6+ day, 18+ hour 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…...

1+ mon, 2+ 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…...

1+ mon, 3+ week 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…...

2+ mon, 1+ 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medical school many years ago, I remember being told that in about ten years, half of what I had been taught would be outdated, and the other half would be dead wrong.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…...

3+ mon, 1+ 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…...

3+ mon, 2+ 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,…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (874+ words) Evolutionary anthropologists need to stop putting people groups into "less evolved" categories. It's a form of historical racism." Source Making the rounds on the mainstream media recently has been a story that "lead exposure helped shape human intelligence" (Science Daily)....

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1213+ words) In the English language prior to Darwin, "natural selection" was a term used by those who reared animals to denote nature's serendipity. Source Editor's note: We are delighted to present this excerpt from Chapter 2 of Neil Thomas's new book, False…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (619+ words) The Neanderthals now exist as a separate group only in terms of what we can find out about them. We could say the same for a lot of groups. But we are still learning and surmising new things. One theory,…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (622+ words) Despite the fact that we know that Neanderthals were capable of producing jewellery and using coloured pigments, there has been much objection to the notion that they explored deep caves and left art on the walls. But recent work has…...