Tag: Michael Marshall

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 19, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, avatar, blue pill, Book of Life, Christianity, computer science, computer simulation, cosmology, Daily Mail, doomsday, faith and science, fine-tuning, Four Last Things, games, Genesis, Gospels, human body, intelligent design, Judaism, longtermism, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michael Marshall, Occam’s razor, red pill, Rizwan Virk, science fiction, Silicon Valley, simulation, Skeptic Magazine, Stacey Liberatore, universe, virtual worlds}

Could Faith, Science, and Simulation Theory Be Mutually Reinforcing?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 19, 2026

Computational Sciences, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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MIT-trained Rizwan Virk says something that is surprising: that his approach to cosmology is a branch of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Date
October 18, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Geology
Tagged
, Annihilation, Antarctica, apocalypses, artificial intelligence, Big Tech, cloning, computer simulations, COSM 2026, Daily Mail, doomsday, Elon Musk, humans, Kevin Hunt, longtermism, Michael Marshall, minds, Mouth of Hell, Nicaragua, Nick Bostrom, Nottingham Trent University, planets, Skeptic Magazine, space, sun, technology, The Conversation, The Shimmer, thought experiment, Volcán Masaya, Wiliam Hunter}

Choose Your Own Doomsday: Select from These Alarming Options, Scientists Say

_{Science & Culture
October 18, 2026

Computational Sciences, Geology

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In one scenario based on a sci-fi movie, something called "The Shimmer is interfering with the fundamental patterns of life, redefining evolutionary code." Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 8, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ancestors, anthropologists, braincase, brains, Christof Koch, evolution, evolutionary biology, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, hominids, Homo (genus), human brain, humanity, humans, Katerina Harvati, Mark Hubbe, Michael Marshall, MIT Press, natural selection, Nature Communications, neuroscience, neuroscientists, neutral evolution, New Scientist, phenotypes, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Phys.org, random mutations, skulls, universe}

Science Journal: Humanity’s Big Brains Evolved “For No Particular Reason”

_{Casey Luskin
July 8, 2026

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

This is tantamount to saying the human brain, chief marvel in the cosmos as far as we can tell, evolved because, well, why the heck not? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 17, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Africa, bioRxiv, Broad Institute, David Reich, Denisovans, DNA, DNA segments, Europe, geneticists, genetics, Germany, Gran Dolina, Harvard University Press, Homo antecessor, Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, humans, hybrids, interbreeding, Levallois tools, Michael Marshall, Middle East, mitochondrial DNA, Morocco, Neanderthals, New Scientist, ochre, Spain, stone tools, Y chromosome}

Harvard Geneticist Proposes Neanderthals Are Descended from Humans

_{Casey Luskin
April 17, 2026

Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

5}

Humans and Neanderthals are so similar that Neanderthals provide no evidence we are closely related to some type of primitive non-human. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 13, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, arXiv, astrobiology, biosphere, earth, elephants, floods, habitability, ice, intelligent design, livestock, Mars, materialists, Michael Denton, Michael Marshall, natural selection, New Scientist, PNAS, sauropods, vitalism, W. Ford Doolittle, water}

Life as a Habitability Requirement

_{David Coppedge
March 13, 2025

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Astrobiologists often speak of a planet’s requirements for life, but can we turn that around? Is life a requirement for a planet’s habitability? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 12, 2022

Categories
Arts
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science
Tagged
, children, civilization, copper, Greece, Homo naledi, Lee Berger, Michael Marshall, Neanderthals, Quartz, Rising Star Cave, South Africa, University of Liverpool}

Early Humans Were More Sophisticated than We Thought

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 12, 2022

Arts, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science

6}

Neanderthals were not just downing raw hunks of meat 70,000 years ago, as many of us have assumed. Read More ›

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Date
July 19, 2022

Categories
Arts
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, evolution, humans, Michael Marshall, Neanderthals, paleontology, Spain, Stone Age}

Neanderthal Art, if That’s What It Is, Would Upset the Evolutionary Paradigm

_{Science & Culture
July 19, 2022

Arts, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

4}

Paleontologists resist the idea that early humans called Neanderthals created any artworks. Their reasoning is sometimes circular. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 31, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, bioRxiv, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, carbon, Casey Luskin, cilia, comb jellies, ctenophores, Current Biology, evolution, irreducibly complex systems, Michael Marshall, New Scientist, oxygen, predators, Science Advances, sponges, Stephen Meyer}

Cambrian Explosion: More Woes and Dodges

_{David Coppedge
March 31, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

7}

Evolutionists are still failing to explain the Cambrian explosion. They struggle to explain new complexities or else try to change the subject. Read More ›

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Date
December 2, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, BBC News, Caltech, cave fish, Current Biology, desert ants, earthworms, flies, habitat, India, intelligent design, Michael Marshall, Nature (journal), New Scientist, Paul Nelson, Penn State, Sahara Desert, Science (journal), United States, vestigial structures}

Small Wonders: Design in Tiny Creatures

_{Science & Culture
December 2, 2019

Intelligent Design

9}

Miniature designs often require more foresight and delicate engineering than large designs. Examples are abundant in the living world. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
December 5, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __cedited, Africa, BioLogos, Charles Darwin, Daily Mail, DNA, Ernst Mayr, Forbes, Genetics and the Origin of Species (book), Homo sapiens, Human Evolution (journal), human origins, isolation, Michael Marshall, mitochondria, mitochondrial Eve, Nature (journal), Peaceful Science, speciation, species, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, women, Y chromosome, Y-chromosome Adam}

Does Barcoding DNA Reveal a Single Human Ancestral Pair?

_{Ann Gauger
December 5, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology

12}

I don’t think the study can claim all the things it does based on the evidence they have. Read More ›