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Good News: Young People Are Skeptical of AI — Even if Their Parents Aren’t

ChatGPT. Every student uses it to write papers. So goes the pervading fear, that is. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Like It Never Happened: Yunxian Skulls Reassigned Based on Evolution, Not Data

As Günter Bechly used to wryly observe, human evolution is a subject that is constantly being “rewritten,” often accompanied by much media fanfare. Read More ›
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Image: Victorian London street scene, by Frederick Smith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

“The Monster in the Sky”: Revisiting Atheism’s Creation Myth

The fact that Darwin’s evolutionary ideas could not be shown to be scientifically coherent remained for the uncritical a side issue. Read More ›
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Skulls from China Said to Push Origin of Homo sapiens Back to 1 Million Years 

How many times have we been told that some new paleoanthropological find is “rewriting the story of human evolution”? Read More ›
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Image credit: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Now It’s “Whale Rights”

As often is the case in nature rights activism, “indigenous wisdom” is invoked as somehow superior to modern conservation. Read More ›
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Photo: Galápagos finch, by Mike's Birds from Riverside, CA, US, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Theory in Crisis? Dissatisfaction and the Proliferation of New Articulations

A growing number of biologists now acknowledge that there are serious problems with modern evolutionary theory. Read More ›
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In the Scientific Enterprise, the Wildness of Aslan Counsels Humility 

Science has made many of its grandest leaps in the face of a mainstream of scientists stubbornly defending a dominant but misguided paradigm. Read More ›
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Photo: Replica of birthing ichthyosaur fossil, Stephen O'Connor via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fossil Friday: Ichthyosaur Birth, Another Evolutionist Just-So Story Falls Apart

This is not how good science is supposed to work but is rather typical for pseudoscience that shields itself against empirical falsification. Read More ›
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Photo: Mexican amber forgery of a wasp in artificial resin, coll. SMNS, Bechly 2015.

Fossil Friday: Fake Amber and the Piltdown Fly

Such simple forgeries are commonly sold to tourists in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Eastern Europe, and Eastern Asia. Read More ›
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Photo: Galápagos finch, by Mike's Birds from Riverside, CA, US, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Theory in Crisis? Dissatisfaction and the Proliferation of New Articulations

A growing number of biologists now acknowledge that there are serious problems with modern evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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