Author: Günter Bechly
Website: https://evolutionnews.org/author/gbechly
Fossil Friday: Eozoön, the Dawn Animal Fallen from Grace
In modern paleontology it is still a very common phenomenon that fossils are over-interpreted by the scientists and over-hyped in the media.
Fossil Friday: Cloudina Still Lacks the Guts to Be a Worm
We intelligent design proponents make one successful prediction after another, while Darwinism’s track record of failed predictions grows ever longer.
Fossil Friday: Alleged Precambrian Fossil Unmasked as Rotten Beehive
The scientists revisited the site and discovered that the assumed Ediacaran fossils are neither of Ediacaran age nor represent fossils at all.
William Shatner and Our Privileged Planet
Shatner‘s revelation may be interpreted as an environmentalist creed, but I rather see it as a poetical formulation of the fine-tuning of Earth for life.
Fossil Friday: Homo rudolfensis, Another Contentious Homo
Considering the checkered history of grandiose claims and controversies in paleoanthropology, some caution may be wise.