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Meyer, Knowles: The Evolutionary Mystery of Language

If languages evolve in the familiar Darwinian manner, you would expect there to be a range of sophistication levels across the spectrum of human languages. Read More ›
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“Beyond Mendel”: Leading Investigators Appeal for a New Genetics

Top-down causation makes a lot more sense from a design perspective than from any reductionist, lower-levels-first approach. Read More ›
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Network Technology: Biology Does It Better

Our modern world surrounds us with hi-tech networks, but biology has had them since the beginning of life. Read More ›
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Supposed Human Ancestor Falls Victim to Research Politics

Casey Luskin describes a culture of silence in paleoanthropology driven by competition, prestige, and political pressure. Read More ›
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Requiem for an Artificial Superintelligence

On the morning of his upload, he signed transfer papers, redundancy protocols, continuity covenants, and one handwritten page that no lawyer saw. Read More ›
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Gulf Between Ape-Like and Human Grows Wider

This trend supports the traditional view that humans were uniquely designed rather than evolving willy-nilly from ape-like ancestors. Read More ›
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Paper Defends Spoken Language in Homo erectus

The first thing that comes to mind in the context of intellectual capabilities is brain size. Read More ›
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How Life Becomes Comprehensible: A New Scientific Framework

The duality of emergence and specified irreducible complexity must be discarded. In doing so, we create a framework compatible with Thomistic Aristotelianism. Read More ›
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In Search of a Unified Theory of Life

It can be said that Erwin Schrödinger anticipated what Michael Behe formally articulated as irreducible complexity. Read More ›
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For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Read More ›

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