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Doug Axe
Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Denyse O’Leary

Homo naledi
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Denyse O’Leary
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January 25, 2024
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Bioethics
Human Origins and Anthropology
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Science or Science Fiction? Scientists Debate

Denyse O’Leary
January 25, 2024
Bioethics, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Reporting
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Should some Netflix documentaries be labeled science fiction? Two are currently targeted by researchers in paleontology and archeology respectively. Read More ›
witch
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Denyse O’Leary
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January 24, 2024
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Bioethics
Faith & Science
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Will Scientists Now Consider Occult as Science?

Denyse O’Leary
January 24, 2024
Bioethics, Faith & Science
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“My truth” or (for grammatical convenience) “private truth” is making serious headway against public truth. Read More ›
brain organoids
Photo credit: Vaccarino Lab, Yale University, via NIH/Flickr (cropped).
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Denyse O’Leary
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January 23, 2024
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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Brain as a Quantum System: Theory Gets New Traction

Denyse O’Leary
January 23, 2024
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function. Read More ›
Astrocyte
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Denyse O’Leary
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January 19, 2024
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Life Sciences
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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New Findings About Our Mysterious “Second Brain”

Denyse O’Leary
January 19, 2024
Life Sciences, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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It wasn’t long ago that researchers were hardly aware of the way the digestive system functions as a second brain. The big focus was neurons. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
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January 18, 2024
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Bioethics
Metascience
Paleontology
Scientific Trustworthiness
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Peer Review May Be Beyond Reform

Denyse O’Leary
January 18, 2024
Bioethics, Metascience, Paleontology, Scientific Trustworthiness
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Harvard is going to have quite a job convincing the world that it is still serious about reality-based thinking, never mind peer review. Read More ›
consciousness
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Denyse O’Leary
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January 10, 2024
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Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
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Biochemist Begins to Sense Limits of Materialism

Denyse O’Leary
January 10, 2024
Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences
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I was somewhat taken aback. What does he mean by the “general nature of life” yielded to scientific analysis? Read More ›
Kurt Gödel
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Denyse O’Leary
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January 9, 2024
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Faith & Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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Gödel’s Defense of the Immortality of the Soul

Denyse O’Leary
January 9, 2024
Faith & Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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Gödel (1906–1978) is best known for destroying the materialist atheist hope that mathematics could be self-consistent without any external origin. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
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January 8, 2024
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Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
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Childhood in the Ice Age — What Was It Like?

Denyse O’Leary
January 8, 2024
Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology
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Having reached a point now known as the “Sala dei Misteri,” they left signatures of their time there. Read More ›
consciousness
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Denyse O’Leary
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December 18, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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Cancelling the Human Mind: Experts Weigh In

Denyse O’Leary
December 18, 2023
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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Dualism — human consciousness is real, immaterial, and special — is the only approach that accords with the evidence. Read More ›

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