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Male doctor holding female patient hand on the hospital bed.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animal testing, animals, Anthony Fauci, assisted suicide, bioethics, biopsies, blood draws, California, cancer, cures, euthanasia, HIV, human body, illness, Last Gift, life expectancy, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Nuremberg Code, organ farms, Peter Singer, San Diego County, spinal taps, terminal illness, tissue donation, UC San Diego, utilitarianism, viral disease, virus}

California Research Experiments on People with “Life-Shortening” Conditions

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Human beings, regardless of how sick they are or how long they are expected to live, should never be considered less worthy of protection than are animals. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 9, 2025

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain activity, brain regions, decision-making, hindbrain, human thinking, Live Science, Matteo Carandini, midbrain, motor regions, mouse study, muscle responses, neurons, pop psychology, processing, R. J. Mackenzie, textbooks, visual cortex}

Even in Mice, Decision-Making Is More Complex than We Thought

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 9, 2025

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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If it’s this complex in mice, what are we to make of simplistic representations of human thinking in pop psychology textbooks? Read More ›

Artistic image of mother nature. World environment and mother earth day concept

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 9, 2025

Categories
Earth Sciences
Environment & Climate
Ethics
Tagged
, advisor, capitalism, China, collectivism, director, Dr. Seuss, environmental practices, environmentalism, fauna, flora, free market, golden calf, human thriving, indigenous people, inspiration, investment, Milton Friedman, Mother Earth, mountain, nature rights, New Zealand, nonprofit organizations, ownership, Parry Field, prosperity, radical environmentalism, rainforest, river, Russia, shareholder, St. Petersburg, Steven Moe, stewardship, The Lorax, Truffula, wealth}

Should We Put Mother Nature on the Board of Directors?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 9, 2025

Earth Sciences, Environment & Climate, Ethics

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Nature can’t “own” anything. That’s a human construct. Moreover, nature would be represented by environmental “flesh flake” radicals. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, adaptation, Ann Gauger, biologic institute, bottles, causation, complexity, correlation, Darwinian mechanism, Douglas Axe, evidence, evolution, frosted cake, hype, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, interpretation, Marci Reeves, molecular biologists, mutations, narrative, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, podcast, potato, raw data, red wine, scientific consensus, scientific thinking, skin, terms, Undeniable (book), universal common descent}

Molecular Biologist Marci Reeves on the Principles of Scientific Thinking

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 9, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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She uses the analogy of a beautifully frosted cake. The bottom layer is the raw data, while additional layers include interpretation, narrative, and hype. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, assumptions, awake brain surgery, bank account, brain, chimpanzee genome, Chronicles Magazine, consciousness, human mind, John Zmirak, material reality, materialism, materialists, meaning, Michael Egnor, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscientists, neurosurgery, Reductionism, Roman Catholics, science, The Immortal Mind, veridical}

Science Without Materialism: Yes, It Would Still Work

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 8, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

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What if we assume that our minds really are immaterial? Math still adds up, physics and chemistry are still true, logic still works. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, assisted suicide, bureaucrats, Canada, chemistry, Chronicles Magazine, cost-saving, culture, Darwinian materialism, death, Denyse O’Leary, epiphenomena, free will, human beings, John Zmirak, love, mental illness, Michael Egnor, mind, neurons, neuroscience, physics, random chance, soul, soullessness, The Immortal Mind, United States, veterans}

Darwinism’s “Simplest” and “Most Destructive Implication”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 8, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Imagine that: killing as a “cost-saving strategy.” I think of Canada more and more as the haunted twin of the United States, and a warning to us. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Biola University, brain, coincidences, corroboration, dates, deception, experiencers, flatline, Gary Habermas, Liberty University, materialist explanations, mind, misperception, mistakes, naturalistic explanations, near-death experiences, numbers, patients, Sean McDowell, YouTube channels}

Near-Death Experiences Cannot Just Be Explained Away

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 8, 2025

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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In some cases, patients who had NDEs while in a state of clinical death report dates and numbers that are later found to be accurate, Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 7, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, chemicals, disorder, entropy, evolutionary theory, God’s Grandeur, ID the Future, intelligent design, interviews, materialist thinkers, materialists, mind, mindless processes, multiverse, natural selection, natural theology, origin of life, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, podcast, scientific discoveries, teleology, YouTube channels}

Brian Miller: The Basic Challenge to Materialist Origin-of-Life Theories

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 7, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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“All natural processes tend to create greater disorder (entropy)…The origin of life requires chemicals to go into a state of both high order and high energy.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 6, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Catholic philosophers, Darwinism, evolution, faith and science, intelligent design, Logan Gage, non-Catholics, Ohio, philosophers, Roman Catholicism, Springfield, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Kiffness, Thomistic philosophy}

Logan Gage: Intelligent Design in a Thomistic Perspective

_{David Klinghoffer
September 6, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Gage warns against “psychologizing those that disagree with us. Especially as philosophers, we don't like to do this." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 5, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, amputee, Anthony Kennedy, arms, Body Identity Integrity Disorder, body parts, capacities, culture, Daily Mail, Due Process Clause, insurance fraud, insurance scam, legs, limiting principle, medicine, mental illness, Neil Hopper, Obergefell v. Hodges, paraplegic, personal autonomy, self-definition, self-restraint, sexual obsession, societal expectations, spinal cord, transgender}

Here It Comes: First Transgenderism, Next Transableism

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 5, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Why is it not also appropriate to cut off unwanted arms or snip spinal cords if that brings emotional relief? Read More ›