborder Anisoptera.

Fossil Friday: Abrupt Appearance of a Distinct Dragonfly Group

_{Günter Bechly
February 17, 2023}

The fossil is almost complete, only the abdomen is missing and was likely bitten off by a predator.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Lagomorphs and Rodents

_{Günter Bechly
February 10, 2023}

Molecular biologist Dan Graur mentioned his weird idea that guinea pigs are not rodents at a lecture at my university in Tübingen when I was still a student.

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Treeshrews (Scandentia) and Colugos (Dermoptera)

_{Günter Bechly
February 3, 2023}

Even as a paleontologist I admit that calling this a real scientific discipline seems like an insult to sciences like physics or chemistry or molecular biology.

Fossil Friday: Elephants and the Abrupt Origin of Proboscidea

_{Günter Bechly
January 27, 2023}

Is this what Darwinism would predict? Of course not! Is it instead what intelligent design theory would predict? Indeed it is.

Fossil Friday: Sea Cows and the Abrupt Origin of Sirenia and Desmostylia

_{Günter Bechly
January 20, 2023}

So, is every thing OK with Darwinism after all? No so fast. Actually, there are some problems that do not square well with a Darwinian scenario.

Fossil Friday: Fossil Hyraxes and the Abrupt Origin of Hyracoidea

_{Günter Bechly
January 13, 2023}

Of course, it is only we “nitpicking” intelligent design proponents who point out such incongruences.

Fossil Friday: Golden Moles and the Abrupt Origin of Afrosoricida

_{Günter Bechly
January 6, 2023}

Should we draw any conclusions from such consistent empirical failures of a theory?

Fossil Friday: Fossil Elephant Shrews and the Abrupt Origin of Macroscelidea

_{Günter Bechly
December 30, 2022}

Elephant shrews are sometimes considered to be living fossils, and their origin is believed to go back 57.5 million years in the Paleocene.

#6 Story of 2022: Megalodon and Intelligent Design in Sharks

_{Günter Bechly
December 27, 2022}

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

Fossil Friday: Miocene Aardvarks and the Abrupt Origin of Tubulidentata

_{Günter Bechly
December 23, 2022}

So much about the congruence of anatomical and genetic similarity predicted by Darwin’s theory.

Fossil Friday: The Giant Armadillo Glyptodon and the Abrupt Origin of Xenarthrans

_{Günter Bechly
December 16, 2022}

Should we dare to consider the possibility that something is wrong with the Darwinist assumptions? Heaven forbid!

Postscript: “Professor Dave” and His Attack on Me

_{Günter Bechly
December 13, 2022}

While it was an affair of honor to defend others, I personally do not consider Farina to be a worthy opponent.