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Macaque Monkey
Chinese
Photo: A macaque monkey, looking pensive, by Kyla Marino, via Flickr (cropped).

China Genetically Engineering Monkeys to Be More Human

Swell. A few years ago we were promised experiments that would effect the brain would never be done in mice. They were right. Read More ›
black hole
physicalists
Photo: Photographic image of a black hole, by Event Horizon Telescope [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

First Ever Black Hole Image Points to Cosmology’s Big Message

Discovery Institute astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez identifies two important points about the Event Horizon Telescope’s (EHT) exciting achievement. Read More ›
Lenski’s terrific LTEE
distinctions
Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Can’t Anybody Here Make Distinctions?

Professor Lenski revisits a series of experiments on the bacteriophage lambda begun by his lab around 2012. Read More ›
Copernican promotion
Mike Keas

Science Historian Michael Keas on the Copernican Promotion

Myth-makers like Neil deGrasse Tyson think they have a superior source of human significance to substitute for the outdated, “childish” Judeo-Christian one Read More ›
Westminster Conference
Michael Behe

No Triangulation as Michael Behe Headlines 2019 Westminster Conference

As I’m writing this I’ve been reacquainting myself with physicist Marcelo Gleiser, who just won the year’s prestigious, $1.5 million Templeton Prize. Read More ›
Human Zoos
Ota Benga

Listen: Bought in a Slave Auction, Displayed as Evolutionary “Science”

The association with “mainstream science” is often weaponized as a way of overawing us and persuading us to stop expecting answers to hard questions. Read More ›
Cupples Hall
Washington University

Human Zoos and a Cruel Past: A Visit to Washington University

Take a look inside the university’s Cupples Hall where, down in the basement, psychological tests, “including pain testing,” were conducted on evolutionary “missing links.” Read More ›
Ted Williams
Human Zoos

On Chicago’s Ted Williams TV Talk Show, Human Zoos Sparks Discussion of Scientific Racism

One takeaway is that, despite assurances to the contrary, modern evolutionary theory is not easily separated from malign currents in American history, currently exemplified by the Alt-right. Read More ›
Wallace's Giant Bee
Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace and Wallace’s Giant Bee — In the News

It’s not every day that Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) appears in an article linked by the Drudge Report. Read More ›

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