Tag: zombies

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
June 10, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Metaphysics
Tagged
, child, Claude, Claudia, consciousness, conversations, design, employee, encyclical, evolutionary logic, humans, Large Language Model, LLMs, machines, men, mice, person, Pope Leo XIV, Richard Dawkins, self-reflection, slave, spiritual communion, Ted Chiang, telos, The Atlantic, The Free Press, Tyler Cowen, UnHerd, wisdom, word-generation machines, writing, zombies}

Zombie Metaphysics: Dawkins Versus Pope Leo

_{Bethel McGrew
June 10, 2026

Computational Sciences, Metaphysics

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This casual devaluing of consciousness is actually intertwined with the rush to ascribe it to AI. The ultimate conclusion is the same. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 29, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Political Science
Tagged
, altruism, behavior, Binghamton University, biology, Bret Weinstein, Bruce Harrell, businesses, Communism, Darwinian evolution, David Sloan Wilson, Discovery Institute, eugenics, evolutionary theory, evolutionary tree, freeway, graffiti, group selection, Heather Heying, homelessness, Howard Schultz, human waste, intelligent design, Katie Wilson, madness, millionaires, millionaires’ tax, natural selection, new york, radicalism, scientific racism, Seattle, socialism, Soviet Union, Starbucks, tax revenue, taxpayers, Tennessee, Wall Street Journal, World Cup, zombies}

In Seattle, Socialism Is the Flip Side of a Faulty Evolutionary Theory

_{David Klinghoffer
May 29, 2026

Evolution, Political Science

5}

Mayor Katie’s father is David Sloan Wilson, an esteemed evolutionary biologist at Binghamton University. Read More ›

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Date
February 25, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adobe Acrobat, analogy, Animal Operating System, animals, bilaterians, biology departments, body plans, Charles Darwin, Ernst Mayr, European Molecular Biology Organization, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, gene regulatory networks, George Gaylord Simpson, graves, mutations, natural selection, operating systems, Ronald Fisher, smartphones, The EMBO Journal, Theodosius Dobzhansky, zombies}

Another Hypothesis for the Origin of Animals

_{Science & Culture
February 25, 2026

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

2}

This one uses an analogy to the origin of smartphones. No kidding. Yet, it’s an interesting article. Just not really evolutionary theory in any normal sense. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 1, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), burying the lede, chimpanzees, common ancestry, David Klinghoffer, DNA, gap difference, genomes, human exceptionalism, humans, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, Kevin Williamson, Museum of Natural History, National Review, Nature (journal), science journalism, Smithsonian Institution, statistics, Supplementary Data, zombies}

Happy New Year! No. 1 Story for 2025: Bombshell Overturns Myth of 1 Percent Difference

_{Casey Luskin
January 1, 2026

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

7}

This finding should be major news in the science world, yet those involved don’t seem interested in highlighting the discovery. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 30, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), chimpanzees, Chimps and Critics (series), common ancestry, common design, creationists, Discovery Institute, evolution, evolutionary biology, genetic differences, genetic similarities, genetic variations, geologists, humans, Institute for Creation Research, intelligent design, Joel Duff, Jonathan Wells, National Museum of Natural History, persistent scientific errors, PZ Myers, Smithsonian Institution, University of Akron, University of Minnesota, YouTube videos, Zachary Ardern, zombies}

On Human-Chimp Genetic Differences, the Critics Misstate My Arguments

_{Casey Luskin
June 30, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Evolution defenders generally accept the new evidence showing that humans and chimps are 15 percent genetically different but downplay the new number. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 22, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), ape genomes, brains, cell division, chimpanzees, DNA, genetic differences, genomes, human genome, humans, Jonathan Wells, misrepresentation, Nature (journal), Nucleic Acids Research, order of magnitude, repetitive DNA, zombies}

Genetic Differences Between Humans and Chimps Represent Functional DNA

_{Casey Luskin
May 22, 2025

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

7}

I contacted the corresponding authors of the original study and they kindly offered their interpretation of the differences between the human and chimp genomes. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 20, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, 1 percent myth (series), burying the lede, chimpanzees, common ancestry, David Klinghoffer, DNA, gap difference, genomes, human exceptionalism, humans, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, Kevin Williamson, Museum of Natural History, National Review, Nature (journal), science journalism, Smithsonian Institution, statistics, Supplementary Data, zombies}

Bombshell: New Research Overturns Claim that Humans and Chimps Differ by Only 1 Percent of DNA

_{Casey Luskin
May 20, 2025

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

7}

This finding should be major news in the science world, yet those involved don’t seem interested in highlighting the discovery. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, blindness, Charles Darwin, consciousness, evolution, intelligence, intelligent design, materialists, mind, Nancy Pearcey, rationality, Richard Dawkins, San Francisco State University, Theodosius Dobzhansky, William Provine, zombies}

Self-Referential Absurdity in a Theory of Consciousness

_{David Coppedge
August 4, 2023

Evolution, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Leonhard Euler was known to work out complex derivations in his head while blind. Of what possible use was this ability for survival? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 15, 2022

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ants, chimpanzees, computer programmers, consciousness, Eric Cassell, evolution, insects, intelligence, intuitions, natural selection, neuroscience, stroke, zombies}

Are Plants Conscious? Science Writer Says Yes

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 15, 2022

Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

10}

Annaka Harris, neuroscience and physics writer, starts by casting doubt on human consciousness. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 12, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, "poor design", arXiv, evolution, human eye, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, light, Nathan Lents, observer, photon, quantum mechanics, Research, Richard Dawkins, vision, Zombie Science (book), zombies}

Human Eye, that “Clunky Design,” to be Used to Confirm, or Disconfirm, Quantum Mechanics

_{David Klinghoffer
July 12, 2018

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

4}

It can detect a single photon. It can test the foundations of our understanding of nature. And it is also a piece of “botched” work by evolution? Read More ›