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La Pasiega Cave
Photo: La Pasiega Cave, by Don Hitchcock, donsmaps.com, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Possible Cave “Proto-Writing” Challenges Slow Evolution of Human Consciousness

London-based wood carving conservator Ben Bacon has, with academic colleagues, shaken up Ice Age paleontology. Read More ›
William Wordsworth
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The Apotheosis of William Wordsworth

What many responded to in Wordsworth’s evocations of Nature’s sacrality was his restoration of a partially obscured link between Nature and the divine. Read More ›
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coronavirus
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Listen: Demonizers and Dehumanizers

John West urges supporters of vaccinations to meet the other side not with insults but with reasoned discourse and scientific evidence. Read More ›
teenagers
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Egnor: Why More Sex Change Medicine for Teens in U.S. than Europe?

One factor in the difference between the United States and Europe may be less accurate information in the United States. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor: Judeo-Christian Culture and the Rise of Modern Science

Dr. Egnor addresses the claim that the rise of atheism has somehow been a boon to science. Not so, Egnor says. Read More ›
Mother Earth
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Nature Divinized: Darwin’s Goddess for All Seasons

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 ›
baby
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Where the Abortion Debate Goes from Here

On a new podcast, host Wesley Smith and guest Catherine Glenn Foster discuss the Dobbs decision. Read More ›
Ernst Haeckel
Photo: Statue of Ernst Haeckel, Chemnitz, Saxony, by André Karwath aka Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

As Many Opinions as There Are Men?

The ideas of Ernst Haeckel, in his youth a hardline Darwinian materialist, were to evolve to a surprising degree. Read More ›
Holocaust
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Let’s Learn from Whoopi Goldberg’s Misunderstanding about the History of Racism

Leading scientists were complicit in helping formulate and justify Hitler’s worldview. Read More ›

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