Category: Life Sciences | Page 6 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, apologetics, biochemistry, blind physical processes, brain, chemical reactions, Christianity, cognition, Dallas, Daniel Dennett, ID the Future, inference, intentionality, ions, knowledge, meaning, mind, naturalism, neurons, philosophers, rationality, reasoning, Rebekah Valerius, scientific inquiry, Shadowlands Dispatch, truth, universal acid, universe}

Can You Trust Your Thoughts? The Argument from Reason and Its Implications for Darwinism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 9, 2026

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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If human thoughts are merely the result of blind physical processes, then there is no logical basis for trusting our own minds. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 8, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ancestors, anthropologists, braincase, brains, Christof Koch, evolution, evolutionary biology, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, hominids, Homo (genus), human brain, humanity, humans, Katerina Harvati, Mark Hubbe, Michael Marshall, MIT Press, natural selection, Nature Communications, neuroscience, neuroscientists, neutral evolution, New Scientist, phenotypes, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Phys.org, random mutations, skulls, universe}

Science Journal: Humanity’s Big Brains Evolved “For No Particular Reason”

_{Casey Luskin
July 8, 2026

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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This is tantamount to saying the human brain, chief marvel in the cosmos as far as we can tell, evolved because, well, why the heck not? Read More ›

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Date
July 8, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Assembly Theory, audiences, biochemistry, Brian Miller, cameras, debates, drink, evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, food, genes, genetics, Harvard University, intelligent design, James Tour, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Lee Cronin, magical words, molecules, origin of life, recordings, Research, Rice University, Sara Walker, selection, videos}

Cronin’s Assembly Theory Continues to Perform Its Magic

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July 8, 2026

Biochemistry, Origin of Life

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Cronin and Walker know what is wrong with origin-of-life research. They’re just afraid of what may be right. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 7, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ancestors, brain, Carl Sagan, complexity, crows, evolution, fish, flatscreen television, humans, Jack Reacher, limbic system, lizard brain, lizards, mammals, McGill University, neurobiologists, neuroscience, octopuses, Office for Science and Society, onions, ontogeny, pancakes, parrots, Paul D. MacLean, phylogeny, radio, reptile, reptiles, scientific hypotheses}

McGill University Refutes Pop-Psychology Claim that Humans Have a “Lizard Brain”

_{Casey Luskin
July 7, 2026

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

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The false belief traces back to the fact that Carl Sagan was one of its strongest proponents. Read More ›

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Author
Thomas E. Woodward

Date
July 7, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, acetylation, atheists, biological codes, biology, Cambridge University, DNA, DNA tag maps, evolutionists, George Church, Harvard University, histone tag maps, histones, human cell, Human Genome Project, intelligence, intelligent design, iPhone, materialism, methylation, Michael Behe, Mind and Cosmos, Nanoarchaeum equitans, Oxford University Press, Peter Lipton, phosphorylation, Robert Prinz, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, supercomputer, Thomas Nagel, uniformitarianism, William Dembski}

Biological Codes, and More: Evolutionists Scramble for an Adequate Cause

_{Thomas E. Woodward and James P. Gills, MD
July 7, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Much of the information essential to cellular function isn’t editable via random genetic mutations in DNA and is thus inaccessible to the Darwinian mechanism. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 6, 2026

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, art, atoms, calculus, Carlo Rovelli, chimpanzees, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Dogs, electrons, great apes, higher power, human consciousness, human language, humans, intelligent design, language, laughter, literature, Michael Egnor, mud, panpsychism, Patricia Churchland, Paul Churchland, sand dollar, speech, squirrels, trees, universe}

Human Consciousness, from Mud to Mind?

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 6, 2026

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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If human language — which is unlike any other communication in nature — evolved from something, we simply have no idea what that something is. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 5, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Bantu, bonobos, Chiara De Gregorio, chimpanzees, Communications Biology, DuckDuckGo, English, French Academy, Genesis, gorillas, great apes, human speech, humans, intelligent design, isochrony, Japanese, laughter, metronome, Nature (journal), orangutans, origin of language, primates, Shigeru Miyagawa, University of Warwick, Why Agree? Why Move?, ZME Science}

Speech, Laughter, and Intelligent Design

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 5, 2026

Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A widely publicized thesis around ape and human laughter falls so woefully short that it forces an evaluation of other possibilities. Read More ›

Cockpit of a submarine offering underwater cruises from Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii - Round porthole with a steering wheel and dozens of switches used to make a submersible ship dive

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 2, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biology, cellular activity, cellular architecture, Darwinian evolution, DNA, epigenetic controls, Epigenetics and the Architect, epigenome, Fantastic Voyage, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, ID the Future, information, Innerspace, James Gills, living cell, molecular machines, sci-fi movies, shrinking, submarine, Tom Woodward}

Aboard a Submarine to Explore a Living Cell

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July 2, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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What if you could climb aboard an incredible shrinking submarine and travel into the heart of a living cell? This would be a tour like no other, to be sure! Read More ›

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Date
July 2, 2026

Categories
Biology
Origin of Life
Tagged
, bacteria, cells, clueless, control, E. coli, genes, guidance, James Tour, Kate Adamala, materialists, minimal cell, New York Times, origin of life, plagiarism, proteins, ribosomes, RNA, SpudCell, University of Minnesota}

We Created Life! Er, Wait a Minute…

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July 2, 2026

Biology, Origin of Life

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A synthetic cell lineage contrived by humans will (necessarily) need to copy what Nature has already done, or fail. Read More ›

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Author
Thomas E. Woodward

Date
June 30, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Berkley Gryder, BIO-Complexity, blood cells, bone cells, cells, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, egg cell, embryo, embryologists, ENCODE, epigenetics, Epigenetics and the Architect, epigenome, Epigenome Roadmap, Human Epigenome Project, Human Genome Project, James P. Gills, Nature (journal), nerve cells, New York Times, Nicholas Wade, skin cells, sperm, submarine, Thomas E. Woodward, UC Berkeley, zona pellucida, zygote}

The Zygote Code and Other Mysteries

_{Thomas E. Woodward and James P. Gills, MD
June 30, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

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As development progresses, each cell is directed to unique use of its DNA files by the epigenetic system, which sits above the DNA. Read More ›