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Eugenie Scott
Photo: Eugenie Scott, by Sgerbic, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Equivocation as a Tactic in the Evolution Debate

How many Americans accept Darwin's belief that human beings are the result of an unguided, purposeless process? This survey doesn't come close to telling us. Read More ›
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Photo: An image from Human Zoos, via Discovery Institute.

Human Zoos — International, Still Being Airbrushed

The Belgian human zoo sounds exactly like the St. Louis equivalent just a few years later. Read More ›
Cueva de Ardales
Photo: Cueva de Ardales, © João Zilhão, ICREA, via EurekAlert!

Painting by Neanderthals? Study Makes a Design Inference

An observation that supports a non-natural origin is that the pigment appears only in a small, conspicuous location. Read More ›
Washington University
Photo: Basement of Cupples Hall, Washington University, by John West.

Biologist: It’s “Racist” to Invite Condemnation of Racism

Organizers of the St. Louis World’s Fair believed human zoos would “shed light on the theory evolved by Darwin as regards the evolution of the human race.” Read More ›
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Image: An artist imagines Homo erectus pekinensis, by Cicero Moraes [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Darwinism Can Never Separate Itself from Racism

The thread of racism in Darwinian thinking isn’t a chance thing, a mere byproduct of Charles Darwin’s personal views as a “man of his time.” Read More ›
Santal
Photo: Santa people, by Ramjit Tudu, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Reviewing Sapiens: Getting the Origin of Religion Backwards

The traditions of the Santal people entail an account of their own religious history that directly contradicts Harari’s evolutionary view. Read More ›
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In Sapiens, Admissions and Overstatements about Human Evolutionary Origins

Harari’s conjecture — “There are no gods” — forms the very basis for everything he says in the rest of the book. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Casey Luskin.

New Review Series — Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens

Earlier this year an ID-friendly scientist contacted me to ask my opinion of the book. He mentioned a former Christian who had lost his faith after reading it. Read More ›
Miocene ape Oreopithecus bambolii
Photo: Miocene ape Oreopithecus bambolii, by Ghedoghedo, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists Conclude: Human Origins Research Is a Big Mess

Considering the number of fossils attributed to the human lineage, an absence of such fossils for the great African ape lineages raises an obvious suspicion. Read More ›
Ardipithecus ramidus
Photo: Ardipithecus ramidus, by Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Study: Hands of “Ardi” Indicate a Chimp-like Tree-Dweller and Knuckle-Walker

Initially, Ardi was widely called the “oldest human ancestor,” due to its supposed skeletal traits that indicated an early bipedal (upright walking) species. Read More ›

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