Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, biotechnology, carbon molecules, China, Communists, death, despair, Falun Gong, hope, immortality, life-extension, obliteration, organ black market, organs, Orthodox Christians, political prisoners, Russia, technology, transhumanism, transhumanists, tyranny, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping}

Xi and Putin: Tyranny and Transhumanism

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 4, 2025

Bioethics, Technology

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Transhumanism is mostly a materialistic wail of despair in the night, a desperate quest for hope for those who are terrified that death leads to obliteration. Read More ›

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
September 4, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, americans, aneurysm, assisted suicide, atheism, brain, castration, child sacrifice, Christianity, culture, Denyse O’Leary, euthanasia, Heaven, immateriality, immortality, infinity, logic, materialism, materialists, mathematics, media, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neurosurgery, paganism, Pam Reynolds, Pam Reynolds Challenge, philosophy, physics, pornography, precision, sexual grooming, sexual mutilation, simplicity, St. Augustine, St. Bonaventure, St. Thomas Aquinas, surgeons, The Immortal Mind, tunnel, Western civilization}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Near-Death Experiences and Saving the Culture

_{John Zmirak
September 4, 2025

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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"Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a huge and complex topic. Tens of millions of people have had NDEs and similar spiritual experiences." Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
September 4, 2025

Categories
Arts
Biology
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, biochemists, cell phones, computers, David Klinghoffer, DNA, electrical engineering, electromagnetic noise, engineering, Erwin Chargaff, flute, genome, intelligence, intelligent design, Internet, life, Life Is a Miracle, organisms, Plato's Revenge, programming, radios, Richard Sternberg, smart phones, Stephen Iacoboni, technology, televisions, violin, violinist, Wendell Berry, Wi-Fi, William Shakespeare}

Biology, Like Technology, Requires “Something More”

_{Eric Hedin
September 4, 2025

Arts, Biology, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Even when formed to perfection, a violin will not “hale souls out of men’s bodies” unless a master musician draws the bow across the strings. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 3, 2025

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Australopithecus afarensis, bipedalism, bird groups, Casey Luskin, co-option, Darwinian predictions, evolutionary timeline, flowering plants, fossil record, God of the gaps, hand bones, Homo (genus), humans, ID the Future, intelligence, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jacob Vasquez, junk DNA, knuckle-walkers, land plants, Lucy (fossil), mammals, naturalism, naturalism in the gaps, pelvis, scientific knowledge, tree branches, type III secretion system}

Casey Luskin Answers Common Objections to Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 3, 2025

Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Dr. Luskin highlights a “large unbridged gap” in the fossil record between ape-like species like Lucy and human-like species. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 3, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, calculations, computer science, Connecticut, conversations, Darwinism, evolution, extracellular matrix, intelligent design, learning, Microsoft, mumbo jumbo, sources, Stephen Meyer, Wikipedia}

An Intelligent Design Addendum to AI Horror in Connecticut

_{David Klinghoffer
September 3, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Once the AI determines your preferred viewpoint, it will tell you what the algorithm "thinks" that you want to hear. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 3, 2025

Tagged
, assent, cancel culture, citation justice, citations, Diana Kwon, dissent, equity, geography, identity groups, language, languages, library sources, Matilda effect, minorities, Nature (journal), private truth, Research, scholars, transparency}

Oh, Brother: Now It’s Bringing “Equity” to Scientific Citations

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 3, 2025

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Some want “papers to include the proportions of citations in terms of the gender and race or ethnicity of the referenced authors.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 2, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, body integrity identity disorder, digital twins, disease, doctors, equity, gender-fluidity, government benefits, healing, health insurance, healthcare, Journal of Medical Ethics, medicine, patients, reprogramming, technology, trans identity, transgendeism, transgender people, transhumanists, transition, wellness}

Next: “Digital Twins” as a Matter of “Equity”?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 2, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Medicine is no longer just about treating disease, healing injuries, and promoting physical wellness. Read More ›

Low Angle Shot in the Operating Room, Assistant Hands out Instruments to Surgeons During Operation. Surgeons Perform Operation. Professional Medical Doctors Performing Surgery.

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
September 2, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Alice Cronin-Golomb, atheism, brain, brain surgery, brain tumor, Christianity, concepts, Denyse O’Leary, hemispheres, left frontal lobe, materialism, medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, MIT, morality, music, near-death experiences, Netherlands, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, Nobel Prize, painting, reason, Roger Sperry, seizures, soul, split-brain surgery, surgery, The Immortal Mind, thoughts, violin, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Abstract Thought Comes from the Mind, Not the Brain

_{John Zmirak
September 2, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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We can cut perceptional abilities with a knife, but we can’t cut reason and abstract thought. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 2, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, Afrocentrism, Bigfoot, biology, cancel culture, creationism, Grand Valley State University, Holocaust denial, human biology, James Randi, lawgiver, Madam Rosa, Michael Shermer, mind, non-binary, Official Science, private truth, realism, reality-based thinking, Richard Dawkins, Robert O. Deaner, sex binary, Skeptic Magazine, subjectivism, transgenderism, war on math, Wikipedia}

Evolutionist: Eight Reasons Sex in Humans Is Binary

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 2, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Reproductive Science

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Skeptics will eventually be forced to confront the problem: They posit laws with no lawgiver, principles with no foundation, minds from mud. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 1, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Medicine
Tagged
, biological information, body, coherence, daily life, death, Discovery Institute Press, engineering, engineers, Howard Glicksman, human body, interdependence, life, medicine, oxygenation, physicians, Secrets of the Human Body, Stephen Meyer, Steve Laufmann, Your Amazing Body}

Your Body’s Secrets, Revealed in a New Series and a Companion Book

_{David Klinghoffer
September 1, 2025

Engineering, Medicine

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It may seem like a morbid thought, pondering the billions of ways something in your body could “go wrong,” fatally, and then “you’re dead.” Read More ›