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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 28, 2024

Categories
Archaeology
Botany
Geology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Paleontology
Physics
Tagged
, Babylonians, Bible, Forensics, history, intelligent causes, intelligent design, Jeremiah, Jerusalem, pottery, SETI, stratigraphy, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Intelligent Design in Action: Pattern Matching in Archaeology

_{David Coppedge
May 28, 2024

Archaeology, Botany, Geology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Paleontology, Physics

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Our uniform experience of intelligent causes allows us to make inferences about design, even without knowing the identity of the designers. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 7, 2024

Categories
Arts
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Paleontology
Tagged
, archeology, baboons, beavers, Darwinian theory, genetic admixture, Günter Bechly, hominins, human origins, humans, Neanderthals, paleontologists, primates, rocks, symbolic thinking, symbols, Tom Metcalfe}

Human Origins and the Beginning of Art

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 7, 2024

Arts, Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Paleontology

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There is now evidence of something like artwork among several ancient human types, not just Neanderthals. Thus, an academic controversy has arisen. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 6, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Paleontology
Tagged
, burial, death, Emory University, Europe, genetic admixture, Günter Bechly, Homo sapiens, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, human origins, humans, invertebrates, life, life after death, Neanderthals, octopuses, Psychology Today, religion, symbolic thinking, uncanny valley}

Were Neanderthals Religious?

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 6, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Paleontology

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We can’t poll long-dead Neanderthals on life, death, and the hereafter but the evidence we’ve dug up suggests they were thinking about that kind of thing. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 30, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, aboutness, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, autism, B. F. Skinner, ChatGPT, chess, DeepMind, Elon Musk, Erik Larson, G.K. Chesterton, Go (game), human bodies, idolatry, large language models, Luddites, machines, Noam Chomsky, rabbits, René Descartes, self-driving cars, Tesla, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, Willard Quine, Word and Object, words}

Artificial General Intelligence: The Poverty of the Stimulus

_{William A. Dembski
January 30, 2024

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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It doesn’t even matter if the child is blind, deaf, or both. Barring developmental disorders (such as some forms of autism), the child can learn language. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 1, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, aliens, Bible, Brian Greene, Bryan Callen, determinism, faith and science, free will, intelligent design, interviews, James Webb Space Telescope, Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience, Michio Kaku, miracles, multiverse, Neil deGrasse Tyson, podcasts, psychedelics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Sean Carroll, Sir Roger Penrose, Spotify, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, Time Magazine, transcendence}

Happy New Year! No. 1 Story of 2023: Joe Rogan and Stephen Meyer Talk Science and Faith

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 1, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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For more than three hours, Rogan asked questions about the scientific argument for the reality of God, as well as Meyer’s reasons for believing the Bible. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, brain, consciousness, Darwinian mechanisms, Darwinian processes, Denyse O'Leary, evolution, free will, information, Justine Sergent, logic, McGill University, mind, neuroscience, patients, Pharyngula, PZ Myers, Roger Sperry, split brain, The Human Soul, Yair Pinto}

My Question for P. Z. Myers: How Did Human Consciousness “Evolve”?

_{Michael Egnor
October 20, 2023

Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Human consciousness entails a unique ability to think abstractly — to reason, to think logically, to use language, to do mathematics, to exercise free will. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
October 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Mathematics
Tagged
, alligators, americans, blood pressure, cats, cattle, chickens, divine, Dogs, domestication, Enterprise, friendship, guinea pigs, horses, humans, intelligent design, kittens, mammals, pets, Philadelphia, pigeons, rabbits, Star Trek, stress}

Intelligent Design in Human-Animal Friendships

_{Eric Hedin
October 4, 2023

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Mathematics

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A man and his emotional support alligator, Wally, made headlines last week when they tried to attend a baseball game together in Philadelphia. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 12, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, bacterium, BioSystems, encyclopedia, evolution, genes, genetic code, heteropalindromes, intelligence, intelligent design, Long Story Short, meaning, nanomachines, optimization, proofreading, repair, sophistication, unguided evolution}

New Long Story Short — Life’s Ingenious Code

_{David Klinghoffer
September 12, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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The video asks, “Where in your experience do things like language, proofreading, nanomachines, and information-rich code come from? You know the answer." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 27, 2023

Categories
Life Sciences
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstractions, animal behavior, Carl Sagan, chimpanzees, confirmation bias, crows, Dogs, emotions, gibberish, humans, marine biologists, puppies, Scientific American, Stephanie Pappas, TikTok, Washington State, wolves}

By Using Floor Buttons, Can Dogs Talk?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 27, 2023

Life Sciences, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The latest fad in the “Talk to the animals” arena appears to be a classic in confirmation bias. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 24, 2023

Categories
Linguistics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, creativity, Iain McGilchrist, lobes, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, personality, preferences, The Matter with Things, vertebrates, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}

Right Brain Vs. Left Brain? It’s Murky

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 24, 2023

Linguistics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Vertebrates generally have brains divided into two lobes, an arrangement that may go back half a billion years. Read More ›