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Photo: Skull fragment, Homo erectus, by Commie cretan (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Missed Opportunity: Passing over Scientific Problems with Human Evolution

William Lane Craig’s rhetorical strategy is essentially to accept whatever mainstream evolutionary paleoanthropology says. Read More ›
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What Got My Attention about Intelligent Design

Bill Dembski pointed out that design detection, far from being an esoteric inference, lay in fact at the center of many normal human inquiries and activities. Read More ›
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Photo: Foot of Homo naledi, by Lee Roger Berger research team [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

A Disappointing Decade for the Study of Human Evolution

Perhaps in ten years we’ll be having this conversation again — and perhaps at that time the Smithsonian Institution will give us all a more objective analysis of the evidence. Read More ›
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Sahelanthropus
Photo: Sahelanthropus tchadensis, by Didier Descouens (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

#3 of Our Top Stories of 2018: For Paleoanthropology, Another Annus Horribilis

In 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Chadian Sahara Desert. Read More ›
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Human Zoos — International, Still Being Airbrushed

The Belgian human zoo sounds exactly like the St. Louis equivalent just a few years later. Read More ›
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Photo: Ephrata, Pennsylvania, by Jon Dawson, via Flickr.

Christians in the Evolutionary Crosshairs

I’m not an Evangelical Christian, nor a Christian of any kind, so I have no personal stake in what Evangelicals believe about evolution. Read More ›
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Photo: Sahelanthropus tchadensis, by Didier Descouens (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

For Paleoanthropology, Dawn of Another Annus Horribilis

In 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Chadian Sahara Desert. Read More ›
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“It’s Official”: Textbook Wisdom on Human Origins Is Wrong!

I hardly dared to dream that, as an early Christmas present, 2017 would close with a final blow to the Out of Africa story. Read More ›
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Photo: Australopithecus afarensis, model, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, by Tim Evanson, via Flickr.

Human Origins: Out of Africa, or Out of Germany?

Major discoveries in paleoanthropology that have made 2017 a kind of annus horribilis for the established scientific consensus on human evolution. Read More ›

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