German paleontologist Günter Bechly was co-author (with Stephen C. Meyer) of the chapter titled The Fossil Record and Universal Common Ancestry, in the major new book Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique.  In this second conversation with Sarah Chaffee on this topic, Bechly speaks of "life's second 'big bang,'" one of many discontinuities in the fossil record. “There's no reasonable way,” he concludes, “to get from bacteria to mammals via evolutionary processes.”