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Peer-Reviewed Paper: “Neo-Darwinism Must Mutate to Survive”

_{Casey Luskin
March 15, 2023}

They conclude, “There is something besides mutations and survival of the fittest needed to explain evolution.”

Monkey-Made “Tools” Cast Doubt on High Intelligence in Early Hominids

_{Casey Luskin
March 14, 2023}

Macaque monkeys from Lobi Bay, Thailand, have been observed “unintentionally” producing stone tools.

Is Human Psychology Better Explained by Evolution or Design?

_{Casey Luskin
March 2, 2023}

“We are survival machines,” wrote atheist biologist Richard Dawkins, “robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.”

Long Story Short: The Origin of Replication and the Information Sequence Problem

_{Casey Luskin
February 16, 2023}

As an undergraduate at UC San Diego, I attended a seminar taught by Stanley Miller, the famous chemist who put origin-of-life research on the map.

New Scientist: Ichthyosaurs Evolved “Astonishingly Rapidly”

_{Casey Luskin
February 14, 2023}

This is a case of evolutionary biology trying to explain away the data that otherwise was not directly expected under their model.

New Open-Access Book from South Africa Explores Intelligent Design and Science-Faith Issues

_{Casey Luskin
February 13, 2023}

We’ll feature excerpts here in the future, but for now I’d like to highlight some special features of chapters in the book.

Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2022: “Non-Random” Mutations

_{Casey Luskin
December 25, 2022}

The study was able to directly measure mutations after they occurred in the plant but before mutations could have been affected by natural selection.

Could Artificial Intelligence Ever Pass the Van Gogh Test?

_{Casey Luskin
November 15, 2022}

Vincent Van Gogh was crazy but he was talented, and AI can be neither crazy nor talented.

Experts Debate: Was a Chatbot Sentient?

_{Casey Luskin
November 14, 2022}

Lemoine was famously fired from Google earlier this year after he leaked a transcript of his conversation with Google’s advanced LaMDA chatbot program.

Is Information the Future of Biology and Medicine?

_{Casey Luskin
November 14, 2022}

University of Washington’s Georg Seelig wants to “design molecules” and “write genetic information.”

Human Origins: All in the Family

_{Casey Luskin
November 1, 2022}

If a Neanderthal walked down the street, appropriately dressed, you probably wouldn’t notice.

The Big Bang Origin of Homo

_{Casey Luskin
October 31, 2022}

This unbridged gap between the ape-like australopithecines and the abruptly appearing human-like members of our genus challenges evolutionary accounts.

The Human Fossil Record Lacks Intermediaries

_{Casey Luskin
October 27, 2022}

The news media might be heavily biased toward evolution, but at least it is predictable.

Australopithecines and Retroactive Confessions of Ignorance

_{Casey Luskin
October 26, 2022}

If a few teeth of intermediate size and shape make “the most complete chain of human evolution,” then the evidence for human evolution must be quite modest.

The Standard Story of Human Evolution: A Critical Look

_{Casey Luskin
October 25, 2022}

Whatever Ardi was, everyone agrees the fossils was initially badly crushed and needed extensive reconstruction.

Do Fossils Demonstrate Human Evolution? Let’s Consider the Technical Literature

_{Casey Luskin
October 24, 2022}

Far from “a nice clean example” of “gradualistic evolutionary change” that has “no gaps,” the fossil record shows a dramatic discontinuity.

An Optimistic Solution to the Mystery of Life’s Origin

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 29, 2022}

Consider what five prestigious origin-of-life thinkers say about the current status of origin-of-life research.

Origin of Life: Saved by Time?

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 28, 2022}

Many materialists believe that the severe unlikelihood of the series of events required for the origin of life is not a serious problem.

Still Unexplained: The First Living Cell

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 27, 2022}

In recent years, MIT physicist Jeremy England has gained media attention for proposing a thermodynamic energy-dissipation model of the origin of life.

Origin of the First Self-Replicating Molecules

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 25, 2022}

For some theorists, the origin of life is defined as the natural origin of a self-replicating system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution.