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Luskin on Error Versus Deception in Human Origins Discussions
3+ week, 1+ day ago (316+ words) How do you separate the facts from the narrative? That can be challenging these days, and the realm of science is no exception. Source How do you separate the facts from the narrative? That can be challenging these days, and…...
Tickets Available Now: A Cosmic Beginning and the God Hypothesis
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (517+ words) Two stories compete in our culture. Each tells its version of the story of everything. In one, which was the belief of the great scientists that gave us the Scientific Revolution " including Galileo, Kepler, Newton " an intelligent designer shaped both…...
Science Before the Scientific Revolution: What Can We Learn?
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (337+ words) Science Before the Scientific Revolution: What Can We Learn from It? Science and Culture Today What can we learn about science and faith from those who lived before the rise of modern science? On a new episode of ID the…...
In Stories from Max Telford, Failed Predictions of Common Descent
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (243+ words) The question I invite the reader to consider is this: Has the prediction from evolutionary theory that embryos pass through ancestral stages proven productive? Has it genuinely advanced our understanding of embryonic development, or has it more often guided researchers…...
Postcard from North Carolina: Evidence for a Creator
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (300+ words) Postcard from North Carolina: College Students Respond to Scientific Evidence for a Creator'Science and Culture Today I recently had the privilege of speaking at High Point University, ranked the best-run university in the country, and at Duke University, my alma…...
Be Prepared: Here Are Portable Neanderthal Toolkits
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (265+ words) Our colleague'David Coppedge calls it "historical racism, the evolutionary blunder of wanting to create hierarchies of intelligence, or how "evolved past human groups may have been, in particular Neanderthals and Denisovans. Coppedge summons us to greater sensitivity and generosity:' The…...
Teeth, Jawbones, and Vertebrae Fuel Claims of a "Missing Link
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (321+ words) They fall somewhere within that tangle of groups that ultimately gave rise to Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern people. That's very fair, but does it mean they were anything but basically human? Cue Jerry Coyne's'Why Evolution Is True'blog, which'commented'just a few…...
Olfaction in Three Dimensions: Introducing the Nasal Cycle
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (441+ words) When I graduated from medical school many years ago, I remember being told that in about ten years, half of what I had been taught would be outdated, and the other half would be dead wrong. Being a young, newly…...
Chimps Are Rational Now, Too? War on Human Exceptionalism Goes On
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (291+ words) In a series of experiments designed to test the metacognition of these fascinating apes, psychologist Hanna Schleihauf of Utrecht University and her colleagues observed, for the first time, how chimpanzees can weigh different kinds of evidence " and change their beliefs…...
Casey Luskin: Theistic Evolution and the Limits of Neo-Darwinism
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (207+ words) Did God use evolution to create life? On a new episode of'ID the Future, we're sharing the second half of a recent conversation with Dr. Casey Luskin that originally aired on the Truthful Hope podcast. Casey is critiquing theistic evolution,…...