21Dec 2021 by Post

Human Genetic Variation — A Tale that Keeps on Telling

1000 Genomes Project, Adam and Eve, alleles, BioLogos, bottleneck, Broad Institute, chims, chromosomes, DNA, Evolution, genetics, genomes, heterozygosity, Human Origins, humans, Moon, mutations, nucleotide differences, population size, primordial diversity, Steve Schaffner, target practice
If the pockmarks on the moon showed this kind of specific array surrounding each crater, we would think someone was using the moon for target practice. Source
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17Nov 2021 by Post

Harvard U Press Computer Science Author Gives AI a Reality Check

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The key missing ingredient in machine intelligence is the ability to appreciate context, do analysis, and make appropriate inferences. Source
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15Nov 2021 by Post

Lessons from the Evangelical Debate About Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Ann Gauger, Barbara Bradley Hagerty, BIO-Complexity, BioLogos, bottleneck, Calvin College, Christianity Today, Daniel Harlow, Deborah Haarsma, Dennis Venema, DNA, Evangelical Christians, Evangelicals, Evolution, evolutionary creation, evolutionary science, Faith & Science, Francis Collins, human origin, Human Origins, humans, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Joshua Swamidass, Nature Ecology and Evolution, Neal Conan, npr, Ola Hössjer, Queen Mary University, Richard Buggs, Science and Human Origins, Scientific consensus, Scot McKnight, The Language of God, theistic evolution, Trinity Western University, UniqueOriginResearch.com, william lane craig
The standard evolutionary account of human origins holds that our population has always been in the thousands and humanity did not descend from an initial pair. Source
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09Aug 2021 by Post

Documentary Human Zoos Is Screened at Detroit’s African-American History Museum

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The film tells how thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in America in what scholars today call “human zoos.” Source
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10May 2021 by Post

Scientists Conclude: Human Origins Research Is a Big Mess

American Museum of Natural History, Australopithecus afarensis, bipedalism, brain case, chimps, Darwin critics, Darwinists, fossil record, Günter Bechly, hominins, homoplasy, human locomotion, Human Origins, humans, ID The Future, knuckle-walking, last common ancestor, Miocene apes, rewriting, Sahelanthropus, Science (journal), Sergio Almécija, tree-climbing
Considering the number of fossils attributed to the human lineage, an absence of such fossils for the great African ape lineages raises an obvious suspicion. Source
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24Apr 2021 by Post

Why Computers Will Likely Never Perform Abductive Inferences

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If you are going to get a computer to achieve anything like understanding in some subject area, it needs a lot of knowledge. Source
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