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Life’s Hard Stop: Fortune? Or Foresight?

Here’s another “incredibly fortunate” thing about the Cambrian explosion and about evolution generally. Read More ›
African savannah in Serengeti
Sunset in savannah of Africa with acacia trees, Safari in Serengeti of Tanzania
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Upright Walking and African Witch Doctors

In seeking to explain what makes humans exceptional, current evolutionists convert guesswork into a methodology, as humans did for long ages in the pre-scientific past. Read More ›
Homo erectus pekinensis
racism
Image: An artist imagines Homo erectus pekinensis, by Cicero Moraes [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Darwinism Can Never Separate Itself from Racism

You think if Darwinian theory had emerged not in the dark age of the 19th century but in our own woke era, it would be different? No, it wouldn’t. Read More ›
Australopithecus sediba
Photo: Australopithecus sediba, by Photo by Brett Eloff. Courtesy Profberger and Wits University who release it under the terms below., CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Another Human Ancestor “Falsified”: Study Puts Australopithecus sediba Back in the Ground

It’s not every day that we see evolutionists arguing that we can falsify a species as an ancestor of another species simply because it appears in the wrong time range. Read More ›
Callao_Cave
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Photo: Callao Cave, by Ervin Malicdem [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Paleontologist Günter Bechly: “No Well-Established Tree of Fossil Humans”

Recent fossil finds scramble yet again what scientists thought they knew about human origins. Read More ›
Levallois
human origins
Photo: Levallois stone tool technology, by Muséum de Toulouse [CC BY-SA 3.0].

Bechly: Lessons from the Ongoing “Rewrite” of Human Origins

The traditional “Out of Africa” theory is being abandoned as weakly supported by evidence, in favor of a welter of other hypotheses. Read More ›
Cupples Basement
Nathan Lents
Photo: Basement of Cupples Hall, Washington University, by John West.

According to Biologist Nathan Lents, It’s “Racist” to Invite Condemnation of Racism

Not content with ripping Dr. Behe, Professor Lents now seeks to assassinate my character. Try to follow his logic if you can. Read More ›
pianist
human exceptionalism
Photo: Ivan Ilić, a concert pianist, by Tibor BBB [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

A Positive, Useful Discussion of Human Exceptionalism … On the Internet? Yes!

Not all humans can be concert pianists. Some humans can’t speak or get out of a wheelchair or remember their daughter’s name anymore. Here we enter into moral and ethical issues. Read More ›
Sahelanthropus
Sahelanthropus
Photo: Sahelanthropus tchadensis, by Didier Descouens (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

#3 of Our Top Stories of 2018: For Paleoanthropology, Another Annus Horribilis

In 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Chadian Sahara Desert. Read More ›
prairie dogs get a treat
Photo credit: MIH83, via Pixabay.

Merry Christmas! #8 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Humans and Animals Are (Mostly) the Same Age?

I am intrigued, but to be honest, I don’t quite know what to make of it just yet, and don’t want to jump to any conclusions. Read More ›

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