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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adrian Woolfson, Albert Einstein, anti-human exceptionalism, artificial general intelligence, children, Christianity, computers, Denisovans, Edward Gibbon, Foundation for Economic Education, Green Revolution, Henry Gee, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, human exceptionalism, human extinction, humans, Lawrence W. Reed, natural selection, Neanderthals, Science (journal), The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire}

Decline and Fall: A Vision of a Human-Free Planet

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April 4, 2025

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As the author of the review, Adrian Woolfson, says, the coming human eclipse originated in a sin against Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 2, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, brains, chimpanzees, connectivity, decision-making, DNA, human brains, humans, language, neurons, neuroscientists, Oxford University, personality, planning, prefrontal cortex, Rogier Mars, sight, sound, temporal cortex, thought, Tom Howarth}

Research: Human Brains Differ from Chimps’ Even More than Expected

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April 2, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s surprising how many people offer the common throwaway line, “We share 98.8 percent of our DNA with chimps!” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 1, 2025

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Technology
Tagged
, abstract reasoning, Addis Ababa, balls, behavior, Ethiopia, evolution, game pieces, geology, hominins, human evolution, human history, human mind, human origins, Margherita Mussi, Melka Kunture, Moon, Olduvai Gorge, spheres, stone spheres, stones, toolmakers, Tudor Tarita, ZME Science}

How Evolutionary Theory Confuses the Study of Human History: Case of the Stone Spheres

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April 1, 2025

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology, Technology

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Any state of affairs that dates to eons ago can be referred to as “evolution” even when, as in this case, the facts imply the opposite. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 28, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adulthood, adults, babies, Columbia University, episodic memory, footsteps, hippocampal memories, hippocampus, infancy, infantile amnesia, Medical XPress, memory, Nick Turk-Browne, sci-fi, Science (journal), statistical learning, Tristan Yates, Yale University}

Why Don’t We Remember Being Babies?

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March 28, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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If we were not conscious, we could hardly have learned all that we had to learn in those first few months of life. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 26, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Angel Eduardo, Canada, cancel culture, Conrad Black, conspiracy theory, COVID-19, distrust, Greg Lukianoff, lab leak theory, misinformation, public, residential school denialism, Rikki Schlott, scientific reliability, The Canceling of the American Mind}

On Science and Other Subjects, the “Experts” Have Blown Up Their Own Credibility

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March 26, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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Long time free speech advocate Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo dissect the Cancel Culture that makes distrust a quite reasonable choice. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Technology
Tagged
, abstract reasoning, Acheulean age, ancestors, bone tools, bones, elephants, hippos, hominins, human mind, knapping, Neanderthal man, paleontology, Renata F. Peters}

Abstract Reasoning in Our Ancestors Earlier than Thought?

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March 24, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology, Technology

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Researchers say, bone tools were being mass produced 1.5 million years ago in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 21, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, atheism, behaviors, brain, C. elegans, chaos, directed evolution, Eric Cassell, human brain, intelligence, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of Neurochemistry, lab animals, natural selection, order, origin of life, random mutation, Richard Dawkins, simplicity, specified complexity, touch response}

Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge

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March 21, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Psychology
Sociology
Tagged
, anxiety, Augustine Brannigan, college students, crying, emotional depression, experimental design, Office of Naval Research, penologists, persistent scientific errors, Philip G. Zimbardo, prison breaks, prisoner abuse, prisoners, psychologists, public policy, rage, Retraction Crisis, Retraction Watch, San Quentin State Prison, self-correcting, social psychology, Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanford University, study design, Thibault Le Texier, University of Calgary}

Retract the Stanford Prison Experiment?

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March 21, 2025

Bioethics, Psychology, Sociology

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Beware of wildly popular sociology that tells us that our public policy preferences are somehow embedded in human nature. Life was never as simple as that. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 6, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, body parts, Center for Medical Progress, children, Christianity, Christianity Today, Christians, COVID-19, David Daleiden, embryos, Evangelical Christians, Francis Collins, gestation, Holy Spirit, infants, jesus, John the Baptist, John West, Judicial Watch, National Institutes of Health, Nicene Creed, Stockholm Syndrome, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, Sweden, unborn, University of Pittsburgh}

Stockholm Syndrome: Francis Collins and the Unborn

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March 6, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

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Collins is a role model for aspiring young Christians, right? John West says, not so fast. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, animals, Aristotle, behavior, Dogs, emotions, evolutionary biologists, feelings, humans, Marc Bekoff, Michael Egnor, moral choice, prejudice, Psychology Today, Racism, sensations, sexism, speciesism, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, Wesley J. Smith}

Clinical Psychologist Supports Human Exceptionalism

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March 4, 2025

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology, Scientific Reasoning

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Gregg Henriques, a secular humanist, has developed an approach that accepts human exceptionalism without denying that animals have mental abilities. Read More ›