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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 6, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, abstract thought, Aristotle, blood pressure, brain function, brain state, breathing, Denyse O'Leary, Edward Feser, elementary particles, emotion, heart rate, hormones, intellect, James Ross, logic, matter, measurements, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, movement, neuroscience, perception, photons, Plato, precision, puppy, retinal cells, soul, triangle, uncertainty, Uncertainty Principle, will}

The Logical Basis of the Immaterial Mind

_{Michael Egnor
May 6, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The indeterminacy of matter precludes brain states from forming the basis of abstract thought. Simple logic points to this truth. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 5, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anatomy, angiotensin, animals, auditory nerve, auditory signals, blood pressure, brain, cells, communication, comprehension, epinephrin, expression, insects, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, pharynx, procreation, reception, Sciuridae, singing, sounds, speech, squirrels, teeth, throat, tissues, tongue, trees, vibrations, volatile organic compounds}

Communication, in Human Life and Beyond: An Irreducibly Complex Design

_{Eric Hedin
May 5, 2025

Anatomy, Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Communication saturates the animal kingdom in many forms. At the cellular level, communication forms an integral part of sustaining physical being. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 2, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Allen Brain Institute, Allison Parshall, COGITATE, cognition, consciousness, decisions, Denyse O'Leary, Global Workspace Theory, Integrated information theory, Michael Egnor, Nautilus, neuroscience, neuroscientists, prefrontal cortex, pseudoscience, Robert Chis-Ciure, Science Daily, The Immortal Mind, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Sussex}

Study Probes the Origins of Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 2, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Understanding consciousness by these means is going to be a much slower process than the researchers had hoped. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, agency, algorithms, barium, biology, chemicals, chemistry, codes, cognition, embryology, engineering, genetic code, Hydra, induction, mammals, Michael Levin, newts, Perry Marshall, planarians, predictions, process flow diagrams, Rutgers University, Seymour Garte, Stuart Kauffman}

New Article Calls for a Philosophical Revolution in Biology, Placing Mind Over Matter

_{Brian Miller
April 17, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Biology is directed by cognition. But the authors do not attempt to explain the source of cognition or how it originated. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 8, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, alien hand syndrome, antiseizure medications, biotechnology, brain, Broca’s area, consciousness, corpus callosotomy, corpus callosum, Gonzalo Munevar, Hannah Thomasy, hemispheres, language, Lawrence Technical University, Michael Egnor, neuroscientists, Nobel Prize, Roger Sperry, sci-fi, Severance (sci-fi series), split-brain patients, split-brain syndrome, The Immortal Mind, The Scientist}

One Brain, Two Consciousnesses?

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 8, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The idea that split-brain surgery can create two separate minds is immortal — in science fiction. 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 ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 10, 2024

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", Biomimetics, common ancestry, constraints, design framework, engineers, evolution, evolutionary biologists, foot, human limbs, humans, integration, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, knee, miniaturization, movement, multifunctionality, Research, robotics, tibia, vertebrate limbs, wrist}

New Research: Stuart Burgess Demonstrates the Exquisite Engineering of Human Limbs

_{Brian Miller
October 10, 2024

Anatomy, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Burgess’s research represents yet another nail in the coffin of the standard evolutionary model. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 5, 2024

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", arthritis, automobile, biceps, bursa, Cheddar News, chimpanzees, clavicle, collarbone, Columbia University, deltoid muscle, diet, DNA, evolution, exercise, feces, flat tire, flexibility, forearm, hip joint, human body, human shoulder, humerus, intelligent design, muscle, Natalia Ryzak, posture, rotator cuff, scapula, shoulder, shoulder blade, shoulder problems, stability, storytelling, throwing, tornado, trapezius muscle, zoos}

Is the Human Shoulder Badly Designed?

_{Jonathan Wells
October 5, 2024

Anatomy, Biology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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Watch an acrobat performing on the parallel bars. Or a baseball player pitching a fastball. Or an athlete swimming the butterfly. Read More ›

african american new born baby hand holding mom finger on white bed

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
September 13, 2024

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, apoptosis, cell death, cells, cytochrome c, digits, embryonic development, evolutionary mechanisms, feet, foresight, hands, injury, mitochondria, proteins, sculptor, signals}

The Formation of Our Digits Points to a Process with Foresight

_{Jonathan McLatchie
September 13, 2024

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Our digits are sculpted from a paddle-like structure in the embryo through the process of apoptosis. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 4, 2024

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __nedited, BIO-Complexity, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Biomimetics, birds, common ancestry, common design, coordinated mutations, Darwinian assumptions, energy conservation, evolution, evolutionary model, Flight, humans, intelligent design, presuppositions, Stuart Burgess, tetrapod limbs, vertebrate limbs, whale evolution, whales}

Similarities Between Vertebrate Limbs Are Best Explained Not by Common Ancestry but by Design

_{Brian Miller
September 4, 2024

Anatomy, Intelligent Design

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The challenge is particularly daunting in the case of whales. The flipper differs in almost every respect from that of its proposed terrestrial ancestor. Read More ›