Günter Bechly and the Discovery Institute #fundie #crackpot #dunning-kruger #pratt

Günter Bechly and the Discovery Institute #fundie #crackpot #dunning-kruger #pratt youtube.com

Gunter [sic] Bechly Explains What The Fossil Evidence Really Says

In this bonus interview released as part of the Science Uprising series, paleontologist Gunter [sic] Bechly unveils the truth behind the fossil record. There are multiple trade secrets among paleontologists. Chief among them is that Darwin's insistence on gradualism was motivated by his understanding that the dramatic jumps found in the fossil record imply intervention. Darwin hoped that time would reveal his desperately needed transitional fossils. It has not, and what science has learned since Darwin's day would've shattered his hopes as Bechly explains.

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If they can’t even get the name of their own shysters right…

From https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateEvolution/comments/1ap1ato/do_creationist_understand_what_a_transitional/

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I still remember the first time I ever heard the creationist claim that no transitional fossils had ever been discovered -- it must have been 15 years ago, in a Ray Comfort YouTube video. I laughed out loud. I was like: "Oh, that's how you're going to play it? Nice."

Fifteen years later, it seems to be that the denial of transitional fossils is two things. First, it's goalpost moving. You can do it forever because evolution is gradual. There's no transitional fossil between Species A and Species B. Wrong, yes there is, here's Species C. Well, then, there's no transitional fossil between Species A and Species C. Wrong, yes there is. And then so on and so forth until you can't find a fossil anymore.

Second, they seem to think that evolution means sudden, huge leaps across biological clades, and that fossils should reflect that. Evolution claims that a pig and a gorilla have a common ancestor. So where's the transitional fossil that shows characteristics of both pigs and gorillas? An animal with a big ol' gorilla chest and a pig snout? This sounds absurd but that's 100 percent what they believe.

"Chief among them is that Darwin's insistence on gradualism was motivated by his understanding that the dramatic jumps found in the fossil record imply intervention.”
You’re framing evolution as being anti-god, not just investigative. Since plenty of theists accept evolutionary theory, this is just you making shit up.

"Darwin hoped that time would reveal his desperately needed transitional fossils. It has not,"
Actually it has. As we come to understand just how tiny the changes actually are, we realized that every single being that ever lived and left a fossil behind was a transitional fossil.

“and what science has learned since Darwin's day would've shattered his hopes as Bechly explains.”
No. We keep building on what he found. God and other supernatural explanations are outside of and surplus to science, so it can only matter to you.

Creationists rely on a single authority and not on evidence for their beliefs, and so they assume everyone else does the same. That's why they focus on Darwin, because they think that by knocking down Darwin himself, that will knock down evolution as a whole. Except that won't do anything at all to knock down everything that has happened or been discovered in the 170 years since Darwin first published his book.

Evolution hasn't relied on Darwin since something like the 1880s!

Günter Bechly and the Discovery Institute #fundie #crackpot #dunning-kruger #pratt youtube.com

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Confused?