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Robert J. Marks on “machines with minds” vs. the real-life dweebs in his evolutionary programming:

A machine mind didn’t “just evolve” in this experiment; it was programmed in — even if its output was a surprise. The same is likely true of the human mind.

Posted on July 6, 2022July 6, 2022 Author News Comment(0)
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At Eurekalert: Connectivity of language areas unique in the human brain

“Neuroscientists have gained new insight into how our brain evolved into a language-ready brain. Compared to chimpanzee brains, the pattern of connections of language areas in our brain has expanded more than previously thought. “

Posted on July 5, 2022 Author Eric Hedin Comment(1)
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Michael Egnor: Is consciousness the sort of thing that could have evolved?

Material processes cannot, for example, account for the power to grasp infinity or perfection — which are not material ideas.

Posted on June 29, 2022 Author News Comments(79)
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At Live Science: Why can’t we drink saltwater?

Why did humans — and nearly all other land animals, for that matter —evolve to drink freshwater when saltwater is so much more plentiful?

Posted on June 27, 2022 Author Eric Hedin Comments(36)
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At Sci-News: Early Humans were Present in Southeast Britain 620,000 Years Ago

Researchers: The archaeological site of Fordwich in northeast Kent, England, reveals the presence of Acheulean hominins — possibly Homo erectus or Homo heidelbergensis — in what is now southeast Britain between 620,000 and 560,000 years ago.

Posted on June 24, 2022 Author Eric Hedin Comments(2)
Human evolution Intelligent Design Philosophy

What would Catholic philosopher Thomas Aquinas say about Adam and Eve and paleontology?

Thomas Aquinas (1225– 1274) was instrumental in organizing Christian theology along Aristotelian lines. Here, a priest who is familiar with his thought, offers some comments.

Posted on June 12, 2022 Author News Comments(12)
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At Mind Matters News: Transhumanism: Human, computer, animal — all just a choice now…

Wesley Smith talks with Dr. Elaina George about the new secular religion of Transhumanism or H+ — immortality without tears for atheists — if it’s even possible.

Posted on June 12, 2022 Author News Comment(1)
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Jonathan Wells asks, Is the human shoulder badly designed?

Personal misfortune taught him otherwise.

Posted on May 18, 2022May 18, 2022 Author News Comments(4)
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Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems to have come together to produce humans

But didn’t Freeman Dyson (1923–2020) say, “The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.” The idea isn’t new; there’s just much more evidence for it.

Posted on May 14, 2022 Author News Comments(14)
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Claim: Human cognitive abilities a consequence of walking upright

The explanation sounds rather contrived and, curiously, makes “evolution” sound like a theistic evolutionist’s God.

Posted on May 10, 2022 Author News Comments(5)
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New sleep molecule: Apparently, the machinery of sleep is very complex

Researcher: Our discovery shows just how complex the machinery of sleep is.

Posted on May 1, 2022May 1, 2022 Author News Comment(0)
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Here’s a curious question: What did Neanderthals evolve from?

Some of us would like to know why, apart from professional jealousies and corruption, there is even an issue about differences between Neanderthals and the rest of us.

Posted on April 26, 2022April 26, 2022 Author News Comments(16)
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Another species of “hominin” still alive?

So no one has ever found one of them but we are supposed to take this seriously? Untraceable hominins. Elves, fairies, the Abominable Snowman? So this is all “science” now?

Posted on April 21, 2022April 21, 2022 Author News Comments(218)
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Researchers: Tool patterns show that Neanderthals were declining before Homo sapiens arrived

Researchers: “Based on this evidence, the authors suggest that older Iberian Neandertal populations disappeared, taking their tool styles with them, and were replaced by different Neandertal groups using Châtelperronian tools, likely migrating from France, and these populations were in turn replaced by Homo sapiens.”

Posted on April 3, 2022 Author News Comment(1)
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New genealogical network dates humanity back 100,000 years

One curious find, if it holds up, is that humans were in the Americas much earlier than thought. There should now be renewed interest in finding very early tools and fossils in North America.

Posted on March 22, 2022March 22, 2022 Author News Comments(12)

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