Human Exceptionalism

Does Homo naledi Undermine the Case for Human Exceptionalism?

July 19, 2023

My friend Ken Samples tells me it is one of the greatest stories ever told. It’s the tale of Plato’s Cave. In this allegory, Plato describes a...

Human Origins & Anthropology

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Animals Are Intelligent But Are Humans Exceptional?

April 12, 2023

I’m an introvert. Attending gatherings with people I don’t know simply sucks the life out of me. The icebreakers that frequently open these gatherings only...

Human Origins & Anthropology

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Should Chimpanzee Behavior Challenge Human Exceptionalism?

April 27, 2022

When our kids were little, I always enjoyed our family trips to the zoo. As they grew older, our zoo visits became much less...

Human Origins & Anthropology

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

How We Use Energy Points to Human Exceptionalism

February 21, 2022

It's easy for humans to take food availability for granted in our modern world, but the acquisition of food resources in human history has...

Human Origins & Anthropology

by Hugh Ross Read

Brain Organoids Cultivate the Case for Human Exceptionalism

January 19, 2022

Mel Brooks’s horror comedy Young Frankenstein is one of my all-time favorite movies.  Perhaps my favorite scene in the movie has Igor (pronounced EYE-gor)—played brilliantly by Marty...

Human Origins & Anthropology

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Humans Are Designed to Think While Walking

November 8, 2021

One of my favorite things to do when I am on vacation is hike in the mountains and take in as much scenery and...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

A Christian Perspective on the Sixth Mass Extinction

July 14, 2021

It is hard to imagine that anything good could have come from the COVID-19 pandemic.

But something has. Thanks to the 2020 “lockdowns,” there was...

Human Origins & Anthropology

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Did God Create Us or Did We Evolve from a Common Ancestor with the Apes?

May 7, 2021

Question of the week: Do you believe God directly intervened to create the first modern humans or did we evolve from a common ancestor with...

Human Origins & Anthropology

by Hugh Ross Read

Domestication, Human Exceptionalism, and Creation

April 20, 2020

How many origin events has Earth’s life undergone? From a naturalistic perspective there is just one origin of life: the origin of the Last...

Human Origins & Anthropology

by Hugh Ross Read

Does Transhumanism Refute Human Exceptionalism? A Response to Peter Clarke

April 3, 2019

I just finished binge-watching Altered Carbon. Based on the 2002 science fiction novel written by Richard K. Morgan, this Netflix original series is provocative,...

Human Origins & Anthropology

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Timing of Neanderthals’ Disappearance Makes Art Claims Unlikely

March 27, 2019

In Latin it literally means, “somewhere else.” Legal experts consider an alibi to be one of the most effective legal defenses available in a...

Human Origins & Anthropology

by Fazale “Fuz” Rana Read

Scientific Discovery & God: Human Exceptionalism, Part 4

February 12, 2019

Some people think the advance of science continues to remove any reason for believing in God, but in reality scientific discovery over the last...

Human Origins & Anthropology

by Kenneth Samples Read