Category: Life Sciences | Page 45 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 26, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal rights, animal standing, Colorado, elephants, human being, lawsuits, nature rights, Nonhuman Rights Project, persons}

Elephant Personhood — Nixed Again

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 26, 2025

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The activists had some reason for hope. Two judges in New York’s highest court swallowed the baloney in a 5–2 ruling. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
January 24, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, architect, bacteria, chemotaxis, CheY, common descent, design logic, evolution, genes, histidine, intelligent design, kinase, quorum sensing}

Recurring Design Logic in Gene Regulation

_{Jonathan McLatchie
January 24, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A feature of biology that has struck me over the years is the phenomenon of recurring design logic, across systems that do not appear to be related by descent. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
January 16, 2025

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Technology
Tagged
, Bruce Gordon, Center for Science and Culture, Douglas Axe, natural selection, natural theology, San Diego, specified complexity, The Design Inference, universe, William A. Dembski}

Design Writ Large: CSC Fellows on “Science, Mathematics, and Technology”

_{Stephen Dilley
January 16, 2025

Biology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Technology

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Bill Dembski led by explaining rigorous means to detect design, including a refined understanding of specified complexity. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 14, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Dan Graur, Darwinian scientists, ENCODE, ERVs, evolution, genome, human genome, intelligent design, junk DNA, Long Story Short, non-coding DNA, onions, predictions, pseudogenes, science stopper, The Codes of Life, University of Houston}

New “Long Story” Short: “ERVs, Pseudogenes, & Onions”

_{David Klinghoffer
January 14, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Intelligent design is a “science stopper”? It “makes people stupid”? These are among the claims of some smart scientists who ought to know better. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
January 14, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, analogy, animal behavior, ants, beetles, behavior, brains, electronic circuits, entomology, hummingbirds, miniaturization, Neural Networks, neurons, nucleus, semiconductors, synapses, wasps}

By Design: Brain Miniaturization in Some Very Small Insects

_{Eric Cassell
January 14, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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Does reduced brain size affect the behavior of animals? The answer appears to be that there is no effect. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 13, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", animals, bears, books, Casey Luskin, chihuahua, DNA, evolution, fiction, Foresight (book), foxes, genes, How Life Works, intelligent design, machines, Marcos Eberlin, meaning, Oskar Schindler, otters, Philip Ball, purpose, relationships, religion, Science and Faith in Dialogue, self-sacrifice, work, writing}

The End of the Machine Metaphor?

_{Emily Reeves
January 13, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Rather than purpose deriving from a purposeless process like natural selection, natural selection can only occur when life itself is the result of purpose. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, cats, coral, crabs, cuttlefish, Dogs, fetus, Jonathan Birch, lobsters, London School of Economics, Marc Bekoff, neuroscience, octopuses, pain, Psychology Today, sentience, squid}

What Do Animals Feel? And What About Babies?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 10, 2025

Bioethics, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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With human babies, those who propose laws against cruelty suddenly enter a Cold Zone, at least compared to their feelings for crustaceans. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 7, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Tagged
, Ball State University, Censor of the Year, Center for Science and Culture, chromosomes, Colin Wright, Eric Hedin, freedom from religion foundation, John West, religion, Richard Dawkins, sex binary, Steven Pinker, Stockholm Syndrome, University of Chicago, uterus, vagina, woke ideology, woman}

In the Battle for Biology, Woke Folks Come for Coyne

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 7, 2025

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Mathematics

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Woke is, at bottom, a war on reality. It is a war on math. And a war on science. That includes a war on biology, of course. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 29, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, biological novelty, Charles Darwin, diversification, Early Cretaceous, evolution, flowering plants, Fossil Friday (series), genomes, intelligent design, jumps, Late Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous, nature, Nature (journal), paleontology, Philip Donoghue, Spain}

No. 4 Story of 2024: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Again

_{Günter Bechly
December 29, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 27, 2024

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, cartilage, Fossil Friday (series), Permian period, sharks}

Fossil Friday: A Fossil That Kept Scientists Guessing

_{Günter Bechly
December 27, 2024

Anatomy, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Could intelligent design better explain this weird feeding apparatus? Of course. Read More ›