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near-death experience
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Near-Death Research Slowly Fills in the Picture

When an 87-year-old man was having his brain scanned, he died — unexpectedly — of a heart attack. So, the scan recorded his unanticipated final brain activity. Read More ›
groundbreaking
Photo source: Governor Tom Wolf, via Flickr (cropped).

Paul Nelson Diagnoses the Decline of “Groundbreaking Science”

Science writer John Horgan posits that we have already made most of the big breakthroughs there are to make. Read More ›
cow
Photo credit: David Coppedge.

Darwin, We Have a Problem: Horse Teeth Are Not Less Evolved

Time to debunk another evolutionary story by questioning underlying Darwinian assumptions about how things came to be. Read More ›
acid mine drainage
Photo: Acid mine drainage, a home for archaea, by Jakec, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Elephant in the Science Lab

I have been seeking to describe the science of purpose. Now it is worth getting down to the basics of what science actually is and how it works. Read More ›
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Credit: All photos by John West.

New Exhibition on the Bible and Science Opens in Nation’s Capital

Tracing the development of science over two millennia, the exhibition challenges a popular misconception about the relationship between the Bible and science. Read More ›
DNA
Image credit: Reimund Bertrams via Pixabay.

Omega-3 Nutrition Pioneer Tells How He Saw Irreducible Complexity in Cells 40 Years Ago

Jorn Dyerberg, the Danish biologist, talks with physicist Brian Miller about finding irreducible complexity in cells. Read More ›
consciousness
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Is Life After Death Incompatible with Physics?

In 2011, Sean Carroll wrote an essay on why — from a science perspective — our minds must be extinguished at death Read More ›
Sirenia
Photo: Pezosiren, Thesupermat via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fossil Friday: Sea Cows and the Abrupt Origin of Sirenia and Desmostylia

So, is every thing OK with Darwinism after all? No so fast. Actually, there are some problems that do not square well with a Darwinian scenario. Read More ›
fencing
Photo credit: © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons.

Fleshing Out a Theory of Biological Design

Steve Laufmann and Michael Egnor explore these and other insights at the intersection of biology and engineering. Read More ›

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