We’ve heard countless times that bigger brains evolved to allow for higher intelligence in our hominid ancestors – but not any more.
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The people trying to manufacture human language from ape laughter simply don’t have a better hypothesis. But much seems to depend on pretending otherwise.
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Some of the theories of animal mind are interesting but no one really has any idea how consciousness originated.
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If this is what happens when people think that human consciousness has a purely material evolutionary origin, it is a strong argument for the opposite view.
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We can learn a lot from fossil footprints — who went where, when, and why — that static artifacts don’t tell us by themselves.
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There seems less interest today in maintaining a “subhuman” status for our Neanderthal ancestors. It’s good if that sort of thing makes people uncomfortable.
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Carole 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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One 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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Human origins papers are often informative and entertaining, as long as we do not confuse them with understanding the realities of human origins and experience.
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Something has changed if the magic word “Evolution!” cannot be used to paper over vast improbabilities and silence dissenters in the way that it has for over a century.
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In the 1895 novel, Wells was working out a Communist-inspired theory of evolution but the 1960 film’s screenwriters chose an anti-war narrative instead.
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Overall, Jonny Thomson’s effort to keep Dennett’s eliminative materialism alive unintentionally points up how fragile it has actually become.
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Life would be so much easier for thinkmags if the mind were simply what the brain does. But wait. No one would produce thinkmags either.
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The dogmatic mindset is bad for science and the fact that the dogma is materialism may make it worse. It certainly doesn’t mitigate the damage in any way.
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Fr. Martin Hilbert argues that causality — design, to use the more loaded term — is written deep into nature, and the best science demonstrates that.
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The butterfly effect is one of those possibilities that sounds frighteningly plausible until one starts going into detail.
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If there is no intelligent source of design in nature, the development over time of elaborate mimicry in insects is a conundrum.
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Whatever little contribution the theory of Darwinian evolution that Myers espouses makes to our understanding of bacteria, it tells us nothing of man.
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Today, people can be atheists and dismiss Darwin all the same. So Christian evangelists and apologists need to reckon with that.
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Interestingly, Mitchell uses evolution to establish free will. Most uses of the concept would be to deny or diminish it, as in “We evolved to be violent,” etc.
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