Article by Karsten Pultz about my comments on the paleoanthropological discoveries in 2017 in the Danish Christian newspaper Udfordringen (online Dec. 29, 2017; print Jan. 2018).

Blog posting "Evolution v. Intelligent Design: Putting your Life on the Line" about my story at Betty Pfeiffer's blog God's Path for Kids (Jan. 6, 2018).

Article "For Paleoanthropology, Dawn of Another Annus Horribilis" on Discovery Institute's site Evolution News from January 29, 2018 about two paleoanthropological surprises in the early new year.

Incompetent anti-ID blogger Bill Needle responds with this wonderful demonstration of his lack of reading comprehension: „Bechly Bombast and Blunders!“ at his Marmotism blog (Feb. 3, 2018).

In this talk radio episode "0431. A Leading Bioscientist’s Doubt of Darwinism" (Febr. 12, 2018) my colleague Jonathan Witt talks about the new book "Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design" and also about my story (starting at time code 16:55).

Article in the German newspaper Gäubote (Febr. 13, 2018) about a talk "Vernünftige Gründe für den Glauben an Gott"  I held on Febr. 11 at the YMCA Sulz am Eck, Germany with nearly 80 participants.

Another article "Wildberg: Wissenschaftliche Argumente führen zu Gott" was published by Timo Roller in another local newspaper Schwarzwälder Bote on Febr. 13, 2018.

Article "Did Fish as Flotsam Conquer Land?" on Discovery Institute's site Evolution News from February 19, 2018 about a new study on the origin of tetrapods.

David Klinghoffer writes at Evolution News (Febr. 20, 2018) "Bechly: In the Fossil Record, "Abrupt Appearances Are the Rule"” about my new ID the Future podcast.

David Klinghoffer writes at Evolution News (Febr. 27, 2018) "Bechly: The “Explosive” Pattern in the Fossil Record, and What It Means” about my new ID the Future podcast.

Article "Contradicting Darwinian Gradualism, Earliest Animals Show Complex Parental Behavior" on Discovery Institute's site Evolution News from March 30, 2018 about the discovery of parental care in Early Cambrian arthropods.

Article "Extinct Four-Eyed Monitor Lizard Busts Myth of a Congruent Nested Hierarchy" on Discovery Institute's site Evolution News from April 23, 2018 about the third eye of vertebrates and the problem of convergences.

This article stipulated a rather clueless response "Contested Bones X: More H erectus just humans plus fresh Gunther Bechly “problems” for “Darwinism”" by anti-ID video blogger James Downard, a retired supply worker, who greatly overestimates his competence to talk about such scientific issues.

Article "New Species of Fossil Dragonfly Named for ID Proponent Michael Behe" on Discovery Institute's site Evolution News from April 27, 2018 about my newest research and little present for one of my influencers.

Uncommon Descent blog also positively commented about this announcement "Fossil dragonfly named in Mike Behe’s honor has implications for ID" on April 28, 2017, as did Dr. Jay Wile in his Proslogion blog post "Michael Behe Earns a Well-Deserved Honor" on May 3rd, 2018.

And if you want to have a good laugh at our opponents please read the highly incompetent comments under the "masterpiece" titled "Big News from the Discovery Institute" found at The Sensuous Curmudgeon blog from April 29, 2018.

Bill Needle even topped this with his diatribe "Gunter Loves Michael!" at his Marmotism blog on May 13, 2008.

This podcast was also commented at Evolution News with "Bechly: Why the Phenomenon of Living Fossils Is Under “Massive Attack”" on May 15, 2018, and at Uncommon Descent with "Gunter Bechly: “Living fossils” under massive attack" on May 18, 2018.

Bill Needle seems so obsessed with me that he could not resist to contribute another empty diatribe full of gutter language titled ""Living Fossils" vs ID Creationism!" at his Marmotism blog on May 27, 2008.

See below for Bill Needle's inept responses to these videos in his Marmotism blog (Nov. 2018).

Article "Alleged Refutation of the Cambrian Explosion Confirms Abruptness, Vindicates Meyer" on Discovery Institute's site Evolution News from May 29, 2018.

Riffraff Darwinist Bill Needle, who's gutter language and total cluelessness again reveal his lowly origin, provided another embarrassing comment "Bechly's ID Creationist Bafflement!" at his Marmotism blog on June 21, 2018.

Article "Rafting Stormy Waters: When Biogeography Contradicts Common Ancestry" on Discovery Institute's site Evolution News from June 27, 2018.

