Category: Life Sciences | Page 48 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 2, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Origin of Life
Tagged
, A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, Father Martin Hilbert, ID the Future, intelligent design, materialism, natural selection, natural world, scientific evidence, theology}

Father Martin Hilbert on Darwinism’s Fatal Flaws

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 2, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Origin of Life

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Fr. Hilbert reveals that one of Darwin’s motives for conjuring his theory of natural selection was removing God from the picture. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 1, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Closer to Truth, dementia, Georges Lemaître, hearing, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neurotransmitters, paradoxical lucidity, physicalism, Psychology Today, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, soul, terminal lucidity, The Immortal Mind, vision}

Can We Define the Soul Out of Existence?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 1, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Berkeley cognitive linguist George Lakoff argues that the soul could not really amount to much without a physical brain. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 28, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, academia, brain, Darwinism, evolution, Fornace, gratitude, Harvard University, intelligent design, Italy, James Tour, Lee Cronin, materialism, matter, Michael Denton, mind, Minding the Brain, Scuola di Filosofia di Fornace, Thanksgiving, The Miracle of Man}

Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are Michael Denton’s Top 3 Reasons for Optimism About ID

_{David Klinghoffer
November 28, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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One reason, Dr. Denton says, is the “relentless” growth of the ID movement, in academia and around the world. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
November 26, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anaphase, BIO-Complexity, cell division, centromere, checkpoints, chromosome, dynein, eukaryotic cell cycle, eukaryotic cell division, foresight, Irreducible Complexity, kinesin, kinetochore, metaphase, microtubules, mitosis, mitotic cell division, motor proteins, protein complexes, proteins}

The Eukaryotic Cell Cycle: An Irreducibly Complex System

_{Jonathan McLatchie
November 26, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Any system that achieves a complex higher-level objective by means of various well-matched interacting components requires foresight to come about. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 24, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, brain cells, cats, chimpanzees, genes, human brain, humans, ideas, mice, Nature (journal), neurons, proteins, RNA, University of California San Francisco}

What’s the Big Deal About the Human Brain?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 24, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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None of the features identified by neuroscientists explain why humans think about things that other animal life forms don't. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 21, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, arithmetic, brain damage, Carl Zimmer, dementia, human brain, Noam Chomsky, Plato, speech, stroke}

Do We Need Language to Think?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 21, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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For a long time, it was only a philosophical issue: Plato saw thinking as a conversation with oneself. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
November 18, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, COVID-19, creator, Darwin Devolves, Evangelical Christians, evolution, faith and science, Francis Collins, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Joe Biden, junk DNA, Michael Behe, National Institutes of Health, natural, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, supernatural, The Language of God, The Road to Wisdom, unintelligent processes}

Francis Collins Renews Attack on Michael Behe and Intelligent Design

_{John G. West
November 18, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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It isn’t intelligent design that “has fallen victim to advances in science.” It’s Darwin’s outdated theory. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
November 14, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brains, C. elegans, coherence, complexity, cortex, crystals, efficiency, fruit flies, intelligent design, morphology, mouse, navigation, Neural Networks, neurons, neuroscience, optimization, pheromones, Research, specified complexity}

Design, Engineering, Specified Complexity: Appreciating the Fruit Fly Brain

_{Eric Cassell
November 14, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Groundbreaking new research has documented the complexity and design of the brains of fruit flies. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
November 13, 2024

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bioinformatics, C. elegans, Discovery Institute, DNA, E. coli, evolution, evolutionary paradigm, fungi, genes, genomes, genomics, intelligent design, nucleotide sequences, ORfan genes, PLOS ONE, search engines}

ORFanID: An Online Search Engine for Identifying Orfan Genes

_{Jonathan McLatchie
November 13, 2024

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The existence of such genes is surprising given the hypothesis of universal common descent. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 9, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, chimpanzees, human language, languages, monkeys, neuroscience, University of Portsmouth}

A Mystery: How Human Languages Came to Exist

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 9, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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Neuroscientists wrestle with human language even more than poets or (for example) English majors do. Read More ›