Lots of speculation about how the New World was populated by the old may have been answered by an exhaustive DNA study. The findings: the Americas were settled in three waves from northeast Asia beginning at least 15,000 years ago: [Read more…]
If that header doesn’t grab you, then you my friend have bigger problems than sex and religion can solve. Unfortunately, I may not deliver on the headline. It refers to a new book, Homo Mysterious by evolutionary psychologists Davd Barosh, that I have on order. Female sexuality is one of the topics the author writes about, but there is another graf in the review that caught my eye: [Read more…]
Most of the time the discussion between creationists and everyone else centers on science. Creationists feel they can discredit the science and weaken acceptance of evo, we knock down the zombie lies hoping they will come to their sense. But theologically, they can’t do that, ever, and still be consistent: [Read more…]
Most kids, and a few of us “older” kids, may think dinos are way cool. But a new study says no: they were hot, as in hot-blooded. And that may go for some of the larger ones: [Read more…]
Some old bones have stirred up new hope among the gullible that Jesus really did live, die, and live again (Wouldn’t that mean he didn’t die though?). It’s all based on some radiocarbon dating and molecular analysis of genetic material that Christians may now suddenly find irrefutable: [Read more…]
Cryo-researchers have found algal blooms below the polar ice that are far more robust than once thought, and that could explain some things: [Read more…]
Famed fossil hunter Richard Leakey thinks the evidence for evolution will become so strong in the next few decades that skeptics will be forced to accept it: [Read more…]
It seems the giant snake Titanoboa had a contemporary giant reptile cousin. A slow, plodding archosaur known affectionately to millions of youngsters today as a turtle. Only this fresh water gal was the size of a small car: [Read more…]
A prominent Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon has reservations about evolutionary biology. But these are not the usual assortment of neo-Young Earth Ken-Haminisms usually seen in the cyber-pages of FreeThoughtBlogs: [Read more…]
New research on horse genomes indicates the domestic verison may have originated in the Russian Ukraine and spread from there, with lots of interbreeidng with wild horses along the way: [Read more…]