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Geneticists Debate a First Human Pair — Continued; Where Is Dennis Venema?

Genuine scientific debate on fundamental issues that real people care about is such a rarity that when it happens, you almost want to pinch yourself to make sure you’re not dreaming. Read More ›
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Ruling Out Originating Human Pair, Theistic Evolutionist Oversteps — Geneticist Chimes In

On Dennis Venema's argument, along comes a second geneticist, no friend to biology that’s open to the design hypothesis. Read More ›
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Is a First Human Pair Possible or Impossible?

Richard Buggs, Reader at Queen Mary University of London, is a well-respected geneticist, with numerous papers published in molecular ecology, genomics, and molecular evolution. Read More ›
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Photo: Australopithecus afarensis, model, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, by Tim Evanson, via Flickr.

Human Origins: Out of Africa, or Out of Germany?

Major discoveries in paleoanthropology that have made 2017 a kind of annus horribilis for the established scientific consensus on human evolution. Read More ›
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Dan Brown Thriller Has MIT’s Jeremy England in It; Brian Miller Puts the Science in Perspective

I’m reading Brown’s new Robert Langdon novel, Origin. There’s a decent chance you are too. Read More ›
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Trouble in Paradise? At BioLogos, Theistic Evolutionists Fall Out Among Themselves

For years they have been gravely advising their fellow Christians that science rules out belief in a historical first pair of human beings. Read More ›
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Does Science Rule Out a First Human Pair? Geneticist Richard Buggs Says No

One of the claims Dennis Venema makes in his book is that the effective population size of our last common ancestor with chimps has never been fewer than 10,000. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Point: No Evidence for Common Ancestry of Humans with Monkeys

The bump was originally discovered by the celebrated British sculptor Thomas Woolner, who informed Charles Darwin about it. Read More ›
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13-Million-Year Old Skull from Kenya – A Human Ancestor? Not Likely

You’ll forgive me for being a little bit jaded by now at news like this. Read More ›
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Common Descent or Common Design? An Exercise in Question-Begging

Darwinists point to similarities across species, classes, and phyla, and argue that this shows we’re all descended from a common ancestor. Read More ›

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