Günter Bechly on Why Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom Was Wrong

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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A new study challenges decades of conventional wisdom on what caused the geologically sudden rise of multicellular life on earth. So what mechanism triggered the Avalon explosion and other similar infusions of new life? And is it a science stopper to use intelligence or mind as a working hypothesis? On this ID The Future, we welcome back paleoentemologist Dr. Günter Bechly to answer these questions and more. A 1959 paper argued that an increase in oxygen content was a pre-condition for the rise of the first complex macro-organisms. This became mainstream consensus for decades. But a new study shows that this geologic event, known as the Avalon explosion, was actually precipitated by a drop in oxygen levels. Dr. Bechly explains the new paper's findings. He also explains the type of mechanism that has the power to produce the effects in question.

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0:00.0	I. Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Today I'm speaking with paleoantomologist Dr.
0:19.0	Gunter Beckley, a senior fellow with Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
0:24.0	Beckley served as curator for amber and fossil insects
0:28.1	in the Department of Paleontology at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany.
0:34.0	He earned his PhD in geosciences from Eberhard Carl's University in Tubingen.
0:40.0	Beckley specializes in the fossil history and systematics of insects, the most diverse group of animals, and especially dragonflies.
0:48.0	So, Gunter likes to be called the fossil insect guy.
0:52.0	Hey Gunter, welcome back.
0:54.0	So, hi Andrew, so it's great to talk again.
0:57.0	Yeah, good to have you back.
0:59.0	Well, since the summer of 2022, you've been publishing a weekly series of articles at evolution
1:05.1	news.org called Fossil Friday where you highlight a different fossil each week
1:09.9	I noticed it kind of started with you sharing images from your own collection, you know, images you'd taken,
1:16.0	which was really cool and then you had a caption with it, and slowly and surely they started to get longer
1:21.4	as you provided more information and then you threw in, you know, some
1:25.1	context on the argument on why it challenges the Darwinian story.
1:31.1	So it's really grown as a series, it's been great to see. And in this series
1:35.8	you illuminate the story of each organism, the question that it brings up for
1:41.0	evolutionary assumptions, and you describe the part it plays in the larger story of the fossil record.
1:47.0	So what inspired you to start such a series?
1:50.3	Well actually the Fossil Friday itself is not really my idea, my original idea, this whole Fossil Friday thing
1:58.8	apparently originated according to my research 2013 as a Twitter phenomenon so there was a
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