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Dune
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Dune Finds Entertainment in Eugenics

The world-building is fantastic, but the historical background to the novels is also instructive. Read More ›
Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger
Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger
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Human Genetic Variation — A Tale that Keeps on Telling

If the pockmarks on the moon showed this kind of specific array surrounding each crater, we would think someone was using the moon for target practice. Read More ›
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Photo: “Tree of Life,” a cave painting from Borneo, Indonesia, by Lhfage at English Wikipedia [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Psychology: When We Looked In, No One Was There

Because minds don’t fossilize, anything we think we know about the minds of putative prehumans is speculation. Read More ›
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Harvard U Press Computer Science Author Gives AI a Reality Check

The key missing ingredient in machine intelligence is the ability to appreciate context, do analysis, and make appropriate inferences. Read More ›
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First Couple
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Lessons from the Evangelical Debate About Adam and Eve

The standard evolutionary account of human origins holds that our population has always been in the thousands and humanity did not descend from an initial pair. Read More ›
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De-Humanizing Neanderthals: A Darwinist Dog that Won’t Hunt

Growing evidence suggests Neanderthals buried their dead, employed technology, and had a brain size equal to or even slightly larger than ours. Read More ›
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Human-Chimp Similarity: What Is It and What Does It Mean?

For years we’ve been told that human and chimp DNA is some 99 percent identical. Is that true? Read More ›
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Is the Human Neck a “Mistake of Evolution”?

Darwin asserted the “absurdity” of evolution designing a shared opening to the esophagus and trachea (windpipe). Read More ›
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Monkey Bias: New Science Uprising Episode Out Now!

Properly considered, we are told, human beings are just a species of chimpanzee anyway. Read More ›
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Tomorrow: New Science Uprising Episode on Human Origins

A view open to intelligent design can follow the evidence freely. It does not require a particular narrative of how humanity arose. Read More ›

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