Category: Medicine

Concept change transformation evolution adaptation personal societal shifts narrative progression consciousness continuity transition resilience

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Date
October 1, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Billions of Missing Links, books, Charles Darwin, Coast to Coast AM, consciousness, Doctor's Diary, evolution, Geoffrey Simmons, George Noory, intelligent design, internists, lecturers, listeners, patients, radio, Science and Culture Today, What Darwin Didn’t Know}

Consciousness and Intelligent Design: Dr. Simmons on Coast to Coast Tonight

_{Science and Culture
October 1, 2025

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

1}

He tells us, “My patients have contacted me from all over the world having heard me on this show on previous occasions.” Read More ›

People gathered around the red navigation pointer pin. Meeting place concept. A long awaited meeting, a company of friends, acquaintance via the Internet. Event or holiday. Organization of joint trip

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 29, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bank account, brain, cerebellum, consciousness, cortex, hammer, human mind, Local, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, non-local, password, Peter Coppola, Real Clear Science, The Immortal Mind, Wilder Penfield}

Are We Looking for Consciousness in the “Wrong Part” of the Brain?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 29, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

Al of this reasoning assumes that human consciousness — the human mind — is local. Located in one single place. It probably isn’t. Read More ›

Hands of an elderly man resting on a walking cane

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, advance directive, Alzheimer’s disease, antibiotics, burden, dementia, dementia patients, doula, hospice, killing, nursing, palliative care, patients, suffering, suicide, Thaddeus Mason Pope}

Will We Care For or Kill Dementia Patients?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 21, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

2}

I understand that people are terrified of dementia. Believe me, I get it. My mother died of Alzheimer’s. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, BRAF, cancer, cancer genomics, cell growth, cell types, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian processes, Denis Noble, driver mutations, EGFR, evolution, genes, IDH1/2, intelligent design, JAK2, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Kras, metazoans, Michael Behe, Molecular Cancer Research, mutations, National Cancer Institute, Perry Marshall, PIK3CA, reproduction, survival, tumor, tumor promoter proteins, tumor suppressor proteins, Vanderbilt University}

Two Peer-Reviewed Papers Apply Behe’s “Darwin Devolves” Thesis to Cancer

_{Casey Luskin
September 15, 2025

Evolution, Medicine

14}

One day in the mid 2010s, Ann Gauger and I received a message that an ID-friendly scientist was in town and wanted to meet us. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 14, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, apology, Brian Kilmeade, broadcasting, dignity, emotion, ethics, Fox News, homeless, hospitalization, human beings, influencers, Iryna Zarutska, lethal injection, media, mental illness, murder, News, North Carolina, TikTok}

Did Brian Kilmeade Actually Say That?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 14, 2025

Ethics, Medicine

2}

We have to always remember that people who are homeless have equal intrinsic dignity as all other human beings. Read More ›

Male doctor holding female patient hand on the hospital bed.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animal testing, animals, Anthony Fauci, assisted suicide, bioethics, biopsies, blood draws, California, cancer, cures, euthanasia, HIV, human body, illness, Last Gift, life expectancy, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Nuremberg Code, organ farms, Peter Singer, San Diego County, spinal taps, terminal illness, tissue donation, UC San Diego, utilitarianism, viral disease, virus}

California Research Experiments on People with “Life-Shortening” Conditions

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Human beings, regardless of how sick they are or how long they are expected to live, should never be considered less worthy of protection than are animals. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 5, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, amputee, Anthony Kennedy, arms, Body Identity Integrity Disorder, body parts, capacities, culture, Daily Mail, Due Process Clause, insurance fraud, insurance scam, legs, limiting principle, medicine, mental illness, Neil Hopper, Obergefell v. Hodges, paraplegic, personal autonomy, self-definition, self-restraint, sexual obsession, societal expectations, spinal cord, transgender}

Here It Comes: First Transgenderism, Next Transableism

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 5, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

Why is it not also appropriate to cut off unwanted arms or snip spinal cords if that brings emotional relief? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 2, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, body integrity identity disorder, digital twins, disease, doctors, equity, gender-fluidity, government benefits, healing, health insurance, healthcare, Journal of Medical Ethics, medicine, patients, reprogramming, technology, trans identity, transgendeism, transgender people, transhumanists, transition, wellness}

Next: “Digital Twins” as a Matter of “Equity”?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 2, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Medicine is no longer just about treating disease, healing injuries, and promoting physical wellness. Read More ›

Low Angle Shot in the Operating Room, Assistant Hands out Instruments to Surgeons During Operation. Surgeons Perform Operation. Professional Medical Doctors Performing Surgery.

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
September 2, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Alice Cronin-Golomb, atheism, brain, brain surgery, brain tumor, Christianity, concepts, Denyse O’Leary, hemispheres, left frontal lobe, materialism, medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, MIT, morality, music, near-death experiences, Netherlands, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, Nobel Prize, painting, reason, Roger Sperry, seizures, soul, split-brain surgery, surgery, The Immortal Mind, thoughts, violin, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Abstract Thought Comes from the Mind, Not the Brain

_{John Zmirak
September 2, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

7}

We can cut perceptional abilities with a knife, but we can’t cut reason and abstract thought. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 1, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Medicine
Tagged
, __trending, biological information, body, coherence, daily life, death, Discovery Institute Press, engineering, engineers, Howard Glicksman, human body, interdependence, life, medicine, oxygenation, physicians, Secrets of the Human Body, Stephen Meyer, Steve Laufmann, Your Amazing Body}

Your Body’s Secrets, Revealed in a New Series and a Companion Book

_{David Klinghoffer
September 1, 2025

Engineering, Medicine

3}

It may seem like a morbid thought, pondering the billions of ways something in your body could “go wrong,” fatally, and then “you’re dead.” Read More ›