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Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger
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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Image credit: Neanderthal-Museum, Mettmann, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

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 ›
Cueva de Ardales
Photo: Cueva de Ardales, © João Zilhão, ICREA, via EurekAlert!

Painting by Neanderthals? Study Makes a Design Inference

An observation that supports a non-natural origin is that the pigment appears only in a small, conspicuous location. Read More ›
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Image: An artist imagines Homo erectus pekinensis, by Cicero Moraes [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Darwinism Can Never Separate Itself from Racism

The thread of racism in Darwinian thinking isn’t a chance thing, a mere byproduct of Charles Darwin’s personal views as a “man of his time.” Read More ›
Monkey House
Monkey House
Photo: Bronx Zoo, Monkey House, by Antigng / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Students Sue School District for $12 Million Over “Monkey See” Photos

“There can’t be any question about what they meant. Remember, this is a zoology class. Evolution is taught.” Read More ›
Yuval Noah Harari
Photo credit: World Economic Forum, via Flickr (cropped).

In Sapiens, Admissions and Overstatements about Human Evolutionary Origins

Harari’s conjecture — “There are no gods” — forms the very basis for everything he says in the rest of the book. Read More ›
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Students Sue School District for $12 Million Over “Monkey See” Photos

“There can’t be any question about what they meant. Remember, this is a zoology class. Evolution is taught.” Read More ›
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Reflections on Our Ancient Past

I bring this up because some have claimed that I advocate a sole genetic progenitorship model for the first couple. Read More ›
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#5 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Shapiro, Berlinski on the Reversion to the Primitive in Modern Life

Their conversation is so full of treasures, it’s hard to distill it down to an essence. But I’ll try. Read More ›
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The Evolution of Neanderthal Spin

If evolutionary theory is true, there were millions of intermediate hominids between our nearest fully ape-like ancestor and ourselves. Read More ›

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