Tuesday, August 11, 2020

How Old is the Universe?

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An astrophysicist at the University of Oregon suggests that the universe might not be 13.8 billion years old but maybe just 12.6—a drop of 8...
Saturday, August 08, 2020

Another Mystery Ancestor Joins The Group

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Science Daily has a story on genetic work done by researchers at Cornell University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory that suggests that th...
Friday, August 07, 2020

Glenn Morton Has Died

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 Glenn Morton, one of the first people to go public with his recantation of young earth creationism has died.  Todd Wood has the news: I jus...
Thursday, June 04, 2020

An Honest Evolution Debate?

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James Haught once wrote a column , now appearing in the Good Men Project on how science is an honest endeavor.  He writes: To me, the whole ...
Wednesday, June 03, 2020

Libby Anne: Ken Ham is Playing at Science

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She's not wrong.  Libby Anne, a writer for Patheos has latched onto something that has been an issue with Ken Ham for quite some time: h...
Tuesday, June 02, 2020

Homo erectus 200,000 Years Older Than We Thought

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UPI has a story about a discovery in South Africa of a Homo erectus infant that is 200 ky older than the oldest known specimen currently ...
Monday, June 01, 2020

Oldest Evidence of Siberian Crossing of Native Americans

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UPI has a story about evidence from around Lake Baikal that links populations of Siberia to the earliest groups who came over from Siberia t...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

BioLogos: Approaching Adam

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BioLogos has a post on how to approach the teaching of the historical Adam aimed specifically at parents as they talk to their kids. Christy...
Monday, March 16, 2020

We Believe in Dinosaurs

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Here is the link to the film We Believe in Dinosaurs .  I have not gotten around to watching it, but hope to shortly.
Sunday, March 08, 2020

FFRF Lodges Complaint Against New York School Teacher

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First, I wish the Freedom From Religion Foundation would go away.  They are poisoning the discourse between religion and society by being mi...
Saturday, March 07, 2020

David MacMillan Writes OpEd Blasting Creationism, Ken Ham Fires Back

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David MacMillan, a former creationist, wrote an opinion/editorial for the Lexington Herald Leader, in which he blasted the Ark Encounter and...
Sunday, March 01, 2020

Neandertal/Denisovan Ancestors Interbred With Unknown Hominin

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As if the tangle of early archaic Homo sapiens relationships couldn't get any more confusing, evidence has now surfaced that the ancest...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Evolution of the Human Foot

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Nature News has an interesting examination of how the human foot evolved the arch, the singular most important aspect in the ability to per...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Humans in Asia survived Toba super-eruption 74,000 years ago

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Chris Clarkson and company have produced a study arguing that the super volcano Toba eruption of 74,000 years ago did not lead to a populat...
Thursday, February 13, 2020

The Ghost of an Unknown Hominin

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Science Alert has a story about the Ghost of an Unknown Hominin in Africa.  Carly Cassella writes: The gene pool of modern West Africans c...
Thursday, February 06, 2020

BBC: How Did the Last Neanderthals Live

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The BBC has a post on some archaeological discoveries that have illuminated how the Neandertals lived.  Melissa Hogenboom writes: For the...
Thursday, January 09, 2020

EarthSky: Twenty years of discoveries changing story of human evolution

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EarthSky has an interesting article that summarizes twenty years of human evolution discoveries.  They write: Perspectives on our own spe...
Wednesday, January 08, 2020

New Spot for the Origins of Modern Humans: Botswana

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One thing is consistent in the study of the origins of modern humans: there isn't any.  What National Geographic calls a “controversial...
Friday, November 15, 2019

Todd Wood's Take on Danuvius

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Todd Wood is always interesting to read, even if I don't share his chronological leanings.  He has thoughts on the new Miocene ape from ...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Upright Ape?

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Multiple outlets are reporting on the discovery of a fossil ape that appears to have at least a partially facultatively bipedal stance.  Her...