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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Tagged
, biodiversity, bioethicists, bioethics, climate change, flooding, health, health care, hospitals, hubris, human exceptionalism, humans, medical ethics, moral expertise, public health policy, war, wildfires}

Only Bioethicists Can Save the Planet!

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 13, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Evolution

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Apparently, anyone with any claim to victimization or marginalization can be a bioethicist now. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 13, 2025

Categories
Arts
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, brain, brain activity, Bridget Queenan, Christof Koch, consciousness, human exceptionalism, immaterial reality, language, materialism, Michael Egnor, Michael Gazzaniga, mind, music, rats, Roger Sperry, signal systems, soul, spirit, split-brain patients, volume}

Missing Brains and the “Music Model” of Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 13, 2025

Arts, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Gazzaniga and Queenan’s new model accounts for missing brain parts but it leaves out the very thing that creates the music. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 12, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, common sense, consciousness, demons, Divine Foot, eliminative materialism, immaterial reality, material world, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Richard C. Lewontin, split-brain patients, superstition, The Demon-Haunted World, The Immortal Mind, The New York Review of Books, universe}

Taking the Side of Science — But Which Side?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 12, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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In writing that science’s materialism is absolute, Richard Lewontin wrote as one who did not grasp the fatal flaw in his absolutism. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 12, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __recommended, ACLU, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Whitney Gilkey, Edward B. Davis, Edwin Brant Frost, Edwin Grant Conklin, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Henri Bergson, intelligent design, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Kirtley Fletcher Mather, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, materialism, Michael Idvorsky Pupin, modernists, pamphlets, Protestant Modernist Pamphlets, Robert Andrews Millikan, Samuel Christian Schmucker, schools, Shailer Mathews, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Divinity School}

Scopes: Same Debate, Different World

_{Daniel Witt
August 12, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Understandably, the Scopes trial is often viewed through the lens of current debates surrounding evolution, creationism, and intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 12, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __recommended, augustine, Basil Willey, Christianity, Chrysostom, Church Fathers, computer scientists, Copernican Revolution, creationists, Darwinian evolution, evolution, faith and science, historians, intelligent design, modern era, Scripture, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, The Literal Meaning of Genesis, theologians, theology, Thomas Aquinas, universal common ancestry, Winston Ewert}

What’s Bothering Augustine? Science and Faith Before Modern Science Was a Thing

_{Winston Ewert
August 12, 2025

Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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I began to understand that there was a rich history of the interaction between the Church and premodern science, but not one that is widely known. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Education
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, Australopithecines, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus africanus, Casey Luskin, Ernst Mayr, Hall of Human Origins, Harvard University, human evolution, human exceptionalism, human origins, knuckle-walking, Lucy, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), New York Post, podcast, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Museum, transparency, Trump Administration}

Casey Luskin Calls on the Smithsonian to Get It Right on Human Origins

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 11, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Education

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The Smithsonian Institution has recently been called out by the Trump Administration for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 11, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, Arthur Caplan, artificial hydration and nutrition, bioethics, chemotherapy, competency, dehydration, dementia, feeding tubes, food, hygiene, liquids, medical treatment, medicine, Medscape, nurse, nursing, nutrients, patients, spoon-feeding, starvation, surgery, swallowing, Terri Schiavo}

Should Caregivers Be Forced to Starve Dementia Patients?

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 11, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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If you did such a thing to a dog, you would go to jail. When will we say, “Enough. This is too much to ask”? Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __recommended, A Little Book of Coincidence in the Solar System, amplitude, asteroids, coincidences, comets, earth, ellipse, fine-tuning, geocentric model, geometric patterns, Golden Ratio, Guillermo Gonzalez, heliocentric model, inferior conjunction, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jay Richards, John Martineau, kinetic energy, Mars, Mercury, moons, NASA, Newton’s laws, orbital paths, physics, planets, quantum effects, semimajor axes, solar system, sun, The Privileged Planet, trigonometry, Venus}

Geometric Design in the Solar System

_{Eric Hedin
August 11, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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My favorite example of such geometric design arises from the mean orbits of our innermost two planets, Mercury and Venus. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 8, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ancient world, animals, brain, David Weinberg, Denyse O'Leary, genome, human beings, immaterial reality, medieval world, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, philosophers, philosophy, plants, Plato’s Revenge, reason, soul, The Federalist, The Immortal Mind, will, William James}

A Reviewer Assesses Dr. Egnor on the Mind: Science Is “Catching Up” to Philosophy

_{David Klinghoffer
August 8, 2025

Faith & Science, Genetics, Neuroscience & Mind

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In two different areas of research — the nature of the mind, and the nature of genome — science points us to the existence of an immaterial reality. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 8, 2025

Categories
Epistemology
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __trending, brain, C. S. Lewis, deductive reasoning, Denyse O'Leary, free will, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, human beings, immaterial soul, insight, Intellectus, intelligent design, J.P. Moreland, Kurt Gödel, Medieval Model, Michael Egnor, Ratio, rational soul, reasoned thought, Sensitive Soul, sentience, souls, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, Vegetable Soul}

C. S. Lewis and the Rational Soul

_{Eric Hedin
August 8, 2025

Epistemology, Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Classical and medieval scholars would not be surprised at the mounting scientific evidence for the immaterial soul. Read More ›