Tag: fire

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptations, BIO-Complexity, biochemist, Children of Light, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, doctors, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, feathers, fire, Fire-Maker, fitness, functional intermediates, Greek Orthodox Church, intelligent design, mammals, Michael Denton, Nature’s Destiny, neo-Darwinian evolution, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, structuralism, teleology, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, The Wonder of Water}

Has Michael Denton “Recanted” His Critiques of Darwinian Evolution?

_{Casey Luskin
September 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Obviously, in asking about someone’s view on “evolution,” the answer depends very much on how you define that notoriously multivalent word. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 16, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, antibiotics, body decoration, burial, cave art, compassion, Darwin critics, Darwinian evolution, Down syndrome, fire, gene pool, genetic admixture, glue, Homo sapiens, humankind, jewelry, music, Neanderthals, painkillers, Science (journal), Spain, stone circles}

Fossil Friday: Human Nature of Neanderthals Supported Again

_{Günter Bechly
August 16, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Extended caregiving for a strongly disabled child is a highly non-Darwinian behavior that indeeds suggests compassion on a level only found in humans. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 20, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Geology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Physics
Rare Earth
Technology
Tagged
, agriculture, Andrew McDiarmid, Brian Miller, cooking, earth, Earth’s surface, evidence, fire, food, foresight, gold, hunting, ID the Future, intelligent design, iron, likelihood ratio, physicists, plate tectonics, soil, technological advancement, universe, water cycle}

How Earth is Designed for Human Technology

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 20, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Physics, Rare Earth, Technology

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Is all this a coincidence? We think that’s a stretch. One or two fortunate parameters might be called a fluke. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 16, 2023

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Africa, culture, evolution, fire, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo naledi, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, human origins, humans, interbreeding, Journal of Human Evolution, last common ancestor, Middle Palaeolithic, Neanderthals, PLOS ONE, Portugal, Science Alert, stereotypes, stone tools, University of Trento}

Were Neanderthals and Humans the Same Species?

_{Casey Luskin
November 16, 2023

Archaeology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

5}

The evidence does not demonstrate that humans evolved from some kind of humanlike yet intellectually primitive precursor. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 9, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, ABC News, Casey Luskin, cave art, fire, Homo naledi, human origins, ID the Future, intelligence, Lee Berger, Marketing, Netflix, podcast, preprints}

Not Enough Evidence: Casey Luskin on Recent Homo naledi Claims

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 9, 2023

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

3}

They claim that the small-brained species had high intelligence and engaged in activities like burying their dead, using fire, and engaging in cave wall art. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 22, 2023

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, ABC News, afterlife, Arizona State University, bioRxiv, brain, burial, Chris Stringer, Dinaledi Chamber, documentary, eLife, evolution, fire, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, human origins, humans, intelligence, La Trobe University, Lee Berger, María Martinón-Torres, micromorphology, Natural History Museum, Nature (journal), paleoanthropology, peer review, religion, skeletons, The Guardian, University of Western Australia}

Peer Review Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Used Fire, and Scrawled on Cave Wall

_{Casey Luskin
September 22, 2023

Cultural Anthropology, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

11}

I could not find a single reviewer who accepted the claims of the papers. They were harshly critical of claims of intentional burial of the skeletons. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 20, 2023

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, fire, fossil record, Homo sapiens, human intelligence, human origins, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, Science Daily, spears, University of Liverpool}

Evidence of Woodworking Extends High Human Intelligence Far Back into the Mid-Pleistocene

_{Casey Luskin
September 20, 2023

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

2}

This rare find shows that some of the very human-like forms in the fossil record were actually much smarter than we thought. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 21, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", angiosperms, animals, atheism, bears, boars, Darwinian theory, Energy, fire, hunger, insects, life, lions, matter, modern times, Mount St. Helens, natural selection, nutrition, purpose, religions, sharks, struggle, succession, volcanoes, wisdom}

“Why Life?”: A Question Atheist Scientists Never Ask

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 21, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Even something as catastrophic as the eruption of Mount St. Helens was, in the end, a life-giving event. Read More ›

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post

Date
December 20, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, bears, cooking, crows, culture, deer, Eurasia, fathers, fire, foxes, golden eagle, humans, hunting, Neanderthals, speech, wolves}

Neanderthals Had a Thing for Eagles — And Hyenas

_{Science and Culture
December 20, 2022

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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However, Neanderthals are not thought, based on current evidence, to have had much interest in dogs. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, asteroid, Big Bang, Big Think, biosphere, Cambrian Explosion, complex life, cosmos, Dartmouth College, dinosaurs, Ernst Mayr, fire, Günter Bechly, humans, intelligent design, life, Marcelo Gleiser, Michael Denton, prior fitness, providence, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, teleology, The Miracle of Man, Theistic Evolution (book), Thomas Huxley}

Recognizing Providence in the History of Life Is a Hint About Our Own Lives

_{David Klinghoffer
August 5, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics, Technology

5}

Any of us can point to certain pivotal events in our past that need not have occurred, but did. Read More ›