Category: Human Origins
The Mismeasure of Man: Why Popular Ideas about Human-Chimp Comparisons Are Misleading or Wrong
You have probably heard that our DNA, the stuff that makes us human, is only 1% different from chimps.
Bonobos: A Postscript
It’s not without cultural significance that Chris Mooney and the headline writers at Mother Jones should keep flogging them as a mascot of human-ape genetic similarity.
Talk to the Animals? Yeah, Right
All along there has been strong evidence that humans are separated from animals not by a mutation but by a chasm.
Darwin in the Dock: C.S. Lewis’s Doubts about the Creative Power of Natural Selection
Lewis first read French philosopher Henri Bergson during World War I while recovering from shrapnel wounds, and the experience was profound.
Darwin in the Dock: C.S. Lewis’s Limited Acceptance of Common Descent
It would be wrong to conclude that his acceptance of some kind of human evolution placed him in the camp of mainstream evolutionary biology, or even mainstream theistic evolution.