Reading Time: 4 minutes Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo joined a rare group this morning: not just of Nobel Prize winners, but of “family Nobels”. His father, Karl Sune Detlof Bergström, shared the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane, for work related to local-tissue hormones, or “prostaglandins”. Forty years later, that award went solely […]
human evolution
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Bass-ackwards: We are not hardwired for belief
Reading Time: 5 minutes Many Christians seem to love the idea of humans being hardwired for belief. By this phrase, they mean that their god placed in each human’s heart a desire to worship something supernatural. Unfortunately, their god didn’t finish the job.
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How stories made us human
Reading Time: 8 minutes One of the very most human parts of the human situation is our love of stories. It’s how early humans formed groups and stuck together, and it’s how we learn even today.
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Has evolution taken its last breath?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Has evolution breathed its last? That depends on whom you talk to. Some Christian apologists are certain evolution’s death is any day now, and so far they’re about as successful as with their “any day now” claim about Jesus. (Maybe they should stop predicting stuff.)
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Where the Denisovans are 2021
Reading Time: 5 minutes Today, Lord Snow Presides over the way one ancient human species, the Denisovans, reached the present day through our DNA.
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Where the Denisovans Are 2021 (LSP #206)
Reading Time: 5 minutes Today, Lord Snow Presides over the way one ancient human species, the Denisovans, reached the present day through our DNA.
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New DNA study tells us that we’re barely human at all
Reading Time: 4 minutes Today, Lord Snow Presides over the many, many facets of our humanity — and the messy DNA that makes us so.
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DNA Study Tells Us That We’re Barely ‘Human’ At All (LSP #201)
Reading Time: 7 minutes Today, Lord Snow Presides over the many, many facets of our humanity — and the messy DNA that makes us so.
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Why evolution can’t have a driver
Reading Time: 6 minutes The organization BioLogos is dedicated to reconciling God and evolution. I love the idea of helping more people accept evolution. Yet here I am all conflicted. I’ll explain why, but let’s keep this between us. Evolution by natural selection, properly understood, is fatal to traditional Christian belief. It doesn’t just snap one branch of the religion. Challenging the idea […]
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‘Atheist Overreach’ Asks If God-Belief Is Inevitable
Reading Time: 13 minutes Now we move to Smith’s third question: Is god-belief inevitable, something humans will never really escape? Today, let’s explore that question.