Scholarship Hits the Fan: Designer Science Now Gone from Multiple Sites

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The lack of scrutiny and skepticism by professional academics reflects a crisis of its own. Source
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Human Evolution Needs Subhumans, and Needs Them Badly

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Excavation of Neanderthal and other sites is leveling even further the fabled Ascent of Man. Source
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It’s Time to Buy Old Books Before AI Destroys Them

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This scheme is the brain child of technicians, people who lead tech companies and tech labs who are wholly committed to a technological view of the world. Source
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How Did the Designer Do It? 

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It seems the debate has not progressed much in a century and a half. Clearly, these evolutionary theorists think they have an unanswerable line of attack here. Source
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Critics Change the Topic: Do Human-Human Genetic Differences Matter? 

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One of the common yet unexpected reactions from critics to the discovery that humans and chimps are 15 percent genetically different is to change the topic. Source
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Defining Science, and Discussing Stephen Meyer’s God Hypothesis, on Twitter

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"God is a hypothesis. What Dr. Meyer does is evaluate that hypothesis against the latest scientific evidence of the last century." Source
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