Category: Life Sciences | Page 38 | Science and Culture Today

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April 30, 2025

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Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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, Amazon, biology, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, developmental biology, Discovery Institute Press, epigenetics, evolution, evolutionary theory, evolutionism, gene expression, genes, heredity, immaterial genome, intelligent design, intolerance, J. Scott Turner, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg}

Biologist J. Scott Turner: Sternberg and the “Central Dilemma of Evolutionism”

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The new book from Discovery Institute Press is currently the Amazon #1 bestseller in Genetics and #1 in Developmental Biology. Read More ›

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Eric Hedin

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April 30, 2025

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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, atoms, biosignature, Brian Miller, cells, choices, chromosomes, cognition, David Coppedge, decision-making, DNA, enzymes, extraterrestrial life, information, information processing, living systems, natural processes, primitive, senses, unnatural}

Information Processing: An Unnatural Attribute of Life

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April 30, 2025

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The purpose-driven responsiveness of living systems to information appears as a truly confounding enigma for naturalistic explanations Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

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April 28, 2025

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Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, abortion, awareness, BBC News, birth, brain activity, cancel culture, Centers for Disease Control, Christof Koch, consciousness, Research, Science Focus, stimuli, third rail, United States}

Consciousness in Unborn Children: Touching the Third Rail

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April 28, 2025

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Leading neuroscientist Christof Koch became a target of Cancel Culture in part because his popular theory of consciousness might threaten the right to abortion. Read More ›

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Emily Sandico

Date
April 28, 2025

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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
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, agency, archaeology, Big Bang, biology, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, cells, complex and specified information, DNA, embryo, evolutionary, evolutionism, genes, heresy, historical sciences, history, immaterial genome, intelligent cause, intelligent design, J. Scott Turner, National Museum of Natural History, peer-reviewed literature, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, purpose, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Wall Street Journal}

Plato’s Revenge: Intelligent Design in Real Time

_{Emily Sandico
April 28, 2025

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David Klinghoffer engages Richard Sternberg’s big questions, and a number of his own, on philosophical, scientific, and even highly personal planes. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

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April 24, 2025

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Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, Adrian Owen, awareness, brain, brain activity, brain death, brain injury, dualism, evidence, failed predictions, fMRI, functional MRI, materialism, mental states, mind, persistent vegetative state, predictions, Science (journal), speech, walking}

Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions

_{Michael Egnor
April 24, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death. Read More ›

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Eric Cassell

Date
April 23, 2025

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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
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, Animal Algorithms, birds, compass, intelligent design, magnetic field, magnetoreception, memory, migration, Nature (journal), navigation, sea turtles}

Sea Turtles and Their Trusty Magnetic Compass

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April 23, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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All of these elements exhibit specified complexity that is indicative of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 22, 2025

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Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
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, Antony Flew, central dogma, Chance & Necessity, Charles Darwin, Daniel Witt, Design Inference, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, Francis Crick, God Hypothesis, intention, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Jaques Monod, Life Itself, materialism, Michael Levin, molecular biology, natural law, physicalism, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientism, specified complexity, telos, theologians, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Kuhn}

Life Itself: In Michael Levin’s Platonism, Teleology Advances

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April 22, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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This is a huge step by a leading contemporary academic scientist away from pure physicalism. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 21, 2025

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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
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, Baylor College of Medicine, brain, Carl Zimmer, Francis Crick, Margherita Bassi, mouse, neurons, neuroscience, New York Times, PBS, Princeton University, Research, Smithsonian Magazine, The Matrix}

Even a Mouse Brain Reveals Staggering Complexity

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April 21, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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Mapping a small part of a mouse's brain required 1.6 petabytes of data, which is equivalent to 22 years of nonstop high-definition video. Read More ›

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Brian Miller

Date
April 21, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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, biology, cognition, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, electric fields, ENCODE project, evolutionary theory, Forrest Mims, genome, goal-directedness, Harvard University, human genome, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Michael Levin, minds, Perry Marshall, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, purpose, random mutations, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Seymour Garte, Stuart Kauffman, teleonomy, Tufts University, William A. Dembski}

Plato’s Revenge: Mathematical Biologist Richard Sternberg Foresaw Major Developments in Biology

_{Brian Miller
April 21, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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A new book traces the ideas of Dr. Sternberg, who offers rigorous scientific evidence that the true control center of life lies outside DNA. Read More ›

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April 20, 2025

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Human Exceptionalism
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, Angus Menuge, animals, artificial intelligence, Benjamin Libet, brain, C. elegans, ChatGPT, computer, Denyse O'Leary, determinism, Dogs, free will, human exceptionalism, Humanize, large language models, machines, Michael Egnor, mind, Minding the Brain, neuroscience, podcast, The Immortal Mind, totalitarianism, Wesley J. Smith}

Are “Mind” and “Brain” the Same Thing?

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April 20, 2025

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Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor passionately argues that denying free will undermines moral responsibility and paves the way for totalitarian ideologies. Read More ›