Thursday, April 18, 2019

New Ark Encounter Film Out

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Film Threat has a review of a new film out about the Ark Encounter, the Ken Ham-inspired theme park in Petersburg, Kentucky.  The film, by ...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

On the Heels of the Discovery of Homo luzonensis...

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A new study from the journal Cell suggests that there were multiple migrations of individuals into Southeast Asia with the Denisovan genome....
Monday, April 15, 2019

New Species of Hominin Found in Phillipines

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From a story in UPI : At the completion of excavations on the island of Luzon, scientists had unearthed several teeth, part of a thigh bon...
Monday, April 01, 2019

Neandertal Penny Whistle Discovered

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Researchers working at the site of Vindija, in Croatia, have discovered what looks, to all appearances, like a penny whistle.  The find is l...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Genetic Data Suggests That Early Modern Humans Migrated From South to East Africa

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Science Daily is running a story that supports the idea that modern humans migrated from South to East Africa before exiting the continent....
Thursday, March 07, 2019

More Information From Denisova

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Nature News is reporting about some more evidence from Denisova, following up on the bombshell news last year that bones discovered there b...
Tuesday, March 05, 2019

More Evidence For Bipedality at 4.5 MYA

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Out of Case Western Reserve comes a study of some new fossil material that sheds like on early human bipedal adaptation.  From ScienceDaily ...
Monday, March 04, 2019

Neandertals Had Same Gait as Modern Humans

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A virtual reconstruction of the skeleton of the La Chapelle Neandertal has revealed that Neandertals had exactly the same bipedal pattern t...
Tuesday, February 05, 2019

Charles Darwin and the “Christian Right”

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Interesting.  Nobody ever talks about the “anti-Christian left.” They are always referred to as “progressives” as though their ideas are br...

Darwin Day Celebration in Knoxville

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On Saturday, February 16, there will be a Darwin Day celebration at the Frank H. McClung Museum on the University of Tennessee Campus.  Here...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

New Florida Bill Would Advocate Teaching of Controversial Subjects

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Emily Mahoney of the Tampa Bay Times writes that a new bill by senator Dennis Baxley (R, of course) has been promoted to allow teachers to ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Mutation Rate in Humans Has Slowed Down

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I am not quite sure what this means, yet. Researchers at the Aarhus University, Denmark, and the Copenhagen Zoo have discovered that, when c...
Friday, January 25, 2019

New BioLogos Post on Stone Tool Discovery in China

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My BioLogos post on the stone tool discovery at the Chinese site of Shangchen is up.  Comments welcome here and there.
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

My Favorite Fossil Post Up on BioLogos

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Unbeknownst to me, my “My Favorite Fossil” post on BioLogos is up .  You can view it here.  Comments welcome in both places. 
Friday, January 18, 2019

'Swiss Army knife of prehistoric tools' Found in China

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Science Daily is on a roll.  This came out a bit back during the late semester crunch and I didn't get a chance to post about it.  Stone...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

New Data on Neandertal Anatomy

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Anatomists have reconstructed the rib cage of the Kebara 2 Neandertal to get a better understanding of the trunk of our nearest relatives.  ...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Meanwhile, in Indiana

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From the NCSE comes a story of new legislation being pushed in Indiana that would require public schools to teach young earth creationism. ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

The Brain of Little Foot

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Science Daily had a story just a bit back about research done on the new information surrounding the Little Foot australopithecine remains f...
Friday, January 04, 2019

Creationism Linked to Conspiracy Theories?

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In a remarkably ham-fisted article, Medical Xpress is peddling the notion that belief in creationism and conspiracy theories are linked .  T...
Thursday, December 20, 2018

British Columbia Leading War in Canada against Creationism...Or Is It?

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Support for young earth creationism is, apparently, somewhat variable when it comes to the different Canadian provinces.  This is not surpri...