Tag: human evolution

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Education
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, Australopithecines, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus africanus, Casey Luskin, Ernst Mayr, Hall of Human Origins, Harvard University, human evolution, human exceptionalism, human origins, knuckle-walking, Lucy, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), New York Post, podcast, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Museum, transparency, Trump Administration}

Casey Luskin Calls on the Smithsonian to Get It Right on Human Origins

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 11, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Education

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The Smithsonian Institution has recently been called out by the Trump Administration for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Reporting
Tagged
, ACLU, Casey Luskin, crime, culture, Darwin skeptics, Dayton, evolution, faith and science, fundamentalism, human evolution, ID the Future, Inherit the Wind, John T. Scopes, media, Michael Egnor, modernism, podcast, radio, science, Scopes Monkey Trial, stereotypes, technology, Tennessee}

A Century Later, the Spirit of Scopes Is Alive and Well

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 1, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Reporting

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According to secularist legend, the Scopes trial represented a great showdown between ignorant, fundamentalist religion and enlightened, scientific progress. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Aeneid, An Inventive Universe, Aristotle, Darwinism, Gerald H. Pollack, Harvard University, human evolution, human spirit, Inkwell Press, James Barham, John McDowell, Kenneth G. Denbigh, Latin, Mind and Cosmos, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, natural selection, naturalism, neo-Thomists, Nicolaus Copernicus, philosophy of nature, Richard Dawkins, scientism, teleology, Thomas Browne, Thomas Nagel, University of Texas}

The Emergence of Freedom: A New Book by James Barham

_{William A. Dembski
May 1, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Barham’s approach to teleology in nature is, if anything, Aristotelian. Indeed, Aristotle is the most cited person in the index of his book. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 1, 2025

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Technology
Tagged
, abstract reasoning, Addis Ababa, balls, behavior, Ethiopia, evolution, game pieces, geology, hominins, human evolution, human history, human mind, human origins, Margherita Mussi, Melka Kunture, Moon, Olduvai Gorge, spheres, stone spheres, stones, toolmakers, Tudor Tarita, ZME Science}

How Evolutionary Theory Confuses the Study of Human History: Case of the Stone Spheres

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 1, 2025

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology, Technology

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Any state of affairs that dates to eons ago can be referred to as “evolution” even when, as in this case, the facts imply the opposite. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Africa, apes, Bronx Zoo, conscience, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, evolutionary biology, Final Solution, human evolution, Human Zoos, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, racists, Scandinavia, scientific racism, St. Louis World's Fair, The Descent of Man}

West, Metaxas: Face It, Darwinian Theory Is Itself Racist

_{David Klinghoffer
August 6, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution

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This malign record is no mere inexplicable aberration from an otherwise innocent scientific theory. The legacy is not a mistake. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", agnostics, atheism, Charles Darwin, evolution, Evolution News, fitness, human evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, mind, mindless processes, natural selection, Panda's Thumb, pandas, planning, Stephen Jay Gould, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, theology, Young Earth Creationism}

Gould’s Panda Argument Is a Problem for Atheistic and Agnostic Views

_{Stephen Dilley
April 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Contrary to conventional wisdom, then, Stephen Jay Gould’s panda argument does not provide evidence against intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 29, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, Asia, Australopithecines, Chris Stringer, Darwin critics, Eurasia, Europe, evolutionary narrative, Fossil Friday (series), gene flow, gravity, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, Israel, Levant, Misliya cave, modern humans, Natural History Museum, palaeoanthropology, Pleistocene, population genetics, uranium}

Fossil Friday: New Dating of Pleistocene Fossils Rewrites the Story of Human Evolution

_{Günter Bechly
March 29, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The most recent data on human fossils and their dating do not really support an evolutionary narrative from ape-like ancestors to modern humans. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 22, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, anthropology, common descent, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), Gutsick Gibbon, handy man, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, human evolution, human origins, Iron Age, Jackson Wheat, Kenya, Koobi Fora, Mary Leakey, monkeys, Olduvai Gorge, paleoanthropology, paleontology, Professor Dave, Tanzania, University of Texas, Wikipedia}

Fossil Friday: Stone Huts, Homo habilis, and Gutsick Gibbon

_{Günter Bechly
March 22, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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A PhD student of biological anthropology named Erika runs one of the more popular anti-creationist YouTube channels under her pseudonym Gutsick Gibbon. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
December 4, 2023

Categories
Epistemology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, bias, Big Bang, climate change, closed-mindedness, confirmation bias, denialism, education, epistemic virtues, Eugenie Scott, evidence, evolution, global warming, human evolution, intellectual humility, intelligent design, Julia Galef, motivated reasoning, nanotechnology, open-mindedness, polarization, popular opinion, Science Literacy, self-correcting, self-deception, Stem Cell Research, TEDx talk}

Why Science Needs a Scout Mindset: Lessons from Julia Galef

_{Jonathan McLatchie
December 4, 2023

Epistemology, Scientific Reasoning

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The soldier mindset, also known as motivated reasoning, leads us to defend the stronghold of our belief commitments against intellectual threats, come what may. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, BioLogos, chimpanzees, computational biology, Dennis Venema, Endogenous retroviruses, evolutionary creation, evolutionary mechanisms, fossil record, Francis Collins, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, humans, junk DNA, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Nature (journal), Nature Ecology and Evolution, Nature Reviews Genetics, Ola Hössjer, population genetics, pseudogenes, Queen Mary University London, Richard Buggs, S. Joshua Swamidass, theistic evolution, University of Stockholm, Washington University}

Does the Scientific Evidence Support Evolutionary Models of Human Origins?

_{Casey Luskin
June 12, 2023

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The fossil record shows a break between the australopithecines, supposedly directly ancestral to our genus, and the first humanlike members of the genus. Read More ›