This recent find in evolution studies is strikingly negative. There is no physical limitation to chimpanzee speech; rather, the limitation is a mental one.
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It may be that the big Whatever You Feel of private truth is here to stay and will slowly devour all forms of knowledge based on public truth.
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We learn nothing specific here about how our remote ancestors thought but we have learned something useful: Big Think sees this as cutting edge science.
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Perhaps an unwillingness or inability to even see this finding as evidence against Darwinian evolution, plays a vital role in quietly enabling further research.
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What is the origin of the “complexity and subtlety” the researchers cite? Do they not suggest a mind in or behind the universe?
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Their strategy worked quite well because, by gentleman’s agreement, everyone closed ranks and no one asked hard questions — until quite recently…
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Lizards can be surprisingly intelligent. If there are rules, it’s not clear what role, if any, evolution plays.
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Cognitive selection, as present even in the earliest living cells, directs the history of life in their view, enabling meaning and purpose.
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The separateness and intellectual inferiority of Neanderthal man was at one time constantly emphasized but the evidence doesn’t support it.
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One thing the dialogue makes quite clear is that Darwinism can underlie a classic fashionable cult that does not reflect well on its adherents’ intelligence.
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Kenneth Kosik, perhaps unwittingly, describes evolution as if it were an engineer. But then, the situation looks rather more like design than Darwinism.
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Some biologists argue that purpose in nature is only “apparent” but, as Bartlett notes, there are philosophical and evidence problems with that approach.
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Humans have reason and ethics and other animals don’t, and there is no evidence that these qualities — that shape our societies — simply “evolved.”
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The “human evolution” narrative that ignores the critical distinction handicaps the thinking of philosopher Hugh Desmond and many others.
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Who will assume Dennett’s role as the leading, world-famous Darwinian materialist philosopher? Will the position remain — tellingly — vacant?
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The Four Horsemen of the atheist apocalypse no longer ride at full gallop and a close observer has noted that their cause has devolved to social justice issues.
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We can research many questions about language but it’s not realistic to hope either that we can easily explain its origin or simply reduce it to software.
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Science is as dependent on the concept of public truth as the great religions are. Thus, when private truth rapidly gains power, it is just as vulnerable.
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It’s not clear that the case for global government, such as it is, needs an evolution myth; more likely, the evolution proponents just want in on the game.
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Researchers seem to have honed their skills in presenting failure as success and in portraying more of what hasn’t worked as a solution.
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