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Photo credit: Welcome to the 2015 “Exploring Human Origins: What Does It Mean to Be Human?” exhibit, Milpitas Public Library, Milpitas, California, by Casey Luskin.

“Acceptance Is My Goal”: Reporter Spills the Beans on True Goals of Evolution Education

Usually when evolutionists talk about pushing evolution on the public, they are careful to guard their words. Read More ›
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Christians in the Evolutionary Crosshairs

I’m not an Evangelical Christian, nor a Christian of any kind, so I have no personal stake in what Evangelicals believe about evolution. Read More ›
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Join Us: Major Conference on Theistic Evolution, April 6-7 in Greater Philadelphia

Don't miss a fascinating two-day discussion of human origins and the fossil record, human rights and human life, rebranded science and incoherent theology. Read More ›
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On the History of Darwinism, Scientific Racism, and Hitler, Is Steven Pinker Objective?

Pinker is right that we should formulate our ideas based on evidence, not bias and preconceptions. Read More ›
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Adam and the Genome and Neanderthal Cave Art

As if on cue, science news today reports a remarkable discovery from Spain. Read More ›
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Ardipithecus ramidus is a species of australopithecine from the Afar region of Early Pliocene Ethiopia 4.4 million years ago
Image Credit: Iliya Mitskavets - Adobe Stock

Adam and the Genome and Hominid Fossils

Despite Dennis Venema’s statements to the contrary, there is no clear-cut lineage of fossils leading from ape-like hominids to modern humans. Read More ›
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For Paleoanthropology, Dawn of 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 ›
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Homo sapiens, or Pan sapiens?

A snarky proposal, among others aimed at deflating the idea of humankind's exceptional place in nature, suggests that our species is really misnamed. Read More ›
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Adam and the Genome and Synteny

“Synteny refers to how well chromosomal sequences from different species align with one another.” Read More ›
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Population Genetics: What It Is and Why It Matters

Some have claimed that for humans the coalescence to one (or first coalescent) does not happen for well over a million years back in time, calling into question the idea of a single-couple human origin. Read More ›

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