Human Origins – Page 4 – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

02Feb 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: New Evidence for the Human Nature of Neanderthals

anatomy, antibiotics, Australian aboriginals, behavior, Bence Viola, biospecies, body decoration, cave art, cavemen, eagle talons, Fossil Friday, gene pool, genetic admixture, glue, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, human nature, Human Origins, human uniqueness, jewelry, lordosis, mating partners, Michael Shermer, native Australians, Neanderthals, ochre, painkillers, paleontology, seafood, spinal curvature, stone circles, Svante Pääbo, Thomas Huxley, University of Toronto

What is at stake is not just some esoteric species problem in the ivory tower, but the very question of human nature and human uniqueness. Source

25Jan 2024 by Post

Science or Science Fiction? Scientists Debate

Ancient Apocalypse, ancient civilization, Andrew McDiarmid, archeology, Aylin Woodward, burials, Casey Luskin, Culture & Ethics, Daniel Sandweiss, documentaries, East Carolina University, Graham Hancock, graves, Homo naledi, Human Origins, ID The Future, Lee Berger, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, Netflix, News Media, paleontology, Rising Star Cave, science fiction, Scientific American, Society for American Archaeology, The Guardian, Unknown: Cave of Bones, Wall Street Journal

Should some Netflix documentaries be labeled science fiction? Two are currently targeted by researchers in paleontology and archeology respectively. Source

30Nov 2023 by Post

The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering

articular bone, auricle, birds, cerebral cortex, ceruminous glands, cochlea, columella, deafness, ear, ear canal, eardrum, electrical signals, Engineering, equilibrium, fish, foresight, hair cells, hearing, Howard Glicksman, Human Origins, incus, Intelligent Design, malleus, middle ear, nasopharynx, natural selection, ossicles, outer ear, oval window, pinna, quadrate bone, reptiles, saccule, sound waves, stapes, Steve Laufmann, tectorial membrane, temporal bone, temporal lobes, tympanic membrane, utricle, vertebrates, vibrations, Your Designed Body

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

10Oct 2023 by Post

Not Enough Evidence: Casey Luskin on Recent Homo naledi Claims

ABC News, burying dead, Casey Luskin, cave art, Evolution, fire, Homo naledi, human exceptionalism, Human Origins, ID The Future, intelligence, Lee Berger, Marketing, Netflix, Podcast, preprints

They claim that the small-brained species had high intelligence and engaged in activities like burying their dead, using fire, and engaging in cave wall art. Source

21Sep 2023 by Post

Evidence of Woodworking Extends High Human Intelligence Far Back into the Mid-Pleistocene

Africa, Archaeology, digging sticks, Early Stone Age, fire, fossil record, Homo sapiens, human intelligence, Human Origins, Lawrence Barham, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, paleontology, Science Daily, spears, University of Liverpool, woodworking

This rare find shows that some of the very human-like forms in the fossil record were actually much smarter than we thought. Source

18Sep 2023 by Post

How Evolutionary Theory’s Co-Founder Broke with Darwin

Alfred Russel Wallace, biology, Charles Darwin, Chemistry, cosmology, Evolution, Human Origins, ID The Future, intellectual history, Intelligent Design, Michael Flannery, Michael Keas, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Overruling Intelligence, Podcast

Unlike Darwin, Wallace thought that biology, chemistry, and cosmology proclaimed clear evidence of intelligent design. Source

07Aug 2023 by Post

Asking Questions Demonstrates Human Exceptionalism

Albert Einstein, animals, Bible, chatbot, ChatGPT, cosmos, curiosity, DNA, electronic technology, fine-tuning, history, human exceptionalism, Human Origins, humans, imagination, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, metaphysics, natural world, Physics, Earth & Space, prompt engineering, Questions

This human trait of question-asking begins almost as soon as we learn to talk. Young children can confound their parents with their rapid-fire questions. Source

07Jul 2023 by Post

Ovid in His Exile

American Sign Language, animals, chimpanzees, Columbia University, Darwinian theory, David Premack, Dogs, dolphins, Evolution, facial expressions, gestures, great apes, Herbert Terrace, Human Origins, humans, Jesuits, Lipman Bers, mathematicians, MIT, Penny Peterson, puppy, San Diego, Schermerhorn Hall, Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania

Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia University was the scene of many strange experiments. Source

03Jul 2023 by Post

With Becket Cook, David Berlinski Discusses Speech as a Problem for Darwin, and More

animal life, animals, Becket Cook, Bible, communication, Darwinism, David Berlinski, discontinuity, Dogs, Evolution, externalization, human exceptionalism, Human Origins, humans, Jesuits, Ovid, pets, Science After Babel

Dog owners know that to look into your dog’s eyes is often to see that the dog has something he wishes to say but lacks the “machinery for externalization.” Source

23Jun 2023 by Post

Fossil Friday: To Be or Not to Be Homo

African apes, Australopithecines, bone fragments, bones, butchering sites, Darwinian, evolutionists, Fossil Friday, fossil record, handy man, hominin fossils, Homo ergaster, Homo habilis, human oirgins, Human Origins, humans, Louis Leakey, Lucy, missing link, nomadic tribes, Olduvai Gorge, paleoanthropologists, paleontology, rock circles, stone tools, Tanzania, wastebasket taxon

The fossil hominin Homo habilis was described 1964 by Louis Leakey and his colleagues from the 1.9 million year old Olduvai Gorge locality in Tanzania. Source

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