Article "This Critter Is Named for Günter Bechly" on Discovery Institute's site Evolution News from June 27, 2018.

PDF-exposé (updated May 15, 2019) for the critical book about Wikipedia "Schwarzbuch Wikipedia" edited by Dr. Andreas Mäckler, which includes an excerpt with large parts of my chapter (in German). It will be published in winter 2019 or early 2020.

Bill Needle's obsession with me reached new heights with his postings "Bechly and Me" (Jul. 11) and "Under Bechly's Skin!" (Jul. 18) at his Marmotism blog. His postings speak for themselves, and I suppose he is just an angry young fellow, still dwelling in his parent's basement without girl friend, who is alienated by the fact that even other Darwinists ignore his embarrassing blog, as shown by the absence of any likes or comments for most of his postings. No wonder that this attention-seeking confused guy is obsessed with his only reader, but I have to admit to enjoy some Schadenfreude when people like him bring evolutionists into disrepute.

[In July / August 2018 I took a brief break from my ID work because of our relocation from Germany to our new home in Austria.]

German atheist website Answers Without Questions comments on my quite popular YouTube interview in their article "Günter Bechly und seine Zweifel an Darwin" with the usual confusion of ID with creationism, and with hilarious misrepresentations of my arguments, such as this gem: No joke - this is really his argument "Here we lack information - thus it must have been magic!". Well, no, this is of course emphatically NOT my argument, but they obviously don't care much about facts and prefer to criticize silly caricatures.

Article "Ignoring Other Research, New Study Explains (Away) the Origin of New Body Plans" on Discovery Institute's site Evolution News from September 12, 2018.

My special "fan" Bill Needle (an incarnation of the Dunning-Kruger effect) again tries to trigger the only reader of his lonely and angry Marmotism blog with this wonderful posting "Bechly Brings the Bullshit!" (Oct. 14). Please enjoy and have mercy, this poor boy desperately needs some readers and maybe a first commenter after 10 postings without any feedback! (Update: see his predictable response "Gunter Bechly's Comical "Activism"!" from Oct. 20)

Article "Why Dickinsonia Was Most Probably Not an Ediacaran Animal" on Discovery Institute's site Evolution News from September 27, 2018.

<satire>Unfortunately, my "friend" Bill Needle utterly refuted my arguments with this highly sophisticated rebuttal "The Bullshit Bechly Bullshits!" at his Marmotism blog (Nov. 3). Thanks Bill for this eloquent demonstration of good Darwinian reasoning.</satire>

Joshua Swamidass starts a thread "Günter Bechly on Origins" about me at his Peaceful Science site (Nov. 19-24, 2018). They speculate about my beliefs and my story, but I wonder why they did not bother to simply ask me!?

Angry darwinist blogger Bill Needle commented about my ELF video on the fossil record "Bullshitting Bechly Bullshitting Doomsday Cult Bullshit" at his miserable Marmotism blog (Nov. 18, 2018). Obviously this God-hating bigot never heard about crucial works like the Nature paper of Foote & Sepkoski (1999), who concluded "completeness is rather high for many animal groups". The only argument in Needle's nonsensical response "Gunter Bechly Disappoints Jesus!" (Nov. 21) can be easily refuted by quoting one of the world's leading experts on the fossil record, Prof. Michael Benton (1998): "The phylogenetic congruence assessments have indicated that there is no evidence that vertebrates have a fossil record that is either any better, or indeed any worse, than that of any other major group of animals. In addition, there is no evidence that the record of continental (that is, terrestrial and freshwater) tetrapods is worse than that of marine echinoderms or fishes. These kinds of assessments have proved highly fruitful, and they provide a sound quantified answer to the old cry of 'the fossil record is pretty incomplete and uninformative'."

Needle also commented about my ELF video on whale evolution and not only demonstrated in his posting "How and Why Did the "Designer" Design This Complete Transitional Series?" (Nov. 24) that he is absolutely clueless about the waiting time problem, but instead attacked a ridiculous straw man claim that nobody made. Unfortunately, this is a quite typical response by hardcore Darwinist activists to the ever growing conflicting evidence: ignoring, denying, or distorting. Bill Needle indeed does such an excellent job in making evolutionists look bad and stupid that one could almost suspect that he secretly works for Answers in Genesis.

