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In a Universe of Non-Living Matter, Communication Sets Us Apart

Communication is found across all life forms, from the signals sent by trees through fungal networks to the deep conversations we can have with each other. Read More ›
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Designed to Dance? Here’s What Science Says

Dancing is not a mere add-on feature that came a couple of mutations after mankind figured out how to shamble. Read More ›
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UN Pushes Nature Rights

The United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights stated in a recent speech at Oxford University that nature rights are equivalent to human rights. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: New Evidence for the Human Nature of Neanderthals

What is at stake is not just some esoteric species problem in the ivory tower, but the very question of human nature and human uniqueness. Read More ›
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Alfred Russel Wallace’s Case for an “Overruling Intelligence”

When Wallace broke with Charles Darwin in 1869, it was over the nature of human beings. Read More ›
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Human Exceptionalism — Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Tell a Story

The personal, communicative nature of storytelling rules out AI as a legitimate author. It can’t intend meaning. Read More ›
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God’s Grandeur: Ann Gauger on the Scientific Case for Intelligent Design

A biologist explains why it is indeed possible that the entire human race came from two original parents. Read More ›
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Privileged Species

Geneticist Michael Denton thinks science is now pointing the way to the specialness of all humanity. Read More ›
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Genetic Surprises Support Intelligent Design Claims

Several news items reinforce ideas advanced by ID advocates regarding junk DNA, irreducible complexity, and human uniqueness. Read More ›

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