Even in Mice, Decision-Making Is More Complex than We Thought

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If it’s this complex in mice, what are we to make of simplistic representations of human thinking in pop psychology textbooks? Source
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Dilley: How Evolutionary Atheists Employ Homemade Theology

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That is no way to reason about science. Yet many biology textbooks, in explaining evolution, do the same thing, perpetuating an error that goes back to Darwin. Source
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On Illustrating the Icons of Evolution

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Artistic license has been used to promote Darwinian evolution since the late 19th century. Source
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Two Neuroscientists on Life, Death, Eternity, and What Really Matters

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Lee Warren interviews Michael Egnor on his book. It's a lively and accessible chat about how the human mind is not simply the brain and can even survive death. Source
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Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain

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A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once. Source
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Why Evolutionary Biologists Are “Fatigued” by Darwin

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Says Stephen Meyer, “The neo-Darwinian math is itself showing that the neo-Darwinian mechanism cannot build complex adaptations." Source
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Jonathan Wells Evaluates Darwinian Evolution in New Online Course

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How strong is the evidence for Darwinian evolution? What are the limits of the Darwinian mechanism? Source
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Jerry Coyne — An Evolutionist and His Ideology

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At least some others have the courage to stand for what they believe even in the face of potential criticism. Source
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There Is No Settled “Theory of Evolution”

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What is evolution? In other words, what is core to the theory — and not forfeitable? It’s naturalism. Period. Source
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A New Flaw in the Miller-Urey Experiment, and a Few Old Ones

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It is an interesting finding, but as Wells explains, it is far from the first problem discovered with the experiment, nor the most serious one. Source
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