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Harvard Geneticist Proposes Neanderthals Are Descended from Humans   

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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Image: The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776, by John Trumbull, via Wikimedia Commons.

War on the Founding: New Book by John West Describes the “Battle for America’s Soul”

At the present moment, defending the Declaration as our creed puts you on a collision course with some very influential people. Read More ›
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Photo: Copper alloy arrowheads from the Bronze Age, Leicestershire, England, by The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Discovery of Metals — A Double-Edged Sword

Why should the melting points of common metals be attainable in furnaces heated by burning carbon-based organic matter? Read More ›
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Professor Dave, Anti-Semite? You Be the Judge

What was unclear was whether his rage against intelligent design reflected just an isolated problem in his thinking, or whether it’s something more system-wide. Read More ›
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The Apotheosis of William Wordsworth

What many responded to in Wordsworth’s evocations of Nature’s sacrality was his restoration of a partially obscured link between Nature and the divine. Read More ›
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Can Myths About Dogs Tell Us About Their Origins?

A French historian studies the relationship between ancient stories told about dogs and information from genetics and archaeology. Read More ›
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Design Inference: Stone Structures Were Intelligently Arranged, Though We Don’t Know by Whom

There are hundreds of these structures. They extend over much of the Middle East: Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Read More ›
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Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger
Image: Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger / Public domain.

Is Genesis “Mytho-History”? As a Guide to Scripture, William Lane Craig’s Book Falls Short

As an old earther, I was dismayed by Craig’s failure to engage with common old earth interpretations of Genesis. Read More ›
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Michael Aeschliman in National Review — Berlinski Detonates “Fatuous, Flattering” Optimism

From climate change to the coronavirus, one tendency among writers and commentators is to an urgent, insatiable, almost sexual desire to cast unwarranted terror over other people. Read More ›
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Medical Journal Declares War on Natural Gas

Never mind that the U.S.’s increased reliance on natural gas has allowed us, pretty much alone in the world, to actually reduce our carbon emissions. Read More ›

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