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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 15, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, aborigines, absorption, Africans, Americas, Australia, barbarians, blacks, cannibalism, cranial capacity, Darwinism, Europeans, evolution, gorilla, humans, Isaac Newton, On the Origin of Species, population, racial struggle, Racism, slaughter, slavery, Thomas Malthus, war, William Shakespeare, women}

Racism Serves Darwinism, Darwinism Serves Racism

_{Richard Weikart
February 15, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Racism was not just an incidental part of Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Rather Darwin considered racial inequality crucial evidence for his theory. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, cats, chimpanzees, common design, DNA, DNA polymerases, embryos, Emily Reeves, evolution, evolutionary transitions, fossil record, genes, genomes, homology, horses, humans, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, Khan Academy, orphan genes, Paul Nelson, phylogenetic trees, proteins, Richard Dawkins, students, teachers, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Tree of Life, Zombie Science (book)}

Khan Academy Misleads with Human-Chimp Genetic Similarity Argument for Common Ancestry

_{Casey Luskin
February 14, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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The video compares humans and chimps, saying the latter’s behaviors and facial expressions are “eerily human.” I could say the same thing about my cat. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, birds, circular reasoning, common ancestry, Dogs, evolution, Explore Evolution, homology, humans, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Khan Academy, limbs, students, teachers, vertebrates, whales}

Khan Academy Video, “Evidence for Evolution,” Gives Circular Arguments for Common Ancestry

_{Casey Luskin
February 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If you define homology as resulting from common ancestry, you can’t then turn around and use that as an argument for common ancestry. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, common ancestry, embryology, embryos, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, fraud, gills, Haeckel’s embryos, humans, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, Khan Academy, ontogeny, phylogeny, Science (journal), Stephen Jay Gould, The Stream, vertebrate embryos, YouTube videos}

“Evidence for Evolution”? Khan Academy Pushes Haeckel’s Phony Embryo Drawings

_{Casey Luskin
February 6, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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I’ve watched many Khan Academy videos over the years — sometimes just for fun, and sometimes to advise teachers on whether they are good tools to use. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 28, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, Arizona State University, chihuahua, Dogs, emotions, humans, intelligent design, National Geographic, sentences, signals, words}

Dogs Understand Many More Words than We Think

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 28, 2022

Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Of course, the dog is responding to words as signals, not as components of sentences. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
January 24, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", blind spot, common descent, convergent evolution, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionists, humans, intelligent design, junk science, Müller cells, Nathan Lents, neurons, photoreceptors, Richard Dawkins, squid, St. George Jackson Mivart}

Why Junk Design Arguments Are Junk Science

_{Cornelius Hunter
January 24, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Examples of so-called “convergent” evolution are ubiquitous, including the camera eye design shared by the squid and human. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American Museum of Natural History, apes, chromosomes, common ancestry, creationists, Darwin lobby, Dover trial, Eugenie Scott, evolution, Francis Collins, humans, IDEA Center, intelligent design, Journal of Molecular Biology, Kenneth Miller, Mongolia, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Peter Hess, The Language of God}

Chromosomal Fusion and Correcting Mistakes: A Retrospective on an Old Debate

_{Casey Luskin
January 24, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The main evidence that Dr. Scott cites to argue that chromosomal fusions aren’t necessarily deleterious comes not from humans but from horses. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 18, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, ai ethics, algorithms, artificial intelligence, creativity, deification, dog, free will, God, God Complex, gods, human responsibilities, human rights, humans, metaethics, morality, murder, reality, software, The Matrix, transhumanism, virtual reality}

Professor Explains “How to Be a God”

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 18, 2022

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Transhumanists and futurists worry about guaranteeing rights for AI technologies when they attain “consciousness.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 18, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animal behavior, Ferris Jabr, friendship, humans, intelligence, mantle, My Octopus Teacher, neurons, octopuses, pigmentation}

Loving Goodbye…from an Octopus?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 18, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Did the science teacher's octopus really know she was dying? Was she trying to say goodbye? Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
January 16, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, anti-science, athens, C.S. Lewis, civil rights, Dallas, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian theory, eugenics, Herbert Spence, Hiroshima, humans, intelligent design, James Jeans, Martin Luther King Jr., Nagasaki, scientific materialism, scientific racism, scientism, segregationists, sermons, Strength to Love, Texas}

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

_{John G. West
January 16, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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Dr. King was critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke against the idea that humans are the products of a blind process. Read More ›