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Longevity as Evidence of Original Design
A general principle for any designed system is that it functions optimally when it is used or able to perform in the way it was originally designed.
Solar Eclipses May Have Spurred Both Scientific Curiosity and Economic Development
A study explores the relationship between curiosity, triggered by natural phenomena such as solar eclipses, and economic development in pre-modern societies.
Listen: David Berlinski on Chickens, Eggs, Human Exceptionalism, and a Revolution
Dr. Berlinski explores a chicken-and-egg problem facing origin-of-life research, and a blindness afflicting some evolutionists focused on human origins.
Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity
It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited.
Early Humans Were More Sophisticated than We Thought
Neanderthals were not just downing raw hunks of meat 70,000 years ago, as many of us have assumed.