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Animal minds Intelligent Design Mind Naturalism

Are animals just as smart as people, but we are unfair to them?

Michael Egnor looks at such claims. Including apes as co-authors on a primatology research paper created quite a stir—among humans.

Posted on July 12, 2020July 12, 2020 Author News Comments(7)
Culture Darwinism Human evolution Intelligent Design

Michael Egnor: How NOT to debate materialists

Egnor: Although ape brains do differ somewhat from human brains in cortical anatomy, it is the similarity between the brains of apes and men, rather than the differences, that provides striking evidence of human exceptionalism.

Posted on March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 Author News Comments(14)
Animal minds Human evolution Intelligent Design Mind

Michael Egnor: Why human-ape similarity argues for human exceptionality

When everything is the same except the one thing that matters most, we can be sure we are onto a real difference.

Posted on August 3, 2019August 3, 2019 Author News Comments(17)
Human evolution Intelligent Design

New book from Harvard U Press: Childhood, not evolution makes us human

Two things: If the significant changes happen to humans between birth and seven years of age, it is not q theory of evolution at all, but of intellectual and cultural development. Also, Tomasello seems not be following the party line that apes are just like us but we refuse to recognize the fact. That’s borderline heresy.

Posted on August 2, 2019August 2, 2019 Author News Comments(4)
Human evolution Intelligent Design

A site that compares humans and great apes

In considerable detail.

Posted on July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 Author News Comment(0)
Animal minds Human evolution Intelligent Design language Mind

Why can’t we make apes behave like people?

Many researchers think that apes are just like us and that
we’re not doing the right things to make them start behaving that way…

Posted on July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 Author News Comments(64)
Darwinism Evolutionary psychology Intelligent Design Religion

Here’s a pop Darwin look at the origin of religion

At the BBC, a writer offers an explanation of the Christian practice of Communion, Darwinism-style. Along the way, he discovers that apes are spiritual.

Posted on April 21, 2019April 21, 2019 Author News Comments(3)

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