Category: Life Sciences | Page 57 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aeon, animal rights, animal welfare, anthropomorphizing, dignity, elitism, intelligence, New York Times, personhood, rights, Western civilization}

“Plant Philosophy” Sounds Like a Joke — It Isn’t

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 6, 2024

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences, Philosophy

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The purpose is to destroy the philosophical basis of Western civilization. Think I’m overreacting? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, biosphere, carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon-based life, ecosystem, elegance, Freeman Dyson, George Wald, glaciers, heat, hydrogen, hydrological cycle, hydrophobic force, intelligent design, Linus Pauling, metabolism, mitochondria, nitrogen, nucleus, ocean, oxygen, parsimony, The Fitness of the Environment, The Wonder of Water, water}

Supreme Elegance: The Fine-Tuning of the Properties of Matter for Life on Earth

_{Michael Denton
August 6, 2024

Biochemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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In the biochemical domain, nature is indeed, as Isaac Newton rightly claimed, “pleased with simplicity” and abhors “superfluous causes.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, ancient world, Bronze Age, chemical evolution, DNA, intelligent design, James Tour, materialistic science, Peter Robinson, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rice University, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, Uncommon Knowledge}

“Beyond Evolution”: Where James Tour and Stephen Meyer Disagree

_{David Klinghoffer
August 5, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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When you plant an inert, seemingly dead thing — a seed — in the ground, and it grows to be a flower, what has just happened? Life has happened. But why? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, autism, cancer, disease, Dr. Dan, function, genes, illness, intelligent design, junk DNA, mutations, non-coding DNA, schizophrenia, Stanford University, transcriptome}

Disease-Associated “Junk” DNA Is Evidence of Function

_{Casey Luskin
August 5, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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When you mess with the “junk,” the result is problems. That doesn’t sound like junk DNA to me. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 2, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cognition, consciousness, ecocide, Ecuador, genocide, human rights, Iceland, nature rights, panpsychism, personhood, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Wesley J. Smith}

Rocks’ Lives Matter: The Political Face of “Everything Is Conscious”

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 2, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

When it comes to rights, just being human is becoming much less of an advantage. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
August 1, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, architecture, BioEssays, biological systems, cells, chance, DNA polymerase, Energy, engineers, enzymes, gene regulation, intelligence, intelligent design, kinase, metabolites, natural world, random processes, Ribosome, RNA polymerase}

Review Article Explores Design Patterns in Biological Cells

_{Emily Reeves
August 1, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Living cells are strong candidates for being seen as aspects of the natural world resulting from design by an intelligent agent. Read More ›

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Date
August 1, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adults, brain, children, Denyse O'Leary, epilepsy, human brain, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, pop psychology, stroke, The Immortal Mind}

Do We Need the Right Half of the Brain?

_{Science & Culture
August 1, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

A 29-year-old woman, CB, with no neurological or psychiatric history had a stroke, possibly due to medication issues. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, chemists, cognition, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, decision-making, Gaia, Galen Strawson, human consciousness, materialism, memory, panpsychism, philosophers, physicalism, Robert Wright, thinking}

Can a Chemical Preparation Display Cognition? This Chemist Says Yes

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 31, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Addy Pross, associated with the evolutionary "Third Way" community, states his guiding principles up front. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ears, fish, hearing, humans, Nature (journal), neurons, pressure, sounds}

Study Unravels the Mystery of Fish Hearing

_{Eric Cassell
July 31, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

9}

The fish directional hearing algorithm appears to be another example of a complex programmed behavior in animals. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 30, 2024

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, archaeologists, birds, bison, Casey Luskin, cave bears, cooking, Darwinian theory, horses, human mind, human origins, Neanderthals, Portugal, The Descent of Man, wolves, ZME Science}

The Joy of (Neanderthal) Cooking

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 30, 2024

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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The Darwinian account of the human race would be much easier to believe in good faith if scientists could point to a clearly inferior and clearly human being. Read More ›