17Feb 2026 by Post

Sophistication of Bee Decision-Making Is a Mystery, Unless Design Hypothesis Is Permitted

animal behavior, Apis mellifera, bees, behavior, behavioral decisions, brain, communication systems, decision-making, depth, Engineering, flower print, flowers, food, foraging, honeybees, Intelligent Design, Lars Chittka, learning, mantids, memory, mimicry, nectar, noise, pollen, predators, primates, psychology, Punishment, quinine, Radar, reward, signal-to-noise ratio, spiders, sugar, trade-offs, University of Sheffield, vegetation, World War II, zoology
Distinguishing a real flower from a flower print on a woman’s dress can come into play, possibly requiring some experimental probing. Source
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05Feb 2026 by Post

Are We Just Animals? A Tempting Delusion

animals, bioethics, Bloodhound Gang, cats, Children, Conversation, Discovery Channel, embodied beings, friendship, Gombe Chimpanzee War, human beings, human exceptionalism, humans, incorporeal intelligences, J. Budziszewsk, laboratory animals, Laws, locusts, mammals, Pandemic of Lunacy, Parents, primates, rationality, snakes, spouses, transhumanists, University of Texas, wolves, worship
Some of my students argue that humans should be wiped off the face of the earth to make room for the other species. Source
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27May 2025 by Post

Letter to the Smithsonian: Correct Your Signage on Human-Chimp Genetic Similarity!

1 percent myth (series), Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, differential, DNA, Evolution, gap divergence, genetic code, genetic difference, genomes, Gorilla gorilla, gorillas, human exceptionalism, Human Origins, Human Origins and Anthropology, humans, Intelligent Design, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), orangutans, Pan troglodytes, Pongo abelii, primates, Progressive Cactus, signage, single nucleotide variation, Smithsonian Institution, Supplemental Data, telomere, University of Johannesburg
Unfortunately, the 1 percent myth is promulgated as fact at, among other places, the nation's own Smithsonian Institution. Source
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23Mar 2023 by Post

Peer-Reviewed Paper Shows Vertebrate Embryonic Variation Contradicts Common Ancestry

amniotes, amphibians, anamniotes, BIO-Complexity, biology, birds, blastula, bony fish, Charles Darwin, chondrichthyans, cleavage, common ancestry, David Swift, development, developmental biology, ectoderm, endoderm, Ernst Haeckel, Evolution, Evolution Under the Microscope, gastrulation, germ layers, homologous organs, homology, Intelligent Design, lancelets, mammals, mesoderm, neurulation, peer-reviewed literature, phylotypic stage, primates, reptiles, Rudolf Raff, science, teleosts, tissues, vertebrate development, vertebrate embryos, waiting-time problem
Evolutionary biologists often argue that vertebrate embryos develop in highly similar manners, reflecting their common ancestry. Source
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03Feb 2023 by Post

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Treeshrews (Scandentia) and Colugos (Dermoptera)

Alfred Brehm, arboreal animals, bats, chimeras, colugos, Cretaceous Period, Cynocephalidae, Darwinian predictions, Darwinian theory, Early Eocene, Euarchotoglires, Eudaemonema webbi, Evolution, flying lemurs, Fossil Friday, fossil record, Galeopithecidae, Late Paleocene, Micromomyidae, Microsyopidae, Mixodectidae, Myanmar, North America, Pakistan, Paleocene, Paleogene, paleontology, phylogenetics, Plagiomenidae, plagiomenids, Plesiadapiformes, primates, Ptilocercidae, Thailand, treeshrews, Volitantia, Western Canada
Even as a paleontologist I admit that calling this a real scientific discipline seems like an insult to sciences like physics or chemistry or molecular biology. Source
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16Dec 2022 by Post

Fossil Friday: The Giant Armadillo Glyptodon and the Abrupt Origin of Xenarthrans

Afrotheria, America, Antarctica, anteaters, Argentina, armadillos, Astegotheriini, Cingulata, clades, Darwinists, Early Eocene, Early Eocene Climatic Optimum, Glyptodon asper, glyptodonts, La Meseta Formation, megafauna, Megalonychidae, Megatherium, Middle Ypresian, molecular clock, Natural History Museum of Vienna, New World, paleontology, pampatheres, Patagonia, Peltephilidae, phylogenetic systematics, Pilosa, placental mammals, Pleistocene, primates, Prostegotherium, Riostegotherium, science, sloths, South American Land Mammal Ages, Tubulidentata, vermilinguans, Xenarthra, xenarthrans
Should we dare to consider the possibility that something is wrong with the Darwinist assumptions? Heaven forbid! Source
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17Jul 2022 by Post

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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26Feb 2021 by Post

Study: Hands of “Ardi” Indicate a Chimp-like Tree-Dweller and Knuckle-Walker

Ardi, Ardipithecus ramidus, bipedality, bonobos, chimpanzees, Evolution, Germany, hominins, human ancestor, Human Origins, Madelaine Böhme, primates, quadrupedality, Rosetta Stone, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Science Advances, The Scientist, Tim White, University of Tübingen
Initially, Ardi was widely called the “oldest human ancestor,” due to its supposed skeletal traits that indicated an early bipedal (upright walking) species. Source
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