28Jun 2025 by Post

Birds Don’t Drive Buicks Because of … Evolution, You See

abstractions, amphibians, animal art, Antone Martinho-Truswel, art, bear marks, beaver logs, birds, bison paths, cars, cave bears, cave painting, cephalopods, driving, Evolution, fish, Flight, human art, human consciousness, human exceptionalism, Lascaux cave, Michel Lorblanchet, natural selection, Neuroscience & Mind, Pech-Merle cave, reptiles, Sarah Newman, University of Sydney
This all seems a roundabout way of saying that humans are exceptional. And here’s the question that no one in evolutionary biology has the answer to. Source
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16May 2025 by Post

What Is Lost with the Rise of AI

Artificial Intelligence, bird vocalizations, birds, bluetooth, Bob Placier, character, Culture, fast food, Henry David Thoreau, Life Sciences, Merlin, Neil Peart, Neuroscience & Mind, Ohio, personhood, piggy bank, restaurants, rhinoceros, Rush, Technology, wildlife, zoology
Thoreau wrote, "A person's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town." That's what we're losing. Source
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23Apr 2025 by Post

Sea Turtles and Their Trusty Magnetic Compass

Animal Algorithms, beaches, birds, Caretta caretta, compass, declination, destination, inclination, Intelligent Design, intensity, loggerhead turtles, magnetic field, magnetic signature, magnetoreception, map coordinates, memory, migration, Nature (journal), navigation, Neuroscience & Mind, North Pole, radio frequency, sea turtles, South Pole, zoology
All of these elements exhibit specified complexity that is indicative of intelligent design. Source
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18Apr 2025 by Post

High Bird Intelligence Is Consistent with Design, Not Evolution

abstractions, animal intelligence, birds, brains, chickadees, cockatoos, common sense, crows, Evolution, evolutionary biology, Germany, Giacomo Gattoni, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligence, Intelligent Design, logic, mammals, Maria Antonietta Tosches, Neuroscience & Mind, Niklas Kempynck, Onur Güntürkün, problems, ravens, Ruhr University Bochum, Science (journal), vertebrates, Yasemin Saplakoglu, zoology
A discussion of animal intelligence that refuses to acknowledge human exceptionalism becomes a script for suppressing discussions we need to have. Source
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18Mar 2025 by Post

Summer Seminar on ID Is a Glorious (and Cost-Free) Opportunity

application, birds, bobcats, butterflies, capsids, Colorado Springs deadline, deer, Education, Evolution, fermions, fossils, garter snakes, Glen Eyrie Castle, Intelligent Design, mice, molecules, nature, philosophers, qualia, Quanta, science, scientists, students, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teachers
The setting, once again Glen Eyrie Castle in Colorado Springs, is idyllic — towers of red rock and ponderous pines against the bluest of skies. Source
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03Jan 2025 by Post

Fossil Friday: A Scientific Controversy About Warm-Blooded Animals

birds, Brian Gardiner, Charles Darwin, convergent adaptations, Darwinism, dinosaurs, Dromaeosauridae, Evolution, Fossil Friday (series), Green River Formation, Haematothermia, Intelligent Design, John Ray, mammals, Nahmavis grande, paleontology, Philippe Janvier, physiology, pterosaurs, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, spermatozoa, synapsid, Søren Løvtrup, warm-blooded animals, Wyoming
How do popularizers of Darwinism such as Richard Dawkins react? Unsurprisingly, they just ignore the evidence. Source
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28Dec 2024 by Post

No. 5 Story of 2024: New Evidence Against Dino-Bird Ancestry

Alan Feduccia, antitrochanter, birds, dinosaur-bird hypothesis, dinosaurs, Evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, Hesperornis gracilis, iliac, ischium, Jurassic Park, Karlsruhe, Late Cretaceous, marine birds, microraptorids, paleontology, paleornithologists, penguins, phylogenetics, Temporal Paradox, theropod dinosaurs, troodontids, University of North Carolina, vertebrates
Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs. Source
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07Dec 2024 by Post

Who (or What) First Used Tools?

abstract ideas, algae, birds, blanket octopus, chimpanzees, Christophe Boesch, crows, decorator crab, Egyptian vulture, Hedwige Boesch-Achermann, invertebrates, Jane Goodall, Lucy, Max Planck Institute, Neuroscience & Mind, octopus, orange-spotted tuskfish, ostrich eggs, otters, paleontology, Taï National Park, tools, Tracy L. Kivell, Tremoctopus violaceus
It’s not stone tool use that is exclusive to humans; vultures can do that too. It’s the ability to form abstract ideas. Source
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31Jul 2024 by Post

The Joy of (Neanderthal) Cooking

archaeologists, birds, bison, Casey Luskin, cave bears, cave lions, cooking, Darwinian theory, Evolution, flint flake, food processing, Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, horses, hot coals, human mind, Human Origins, Mariana Nabais, Neanderthals, Neuroscience & Mind, Portugal, reindeer, roasting, The Descent of Man, wolves, ZME Science
The Darwinian account of the human race would be much easier to believe in good faith if scientists could point to a clearly inferior and clearly human being. Source
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