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Looking and smile elderly woman portrait on a dark background

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, blood pressure, C. Everett Koop, cognitive impairment, death, delay, dementia, drug interactions, Ebola, euthanasia, grandchildren, grandmother, health conditions, medicine, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, old-age home, prevention, Quebec, Resolve to Save Lives, Science Alert, Tessa Koumoundouros, The Formula for Better Health, Tibi Puiu, Tom Frieden, urinary tract infection, vitamin B12, Wall Street Journal, ZME Science}

For a Long Time, Dementia Was the New Leprosy

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 24, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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I use the term “delay” rather than “prevention” for a reason: It may be that the human brain will inevitably start to break down after a century or so. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 24, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Actin, animal cells, basal bodies, biology, cell division, cell theory, centrioles, checkpoints, chromatids, chromosomes, communication network, congression, conifers, Croatia, DNA, evolution, flowering plants, humans, intelligent design, interphase, intra-flagellar transport, Iva M. Tolić, kinetochores, Kruno Vukušić, light microscope, metaphase, microtubule, mitosis, myosin, Nature Communications, oocytes, Phys.org, protists, Ruđer Bošković Institute}

Centrioles Revealed as Part of a Large Signaling Network

_{David Coppedge
October 24, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design

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What molecular structure forms cartwheels, is architecturally beautiful, and is vital for cell division? Read More ›

Microscopic Cellular Structure Detailed 3D Rendering of Organelles and Bacteria

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, asteroid, Caltech, Charles Darwin, Darwinists, evolution, Fantastic Voyage, future, intelligent design, lottery, Moon, physicists, pilot, portholes, Salvo Magazine, science fiction, SpaceX, Texas, William Dembski}

Jonathan Witt Takes Us on a Fantastic Voyage

_{David Klinghoffer
October 23, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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"You’re a computer geek living thirty years in the future, and you just won a lottery for a space flight to a distant planet, as yet unnamed." Read More ›

Futuristic holographic baby in doctor's hand: exploring virtual reality and medical technology

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 23, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, babies, Big Fertility, bioethics, Brave New World, cells, children, China, CRISPR, designer babies, eggs, embryos, gestational carriers, government, Katy Faust, manufacture, men, parents, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, regulation, reproduction, skin cells, somatic cell nuclear transfer, sperm, Them Before Us, women}

Human Reproduction Is Becoming Human Manufacture

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 23, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Making eggs out of skin cells is just the latest example of an accelerating reproductive anarchy that is changing our very culture. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 23, 2025

Categories
Biology
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, Aulacopleura koninckii, bees, Brigitte Schoenemann, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian fossils, Cambrian Period, crustaceans, Darwin’s Doubt, dragonflies, fossil record, human vision, light, Nature (journal), ocean floors, paleontology, panoramic view, preservation, trilobites, vision}

Ancient Eyes, Modern Design: The Remarkable Vision of Trilobites

_{Emily Reeves
October 23, 2025

Biology, Paleontology

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Does this discovery suggest that the principles of compound vision emerged nearly half a billion years ago as the authors concluded? Read More ›

Futuristic Data Encryption and Secure Coding Practices

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Date
October 23, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AI, Alan Turing, Antikythera, binary arithmetic, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, central processor, codons, complexity, computation, computer science, computers, DNA, Google, John von Neumann, logic gates, MIT Press Reader, programmers, Universal Machine, What Is Intelligence?}

Life as Computation: An AI Researcher’s (Unwitting) Argument for Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
October 23, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

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How many computer geniuses did it take in order to produce even a tiny fragment of this complexity? And how great must be the mind that designed all this! Read More ›

Silhouette of ape under a starry sky with trees framing the scene in a dark and dreamy setting

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 22, 2025

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, British Rationalist Association, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinian paradigm, Darwinism, evolution, False Messiah, Johann Gottfried Herder, John Keats, Judeo-Christian tradition, Noam Chomsky, Richard Barns, Richard Dawkins, Robert Ryan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Dawkins Proof for the Existence of God, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, The Selfish Gene, theism, There Is a God, Tom Wolfe, Über den Ursprung der Sprache, William Wordsworth, Woody Allen}

False Messiah: An Addendum on Darwin and Theism

_{Neil Thomas
October 22, 2025

Arts, Evolution, Faith & Science

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The standpoint of poet John Keats is certainly gaining resonance in our doubt-ridden 21st century. I for one welcome its openness to questioning and wonder. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 22, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, archetype, biological systems, biology, cold-spots, Daphne Major, Darwin's Finches, DNA, evolution, finches, fitness, Galápagos Islands, generalists, genetic variation, haplotype blocks, intelligent design, line, optimality, Pareto front, Pareto trajectory, Peter and Rosemary Grant, polytope, radiation, random mutations, randomness, specialists, systems biologists, trade-offs, triangle, Uppsala University, Uri Alon, Vilfredo Pareto}

Optimization: The Engineering Explanation for “Evolution Happening Before Our Eyes”

_{Emily Reeves
October 22, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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On Daphne Major, a Galápagos island, there are three major types of finch food: large seeds, small seeds, and pollen and insects. Read More ›

Cave with cave drawings. Cartoon mountain scene background Primitive cave paintings. ancient petroglyphs.

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 22, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
Psychology
Tagged
, Antony Flew, artifacts, brain, cave art, death, dying, Gary Wenk, graveyard, human beings, Marilyn Mendoza, Michael Egnor, Neanderthals, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Ohio State University, paleontology, periaqueductal gray, presumption of atheism, pseudoscience, psychology, Psychology Today, The Immortal Mind, There Is a God}

In Study of Human Psychology, the Power of “Maybe”

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 22, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology, Psychology

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This is not science and is not a good look for a psychology that purports to have some relationship with science. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, Agustín Fuentes, cancel culture, Carole Hooven, evolutionary biologists, Fox & Friends, gender, gender medicine, Harvard University, Helen Lewis, Princeton University, puberty blockers, Sex Is a Spectrum, Steven Pinker, survival, T: The Story of Testosterone, Tablet, The Atlantic, The Lancet, truth, Washington Post}

In the War on Reality, a Biologist Became a Casualty

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 21, 2025

Evolution, Medicine

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Enough people may still believe that the human being is not just an animal and there is such a thing as truth. Read More ›