CategoryEvolution
Tales From the Neanderthal Nights: Why They Really Disappeared
A new paper offers an assessment that does not need the Neanderthal to be the subhuman whose disappearance is explained by evolution. Arithmetic will suffice
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 successful
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 happened
How Many Random Blips Are Needed To Make a Human?
Just asking for a friend… no, seriously, a look at some recent news from human paleontology
French Authors Say Science Points to God; Scientists Listen
But, as materialism wanes and religion slowly revives, will many scientists find panpsychism more attractive?
The Time Machine (1960): The History of the Eloi and the Morlocks
In Part 3 of my four-part review, we look at the difference the Cold War made to how the Eloi and the Morlocks are portrayed
Isn’t It a Bit Late To Try Retreading Eliminative Materialism?
Daniel Dennett was an eliminative materialist at a time when the idea that consciousness is an illusion sounded cool and daring. And the Big Explanation was just around the corner…
Is the Materialist Juggernaut Running Out of Fuel?
A recent thinkmag essay prompts a thought: can intellectuals still take materialism seriously?
Dogmatic Materialism Is a Damaging Attitude for Science
Richard Lewontin, a dogmatic materialist geneticist, seemed certain that epigenetics should be definitively rejected
Evolution Debate: Today, a Priest Might Win Over Clarence Darrow
The National Catholic Register offers an interesting take on today’s hundredth anniversary of the Scopes trial verdict
Sound of Thunder: Can Chance and the Butterfly Effect Coexist?
In Part 5 of my review of the sci-fi classic, I look at whether the effect could really upend evolution, however evolution is understood
A Butterfly’s “Second Head”: What It Says About Intelligence
Not what it says about intelligence in the butterfly but in nature itself…
Why Do We Mourn the Deaths of Other People’s Children?
I share P. Z. Myers’s horror but the problem of innocent suffering is much deeper for the atheist than for the Christian
McDowell: Is It Time Christians Moved Beyond the Evolution Wars?
Actually, a paradigm shift is already underway, Traditional Darwinism faces challenges on a number of fronts within biology studies
Today’s Free Will Debate Shows How Science Culture is Changing
The fact that this Sapolsky–Mitchell debate is still raging shows that eliminative materialism and physicalism are experiencing setbacks in our philosophy of science culture today
Information, Evolution & AI: A Conversation with William Dembski
In discussion with neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, Dembski stresses that AI is a tool, not a mind. Treating it otherwise leads to addiction, manipulation, and cultural decline
Can Evolutionary Processes Take Credit for Human Creativity?
Does the evolution of brain chemistry simply explain novels, speeches, and innovative ideas?
Salvo: The Facts and Fictions of the Scopes Monkey Trial
Society has changed so much that biologists face trouble not for believing in Darwinism but for believing in the reality of biology