hands – Uncommon Descent

Human evolution Intelligent Design

An oldie from 2015: Human hands are “more primitive” than chimp hands

When we consider the difference in manual achievement, isn’t that a further argument for human exceptionalism?

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relatd Ba77 at 11, I strongly suspect that a Theory of Everything exists. The relationship between electrical and electromagnetic phenomena has... – At Mind Matters News: Why free...
bornagain77 Moreover, besides undermining any claim that they are capable of making rationally coherent arguments in the first place, in their... – At Mind Matters News: Why free...
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Silver Asiatic Relatd @385 - agreed. The Left has attacked the concept of truth for a long time now. Everything is relative,... – DEVELOPING, the US Supreme Court reverses...
Silver Asiatic Querius Excellent points - yes. Even Sabine Hossenfelder admits that there are some types of events that are entirely random.... – At Mind Matters News: Why free...
Silver Asiatic CD I don't think Dr. Egnor was saying that nobody disputes the idea that quantum effects are indeterminate. I think... – At Mind Matters News: Why free...
relatd There is NO reason to believe that a factual origin story will appear. None. There is NO reason to believe... – Remember when the lab-leak theory of...
relatd CD at 1, Scientific American has gone off the deep end. Creating problems where none exist and mixing different concepts... – At Mind Matters News: Why free...
relatd The most common problem afflicting the West today is sexual immorality. Sex outside of marriage was condemned in the past... – Are We Free?
relatd SA at 382, Lying must be the most common things Leftists do. How else can distorted and abnormal things end... – DEVELOPING, the US Supreme Court reverses...
relatd JH at 375, I see you're disappointed that there's no Atheist majority. – DEVELOPING, the US Supreme Court reverses...
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Seversky How can the body be at war with itself? Auto-immune disease? – Are We Free?
Querius Silver Asiatic @3, A superdeterministic system requires a cause. Something would have to cause everything to be “pre-determined” including our... – At Mind Matters News: Why free...
kairosfocus ET (attn FH): In addition, there is the pretence of getting functionally complex specific organisation and associated information, algorithms, code,... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
ET Fred Hickson: I repeat that RNA World drives a coach and horses through your idea that aaRSs could not have... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
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ET Fred Hickson: But the fact is using the words “code, coding, encoding, translating” etc when talking about DNA and the... – Archaeologists believe they found the oldest...
chuckdarwin Ba77 & SA You both appear smart and well-educated, which is why it is frustrating when you don't deal with... – At Mind Matters News: Why free...
Lieutenant Commander Data ET Fred Hickson: Szostak et al. engineered a ribozyme to perform as an amino-acyl tRNA synthetase. OK. That doesn’t mean... – How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?