Category: Life Sciences

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 21, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayesian logic, Bayesian reasoning, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, conclusions, conscious agents, CSC Science Team, experiments, genetics, genome, genomic debris, hypotheses, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, junk DNA, natural systems, natural world, observations, podcast., researchers, scientific methodologies, scientific research}

CSC Science Team Asks: What Should We Expect to Find in Nature?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 21, 2026

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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The junk DNA paradigm shift is a good example of how an intelligent design framework can serve as a productive guide to scientific research. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 19, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Andrew Huberman, animal impulse, Arthur Brooks, calling, citations, Darwinian evolution, Dogs, dopamine, enjoyment, evolution, faith, foresight, h-index, happiness, Huberman Lab, human agents, human brain, human exceptionalism, humans, idols, intelligent design, love, macronutrients, mammals, meaning, Microsoft Word, moral aspiration, neuroscience, parahippocampal gyrus, persistence, philosophy, planning, pleasure, prefrontal cortex, rape, religion, satisfaction, survival of the fittest, thirst, virtue, water, worship}

Happiness Comes When Humans Fulfill Our Designed Purpose

_{Emily Reeves
October 19, 2026

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Our mind, our brain, our physical as well as our metaphysical existence are all designed to deliver satisfaction only after our suffering toward a goal. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 16, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, advanced life, atheism, biochemistry, biology, cellular level, Darwin’s Black Box, decision-making, evolution, Goldilocks Zone, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, life, Michael Behe, moral agents, naturalism, nature, non-metal atoms, organic bonds, podcast}

Carbon Atom Is Stunningly Fit to Accommodate Advanced Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 16, 2026

Biochemistry, Chemistry, Intelligent Design

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Nature doesn’t owe us a life-friendly environment. There are far more ways the universe could have developed that are non-conducive to life. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 15, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, cetaceans, documentary, dolphins, evolution, Evolution (TV series), forelimb, immaterial genome, intelligent design, land animals, narrative, NOVA, ocean, PBS, Plato's Revenge, questions, Richard Sternberg, whales}

PBS Forgot to Ask Biologist Richard Sternberg About Cetacean Evolution

_{David Klinghoffer
October 15, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The smooth narrative of the documentary is expected to carry the viewer along, not asking any questions. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 15, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, ancestors, animations, biology, brains, chance, cynodonts, dolphins, drinking water, elision, evolution, Evolution (TV series), eye evolution, eyes, intelligence, mutations, NOVA, PBS, professors, Richard Buggs, schools, scientific debate, simplification, teachers, virus}

Evolution Is Due to Evolution: PBS “Explains” Dolphin Intelligence

_{David Klinghoffer
October 15, 2026

Biology, Evolution

3}

The only lame excuse for an actual explanation of what “drives” it all is “chance”: “the chance events that rewired ancient brains.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 14, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, BBC Television, brains, Chris Packham, Christians, dolphins, elephants, evolution, evolutionary biologists, genetics, intelligence, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, mistakes, NOVA, ostrich, PBS, Peter Holland, Richard Buggs, schools, scientific method, scientists, sex, The Open University, United Kingdom, wildlife}

Tonight on NOVA: From “These Tiny Little Mistakes” — Evolution!

_{David Klinghoffer
October 14, 2026

Evolution, Genetics

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“Life continues to create itself,” “evolution is entirely built on these tiny little mistakes.” Read More ›

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Date
October 13, 2026

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aeon, Arizona, artificial inteligence, computer scientists, COSM 2026, David Hume, education, freedom, friendship, Hugging Face, human exceptionalism, Immanuel Kant, injustice, intelligence, large language models, machines, optimisation, philosophers, philosophy, Reality Check, reason, Sasha Mudd, Scottsdale}

With Our Exceptional Place in Nature, Human Reason Is Much More than Machine “Reason”

_{Science & Culture
October 13, 2026

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Skeptical Hume held that “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,” and can “never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 12, 2026

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bones, China, Daniel R. Storm, David J. Linden, evolution, human brain, injuries, intelligent design, kludge, mice, Nature Neuroscience, Nautilus, neuroscience, PIEZO1, pigs, shins, Southern Medical University, stem cells, strokes, The Accidental Mind, traumatic brain injuries, vesicles, Zachary S. Scheiner}

Book on “Brain Evolution” Hasn’t Aged Well

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 12, 2026

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The first problem they mention is magnified. We haven’t got anywhere near figuring out “how the brain works.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 9, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, analogy, atheism, Bible, biological information, Closer to Truth, complexity, DNA, dogmatism, Douglas Adams, functional specificity, God of the philosophers, improbability, information, intelligent design, Matt Dillahunty, Mind and Cosmos, neo-Darwinian theory, New York University, Piers Morgan, Richard Dawkins, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Stephen Meyer, The Telegraph, theists, Thomas Nagel, universe}

Meyer, Dillahunty, Nagel: They Don’t Make Atheists the Way They Used To

_{David Klinghoffer
October 9, 2026

Faith & Science, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Dillahunty contended that the biological information coded in DNA isn’t really information at all but only analogous to it. Try to follow this word salad. Read More ›

Close up of young parents holding and kissing their newborn baby indoors at home

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 8, 2026

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __trending, abortion, adults, babies, brain hemispheres, brain tissue, brainstem, complexity, concepts, consciousness, dementia, Denyse O’Leary, desires, diencephalon, emotions, fetuses, human sacrifice, humanity, hydranencephaly, Lindsay Clancy, Mayans, memories, mental illness, mentally handicapped people, Michael Egnor, mothers, neurosurgeons, New York Times, newborns, parents, perceptions, sulfur, The Immortal Mind, ultrasound, unborn children, unwanted children}

NY Times Aside, “Babies Are Obviously Conscious,” Says Dr. Egnor

_{David Klinghoffer
October 8, 2026

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

If there an “active scientific debate” about it, then could it really be that the answer isn’t so clear? Read More ›