Finally, this poor little simpleton in his narrow-mindedness seems to be unable to grasp the plain truth, that only because I was invited to speak at a FOCL conference does not imply that I endorse everything they say, which should be obvious to anyone with average intelligence by the fact that I am not an evangelical (Protestant) Christian.

He responded to these paragraphs with "More Belligerent Bullshitting Bechly Hilarity!" (Nov. 28) in which, apart from some smoke and mirrors, he repeats the same silly question of his previous posting, which he apparently considers as brilliant, and thus proves that he is not smart enough to understand that this is the very straw man I referred to above (hint: ID is a method to identify phenomena that are best explained with an intelligent cause, but this method in principle has to be agnostic about the identity, motivations, and mechanisms of the intelligent cause).

Nevertheless, in his dozens of posts against me, he accidentally stumbled upon a single correct  point: some of my responses to his diatribes indeed may not be very kind, and they are not meant to be. Indeed, my Nietzschean character is not made for meek responses to such malicious garbage ("what goes around comes around"). Since this confused and ill-bred fellow is unworthy of attention and response, I seriously considered to ignore his rants in the future (prompting "Farewell Gunter! Thanks for the Laughs!"), but then changed my mind because Bill Needle's blog simply is too hilarious and useful to expose dogmatic Darwinism.

Article "Evolutionsbiologe beginnt zu zweifeln" about me at the Swiss Christian web portals livenet.ch  and jesus.ch (Nov. 27, 2018), written by Miriam Hinrichs. Unfortunately, it fails to distinguish intelligent design from creationism. The article is based on a YouTube interview, but was written in the "I" form even though it is paraphrased and I was not involved as author or even informed about it.

Article "Rewriting Human Origins, Ongoing in East Asia" on Discovery Institute's site Evolution News from November 28, 2018.

This article was also discussed at Joshua Swamidass' Peaceful Science site. And of course Bill Needle could not resist and commented "Blundering Bechly Buffoonery!" at Marmotism (Dec. 16, 2018).

Speaking engagements and other scheduled events for 2018:

