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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 31, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithmic control circuits, bacteria, Bill Gates, blind evolution, Casey Luskin, computer programming, conditional logic, conditional logic control circuits, Denis Noble, DNA, enzymes, evolution, evolutionary biology, glucose, intelligence, intelligent design, lactose, Oxford University, Perry Marshall, promoter, pseudocode, RNA polymerase, Third Way of Evolution}

My Conversation with Denis Noble and Perry Marshall About Evolution and Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
July 31, 2025

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In our experience, what cause generates conditional logic circuits, and then what cause re-uses those algorithmic programs over and over in different systems? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 31, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Bard, ChatGPT, computer science, Grok, ID the Future, intelligent design, large language models, mathematicians, mathematics, philosophers, philosophy, poodcast, SETI, The Design Inference, tokens, William A. Dembski}

On Intelligent Design, Is AI Teachable?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 31, 2025

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Can large language models rise above the biases of sources like Wikipedia to help level the playing field for intelligent design? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, abortion, assisted suicide, Australia, bioethics, British Columbia, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, Ezekiel Emanuel, health care, health professionals, Hippocratic moral values, Hippocratic Oath, hospice, hospitals, human life, Julian Savulescu, medical conscience, medical school, medical values, medicine, nurses, nursing homes, nursing school, Ontario, patients, transgenderism}

Attacks on Medical Conscience Will Force Doctors to Take Human Life

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 25, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Reproductive Science

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Destroying conscience will inhibit talented people with particular moral or religious beliefs from entering medical and nursing schools. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, abortion, abortion pills, chemical abortions, congressional hearings, drinking water, drugs, EPA, fetal biomass, fetuses, human tissue, Liberty Counsel Action, metabolites, microplastic, mifepristone, sewer system, surgical abortions, wastewater, water contamination, water supply, water systems, water treatment}

Glass of Water? Think Twice

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 21, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Reproductive Science

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Our water treatment plants are not equipped to process human tissue nor necessarily to remove metabolized mifepristone (metabolites) used in abortion pills. Read More ›

Title A hand showing AI tech with Generative Ai concept, artificial intelligence cyber security, digital transformation, finance, document file management, AI chip, large language model, LLM

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Date
July 18, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Charles Blue, chatbots, ChatGPT, English, fields of study, homogeneity, language patterns, large language models, LLMs, paper mills, plagiarism, processing, PubMed, Science Advances, writing styles}

AI Corruption of Science Papers Becomes Evident

_{Evolution News
July 18, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Reliance on machine-written material may signal a long and continuing decline in the quality of research in many fields. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 18, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, biology, cancer, Evolution News, faith and science, humans, ID the Future, intentionality, materialism, mechanism, mechanistic view, medical school, molecular level, oncologists, organisms, physical law, physical world, podcast, purpose, random processes, Stephen Iacoboni, Stuart Kauffman, Telos: The Scientific Basis for a Life of Purpose, Thomistic philosophy}

Stephen Iacoboni: Finding Purpose in Medicine and Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 18, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Ultimately, Dr. Iacoboni aims to help his fellow physicians escape the “suffocating boundaries of mechanism and materialism.” Read More ›

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Date
July 14, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, After (book), aneurysm, brain, Bruce Greyson, hypercarbia, hypoxia, Leeds Beckett University, Marilyn A. Mendoza, medical literature, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, near-death experiences, O’Leary, Pam Reynolds, Phoenix, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Steve Taylor, suicide, surgery, The Immortal Mind, Tulane University, University of Virginia, veridical}

To Skeptics, Four Challenges on Near-Death Experiences

_{Evolution News
July 14, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary devote Chapter 6 to addressing various efforts to debunk near-death experiences. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 13, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Andrew Orlowski, Andriy Burkov, anti-Semitism, artificial intelligence, David Strom, Gary Smith, Google Gemini, Grok, hallucination, Harvey Weinstein, Henry Kissinger, Hot Air, Jeffrey Epstein, Jeffrey Funk, Jews, large language models, MechaHitler, Mind Matters, Skynet, Spiked Online, X (platform)}

Grok as Hitler 2.0 Reveals Hard Limits to AI

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 13, 2025

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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We mustn’t attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, incompetence, corruption, or blind ambition. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Angela Lo, brain, dementia, dying, immaterial powers, justice, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, moral choice, music, paradoxical lucidity, perception, reason, rementia, Stephen Post, Stony Brook University, Supreme Court, The Immortal Mind, veterans}

Dementia Hints That the Brain Is Not All There Is to the Mind

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 11, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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People with dementia have severe memory issues, along with motor, perception, and emotional disabilities, and that curtails their powers of reason. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethics, chattel slaves, children, Christian bioethics, Christof Koch, conception, Denyse O'Leary, human beings, in vitro fertilization, industrial manufacture, IVF, Michael Shermer, organ donors, persons, Piers Morgan, Roman Catholicism, sexual slaves, Skeptic (podcast), soldiers, The Immortal Mind}

A Disagreement with Shermer on the Ethics of IVF

_{Michael Egnor
July 8, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

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It is quite possible to seek good ends (children) by bad means (their industrial manufacture). These are very real concerns. Read More ›