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People gathered around the red navigation pointer pin. Meeting place concept. A long awaited meeting, a company of friends, acquaintance via the Internet. Event or holiday. Organization of joint trip

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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, password, 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

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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
, bats, biological origins, books, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, convergence, Darwinists, development, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, excommunication, growth, humans, Inkwell Press, John Henry Newman, monographs, natural selection, On the Genesis of Species, Roman Catholics, St. George Jackson Mivart, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley}

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
, Center for Science and Culture, creationism, Discovery Institute, evolution, Evolution News, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, Larry Sanger, Möbius strip, Nathan Jacobson, 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, gender ideology, Harry Potter, liberals, physicians, popular culture, prevention, suicidal people, Wales, women}

J. K. Rowling Comes Out Against Legalized Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 26, 2025

Arts, Bioethics

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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, mathematicians, mathematics, misconduct, sciences, Tibi Puiu, ZME Science}

Now It’s Science Fraud in…Mathematics?

_{Science & Culture
September 26, 2025

Ethics, Mathematics

3}

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
, __recommended, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, computer vision, fossil record, holotype, hominids, Homo (genus), Homo erectus, Homo habilis, human origins, humans, hunting, IFL Science, Olduvai Gorge, Rice University, 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 ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, advocacy, dams, flowing, Great Lakes, intelligentsia, nature rights, neo-pagan mysticism, Pachamama, rivers, water}

Nature Right Pushes Neo-Pagan Mysticism at Highest Academic Levels

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 25, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism

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Most recently, the Harvard Kennedy School hosted a symposium on “nature rights” undergirded by “indigenous knowledge.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, birds, cows, EMBO Reports, evolution, fingernails, fish, flies, health, jaws, jellyfish, just-so stories, lizards, mammals, Nature (journal), protocells, storytelling, supernova, Titan}

What’s More Deserving of Ig Nobel Prizes than Evolutionary Just-So Stories?

_{David Coppedge
September 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The committee passed up some research that would have raised eyebrows and given the crowd some hearty laughs. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Tagged
, alchemy, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aristotle, Charles Bradlaugh, Cicero, Enlightenment, Epicurus, evolution, Galen, George Eliot, history, HMS Beagle, intellectual history, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Journal of Researches, literature, Lucretianism, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Misia Landau, Origin of Species, philosophy, Plato, Renaissance, seafaring, Tom Wolfe}

Darwin, Faust, and the Alchemist: Unexpected Roots of a Scientific Idea

_{Neil Thomas
September 25, 2025

Arts, Evolution

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Today we would of course brand both Faust and the Alchemist fantasists or “mad scientists” of the first order. Was Darwin prone to such wishful thinking? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 24, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, Brian Miller, carpenter, cause, Elie Feder, fine-tuning, ID the Future, mind, natural phenomena, physics, Physics to God, podcast, purpose, teleology, universe}

How Modern Physics Reveals Purpose in the Universe

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 24, 2025

Cosmology, Physics

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Scientists agree that our universe is finely tuned for the existence of life. But is the fine-tuning a happy accident or the result of foresight? Read More ›