A recent paper (Bennett et al. 2009) announced the discovery of 1.5 million year old fossilized footprints from Ileret, Kenya, almost certainly belonging to Homo erectus (see also this commentary article by Ann Gibbons). Homo erectus was already known from fossils such as the Turkana Boy to be very ...

I never really thought I'd ever type out the phrase "fossilized Walkman" or "fossilized PlayStation controller" in my lifetime, and yet, here I am Sunday morning, doing just that. Hooray? Of course,......

Over the past three years of writing for DI,  I have discussed evolution with many creationists who have posted comments at this site.  These exchanges have been good for me.  They have forced me to think harder about exactly what it is that I understand about evolution and what evidence supports...

1,5 Millionen Jahre alte Spuren zeigen: Homo egaster hatte Lauffüße wie der moderne Mensch und damit einen ähnlich aufrechten Gang...

Engineers on the Sleipner East platform in the North Sea can lay claim to a unique environmental honour. Each year for the past decade they have pumped a million tonnes of carbon dioxide into an old gas field below their rig, a helpful contribution to the easing of global warming. But there is more ...

One of the enduring falsehoods repeated endlessly by anti-evolution fanatics is that there are no “transitional fossils” — intermediate species that share characteristics with two distinct groups of animals. Here’s a good article at LiveScience on the many examples of transit...

We have already pointed you to afarensis’s deconstruction of Casey Luskin’s post on Lucy at the Discovery Institute Media/Museum Complaints Division. Luskin attempted to argue, based on his detailed study of a museum exhibit and some quote-mining, that the entire world community of paleoanthropo...

It is getting more and more painfully obvious that devious atheists continue to plant fossils all over God's good earth in an attempt to get more converts to religion of atheism. Regular fossils weren't good enough because intelligent creationists started to notice that there were no missing links o...

I might as well steal a technique from the 24 hour news networks and report that there will be news. Next week, in Chicago, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science the entire genome of the Neanderthal is expected to be reported. On a blog like this where hard...

I know the government seems to think that what we need is more coal and we need it now. But I was wondering why we can't power everything by natural gas? Gas, after all, has only half the CO2 emissions of coal (according to the Natural Gas Suppliers of America, natural gas emits 117,000 pounds per b...