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Fossil Friday: Purgatorius and the Abrupt Origin of Primates

_{Günter Bechly
December 9, 2022}

Primates not only appeared suddenly, but their different subgroups of lemurs, tarsier, and simians all appeared at about the same time.

Educating “Professor Dave” on the Fossil Record and Genetics

_{Günter Bechly
December 8, 2022}

Farina says that if you want to make “creationists’ head explode” you just have to mention that reptile scales and bird feathers are made of the same keratin.

Dave Farina Criticizes Intelligent Design but Doesn’t Understand It

_{Günter Bechly
December 5, 2022}

Boom! There goes the “exquisitely documented” evolution of turtles. Sorry, Professor Dave.

Fossil Friday: Is Triassic Angiosperm-Like Pollen a Solution to Darwin’s Abominable Mystery?

_{Günter Bechly
December 2, 2022}

There is one remaining issue to address, which is palynology, the science of fossil pollen.

Let’s Help “Professor Dave” Understand the Precambrian

_{Günter Bechly
December 2, 2022}

We have much to teach the non-professor, and I trust that he is grateful for the education being rendered to him here.

“Lying on the Internet”? Debunking Dave Farina on Stephen Meyer

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2022}

A lot of nonsense gets published in peer-reviewed journals and it needs expertise to separate the wheat from the chaff. Farina lacks any expertise to do this.

Untangling “Professor Dave’s” Confusion about the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
November 29, 2022}

We have seen the absurdly low quality of this individual’s video. But there is much more. I have added timecodes in square brackets for easier reference.

Debunking “Professor Dave’s” Hit Piece Against Stephen Meyer

_{Günter Bechly
November 28, 2022}

This YouTube video runs to about an hour and a quarter, so I will be answering him once again in a series, minute by minute.

Fossil Friday: Fake Amber and the Piltdown Fly

_{Günter Bechly
November 25, 2022}

Such simple forgeries are commonly sold to tourists in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Eastern Europe, and Eastern Asia.

Fossil Friday: Florigerminis, Another Failed Candidate for a Jurassic Flowering Plant

_{Günter Bechly
November 18, 2022}

You are in good company if you are as skeptical about these claims as I am myself.

Fossil Friday: The Complex Wing Folding of Earwigs

_{Günter Bechly
November 11, 2022}

This highly complex mode of wing folding is one of the many examples of engineering marvels in insects that strongly suggest intelligent design.

Fossil Friday: Desmostylia, and the Problem of Horizontal Tooth Displacement

_{Günter Bechly
November 4, 2022}

Nature appears to be deceptive. Are Darwinists bothered by such problems? Not at all.

Fossil Friday: Ludodactylus and the Origin of Pterosaurs

_{Günter Bechly
October 28, 2022}

Outside of Darwinian fantasy land, we lack any transitional fossils to document an assumed gradual evolutionary development of characteristic pterosaur wings.

Fossil Friday: Flowering Plants — Darwin’s Abominable Mystery

_{Günter Bechly
October 21, 2022}

Flowering plants or angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Lower Cretaceous (about 130 million years ago).

Fossil Friday: Eurotamandua — Anteater or Not Even Close?

_{Günter Bechly
October 14, 2022}

Darwinists have to appeal to the ad hoc hypothesis of convergent adaptation to similar lifestyles, which of course increases their problem.

Fossil Friday: Moniopterus — Snake, Beetle, or Mollusk?

_{Günter Bechly
October 7, 2022}

Scientists are only humans and many of them see what they want to see. Fossils often leave a lot of room for wild imagination and wishful thinking.

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

_{Günter Bechly
September 30, 2022}

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

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

_{Günter Bechly
September 23, 2022}

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.”

Fossil Friday: Rhenocystis and the Controversial Calcichordate Hypothesis

_{Günter Bechly
September 16, 2022}

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.

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

_{Günter Bechly
September 9, 2022}

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.