Author: Geoffrey Simmons

Conceptual image of a large stone in the shape of the human brain

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 19, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, ALS, animals, apes, birds, bloodhounds, brain mapping, common sense, consciousness, Deepak Chopra, Doctor's Diary (series), dolphins, electrodes, elephants, evolution, functional MRI, Gordon Gallup Jr., inner conversation, inner speech, intelligent design, Jiminy Cricket, Lampwick, magpies, Michael Egnor, mirror test, motor cortex, octopuses, paralysis, radio show, red dot test, Rottweilers, self-talk, soul, speech, Stanford University, whales}

Doctor’s Diary: To Whom Are You Talking When You Talk to Yourself?

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 19, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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A comment by a national radio show host recently caught my attention. “So, I said to myself, SELF! What would you do under these circumstances?” Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
May 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, brain, Brian Miller, chemicals, chess pieces, complexity, concertos, David Klinghoffer, Doctor's Diary (series), double helix, egg, electric cords, embryo, eyes, gene pool, genes, humor, information, intelligent design, Leonardo da Vinci, medicine, piano, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, skyscraper, sperm, Stephen Iacoboni, What Darwin Didn’t Know}

Doctor’s Diary: I Couldn’t Put Plato’s Revenge Down

_{Geoffrey Simmons
May 17, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I rarely read a book as quickly as I read this text, and I virtually never read a book twice. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
December 3, 2024

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, ambient temperature, amino acids, bones, breast milk, butterflies, campfire, Carl Jung, clouds, coincidences, Discovery Institute, Doctor's Diary (series), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, enzyme, femur, Florence, glucose, Harvest House, humerus, ice, iron, Michael Denton, moths, Mount Rushmore, nucleotide, Oregon, oxygen, Pacific Northwest, potassium, sodium, synchronicity, The Design Inference, vitamin B12, water, What Darwin Didn’t Know, William A. Dembski}

Doctor’s Diary: No Such Thing as a Coincidence

_{Geoffrey Simmons
December 3, 2024

Botany, Life Sciences, Medicine

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I find coincidences everywhere I look, all the time. Consider a simple blade of grass. One could write a long treatise about the simultaneous goings-on therein. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 9, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, alcohol, antibiotics, COVID-19, disease, Doctor's Diary (series), factory, free will, gender dysphoria, intelligent design, measles, mental illness, mumps, polio, pollution, pregnancy, Rabbi Harold Kushner, rubella, sewage, tetanus, Vaccines, vestigial structures, vitamin C, What Darwin Didn’t Know, William A. Dembski}

Doctor’s Diary: Are Flaws in Our Design Responsible for Bad Things Happening to Good People?

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 9, 2024

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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When I lecture, I typically discuss intelligent design as if it were a near-perfect process creating inexplicably complicated living entities. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
July 17, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood vessels, brain, cells, chromosomes, digestive enzymes, DNA, Doctor's Diary (series), Dubai, enzymes, evolution, genetic disease, genetic instructions, heart, human body, intelligent design, Library of Congress, movies, nano-machines, Nautilus, New York City, nourishment, proteins, RNA, stem-cell, submarine, supplies}

Doctor’s Diary: A Truly Fantastic Voyage!

_{Geoffrey Simmons
July 17, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The old movie mostly dealt with the brain, lung, heart, blood vessels (all at the tissue level) and a few scattered cells. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
March 1, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, bleeding, blood-clotting cascade, digital information, Doctor's Diary (series), evolution, Genome Research, H.G. Wells, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, Nature (journal), Pentagon, UAPs, UFO sightings, UFOs, universe}

Doctor’s Diary: The Other Intelligent Designer(s)?

_{Geoffrey Simmons
March 1, 2023

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Who thought of a clotting cascade just in case there’s bleeding? Who thought of an antibody system? Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
June 21, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, adrenaline, Andromeda galaxy, ankylosing spondylitis, babies, bonobos, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, comedians, Doctor's Diary (series), evolution, exercise, fish, gorillas, human origins, humor, Immune System, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, laughter, oxygenation, rats, Robin Williams, specified complexity, The New England Journal of Medicine, topoisomerases, UCLA, Uranus}

Doctor’s Diary: There’s Nothing Funny About Evolution

_{Geoffrey Simmons
June 21, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Is a sense of humor a byproduct, an accident, or was it installed on purpose? For better health? There definitely seems to be a purpose. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
November 12, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, blood pressure, body temperature, cell death, conception, death, Doctor's Diary (series), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, emergency room, fisherman, Frankenstein, heart, hospital, intelligent design, James Tour, lungs, oxygen, sleep, soul, spirit, Stephen Meyer, suffering, telomeres, windpipe}

Doctor’s Diary: Till Death Do Us Part

_{Geoffrey Simmons
November 12, 2020

Medicine

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When I was in charge of the Emergency Room at Los Angeles County Hospital, I saw many instances of near-death trauma, yet there was little complaint about pain. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
October 5, 2020

Categories
Biology
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, blood vessels, bone cells, cells, chimpanzees, chromosomes, common sense, Darwinian evolution, daughter cells, Doctor's Diary (series), egg, genes, growth hormones, human cells, information, instructions, kidney cells, London, Marcos Eberlin, natural selection, nerve cells, nucleus, organs, ovum, proteins, red blood cells, skin, sperm, white blood cells}

Doctor’s Diary: The Wonder of Your Body’s Genetic Instructions

_{Geoffrey Simmons
October 5, 2020

Biology, Medicine, Reproductive Science

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Imagine the New York Public Library cutting every manual in half daily, or more often, and sending every month entire halves to a library in London. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 15, 2020

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Tagged
, anthropology, apes, basketball, bipedalism, chimpanzees, Doctor's Diary (series), evolution, fossils, humans, intelligence, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Lucy, pelvis, Rutgers University}

Doctor’s Diary: No “Butts” About It

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 15, 2020

Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics

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An anthropologist writes that the evolution of bipedal-walking primates was primarily caused by the shifting of select bones and muscles in the pelvis. Read More ›