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Why Are We Drawn to Beauty?

While I love Haidt’s emphasis and regard for the beautiful, I question the power of his argument about beauty as a remnant of our collective survival instinct. Read More ›
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Dawkins and Other Evolutionary Biologists May Be Learning a Hard Lesson

Dawkins and others believe that Facebook’s ban hammer fell on his questions about Imane Khalif competing in the women’s division boxing at the 2024 Olympics. Read More ›
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Doubling Down: Dawkins Now on “Team Christianity”

Over the weekend at the Dissident Dialogues gathering in New York, he participated in a dialogue with former New Atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Read More ›
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The Panda’s Thumb: An Extraordinary Instance of Design?

Optimizing a structure can sometimes come at the cost of certain design constraints. Read More ›
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Image: Charles Darwin caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871

In Darwin’s Bluff, Robert Shedinger Rightly Forgoes the Hagiographic Tradition 

The present reader, in company with a host of agnostic biologists and cosmologists, simply finds in Darwin a complete dearth of convincing scientific evidence. Read More ›
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For Darwin Day, Robert Shedinger Calls Darwin’s Bluff

Tucked away in Charles Darwin’s surviving papers is a lengthy manuscript he never finished. Read More ›
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Were Neanderthals Religious?

We can’t poll long-dead Neanderthals on life, death, and the hereafter but the evidence we’ve dug up suggests they were thinking about that kind of thing. Read More ›
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Pressure, Propaganda, and Persecution through Mimesis

French philosopher René Girard discovered something new, new but very old, about human behavior. Read More ›
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After Death — A Riveting Glimpse of the Hereafter

There sure are a lot more things about reality than are captured by a narrow naturalistic view. Read More ›
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Peer Review Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Used Fire, and Scrawled on Cave Wall

I could not find a single reviewer who accepted the claims of the papers. They were harshly critical of claims of intentional burial of the skeletons. Read More ›

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