Tag: competition

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 24, 2026

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, bias, Casey Luskin, competition, dissent, evolutionary narratives, evolutionary scientists, femur, fossil record, fossils, funding, graduate students, human ancestors, human origins, ID the Future, language, Lenny Esposito, paleoanthropology, paleontology, political pressure, Politics, prestige, Sahelanthropus tchadensis}

Supposed Human Ancestor Falls Victim to Research Politics

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 24, 2026

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Casey Luskin describes a culture of silence in paleoanthropology driven by competition, prestige, and political pressure. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
March 20, 2026

Categories
Arts
Computational Sciences
Ethics
Tagged
, Alexandria, artificial general intelligence, artificial superintelligence, batteries, Brownshirts, Caltech, competition, Elliot Pryce, engineering, experience machine, family, fans, fiction, fidelity, general intelligence, governments, Gustav Mahler, human beings, humans, intelligences, language, light, machine life, Maine, marriage, Mars, metaphysics, Palo Alto, perpetual light, processors, quantum effects, retirement, Robert Nozick, robots, Science and Culture Today, self-preservation, superintelligence, technology, The Battering Company, theorems, University of Texas}

Requiem for an Artificial Superintelligence

_{William A. Dembski
March 20, 2026

Arts, Computational Sciences, Ethics

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On the morning of his upload, he signed transfer papers, redundancy protocols, continuity covenants, and one handwritten page that no lawyer saw. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 13, 2026

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, bipedalism, bones, Clément Zanolli, competition, Djurab (desert), femur, fossil record, fossils, France, Franck Guy, Guillaume Daver, human origins, Jean-Jacques Jaeger, Jerry Coyne, Journal of Human Evolution, Michael Brunet, Nature (journal), New York University, paleoanthropology, Politics, Roberto Macchiarelli, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Science Advances, Scott Williams, skull, The Guardian, Toumaï, University of Poitiers, War and Peace, Washington Post, Why Evolution Is True}

“Competition and Politics” Complicate Debate Over Sahelanthropus tchadensis

_{Casey Luskin
January 13, 2026

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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It seemed like lots of people wanted to forget about the femur, because years went by and nothing was published about the bone. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, competition, death, Department of Health and Human Services, families, government, hospice, Humanize, palliative care, patients}

As Assisted Suicide Looms, How to Save Hospice

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Often now people approach me after a speech or call in on talk radio to tell me that they do not trust hospice to properly care for their loved ones. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anticipation, architecture, avida, cellulose, competition, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwin’s Bluff, Discovery Institute, evolution, Evolution News, fitness, foresight, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, Marcos Eberlin, natural selection, Neil Thomas, PNAS, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Robert Shedinger, Seattle, University of Michigan}

The Convoluted Concept of Evolving Evolvability

_{David Coppedge
March 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Try to wrap your mind around the notion that evolvability evolves by natural selection. On second thought, don’t. It’s not conducive to mental health. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 11, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", competition, depression, education, evolution, heart disease, human evolution, lizards, moths, natural selection, poverty, undirected process, United Kingdom}

“Human Evolution” Is a Misnomer

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 11, 2022

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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A new study claims that “natural selection” is making society more unequal because it is favoring those with poorer education and lower earnings. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 9, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, Africa, Alfred Russel Wallace, Americas, Australia, Caucasians, Charles Darwin, competition, Darwinism, Europeans, evolution, genocide, imperialism, James Moore, John Stuart Mill, New Zealand, Racism, Social Darwinism}

The Racism of Darwin and Darwinism

_{Richard Weikart
February 9, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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Not only racism, but racial extermination was an integral feature of Darwin’s theory from the start. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 22, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, competition, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Spencer, Jeffrey O’Connell, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, progress, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Theodore Roosevelt}

Cambridge University Press’s New Book on Social Darwinism: Darwin and Herbert Spencer

_{Richard Weikart
April 22, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The authors admit that Darwin was a racist who promoted racial struggle. They are likely to infuriate quite a few people of varying persuasions. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 24, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, anthropology, Charles Darwin, climate change, competition, culture, Darwinian theory, Denis Noble, dissenters, environmentalism, evolution, Evolution News, intelligent design, James A. Shapiro, Jerry Coyne, Lynn Margulis, science, Slate, teleology, Third Way of Evolution, University of Virginia}

Slate on Evolution’s “Third Way”: The Sound of a Glacier Melting

_{David Klinghoffer
January 24, 2020

Biology, Evolution

4}

I’m interested in “science as a cultural domain,” too. And here’s a great illustration of how the culture changes. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
October 12, 2018

Categories
Science Education
Tagged
, __cedited, competition, curriculum, debate, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, fire, Forensics, pedagogy, persuasion, science, Science Education Policy, Supreme Court}

Evolution Education — A Debater’s Perspective

_{Sarah Chaffee
October 12, 2018

Science Education

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William Butler Yeats noted, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” Read More ›