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
Read More

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
Read More

On Human-Chimp Genetic Differences, the Critics Misstate My Arguments 

1 percent myth, chimps, Chimps and Critics (series), common ancestry, common design, creationists, Discovery Institute, Evolution, evolutionary biology, genetic differences, genetic similarities, genetic variation, genetics, geologists, Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, Institute for Creation Research, Intelligent Design, Jeff Tomkins, Joel Duff, Jonathan Wells, National Museum of Natural History, persistent scientific errors, PZ Myers, Smithsonian Institution, University of Akron, University of Minnesota, YouTube videos, Zachary Ardern, zombies
Evolution defenders generally accept the new evidence showing that humans and chimps are 15 percent genetically different but downplay the new number. Source
Read More

Critics Change the Topic: Do Human-Human Genetic Differences Matter? 

1 percent myth, Amazon, chimps, Chimps and Critics (series), CHM13, common ancestry, DNA, Evolution, Financial Times, function, genetic difference, genetics, genomes, Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics, Han Chinese, human exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, human-human genetic differences, humans, Jared Diamond, Joel Duff, Junk DNA, Nature Communications, non-alignable DNA, Nucleic Acids Research, nucleotides, objections, reactions, repetitive DNA, Science (journal), Smithsonian Institution, University of Chicago Press, Zachary Ardern
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
Read More

Memo to the Smithsonian

1 percent myth, American Humanist Association, anti-American propaganda, Bill Nye, chimps, Daily Wire, disinformation, Donald Trump, genetic difference, Heritage Foundation, human beings, human exceptionalism, humans, ideology, Lonnie Bunch, Mike Gonzalez, museums, National Gallery of Art, National Museum of African American History and Culture, National Museum of American History, National Museum of Natural History, organisms, Plato's Revenge, Smithsonian Institution, Trump Administration, Uncategorized
We are trying to bring some reasonable pressure to bear on the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and its scientifically inaccurate displays. Source
Read More

Do Large Genetic Differences Between Humans and Chimps Represent “Technical Failures”? 

1 percent myth, alignment failure, biological processes, chimps, Chimps and Critics (series), common ancestry, deletions, DNA, Evolution, gap divergence, genes, genetic differences, genetics, genome, haplotype, Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, insertions, megabases, Nature (journal), repetitive elements, sequence alignment, Supplemental Data, technical problems
The insinuation is that something went wrong in the lab during the attempted alignment process. Source
Read More

Challenged on the “1 Percent” Myth, Smithsonian Gives a Meaningless Non-Answer

1 percent myth, chimp genome, chimpanzees, chimps, common ancestry, common design, computer programmers, Discovery Institute, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Shenk, Evan Eichler, Evolution, Evolution News, geneticists, genetics, human genome, Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), signage, Smithsonian Institution, Supplemental Data, taxpayers, University of Washington
Note to President Trump: I find this pretty disrespectful to the people who pay the bills at the Smithsonian. Source
Read More

Immaterial Genome Meets the Human-Chimp “1 Percent” Myth

atheists, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, chimps, Darwinian evolution, environments, evolutionary icons, Günter Bechly, Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, immaterial genome, Intelligent Design, Michael Levin, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic space, protein-coding DNA, Richard Sternberg, science education, science media, Smithsonian Institution, Supplemental Data, zookeepers, zoology, zoos
Obviously, humans and chimps are a whole lot more “different” than 1 percent. But…they’re also a lot more different than 14.9 percent. Source
Read More

Breaking: New Study Shatters the 1 Percent Human-Chimp Difference Myth

1 percent myth, American Museum of Natural History, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, chimps, common decent, de novo, Emily Reeves, Evolution, human exceptionalism, human genome, Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, ID The Future, National Geographic, new york, order of magnitude, Podcast, Science (journal), Science Reporting, Scientific American
The 1 percent statistic has become so widely cited and accepted that it could be considered an “icon of evolution.” Source
Read More