Could Neanderthals create art or were they not evolved enough?
Materialists have long sought to show that Neanderthals were less mentally evolved than modern humans but that doesn’t seem evident.
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Denyse O'Leary
Human Tools Found From a Tumultuous Period 2.7 Million Years Ago
The authors talk much about “evolutionary” and “evolution.” But actually, it doesn’t sound as if there was much evolution at all. It sounds more like one enduring insightNew technologies enable ideas and abilities that are latent in human beings to take form. Thus claims about the evolution of consciousness are problematic.
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This Is New: Top Thinkers Debate Terminal Lucidity
Steven Pinker tells Charles Murray at the Wall Street Journal that people are merely imagining a sudden gain in awareness before dyingBut today, the serious problem is not modernism and scientism, which are fading. It is post-modernism, which rejects reason and evidence.
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What Happens When Science Degenerates Into a Spoils System?
Chemistry prof Anna Krylov forces us to look at that in discouraging detailKrylov also calls out the practices of choosing citations on the basis of social justice merit instead of relevance and of censoring awkward findings.
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The death spiral of trust in legacy media
The decline is most likely occurring because younger people are simply paying less attention to legacy media. They don’t trust what they hardly know.
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Journals refuse to correct record on teen “gender” treatments
Some think that the solution to lost trust in science is to remind people that scientists are people too. But so was Mussolini.
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Wikipedia Qualifies Its “Pseudoscience” Label re Design in Nature
Not only that but newly launched Grokipedia’s entry seems to be written to actually inform the reader rather than to enlist the reader against the topicOn ID, it sounds like Grokipedia, unlike Wikipedia, follows the time-honored rule of letting people explain themselves and saving the commentary for later.
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Wall Street Journal Takes On Science and the Existence of God
In an interview, first author of the new book out of France, Michel-Yves Bolloré, tells a WSJ editor, “We are now in a century where science is the best ally of God.” That’s newsWith Bolloré and Bonnassies’ work, reality-based thinking is coming back. And the reality is that the universe offers much evidence for God.
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Will Reliance on AI Mean a Vast Drop in New Knowledge Production?
Dependence on AI assistants, for example, was found to greatly reduce discussion among peers, where new ideas are offered and evaluatedUltimately, the AI knowledge system will be enriched or impoverished by human decisions, not by discovering a superintelligence.
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Is “emergence” — materialism’s bandaid — bad science?
Maybe but, when addressing the “something from nothing” problem, materialism typically degenerates into promissory materialism: one of these days…
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For a Long Time, Dementia Was the New Leprosy
It has often been treated with fear and exclusion. Maybe there is more hope nowDementia is not “inevitable,” in the sense that it would happen no matter what else is in play. Nature is rarely like that. Decisions matter.
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How a Biologist Became a Casualty in the War on Reality
If evolutionary biology’s core belief is that everything human can be reduced to animal impulses, truth is merely a survival strategy. But nonsense proved more successfulCarole Hooven discovered that, where the sex binary nature of humans is concerned, the new elite at Harvard and The Lancet thrive on nonsense. But she can’t.
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At Psych Mag: How Your Brain Allegedly Invented God…
Not THIS again, you say? Yes, this again. Straight out of the 1970s, as if the last fifty years of research never happenedOne effect of the presumption of atheism in science is that all kinds of speculation can be grandfathered as reasonable scientific thinking.
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Change: Charles Murray Finds Out That He Does Need God
This growing interest in religion is a trend. It is all coming too close together to just be an accident of timing.Surprised? Joel Kotkin points out that the conventional picture many people have of the religious vs. the non-religious population is gravely distorted.
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On Atheism’s Watch, Rationality in Science Flew Out the Window
Why did atheists, in charge of science during the last few decades, yield the floor to irrational forces?Science itself is being deplatformed by Woke relativism, developed by the very people who found atheists quite thought-provoking and fashionable.
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Researchers Ask: What Happens After a Near-Death Experience?
The experiences themselves tend to attract attention and study. But how do they really change lives?NDEs do change lives but, according to a recent study, NDErs often require counseling and not many counselors are equipped to support them.
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The more we study our ancestors, the smarter they turn out to be
Because the local stones were not suitable for making larger tools, the early humans took to using elephant bones instead.
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Why Materialism Will Probably Drift Into Panpsychism
I predict that “Nothing is conscious” will be superseded, among fashionable thinkers, by “Everything is conscious.”Materialists will try to interpret the workings of the brain as one aspect of consciousness that is a natural part of the material universe.
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Reviewer Asks: Why Can’t We Just Go Back to Unprovable Faith?
Kathleen Stock’s witty effort to blunt the force of the evidence presented in that new French book, God, the Science, the Evidence, raises a stark questionWhy are we asked to discredit the evidence of fine-tuning of the universe? Why is such an antirealist message coming from science?
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The Science of Extraterrestrials: The Art of Keeping Hope Alive
The science literature on the topic shows an interesting and entertaining back-and-forth relationship with science fictionEarth appears uniquely suited to life. The question looms: How much can science downplay or avoid facts like that while retaining the character of science?
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