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Photo credit: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Joy of (Neanderthal) Cooking

The Darwinian account of the human race would be much easier to believe in good faith if scientists could point to a clearly inferior and clearly human being. Read More ›
goat
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Researchers: Goats Can Read Basic Human Emotions

Readers may wonder at first whether this research was worth doing, but hang on. It turns out that goats can understand basic emotions by voice alone. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design in Human-Animal Friendships

A man and his emotional support alligator, Wally, made headlines last week when they tried to attend a baseball game together in Philadelphia. Read More ›
Jumping Spider
Photo: Phidippus audax, a North American jumping spider, via Wikimedia Commons.

Dreaming Animals and Human Exceptionalism

Researchers have detected something like REM (rapid eye movement) sleep — which is associated with dreaming in humans — in jumping spiders. Read More ›
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Photo: Lions hunting, by Corinata, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ecosystems — A Tribute to Intelligent Design, or to Chance and Adaptation?

Thinking about all the species of animals, birds, and fishes, it becomes apparent that each one requires a certain type of food, suitable for its anatomy. Read More ›
pine trees in snow
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A New Look at Natural Selection

If you are a pine tree, you need to have antifreeze in your needles if you are rooted beyond certain latitudes or elevations. Read More ›
cow
Photo credit: David Coppedge.

Darwin, We Have a Problem: Horse Teeth Are Not Less Evolved

Time to debunk another evolutionary story by questioning underlying Darwinian assumptions about how things came to be. Read More ›
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Ann Gauger: A Scientist’s Circuitous Journey to Faith

Today’s episode is the first in an occasional series, "Why It Matters," spotlighting ID researchers and hearing from them how they got into intelligent design. Read More ›
Asian black bear
Photo: Asian black bear, by Joydeep, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Günter Bechly: Species Pairs Wreck Darwinism

Bechly and host Casey Luskin discuss cattle and bison, horses and donkeys, the Asian black bear and the South American spectacled bear, and more. Read More ›
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Check Their Privilege: Are Squirrels Socially Unjust?

Researchers have long assumed that people think like animals. But now we see that the equation reads the same in reverse: animals think like people. Read More ›

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