Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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Jonathan Witt

Topic

human origins

cave-painting
Photo: “Tree of Life,” a cave painting from Borneo, Indonesia, by Lhfage at English Wikipedia [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
January 8, 2024
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Childhood in the Ice Age — What Was It Like?

Denyse O’Leary
January 8, 2024
Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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Having reached a point now known as the “Sala dei Misteri,” they left signatures of their time there. Read More ›
Homo_sapiens_neanderthalensis-Mr._N
Image credit: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
November 16, 2023
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Archaeology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Were Neanderthals and Humans the Same Species?

Casey Luskin
November 16, 2023
Archaeology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology
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The evidence does not demonstrate that humans evolved from some kind of humanlike yet intellectually primitive precursor.  Read More ›
Homo naledi
Photo: A femur, by John Hawks, Marina Elliott, Peter Schmid, Steven E. Churchill, Darryl J. de Ruiter, Eric M. Roberts, Hannah Hilbert-Wolf, Heather M. Garvin, Scott A. Williams, Lucas K. Delezene, Elen M. Feuerriegel, Patrick Randolph-Quinney, Tracy L. Kivell, Myra F. Laird, Gaokgatlhe Tawane, Jeremy M. DeSilva, Shara E. Bailey, Juliet K. Brophy, Marc R. Meyer, Matthew M. Skinner, Matthew W. Tocheri, Caroline VanSickle, Christopher S. Walker, Timothy L. Campbell, Brian Kuhn, Ashley Kruger, Steven Tucker, Alia Gurtov, Nompumelelo Hlophe, Rick Hunter, Hannah Morris, Becca Peixotto, Maropeng Ramalepa, Dirk van Rooyen, Mathabela Tsikoane, Pedro Boshoff, Paul H.G.M. Dirks, Lee R. Berger, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
November 15, 2023
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Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Journal Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Made Rock Art, Used Fire

Casey Luskin
November 15, 2023
Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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Researchers, led by Lee Berger, had claimed in a Netflix documentary that the species buried its dead, used fire, used tools, and made rock art. Read More ›
mind
Photo credit: Damon Carr via Unsplash.
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 19, 2023
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
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The Human Mind Has No History

Denyse O’Leary
October 19, 2023
Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind
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There is no good reason to assume that human intelligence evolved from mud to mind via a long slow history. Read More ›
Homo naledi
Photo: A femur, by John Hawks, Marina Elliott, Peter Schmid, Steven E. Churchill, Darryl J. de Ruiter, Eric M. Roberts, Hannah Hilbert-Wolf, Heather M. Garvin, Scott A. Williams, Lucas K. Delezene, Elen M. Feuerriegel, Patrick Randolph-Quinney, Tracy L. Kivell, Myra F. Laird, Gaokgatlhe Tawane, Jeremy M. DeSilva, Shara E. Bailey, Juliet K. Brophy, Marc R. Meyer, Matthew M. Skinner, Matthew W. Tocheri, Caroline VanSickle, Christopher S. Walker, Timothy L. Campbell, Brian Kuhn, Ashley Kruger, Steven Tucker, Alia Gurtov, Nompumelelo Hlophe, Rick Hunter, Hannah Morris, Becca Peixotto, Maropeng Ramalepa, Dirk van Rooyen, Mathabela Tsikoane, Pedro Boshoff, Paul H.G.M. Dirks, Lee R. Berger, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
October 9, 2023
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Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Not Enough Evidence: Casey Luskin on Recent Homo naledi Claims

Andrew McDiarmid
October 9, 2023
Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology
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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 ›
Morganucodon
Photo credit: All photos in this article are by Casey Luskin.
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Author
Casey Luskin
Date
October 5, 2023
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Education
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Visitor’s Guide: At Nation’s Natural History Museum, Misinformation on Human Origins, and More

Casey Luskin
October 5, 2023
Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Education
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Mammalian fossil exhibits at the Smithsonian claim that humans and all mammals descended from the “first mammal," perhaps Morganucodon. Read More ›
Homo naledi
Photo credit: Lee Roger Berger research team, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Casey Luskin
Date
September 22, 2023
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Cultural Anthropology
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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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
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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 ›
earliest woodworking
Photo credit: Professor Larry Barham, University of Liverpool, via EurekAlert!
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Casey Luskin
Date
September 20, 2023
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Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Evidence of Woodworking Extends High Human Intelligence Far Back into the Mid-Pleistocene

Casey Luskin
September 20, 2023
Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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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 ›
Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace
Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace
Photo: Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace, by George Beccaloni / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).
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Date
September 18, 2023
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Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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How Evolutionary Theory’s Co-Founder Broke with Darwin

Science & Culture
September 18, 2023
Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Unlike Darwin, Wallace thought that biology, chemistry, and cosmology proclaimed clear evidence of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Date
August 31, 2023
Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Darwin and the Smithsonian’s Racist Brain Collection

Andrew McDiarmid
August 31, 2023
Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology
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The motivation for the brain collection was to document how some people were supposedly lower on the evolutionary ladder than others. Read More ›

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