Jonathan McLatchie announces a live interactive webinar today, Saturday, at 8pm British time, featuring pro-ID paleontologist Dr. Gunter Bechly, who will be exploring the implications of the fossil record for common ancestry.
Gunter Bechly is a distinguished paleontologist, specializing in fossil dragonflies, exquisitely preserved in amber for tens of millions of years. After revealing his support for the theory of intelligent design, he was pushed out as a curator at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany. He subsequently joined Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture as a Senior Fellow.
He was also erased from Wikipedia due to his change of mind.
Philip Cunningham has made a playlist of Gunter Bechly here:
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See also: Does intelligent design oppose common descent? Not in principle, according to Ann Gauger of the Biologic Institute.
and
Gunter Bechly: Decline of science? Imaged in a single paragraph
Here it is via facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.mclatchie/videos/10156369556191943/?notif_id=1541275292979379¬if_t=live_video_explicit
Good presentation.
As I’ve said elsewhere…the fossil record does not support UCA.
Thanks for the link BA77
I just mentioned the same thing, from the cambrian all the way to US, the fossil record, certainly does not even suggest a common ancestor – In the Cambrian, not only is there nothing of significance before, but NOTHING IN BETWEEN – meaning no transitionals in between Phyla – Why would a designing intelligence be restricted from working from a single ancestor – several vertical stalks with tons of horizontal connections, does not support common ancestry, it supports multiple ancestors, if we still follow evidence based science. I mean Stephen J. Gould proposed an almost creation like sudden appearance model, due to the evidence as he saw it – back them he came under attack by Darwinists, before they, as they always do, folded him to their family of variations on their”non-falsifiable” jumble of a thoery, based almost completly on conjecture, and assumptions that fall one by one as we uncover new evidence.
As Dr. Bechly touched upon in the video, the fossil record, especially in the Cambrian Explosion, displays a ‘top down’, disparity preceding diversity, pattern which is the complete opposite pattern that one would expect from the ‘bottom up’ prediction of Darwinian evolution.
Here are a few notes to go along with Dr. Bechly’s ‘top down’ claim for the fossil record:
I would like to reiterate a point I made in the preceding link.
Moreover, this ‘top down’ vs. ‘bottom up’ dichotomy noted in the fossil record between what UCD (Universal Common Descent) predicts and what ID predicts cannot be stressed enough.
As George Ellis notes in the following article, this ‘top down’ feature is a defining characteristic that notes the presence of immaterial information within a system as well as providing evidence for the prior work of a immaterial mind in bringing that system into existence.
Moreover, the entire concept of a distinct kind of species is a abstract, (i.e. universal), concept that can find no basis within the ‘bottom up’ reductive materialistic framework of UCD but can only be grounded within the immaterial world of mind and information. i.e. Can only be grounded within the framework of Intelligent Design.
Here is an excellent article that gets this point across:
Thus, the entire concept of species, like personhood and mathematics,,,
Thus, the entire concept of species, like the concepts of personhood and mathematics, is a non-material, ‘abstract’, concept that we are absolutely certain exists but, “— here’s the rub —”, the reductive materialistic foundation of Darwinian evolution cannot possibly account for what we know to be certain about the distinctiveness of species.
Of one final note, ‘immaterial’ abstract thought, which Darwinian evolution, via materialism, cannot possibly account for, is what especially makes humans ‘more different from apes than apes are from viruses’.
Verse:
Dr. Gunter Bechly is correct, of course, and his presentation was superb. But there is a commonality between the species: DNA. The intelligent designer(s) reused it everywhere.
Good, debugged, modular code is re-used over and over.
So it is with many optimized genetic codes.
Living things for their size are incredible, astonishing and wonderful!