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22Nov 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: New Fossil Stem Bird Is Surprisingly Modern

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Why do we mostly hear only one side of the story in the media? I suppose we must be protected from dangerous questions that could come up. Source

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

26Feb 2024 by Post

You’re Invited! Get the Total Solar Eclipse Experience, April 7-8, in Waxahachie, TX

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Beyond the sensory experience lies something even more astonishing — a cosmological coincidence of metaphysical significance to human existence. Source

24Jan 2024 by Post

Brain as a Quantum System: Theory Gets New Traction

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Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function. Source

29Dec 2023 by Post

Fossil Friday: Fossil Bird Tracks Expand the Temporal Paradox

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The origin of birds involves a severe problem for Darwinists, which paleo-ornithologist Alan Feduccia has called a temporal paradox. Source

13Dec 2023 by Post

Sleep — Designed for Our Good

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The evolutionary mindset operates as a major obstacle to the scientific understanding of sleep. Source

30Nov 2023 by Post

The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering

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It strains credulity to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system. Source

06Oct 2023 by Post

Fossil Friday: A Popular Just-So Story on the Origin of Bird Flight Bites the Dust

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There is a long-running about whether birds first took off by running and flapping from the ground up, or whether they jumped as gliders from the tree down. Source

03Oct 2023 by Post