Professor Says People Should Self-Identify as Mammals Not as Human Beings
The New York Times dedicated to undermining human exceptionalism, publishing such subversive advocacy regularly. Today’s example, by English professor (of course!) Randy Laist in the Sunday Review...
View ArticleThe Fundamental Difference Between Humans and Nonhuman Animals
Jonathan Marks is a biological anthropologist who recently wrote an essay on the profound differences between human beings and apes. Paul Nelson and Ann Gauger have commented on him and his writing...
View ArticleBreaking! Dino Blood Is Real
Blood vessels found in a hadrosaur said to be 80 million years old are the real original material, researchers say. “Researchers Confirm Original Blood Vessels in 80 Million-Year-Old Fossil” is the...
View ArticleFace Up: We Are Less than Neanderthals
The facial differences between us and Neanderthals amount to a slight matter of bone resorption during development. Neanderthal faces lo a bit weird to us, but they could brag (were they here to weigh...
View ArticleDarwin’s real message: have you missed it?
Harvard’s renowned Professor Stephen Jay Gould1 was a vigorous anticreationist (and Marxist — see documentation), and perhaps the most knowledgeable student of the history of evolutionary thought and...
View ArticleAntique Homo Claims Threatened by New Bones
The number of potential overhauls in thinking from this thigh bone in China is staggering. A painted thigh bone found in a China cave shouldn’t be there. It los like something ancient, but it’s dated...
View ArticleSeparating Old Bones from Living Storytellers
What happens when discrete bones are forced into a continuous narrative where they don’t fit? Answer: storytelling. Homo naledi fight: John Hawks just got on Michael Shermer’s case for storytelling....
View ArticleThe caring Neandertal
If we are ever asked to imagine what a Neandertal was like, most of us would think of some half-witted cretin. In fact, the word Neandertal is often used as a term of abuse. It generally signifies that...
View ArticleNeanderthal Concept Has Imploded
If Neanderthals interbred with modern humans as early as new findings suggest, the distinction becomes meaningless. “Our first sex with Neanderthals happened 100,000 years ago,” New Scientist shouts....
View ArticleRussian media mogul Dmitry Itskov is using technology to help grant eternal life
Russian media mogul and multi-millionaire Dmitry Itskov has a simple goal: use technology to live forever. To accomplish this he is spearheading a science-based project called the ‘2045 Initiative’...
View ArticleDr Lawrence Krauss says people should doubt evolution!
In a recent article in The New Yorker magazine1, Dr Lawrence Krauss2 said people should doubt evolution. Well, to be sure, this is not what Dr Krauss, an outspoken anti-theist and evolutionist,...
View ArticleBronze-Age DNA Confirms Babel Dispersion
Scientists used new techniques to sequence 101 ancient human genomes believed to be from Bronze-Age populations in Europe. Their findings indicate a massive migratory influx of genetic diversity just a...
View ArticleTwo Mutations Caused Black Death
The Black Plague of the Middle Ages happened by accident. It was enabled by two mutations to a bacterium, scientists claim. The germ that caused the “Black Death” is only a young bug, “evolutionarily...
View ArticleHere’s the Intel; Stephen Hawking fears robots could wipe us out
We have reported in Creation magazine that the famous physicist Stephen Hawking was concerned that tampering with the ‘God particle’ (Higgs boson) could end the world.1 Now he has issued another dire...
View ArticleYou Have to Be Conscious to Deny Consciousness, and Other Conundrums
Would you have a rational discussion with a zombie? Materialists are forced into the position of discussing philosophy and science with the walking dead, since under their terms we are all that. Unless...
View ArticleSecular Anthropology Fails Consistently
By assuming long ages and by underestimating human creativity and mobility, evolutionary anthropologists keep getting surprised by evidence. A number of recent articles about human history and...
View ArticleNatural History Museums Bear Witness to the Debate over Intelligent Design
Recently, following the lead of World Magazine’s Marvin Olasky who originally reported it, I commented on the difference in approach to covering evolution taken by two distinguished museums: the...
View ArticleAs a Taxonomic Group, “Homo habilis” Is Challenged in the Journal Science
The limits of our genus Homo have long been controversial. One problem is that evolutionary biologists sometimes try to shoehorn un-human-like fossils into Homo in order to make it appear that ape-like...
View ArticleEvolutionary Anthropologists Startled by Racial Mixing in Africa
If they didn’t expect recent genetic mixing from Europe into Africa, how certain are they about older human migrations? One thing is clear about early humans: they were a mobile group, often...
View ArticleEarly Man Foot Kicks Evolution
Fossil footprints identical to modern human prints cast serious doubt on the evolutionary timeline. Look at the pictures in Live Science’s article, “1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints Reveal Human...
View ArticleAbandoning Evolution – Physical Anthropologist Dr Neil Huber
A committed teacher of evolutionary anthropology at a major secular university (Wisconsin State) until 1975, Dr Neil Huber, of Washington State, USA, is now a whole-hearted creationist. A committed...
View ArticleThe Bronze Tree of Sanxingdui
Is this the oldest man-made Genesis artefact? In 1986, workers from a brickyard near Guanghan, China, were digging for clay in the countryside when they discovered various pieces of bronze. They...
View ArticleCro-Magnon Man: Nothing but a “Modern” Man
If macroevolution is true—if human beings are the result of millions of years of gradual evolution from an ancient, single-celled life form—there should be abundant evidence in the fossil record that...
View ArticleAmazonia Not Pristine
The tropical rainforests of Brazil, once thought to be pristine habitats of noble savages, show evidence of mass reworking by humans for millennia. They gained global attention in the 1950s: naked...
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