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Date
October 1, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Billions of Missing Links, books, Charles Darwin, Coast to Coast AM, consciousness, Doctor's Diary, evolution, Geoffrey Simmons, George Noory, intelligent design, internists, lecturers, listeners, patients, radio, Science and Culture Today, What Darwin Didn’t Know}

Consciousness and Intelligent Design: Dr. Simmons on Coast to Coast Tonight

_{Science and Culture
October 1, 2025

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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He tells us, “My patients have contacted me from all over the world having heard me on this show on previous occasions.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, __trending, Aristotle, Assembly Theory, BIO-Complexity, Charles Darwin, combustion chamber, Conservation of Information, disorder, entropy, formational order, heat energy, information, Law of Increasing Functional Information, Leroy Cronin, living things, monographs, order, patent offices, Paul Davies, perpetual motion machines, physical systems, piston, prime matter, Robert Hazen, Second Law of Thermodynamics, shmoo, Stuart Kauffman, The Law of Conservation of Information, thermal equilibrium, thermal order, work}

Nature’s Missing Law of Information

_{William A. Dembski
October 1, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Conservation of information is not just an idea or concept that sits blithely in a world of mathematical abstraction. Read More ›

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Author
James Barham

Date
September 30, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Church of England, Darwin’s bulldog, Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, evolutionism, excommunication, faith and science, General Morphology of Organisms, Generelle Morphologie der Organismen, historical figures, history, James Barham, King’s College, Lincoln’s Inn, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, social elite, St. George Jackson Mivart, Thomas Henry Huxley, Wikipedia, William Dembski}

St. George Jackson Mivart: A Historical Snapshot

_{James Barham
September 30, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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In the end, Darwin, Huxley, and their friends collectively decided to “cut him dead,” meaning to ostracize him socially. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 29, 2025

Categories
Astronomy
Ethics
Planetology
Tagged
, animals, astrobiology, comprehension, Convention on Biological Diversity, copper mining, COPUOS, COSPAR, Elon Musk, ethicists, geological features, indigenous people, International Court of Justice, Mars, moons, nature rights, planets, Science Direct, solar system, space exploration, space microbes, trees, waves}

Now, It’s Rights for Planets, Moons, and Space Microbes

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 29, 2025

Astronomy, Ethics, Planetology

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The ultimate purpose in granting such rights would be to disincentivize investments in space exploration and keep us Gaia-bound. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 29, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bank account, brain, cerebellum, consciousness, cortex, hammer, human mind, Local, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, non-local, password, Peter Coppola, Real Clear Science, The Immortal Mind, Wilder Penfield}

Are We Looking for Consciousness in the “Wrong Part” of the Brain?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 29, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

Al of this reasoning assumes that human consciousness — the human mind — is local. Located in one single place. It probably isn’t. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred William Bennett, anoura, anthologies, bats, biological origins, books, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, chelonians, convergence, Darwinists, development, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, excommunication, growth, humans, Ichthyosauria, Inkwell Classics in Evolution and Design, Inkwell Press, John Henry Newman, monographs, natural selection, On the Genesis of Species, pterodactyles, Roman Catholics, St. George Jackson Mivart, The Descent of Man, The Saturday Review, Thomas Henry Huxley, Vertebrata, William George Ward}

An 1871 Critic of Darwinism Whose Criticisms Still Pack a Punch

_{William A. Dembski
September 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A new series aims to restore a historically honest balance to the debate over evolution and design in the study of biological origins. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, ampersand, athan Jacobson, bookmark, Center for Science and Culture, creationism, discernment, Discovery Institute, evolution, Evolution News, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, Larry Sanger, Möbius strip, Nathan Jacobson, news media, podcast, Rob Crowther, Science and Culture, Science and Culture Today, science reporting}

On the Origin of Science and Culture Today

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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First, the conversation delves into the site’s launch in December 2004, when the modern intelligent design movement and the Internet were both relatively new. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 26, 2025

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Tagged
, activism, assisted dying, assisted suicide, children, coercion, disability rights, England, equality, facilitation, gender ideology, Harry Potter, House of Commons, J. K. Rowling, liberals, Neil Murray, physicians, popular culture, prevention, private spaces, suicidal people, Wales, women}

J. K. Rowling Comes Out Against Legalized Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 26, 2025

Arts, Bioethics

2}

Two of the core tenets of liberalism are (supposed to be) protecting vulnerable people from exploitation and promoting equality among all people. Read More ›

Making mistakes and wrong answer concept. Hand wiping math formula off blackboard in classroom at school. Student or teacher correcting incorrect calculation on chalkboard.

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Date
September 26, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Mathematics
Tagged
, ethics, fraud, funding, German Mathematical Society, mathematicians, mathematics, metrics, misconduct, rankings, sciences, Tibi Puiu, ZME Science}

Now It’s Science Fraud in…Mathematics?

_{Science and Culture
September 26, 2025

Ethics, Mathematics

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Most lay people would not think that mathematics is a particularly safe place to do fraud. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 26, 2025

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, animal butchery, Annals of New York Academy of Sciences, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, computer vision, fossil record, holotype, hominids, Homo (genus), Homo erectus, Homo habilis, human origins, humans, hunting, IFL Science, leopards, meat eating, morphological traits, Olduvai Gorge, predator–prey relationship, Rice University, stone-tool making, taphonomy}

Not a “Turning Point”: Study Finds Homo habilis Was Hunted as Prey

_{Casey Luskin
September 26, 2025

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The proposals of this study are very consistent with what we have long argued here. Read More ›