• February 11, 2018 (20:00-22:00) in Sulz am Eck, Germany: Invited talk "Vernünftige Gründe für den Glauben an Gott sowie Zweifel an der Evolution" about arguments that convinced me of theism (Interview, presentation, and Q&A, ca 80 people) at a community evening of the YMCA (Gemeindeabend CVJM Sulz am Eck) (http://www.cvjmsulz.de/termine/).
• March 10, 2018 (9:30-12:00) in Friolzheim, Germany: Invited keynote talk "Fossil Discontinuities in the History of Life" (90 min. + 60 min. Q&A, ca. 30 people) at the BioFachtagung 2018 of the Studiengemeinschaft Wort und Wissen (http://www.wort-und-wissen.de/index2.php?artikel=veranstaltungen/main.php&n=Fachtagungen.Fachtagungen).
• March 14, 2018 (1:00 PM) in Seattle, USA (via Skype): Talk "Why I Believe in Intelligent Design [as a Scientist]" (15-20 min. + 15-20 min. Q&A, more than 300 people) at ID Education Day Seattle(https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intelligent-design-education-day-seattle-tickets-42024328899).
• March 23, 2018 (1:00 PM) in Dallas, USA (via Skype): Talk "Why I Believe in Intelligent Design [as a Scientist]" (15-20 min. + 15-20 min. Q&A, more than 200 people) at ID Education Day Dallas (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intelligent-design-education-day-dallas-tickets-42107203780).
• Febr. 13 - April 10, 2018: Email-interview about my Wikipedia experiences for a book chapter in the projected „Schwarzbuch Wikipedia“ by Dr. Andreas Mäckler, for which I will be a co-author.
• April 12, 2018 (20:00) via Skype: Recording of podcast about the Cambrian Explosion for ID the Future with Sarah Chaffee.
• April 20, 2018 (20:00-21:30, 30 people) in Kassel, Germany: Invited talk "Staunen über die Schöpfung - Ein Weg zur Gotteserkenntnis" at the Fachtagung Naturwissenschaften 2018 "Was zeigt die Natur von Gott?" (April 20.-22. 2018) of the SMD (https://www.smd.org/en/akademiker-smd/fachgruppen/naturwissenschaften/tagungs-detailseiten/ft-nawi-2018/).
• May 4., 2018 (20:00) via Skype: Recording of two podcasts about "Living Fossils and Stasis in the Fossil Record as a Problem for Darwinism“ and "New fossil dragonfly species named after ID theorist Michael Behe" for ID the Future with Sarah Chaffee.
• May 7, 2018 (18:30-21:00) at the CVYM in Stuttgart, Germany: Invited talk "Wissenschaft ohne Scheuklappen -  Einwände gegen Darwins Evolutionstheorie" (90 min. presentation + 60 min. Q&A, 45 people) about scientific reasons to doubt Darwinism for the EAK / Evangelischer Arbeitskreis der CDU (protestant working group of the Christian Democratic political party in Germany) (https://www.ea-stuttgart.de/resources/ecics_39.pdf)
• May 20, 2018 (12:00-13:15) in Wisla, Poland: Invited presentation "Fossil Discontinuities - A Refutation of Neo-Darwinism and Confirmation of Intelligent Design" (45 min. + 30 min. Q&A) at the Scientists Network Session of the European Leadership Forum 2018 (May 19.-24. 2018) (http://www.euroleadership.org/generalinformation).
• May 20, 2018 (14:15-14:45) in Wisla, Poland: Video interviews about fossil discontinuities for FOCLonline.org.
• June 1, 2018 (14:30-16:00) in Rehe / Germany: Invited seminar "Diskontinuitäten im Fossilbericht: Widersprüche zum Darwinschen Gradualismus" (90 min., 24 people) at the Hauptkonferenz of the Studiengemeinschaft Wort und Wissen (http://www.wort-und-wissen.de/veranstaltungen.html).
• June 1, 2018 (20:00) in Rehe / Germany: Invited plenary talk "Explosionen im Fossilbericht und das „Wartezeit“-Problem“ (60 min. + Q&A, ca. 150 people) at the Hauptkonferenz of the Studiengemeinschaft Wort und Wissen (http://www.wort-und-wissen.de/veranstaltungen.html), the biggest German creationist organization.
• June 2, 2018 (16:00-17:30) in Rehe / Germany: Invited seminar "Diskontinuitäten im Fossilbericht: Widersprüche zum Darwinschen Gradualismus"  (90 min., 64 people) at the Hauptkonferenz of the Studiengemeinschaft Wort und Wissen (http://www.wort-und-wissen.de/veranstaltungen.html).
• June 14, 2018: Presentation about "The Fossil Record: Confirming or Conflicting Evidence for Neodarwinism?" (15 min., 35 people incl. a Nobel laureate) at an international interdisciplinary private conference (June 11-15, 2018) in southern France.
• June 20, 2018 in Böblingen, Germany: radio interview by Timo König for the German media group ERF.
• July 10, 2018 (1:30-3:00 PM, 50 people) in Seattle, USA: Lecture "Fossil Discontinuities in the History of Life: A Problem for Neo-Darwinism" at Discovery Institute’s CSC Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences 2018 (July 6-14, 2018: https://www.discovery.org/id/summer-seminars/natural-sciences/).
• July 11, 2018 (10:00-11:30): Recording of a radio interview by Jenny Schmitt for World Magazine (scheduled for January 2019).
• August 31, 2018 (19:30-21:30): zoom video interview by Ann Gauger for Discovery Institute.
• September 15, 2018: Skype-Talk to the youth at St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church in Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada) about "Weaknesses of the Theory of Evolution" (45 min. + 30 min. Q&A, 40 people).
• November 3, 2018 via Zoom: Webinar "Conflicting evidence for common ancestry from the fossil record" at Apologetics Academy.
• November 9, 2018 (18:15-18:30): Skype video interview about intelligent design by Zain Khan for his talkshow Zain Khan Live (broadcasted in season 2 on May 5, 2020).
• November 23, 2018 (20:45-22:20): Recording of Skype interview with Evan Sizemore for his new video podcast show Ever Wonder: Science and Nature Explained (shall be available at iTunes in 2019).
• November 2018: recording of video interview by Stephan Lange for his mitdenkend YouTube channel (has to be redone in March 2019 because of sound problems).
• November 24, 2018 in Rotterdam, Netherlands: Invited talk "The fossil record as problem for evolutionism“ (45 min.) at the Regionaltag and Logos Congress "Geloof is de sleutel tot kennis" of the Dutch Logos-Instituut in cooperation with the German Studiengemeinschaft Wort und Wissen (https://logos.nl/evenementen/lijst/?tribe_paged=2&tribe_event_display=list). UPDATE: This event was cancelled by the organizer and moved to November 9, 2019.