Science Writing Tries to Smash Human Exceptionalism

Africa, Amanda Richardson, animal behavior, antiquity, BBC News, Bronze Age, chimpanzees, Claire Asher, Côte D’Ivoire, Culture & Ethics, England, Homo sapiens, human exceptionalism, human mind, humans, Ice Age, Merlin, metal tools, monkeys, Neuroscience & Mind, New Stone Age, paleontology, polar bears, Royal BC Museum, Salisbury, Stone Age, stone tools, vultures, walruses
Stone tool use among animals versus the Stone Age provides a useful illustration of the tendency. Source
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I Grew Up with Intelligent Design Videos — Let’s Make More!

cell machinery, Center for Science and Culture, chameleons, common sense, Discovery Institute, DNA, Evolution, Howard Glicksman, humor, Intelligent Design, kinesins, Long Story Short, media, Michael Behe, microtubules, monkeys, mousetrap, movie producer, newspapers, proteins, replication, Secrets of the Cell, shrimp, Steve Laufmann, turtles, Your Designed Body, YouTube videos
Even as a child, I could sense the scientific rigor and common sense in CSC videos, and I learned to recognize media hype about evolution for what it is. Source
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War on Human Exceptionalism Turns to Tool Use

Abigail Desmond, abstraction, animals, archaeologists, bragging rights, capuchin monkeys, chimpanzees, crows, debris, dolphins, environment, hands, Harvard University, human exceptionalism, Human Origins, life forms, Michael Haslam, monkeys, Neuroscience & Mind, octopuses, Oxford University, Saturn V rocket, sea urchins, tool use, tools
As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice. Source
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Brain Size Doesn’t Determine Intelligence

Ars Technica, birds, brain size, brains, chimpanzees, genetic engineering, Homo sapiens, human brain, humans, information processing, Intelligent Design, jetliner, John Timmer, lemurs, London School of Economics, Michael Denton, Michel Hofman, monkeys, Neuroscience & Mind, octopus, oxygen, Peter Cochrane, primates, psychology, superintelligence, synaptic connections, The Miracle of Man
Brains are not simple, so many “just common sense” theories have fallen by the wayside. Source
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Return of the Rafting Monkeys: Why Biogeography Is No Friend of Common Descent

Atlantic Ocean, biogeography, camera eye, Casey Luskin, common descent, common design, convergence, Emily Reeves, Evolution, evolutionists, Harvest House, humans, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, monkeys, octopus, optical engineering, Podcast, rafting monkeys, Renaissance, solar system, South America, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, universal common descent
Evolutionists have to propose, for instance, that Old World monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America on a natural raft. Source
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Honored by Statue, Democratic South Carolina Senator Said Some Blacks “Near Akin to Monkey”

Africans, baboons, ballot boxes, Benjamin Tillman, black inferiority, Caucasians, Civil War, Culture & Ethics, Democratic Party, Ellenton riot, Evolution, evolutionary racism, historical figures, lynching, missing link, monkeys, political rights, Racism, scientific racism, South Carolina, statues, stealing elections, U.S. Senate, United States
Benjamin Tillman was a monster. He publicly defended lynchings. He drew on evolutionary racism to preach black inferiority. Source
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