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Darwinian gradualism predicts biological forms evolving gradually from one to another, but it is widely acknowledged that this is not what the fossil record shows. Darwinists have long suggested that this fossil record pattern of major discontinuities is merely an artifact of the fossil record being incomplete. But on this episode of ID the Future, <\/strong>paleoentomologist G\u00fcnter Bechly makes the case that recent findings have put the nails in the coffin of this \u201cartifact hypothesis.\u201d He goes on to argue that these findings are \u201cnot just a tiny problem but a fatal problem\u201d for modern Darwinism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"paleoentomologist G\u00fcnter Bechly makes the case that recent findings have put the nails in the coffin of this \u201cartifact hypothesis.\u201d He goes on to argue that these findings are \u201cnot just a tiny problem but a fatal problem\u201d for modern Darwinism.","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":38776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","sync_status":"synced","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/episodes.castos.com\/id\/IDTF-1364-Bechly-Demise-of-Artifact-Hypothesis.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"277927","podmotor_episode_id":"252775","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:16:57","filesize":"12.1 mb","filesize_raw":"12674172","date_recorded":"2020-10-05","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"1364","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"full","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2365,122,3377,226,269,3378,483,3379,644,645,1933,846,1832,2033,3380],"series":[7227],"speaker":[],"class_list":["post-38775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-__edited","tag-artifact-hypothesis","tag-burgess-shale","tag-cambrian-explosion","tag-charles-darwin","tag-charles-walcott","tag-donald-prothero","tag-ediacaran-period","tag-fossil-discontinuities","tag-fossil-record","tag-gerd-muller","tag-jerry-coyne","tag-missing-links","tag-royal-society-of-london","tag-waiting-time-problem","series-intelligent-design-the-future"],"acf":[],"author_names":["G\u00fcnter Bechly"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/10\/cloudina-carinata-early-metazoan-worn-shaped-stockpack-adobe-stock-scaled.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/idthefuture-cover.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-download\/38775\/1364.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/38775\/1364.mp3","audio_player":"

The Demise of the Artifact Hypothesis<\/a><\/blockquote>