Tag: human origins
13-Million-Year Old Skull from Kenya – A Human Ancestor? Not Likely
You’ll forgive me for being a little bit jaded by now at news like this.
Fossil Footprints from Crete Deepen Controversy on Human Origins
It looks like 2017 could become some kind of genuine annus horribilis for the established scientific consensus on human evolution.
On Human Origins, the Need for Theory Evaluation
There are conflicting evidences, a lack of details, opposing hypotheses held with great confidence, and a wide range of explanatory mechanisms that are routinely used as needed.
The Human-Ape Missing Link — Still Missing
Research into human origins, we mean the entire field, is a mess.
The Soul of the Matter — Now in Paperback; Read Bruce Buff’s Thriller on Intelligent Design!
Does DNA coding demonstrate that we are here by intent? And is the brain itself enough to produce perceptions, feelings, thoughts and awareness?
On Human Fire Use, Anthropologists Miss the Point
You’d likely predict: This will largely be about the timing of our primordial fire use. There will be comparisons with chimps.
Another Day, Another “Rewrite” on Human Origins
Given evolutionary presuppositions, the direction of research and learning is not from lesser to greater clarity, but just the opposite.
Latest Gallup Polling on Evolution Fails to Enlighten
Trifling evidence and momentous conclusions. That is evolution in a nutshell.
Jonathan Wells, Author of Zombie Science: Fossil Finds Only Confuse Human Origins
The day’s science headlines include a sensational announcement that our ancestors separated from apes not in Africa as previously thought, but in Eastern Europe.
Latest Homo naledi Bones Are Younger than Expected
In 1982, paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Ian Tattersall noted that it is a “myth that the evolutionary histories of living beings are essentially a matter of discovery.”