crows – Uncommon Descent

Animal minds Culture Intelligent Design Mind

Breaking: Common sense statements about human vs animal intelligence

In a respectable venue. That’s so rare now. Noticing actual differences is radical in an age when politically correct nonsense is a form of virtue.

Intelligent Design speciation

Crow “species” turn out to be merely “in the process of speciation”

But notice how the story is told in such a way as to pretend that some type of Darwinism is happening when maybe it isn’t. Darwin’s Potemkin village?

Animal minds Intelligent Design

Crows Can Be as Smart as Apes

But they have quite different brains. The intelligence doesn’t seem to reside in the details of the mechanism Studying animals’ intelligence has taught us many things. But in some ways, it has deepened the mystery of intelligence. We might have thought that intelligence, in terms of individual learning ability, would gradually increase among animals, from Read More…

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