Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 23, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, anthropology, atheism, atoms, atrocities, baboons, Big Bang, cognitive dissonance, determinism, facts, free will, Hamas, innocents, Jerry Coyne, Kenya, libertarian free will, Moral Law, murder, nature, neurotransmitters, Raoul Wallenberg, Robert Sapolsky, soul, Stanford University, tornado, war, Why Evolution Is True}

Evolutionist Jerry Coyne Has a Puzzling View on Hamas

_{Michael Egnor
October 23, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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The moral atrocity committed by Hamas seems not to have diminished Professor Coyne’s passion for atheism, determinism, and free will denial. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 23, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Assembly Theory, Berra's Blunder, Caltech, Cassini mission, chemical evolution, Cornell University, Darwin’s genie, Doubts About Darwin, evolution, Evolution News, human technology, Jonathan Lunine, laws of nature, Lee Cronin, multicellularity, On the Origin of Species, Robert Hazen, selection, tautology, Thomas Woodward, Titan, Tova Forman, University of Glasgow}

Darwinism Needs Laws to Look Scientific; Cronin and Hazen Stand Ready to Serve

_{David Coppedge
October 23, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Desperate to justify their worldview as legitimate, some Darwinians are making up new “laws of nature” to appear smiling inside the big tent of science. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, animal rights, animal welfare, Animal Welfare Act, animals, anti-human exceptionalism, breasts, confusion, elections, England, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming care, journals, monkeys, Oxford University Press, parrots, puberty blocking, rabbits, radicalism, voting}

Animal-Rights Philosopher, Published by Oxford University Press: “Let Animals Vote!”

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 22, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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If you want to see what is going so badly wrong in society, read the professional and intellectual journals. Read More ›

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Date
October 21, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Darwinian ideology, evolution, human body, ID the Future, intelligent design, Love Thy Body, materialism, Nancy Pearcey, podcast, purpose, sexuality, Tod Butterfield}

Nancy Pearcey: Love Your Designed Body, Made for a Purpose

_{Science and Culture
October 21, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution

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“Once you accept a Darwinian materialist view of nature," says Professor Pearcey, “logically speaking you are going to end up with a low view of the body.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, abortion, baby, birth, children, Christof Koch, consciousness, dreaming, fetuses, hard problem of consciousness, Integrated information theory, neuroscience, newborn, pregnancy, Robert Wright, synaptic connections, Thomas Nagel, Trinity College Dublin, unborn humans}

Consciousness May Occur Near Time of Birth

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 20, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, brain, consciousness, Darwinian mechanisms, Darwinian processes, Denyse O'Leary, evolution, free will, information, Justine Sergent, logic, McGill University, mind, neuroscience, patients, Pharyngula, PZ Myers, Roger Sperry, split brain, The Human Soul, Yair Pinto}

My Question for P. Z. Myers: How Did Human Consciousness “Evolve”?

_{Michael Egnor
October 20, 2023

Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Human consciousness entails a unique ability to think abstractly — to reason, to think logically, to use language, to do mathematics, to exercise free will. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, artifact hypothesis, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, cnidarian, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, Derek Briggs, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, empirical data, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, molecular clock studies, paleontology, Precambrian strata, sponge, Stephen Meyer, transitional forms, Trends in Ecology and Evolution}

Fossil Friday: New Study Challenges the Artifact Hypothesis

_{Günter Bechly
October 20, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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It is time for Darwinists to stop their science denial and face the fact that empirical data consistently contradict core predictions of their theory. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Bible, Canada, creationism, fundamentalists, intelligent design, magazines, media, National Post, newspapers, public education, scientific data, Scripture, Stephen Meyer, Supreme Court}

Throwback Thursday: Meyer Asks, “What Is This Theory of Intelligent Design?”

_{Emily Sandico
October 19, 2023

Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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"As the story goes, intelligent design is just creationism repackaged by religious fundamentalists in order to circumvent a 1987 Supreme Court prohibition." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, Africa, Casey Luskin, consciousness, evolutionary biology, fish, flatworm, fossil record, gestation, Gregory Chaitin, hominins, human intelligence, human mind, human origins, Israel, meat, mollusks, mussels, Neanderthals, pain, poetry, pseudoscience, tools}

The Human Mind Has No History

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 19, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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There is no good reason to assume that human intelligence evolved from mud to mind via a long slow history. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Forman

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, ad hominem, amino acids, Assembly Theory, biologists, Brian Miller, Chemistry World, chess, David Klinghoffer, DNA, ego, James Tour, Lee Cronin, logic, Nature (journal), nucleotides, Philip Ball, protein chains, RNA, Sara Walker, Twitter}

I’m Baffled by Lee Cronin, and I’m Not Alone

_{Tova Forman
October 19, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Do you know those prank mirror illusions where an object seems to be sitting in a dish ready to be picked up, but you reach for it and there’s nothing there? Read More ›