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Expérience de mort imminente autrement appelé EMI

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, confusion, Daily Mail, endorphins, geometry, hypoxia, jesus, ketamine, Michael Egnor, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscience, oxygen, Pam Reynolds, psychology, soul, The Immortal Mind, veridical}

Near-Death Experiences: Explaining vs. Explaining Away

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 12, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The first rule of a scientific approach should be to take seriously what is happening before rushing in with a “science can explain this” hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, China, Ezekiel Emanuel, fetal farming, Harvard Medical School, health, life-extension, lifespan, longevity, New York Times, political prisoners, Singapore, transhumanism, well-being}

China Jumps on the Transhumanism Train

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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It is said to be is devoting much energy and many resources to the life-extension project. Read More ›

Products from polyurethane on the exhibition stand. Industry

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
November 11, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, bacteria, blind search, China, E. coli, engineering, enzymes, foresight, landfills, plastic, recycling, selection}

Can Protein Design Outpace Directed Evolution in Recycling Plastic?

_{Emily Reeves
November 11, 2025

Computational Sciences, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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What is polyurethane and where is it used? It’s a type of plastic and it is pretty much everywhere: shoes, clothes, yoga mats, mattresses, couch cushions. Read More ›

Happy businessman, walking and city to work for travel on street or pedestrian crossing outdoors. Black man on cross road, walk or traveling to business with suit and smile on asphalt in urban town

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 6, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, athletes, awareness, body parts, cars, consciousness, cornea, emergence, engineering, eyeglasses, hearing, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, lens, prescription, proprioception, purpose, Secrets of the Human Body, Steve Laufmann, vision, walking, Your Amazing Body}

Living in 3-D: Not a Big Deal? New Video Explains Why It’s a VERY Big Deal

_{David Klinghoffer
November 6, 2025

Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Living in three dimensions is crucial not only for athletes, who excel at exploiting the body’s abilities, but for any one of us walking down the street. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 4, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, cells, coordination, development, engineering, evolution, Howard Glicksman, instructions, integration, intelligent design, lungs, mechanisms, organization, Steve Laufmann, Your Amazing Body, Your Designed Body}

Engineering on Steroids: The Incredible Design of the Human Body

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 4, 2025

Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Every day your body must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you’ll die. Read More ›

Dimly lit laboratory with chemicals and equipment in a vintage, cluttered room

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 31, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, activists, biotech, biotechnology, censorship, culture of death, dignity, embryos, environmentalism, fetal farming, gender dysphoria, gender ideology, genetic engineering, hospitals, human exceptionalism, human life, moral responsibility, nature rights, organ harvesting, totalitarianism, unborn, Wesley J. Smith}

Wesley J. Smith: Frightening Abuses of Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 31, 2025

Bioethics, Technology

3}

Experiments on the living unborn. Organ harvesting. Reckless biotech. Radical environmentalism. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 31, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, artificial inteligence, baseball, Ben Carson, books, ChatGPT, chess, Conservation of Information, education, Jaime Escalante, learning, literacy, LLMs, parents, reading, teachers, technology, transhumanism, Wall Street Journal, Zoom}

Edification vs. Enhancement — The Non-Transhumanist Vision of AI in Education

_{William A. Dembski
October 31, 2025

Computational Sciences, Technology

20}

Edify your kids, don’t enhance them. We are organic beings, not gadgets to be improved with newer and better modules. Read More ›

Illustration multiplication of cells in blue

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Date
October 30, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, biology, brain cells, brains, cells, Christof Koch, Darwinism, information, kidney cells, kidneys, learning, memory, neuroscientists, panpsychism, philosophy of biology, skull, Tibi Puiu, TIME, ZME Science}

Researchers Find Memory Outside the Brain

_{Science & Culture
October 30, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

It it is very difficult to look at the natural world seriously and not see a mind in there somewhere. Read More ›

AI-generated illustration of a human fetus curled up in the womb

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, bioethics, doctors, drug addiction, embryology, fetus, miscarriages, pregnancy, racists, slavery, The New England Journal of Medicine, unborn children, United States, Vermont}

Medical Journal Screed Decries All Fetal Personhood Laws

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

The authors imply that laws that protect unborn children are racist. But pro-lifers want more black babies born and protected from harm, not fewer. Read More ›

White conceptual keyboard - Wikipedia (key with logotype)

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Date
October 27, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bias, chatbots, Donald Trump, editors, Elon Musk, generative ai, Gizmodo, intelligent design, Larry Sanger, nonprofit organizations, search engines, Wikipedia}

Cry Us a River: AI Chatbots May Be Killing Wikipedia

_{Science & Culture
October 27, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

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It’s not clear how this will impact a commonly heard criticism of Wikipedia — bias, very much including the subject of intelligent design. Read More ›