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Date
July 19, 2022

Categories
Arts
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, cave paintings, evolution, humans, Michael Marshall, Neanderthals, paleontology, Spain, Stone Age}

Neanderthal Art, if That’s What It Is, Would Upset the Evolutionary Paradigm

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July 19, 2022

Arts, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Paleontologists resist the idea that early humans called Neanderthals created any artworks. Their reasoning is sometimes circular. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 19, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, Abraham, atheism, Big Bang, Brian Keating, Dennis Prager Show, heavens, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, NASA, Return of the God Hypothesis, stars, Stephen Meyer, UC San Diego}

Count the Stars: Webb Space Telescope and the God Hypothesis

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July 19, 2022

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Planetology

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I was listening to the Dennis Prager Show and found to my delight that his guest was our friend Brian Keating, the distinguished UC San Diego cosmologist. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 19, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A. N. Wilson, Benjamin Wiker, chance, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Daniel Dennett, evolution, Geoffrey Chaucer, Hamlet, Janus, John Herschel, Karl Popper, Lady Fortuna, Lady Luck, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Oxbridge, Richard Dawkins, St. George Mivart, The Blind Watchmaker, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, Victorian England, William Whewell}

The Art of Concealment: Darwin and Chance

_{Neil Thomas
July 19, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It is appropriate that Fortuna’s emblematic representation with her ubiquitous wheel should have gone on to become the prototype of the modern roulette wheel. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 18, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, atheism, Atlantic Ocean, BBC News, biogeography, birds, Casey Luskin, common descent, Eugenie Scott, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, hoatzin, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Egnor, Namibia, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), rafting, rafting animals, South America, Stephen Meyer, The New Yorker, Tree of Life}

“Bizarre Bird” Highlights the Problem of Biogeography

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July 18, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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While hoatzins are bad at flying, evolutionists have been forced to credit these birds with some impressive rafting — unbelievably impressive. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 18, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Alexander Graham Bell, ATP synthase, Delft University of Technology, DNA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, mitochondrial membrane, New Scientist, photosynthesis, UC Riverside, University of Texas}

If Nanomotors Are Designed, Why Not Biomotors?

_{David Coppedge
July 18, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Physical chemists are justifiably proud of their tiny motors that do little more than spin. How can they say that much more complex motors in life evolved? Read More ›

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Date
July 17, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, Ars Technica, birds, brain size, brains, chimpanzees, genetic engineering, Homo sapiens, human brain, humans, information processing, John Timmer, lemurs, London School of Economics, Michael Denton, monkeys, octopuses, oxygen, primates, superintelligence, synaptic connections, The Miracle of Man}

Brain Size Doesn’t Determine Intelligence

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July 17, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Brains are not simple, so many “just common sense” theories have fallen by the wayside. Read More ›

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Date
July 16, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, activists, animal rights, animal welfare, courts, elephants, environmentalism, Florida, glaciers, human thriving, humans, Lake Erie, lakes, lawsuit, nature rights, New York Court of Appeals, Ohio, Orange County, rivers}

Local “Water Rights” Law Invalidated in Florida

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July 16, 2022

Bioethics, Life Sciences

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“Nature rights” and “animal rights” activists will keep trying. And there is no denying they are making incremental inroads. Read More ›

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Date
July 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, academia, Andrew McDiarmid, astronomers, autopsy, Darwinian theory, evolutionists, Gollum, history, Johannes Kepler, Michael Keas, Science, Times Higher Education, Tycho Brahe, Unbelievable}

The Gollum Effect in Science, from Tycho Brahe to Today

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July 15, 2022

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Brahe, a 16th-century Danish astronomer, sat on his astronomical research for years, rather than sharing it with Johannes Kepler, his assistant. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Europe, faith, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Levine, goddess, Lucretius, Mother Earth, Mother Nature, natural selection, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, Ovid, paganism, Plato, Robert J. Richards, Samuel Wilberforce, Victorian England, William Paley}

Nature Divinized: Darwin’s Goddess for All Seasons

_{Neil Thomas
July 15, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Some modern archaeologists have even gone so far as to claim that the archetype of the Great Mother has been a mythic universal. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Brazil, Cambrian Explosion, Crato Formation, crocodiles, Crurotarsi, Darwin critics, Darwinists, dinosaurs, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), holotype, ichthyosaur, intelligent design, lizards, Lower Cretaceous, Mammaliaformes, mammals, Nature Communications, Peter Ward, pterosaurs, turtles, Upper Triassic}

Fossil Friday: A Croc Smile from the Cretaceous

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July 15, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Ubiquitous discontinuities contradict the gradualist predictions of Darwin’s theory and thus should count as empirical falsifications of that theory. Read More ›