Unraveling the Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Life Sciences, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Astronomy

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🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Classifying organisms is an important function of biology. But if phylogenetics is ultimately based on a floundering theory of origins, how helpful is it to our understanding of living things? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid and paleoentemologist Gunter Bechly unpack some of the major problems with arachnid phylogeny and its implications for the common descent hypothesis.

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0:00.0	I. D. the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.1	Welcome to I. D. the Future. I'm Andrew McDermott and today I have the privilege of
0:16.3	welcoming back Dr. Gunter-Bethley. He's going to discuss another of his
0:20.6	popular Fossil Friday articles published at evolution news.org.
0:25.0	This time we're going to chat about some major problems with Arachnet phylogeny.
0:30.0	That's right, spiders, and the implications for the common descent hypothesis.
0:35.0	Now in case you're not familiar with his work, Dr. Beckley is a German paleoantomologist who
0:40.4	specializes in the fossil history and systematics of insects, the most diverse group of animals.
0:46.0	He served as curator for amber and fossil insects in the Department of Paleontology at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany.
0:55.1	He is also a senior fellow with Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
0:59.7	We're delighted to have him. And Dr. Beckley earned his PhD in geosciences from Eberhart-Carls University in tubing in Germany.
1:09.0	Gunter, so great to have you.
1:12.0	Thanks for inviting me.
1:14.0	Absolutely.
1:16.0	Well for listeners who are not aware
1:18.0	you've been publishing a fascinating weekly article series
1:21.0	at evolution news.org
1:22.0	since about the summer of
1:23.7	2022 it's called Fossil Friday each week you illuminate the story of a different
1:29.4	fossil explaining the part it plays in the larger story of the fossil record,
1:33.6	while questioning some of the evolutionary assumptions that might be connected to it.
1:38.0	Each piece is accompanied by at least one striking image
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