Where the kids routinely outscored the apes was in tasks that involved reading social cues. When the children were given a hint about where to find a reward – someone pointing to or looking at the right container – they took it. The apes either didn’t understand that they were being offered help or couldn’t More
Source: Face Off: the Problem With Social Distancing – CounterPunch.org
The measures being taken against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic owe nothing to evolutionary theory.
Source: Coronavirus, Intelligent Design, and Evolution | Evolution News
Could SARS-CoV-2 have evolved from another coronavirus by mutation and natural selection? I don’t see why not, though there is only indirect evidence (from DNA sequences) to support the idea. If it had happened, however, it would not provide support for Darwinian evolution. First, viruses are not living organisms: They are just pieces of DNA or RNA enclosed in a protein coat. They do not carry out metabolism (the chemical processes that are essential for life), and they do not reproduce themselves (only living cells — or skilled genetic engineers — can make copies of them). Second, even if viruses were considered living things, the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 from another coronavirus would be akin to microevolution — minor changes within existing biological species. (“Species” are not even defined the same way in viruses as they are in living organisms.)But Darwin did not write a book titled How Existing Species Change Over Time. He wrote a book titled The Origin of Species. In other words, Darwin attempted to explain macroevolution — the origin of new species, organs, and body plans.
Source: Coronavirus, Intelligent Design, and Evolution | Evolution News
Other countries on lockdown will be watching for a resurgence of infections in Hubei province now that travel restrictions are lifting.
Source: ‘We need to be alert’: Scientists fear second coronavirus wave as China’s lockdowns ease
If we approach the arguments logically, as the ancient philosophers did, we will see that it is more certain that God exists than that anything else does. Atheist evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne should consider the arguments more carefully before assuming that prayer is foolish.
The authors of the paper saying that the virus could not have been designed base their findings on the fact that current software would not have predicted this result. I am not claiming that the virus was designed, only that a researcher need not have relied on this software to design a virus. The p
Source: Was the COVID-19 Virus Designed? The Computer Doesn’t Know | Mind Matters
Although ape brains do differ somewhat from human brains in cortical anatomy, it is the similarity between the brains of apes and men, rather than the differences, that provide striking evidence of human exceptionalism.
Despite frequently contradicting Donald Trump’s false declarations during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci has not yet been fired by the narcissistic manchild whose whims and self-interest continues to damage, on a daily basis, the nation’s emergency response efforts. Mike Pence or one of hi
Because of poor dates for land fossils laid down before and after the mass extinction at the end of the Permian, paleontologists assumed that the terrestrial extinctions from Gondwana occurred at the same time as the better-documented marine extinctions. But a new study provides more precise dates for South African fossils and points to a long, perhaps 400,000-year period of extinction on land before the rapid marine extinction 252 million years ago.
Since pre-industrial times, the world’s oceans have warmed by an average of one degree Celsius (1°C). Now researchers report that those rising temperatures have led to widespread changes in the population sizes of marine species. The researchers found a general pattern of species having increasing numbers on their poleward sides and losses toward the equator.
Source: As the ocean warms, marine species relocate toward the poles — ScienceDaily
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