Category: Human Origins
Dabar Postscript
A participant did not like that I called his origins model “idiosyncratic,” or that I characterized the reaction to it as “cautious.” Oh well.
Adventures in New Places — A Conference on Human Origins
I asked fairly innocuous questions, realizing that I was being allowed to participate as long as I didn’t cause strife.
Human Exceptionalism — An Evolutionary Dilemma
Following Darwin, with an assist from Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, Ken Miller proposes that human reason, consciousness, etc. are exaptations, or “spandrels.”
Gauger: Rebel Science Versus Theistic Evolution
Is it really plausible to say that humans and chimps share an evolutionarily recent common ancestor, some 6 million years ago?
On Hominid Fossils and Universal Common Ancestry, Denis Lamoureux Distorts
Lamoureux is the theistic evolutionist who left an indelible impression a couple of years ago when he debated Stephen Meyer and atheist Lawrence Krauss.