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Worldview Wars (and Who’s Winning)

I think that what evangelical Albert Mohler wrote recently at his blog is true: The future shape of the world appears to be a worldview competition between Christianity, Islam, and Western Secularism. And I think it’s quite obvious which one … Continue reading

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Lee Berger: the Donald Johanson of the 21st century?

Back in the 1970s, Donald Johanson famously discovered Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis). And this past week, Lee Berger announced the discovery of what may prove to be an even more dramatic hominid find, a creature that he has dubbed Australopithecus sediba. I can’t, … Continue reading

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Meet the Parents

Your own. From a long time ago. Here.

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Intelligent Life on Other Planets Just Got More Probable?

According to MSNBC today, astrobiologist Milan Cirkovic thinks we should look at younger stars as well as older ones for intelligent life, reasoning that it might not take 4.5 billion years, as it did on Earth, to arrive at an intelligent species. … Continue reading

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Are You in Touch with Your Inner Aquatic Ape?

Scientist Elaine Morgan, now in her 80s, has long been advancing her theory that humans evolved from aquatic apes. She recently gave a talk succinctly defending her views. Is it pseudoscience? She certainly hasn’t persuaded more than a handful of her scientific colleagues. … Continue reading

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Creation v. Evolution Watch: The “Archaeopteryx of Primate Evolution” Found, Says New York Times Today

Yet another primate “missing link” showing evidence of the types of evolved characteristics that ultimately led to the appearance of humans. The small mammal is, apparently, exquisitely preserved, looks like a cross between a lemur and a monkey, and lived 47 million … Continue reading

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Hung Like a Hobbit?

Above is an image of an Indonesian hobbit’s skeletal foot and tibia. Your tibia is your long shinbone just below your knee. According to a new paper in Nature, and reported on by the New York Times today, Indonesian hobbits had … Continue reading

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Do Chimpanzees Have Autonoetic (Self-Knowing) Consciousness?

Santino, the stone gathering and throwing chimpanzee in a zoo near Stockholm, raises a number of interesting issues—one of them being the degree to which animals (besides humans) might have AUTONOETIC CONSCIOUSNESS. Accessing your “autonoetic consciousness” (your knowledge of yourself as … Continue reading

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An Animal in Violation of Matthew 6:25-34? A Chimpanzee is Documented Mentally Modeling His Future States and Preparing for Them!

Recently, a chimpanzee in a zoo near Stockholm has been documented by scientists ANTICIPATING HIS FUTURE EMOTIONAL STATES AND PREPARING FOR CIRCUMSTANCES THAT HAVE NOT YET ARRIVED. So says the BBC today: Santino, a chimpanzee at the zoo in the city … Continue reading

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Richard Dawkins Says the Birth of an Australopithecus or Neanderthal Would “Change Everything.” I’m Not So Sure.

Richard Dawkins thinks that the recovery of some of our human-like ancestors would “change everything”: Moving from paper to flesh and blood would require embryological technologies that will probably come on stream during the lifetime of some of my readers. … Continue reading

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Big News from the NY Times: Neanderthal Genome Recovered, and George Church of HARVARD is Quoted as Saying a Neanderthal Can Now Be Brought Back to Life, with Current Technology, for about 30 Million Dollars!

This is stunning. The NY Times today: Possessing the Neanderthal genome raises the possibility of bringing Neanderthals back to life. Dr. George Church, a leading genome researcher at the Harvard Medical School, said Thursday that a Neanderthal could be brought … Continue reading

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Mental Health Break: Ali G Moderates a Discussion of Science, Technology, and Human Origins

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Memo to Duane Gish: Humans and Neanderthals Diverged From One Another 660,000 Years Ago

PandasThumb.org discusses today the recent sequencing of Neanderthal DNA, and what it means for thinking about human evolution. Bottom line: Neanderthals did NOT belong to the same species as us. Instead, humans and Neanderthals diverged from one another, in their evolution, … Continue reading

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