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Consciousness May Occur Near Time of Birth

Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development. Read More ›
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The Human Mind Has No History

There is no good reason to assume that human intelligence evolved from mud to mind via a long slow history. Read More ›
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When a Child and a Chimp Were Raised Together

When their son was ten months old, a psychologist couple decided to raise him alongside a baby female chimpanzee, for research purposes. Read More ›
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Are Near-Death Experiences Science Now?

The laughter has died down? Good. It was modern medicine — not religion — that created the hard evidence for credible near-death experiences. Read More ›
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How Media Helped to Corrupt Science

Traditional popular media, science media, and science journalists have all helped create a situation where we can’t afford to Trust the Science! Read More ›
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Dreaming Animals and Human Exceptionalism

Researchers have detected something like REM (rapid eye movement) sleep — which is associated with dreaming in humans — in jumping spiders. Read More ›
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Octopus Intelligence — A Challenge for Evolution

Could such a different neurology really evolve purely by natural selection acting on random mutations? Read More ›
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Are Plants Cognitive, Intelligent Beings?

Some plant biologists want to see them that way; others continue to insist on a Darwinian view. Read More ›
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Can a Brainless Jellyfish Learn? How About Individual Cells? Do Molecules Communicate?

Cells are intelligent, in a way. But that fact is a much better argument for intelligent design than for the idea that the human intellect is insignificant. Read More ›
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Study: Brain Is Still Active After Death

Obviously, these experiences point to something that is irrelevant to claims about evolution. Read More ›

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