20Sep 2025 by Post

Can Evolution Explain Altruism or Heroism?

altruism, burning cars, Casey Luskin, Culture, Education, Evolution, evolutionary mechanism, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary utility, genes, group selection, heroism, human behavior, kin selection, kindness, Marvel Universe, Podcast, reciprocal altruism, Richard Dawkins, selfish genes, strangers, teamwork
Casey Luskin and I share separate recent examples of people who have run towards burning cars to save complete strangers. Source
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18Sep 2025 by Post

Great Science Cancellation Continues: Here’s the Latest Victim

ABC, cancel culture, carbon dioxide, Casey Luskin, Charlie Kirk, Climate, climate change, comedians, Elsevier journals, entertainment industry, Environment & Climate, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, ideological differences, ideology, Jerry Coyne, Jimmy Kimmel, journals, lawsuits, Marcel Crok, peer-reviewed articles, physicists, Plato's Revenge, predictions, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, ratings, researchers, Richard Sternberg, Sabine Hossenfelder, Scientific Freedom, settled science, skepticism, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Colbert, Stephen Meyer, The College Fix
In the domination of science by ideology, by the myth of “settled science,” the stakes couldn’t be more profound.  Source
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03Sep 2025 by Post

Casey Luskin Answers Common Objections to Intelligent Design

"God of the gaps", Australopithecus afarensis, bipedalism, bird groups, Casey Luskin, co-option, Darwinian predictions, evolutionary timeline, flowering plants, fossil record, hand bones, Homo (genus), Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, ID The Future, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jacob Vasquez, Junk DNA, knuckle-walkers, land plants, Lucy (fossil), mammals, naturalism, naturalism in the gaps, paleontology, pelvis, scientific knowledge, tree branches, type III secretion system
Dr. Luskin highlights a “large unbridged gap” in the fossil record between ape-like species like Lucy and human-like species. Source
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20Aug 2025 by Post

Smithsonian Denigrates by Race, Including the Human Race

1 percent myth, American history, Casey Luskin, chimps, curator, delayed gratification, Dogs, genetics, human exceptionalism, Human Origins, Human Origins and Anthropology, human race, humans, humiliation, humility, National Museum of Natural History, National Zoo, Nature (journal), non-whites, pride, property, Protestant work ethic, rationality, Sean McDowell, self-hatred, self-reliance, Smithsonian Institution, The Golden Thread, Trump Administration, Wall Street Journal, whiteness, woke ideology
I have not yet heard that the Trump Administration is looking at what the NMNH says about human origins. But reforming the Smithsonian requites it. Source
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12Aug 2025 by Post

Casey Luskin Calls on the Smithsonian to Get It Right on Human Origins

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The Smithsonian Institution has recently been called out by the Trump Administration for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives.” Source
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09Aug 2025 by Post

Here’s the Venn Diagram from My Conversation with Denis Noble 

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While preparing for the conversation, I created the diagram comparing the similarities and differences among three viewpoints. Source
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31Jul 2025 by Post

My Conversation with Denis Noble and Perry Marshall About Evolution and Intelligent Design 

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In our experience, what cause generates conditional logic circuits, and then what cause re-uses those algorithmic programs over and over in different systems? Source
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25Jul 2025 by Post

Homelessness, Intelligent Design, and the Unseen Realm

1 percent myth, accountability, Annual Homeless Assessment Report, brain, Bruce Chapman, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, chimps, Culture, Denyse O'Leary, Donald Trump, Evolution, evolutionists, Executive Order, Faith & Science, Federal Government, Fix Homelessness, healing, homelessness, housing first, humans, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Choe, journalism, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, Michael Medved, mind, near-death experiences, Plato's Revenge, public policy, recovery, Richard Sternberg, soul, The Immortal Mind, The Varieties of Religious Experience, treatment, William James
Compared with previous approaches, the new Executive Order reflects a fundamentally different picture of reality. What should we call it? Source
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05Jul 2025 by Post

Despite Scopes Effect, Intelligent Design Flourishes

academic freedom, Casey Luskin, Darwinian mechanism, Darwinists, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary biologists, films, Hollywood, Inherit the Wind, Intelligent Design, Modern Synthesis, Neo-Darwinism, persecution, Scientific Freedom, scientific progress, Scopes effect, Scopes Monkey Trial
As Casey Luskin notes, the intelligent design research project has gone from strength to strength in the last three decades. Source
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