Month: July 2024

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, China, climate change, Columbia University, Ecuador, glaciers, Iceland, nature rights, Panama, personhood, pollution, river rights, University of Oregon}

Icelanders Nominated a Glacier for President to Push “Nature Rights” Movement

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 31, 2024

Bioethics, Physical Sciences

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Here is a story on “nature rights” activism that, on first impression, leaves one bemused. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Addy Pross, chemists, cognition, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, decision-making, Gaia, Galen Strawson, Hard Problem, human consciousness, materialism, memory, panpsychism, philosophers, physicalism, Robert Wright, thinking}

Can a Chemical Preparation Display Cognition? This Chemist Says Yes

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 31, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Addy Pross, associated with the evolutionary "Third Way" community, states his guiding principles up front. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, bony fish, buoyancy, ears, fish, hearing, humans, Nature (journal), neurons, pressure, sounds, swim bladder}

Study Unravels the Mystery of Fish Hearing

_{Eric Cassell
July 31, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The fish directional hearing algorithm appears to be another example of a complex programmed behavior in animals. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 30, 2024

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, archaeologists, birds, bison, Casey Luskin, cave bears, cooking, Darwinian theory, horses, human mind, human origins, Neanderthals, Portugal, The Descent of Man, wolves, ZME Science}

The Joy of (Neanderthal) Cooking

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 30, 2024

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

The Darwinian account of the human race would be much easier to believe in good faith if scientists could point to a clearly inferior and clearly human being. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
July 30, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, Asa Gray, athletes, blood, blood pressure, blood vessels, calcium, carbon dioxide, Charles Darwin, circulatory system, Communications Biology, Darwin’s Bluff, embryo, evolution, glucose, great apes, hard problems, heart, heart rate, humans, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, natural selection, oxygen, placenta, potassium, Robert Shedinger, selective pressure, Steve Laufmann, temperature, Your Designed Body}

Exposing the Heart of Neo-Darwinism

_{Howard Glicksman
July 30, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Technology

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At complete rest, for your organs and tissues to work properly, your heart must pump out about five liters of blood per minute. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 30, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, accident, Andréa Morris, creator, Daniel Witt, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, evolution, genes, goal, intelligent design, life, meaning, molecules, Nature (journal), Oxford University, purpose, Richard Dawkins, teleology, The Selfish Gene}

Oxford Biologist Denis Noble: “The Fact Is that I Think Neo-Darwinism Is Dead”

_{Casey Luskin
July 30, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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I respect Denis Noble and in disagreeing with him I do not mean to slight his deep insights into how biology works. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 29, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain damage, brains, circulation, death, emergency room, Lucid Dying, Nature (journal), neuroscience, nutrients, oxygen, oxygenation, pigs, resuscitation, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, Yale University}

Pig Brains Thought Dead May Be Revived

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 29, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Pigs are considered useful biomedical models for humans so the implications of such studies sent waves through the field of resuscitation — and bioethics. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 29, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrophysicists, coincidence, conspiracy, Discovery Institute, Guillermo Gonzalez, ID the Future, Jay Richards, Jonathan Witt, podcast, solar eclipse, Texas, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, The Privileged Planet, Waxahachie}

Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez Reads His Solar Eclipse Poem “Totality”

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 29, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Dr. Gonzalez discusses his experience of the 2024 total solar eclipse and his co-hosting of Discovery Institute’s eclipse watching event in Waxahachie, Texas. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
July 29, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, air, atmosphere, atmospheric gases, carbon dioxide, cellular life, David Coppedge, earth, food, habitability, magnetic field, Mars, oxygen, Saturn, solar radiation, solar system, sun, terraforming, Titan, water}

Challenges to Terraforming Mars Highlight the Intelligent Design of Earth

_{Eric Hedin
July 29, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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A short list of habitability requirements for humans includes the basics of air, water, and food. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 29, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atmosphere, benzene, biosphere, California, carbon, Cassini mission, continents, Europa, European Space Agency, Ganymede, habitability, Huygens probe, hydrocarbons, hydrogen, lakes, magnetic field, methane, Michael Denton, NASA, nitrogen, organic molecules, sand dunes, Saturn, temperature, The Privileged Planet, Titan, water, weather}

Saturn’s Moon Titan as a Habitability Test

_{David Coppedge
July 29, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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It’s called one of the most earthlike environments in the solar system with an atmosphere and organic molecules. How does it measure up compared to Earth? Read More ›