Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alan McComas, Alzheimer’s disease, Aristotle, atoms, behaviorism, Benjamin Libet, brain, breathing, concept cells, conception, consciousness, eliminative materialism, functionalism, galaxies, glaciers, heartbeat, hippocampi, hydranencephaly, identity theory, Justine Sergent, machine, molecules, neurons, neuroscience, perception, pineal gland, planets, pseudoscience, René Descartes, Roger Sperry, Scientific American, soul, trees, Werner Heisenberg, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, artificial life, biologic institute, cells, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, genes, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, logic, machines, podcast, Research, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution}

Richard Sternberg on the Information Beyond the Genome

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 8, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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There’s “something phenomenal” going on inside the cell, says Dr. Sternberg. Probing and elucidating this mystery has been a focus of his research. Read More ›

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Date
March 7, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, Australian National University, cleverness, females, fish, intelligence, males, octopuses, Research, sexual selection}

Did Sexual Selection Make Male Mosquitofish Really Smart?

_{Science and Culture
March 7, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s worth considering that the fish who can solve mazes may also be better able to stay out of the way of predators than the ones who couldn’t. Read More ›

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Author
Kate Kavanaugh

Date
March 7, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adults, colony insects, culture, earthworms, education, events, evolution, insects, intelligent design, Intelligent Design Education Day, intelligent designer, roundworms, science, spiders, Spokane, students, worldview, worms}

Spiders and Worms and Insects — Oh My! Creepy, Crawly Complexity at ID Education Day

_{Kate Kavanaugh
March 7, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

This in-person event is a perfect field trip opportunity for students to engage with scientists and ID experts. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 6, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, courage, developmental biologists, Discovery Institute, evolution, eyes, friendship, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, loyalty, Paul Nelson, podcast, poster presentation, science education, University of Chicago, William A. Dembski}

Gutsy and Loyal: The Qualities of Our Friend Jonathan Wells

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 6, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Education

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Dr. Paul Nelson begins with an adventure he had with Dr. Wells: a poster presentation on evolution and development at the University of Chicago. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 6, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, body parts, Center for Medical Progress, children, Christianity, Christianity Today, Christians, COVID-19, David Daleiden, embryos, Evangelical Christians, Francis Collins, gestation, Holy Spirit, infants, jesus, John the Baptist, John West, Judicial Watch, National Institutes of Health, Nicene Creed, Stockholm Syndrome, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, Sweden, unborn, University of Pittsburgh}

Stockholm Syndrome: Francis Collins and the Unborn

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 6, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

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Collins is a role model for aspiring young Christians, right? John West says, not so fast. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 5, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, accountability, bureaucrats, children, Congress, COVID-19, deaths, Declaration of Independence, Democrats, English, experts, Hoover Institution, Humanize, Jay Bhattacharya, leadership, liberty, lockdowns, National Institutes of Health, pandemic, Republicans, Scott Atlas, Stanford University, vaccine, vaccine mandates, viruses, Wall Street Journal, Washington DC, Washington State, Wesley J. Smith}

Let’s Not Forget About That Covid Commission

_{David Klinghoffer
March 5, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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When speaking of the disaster that began to unfold in 2020, do you refer to it as the Covid “pandemic” or the Covid “lockdowns and vaccine mandates”? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 5, 2025

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Brian Miller, causal set cosmology, coincidence, earth, intelligent design, physicists, planet, theism, universe}

Physicist Brian Miller on All the Levels of Fine-Tuning: “Somebody Knew You Were Coming”

_{David Klinghoffer
March 5, 2025

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Miller gave a concise summary of the evidence of fine-tuning, from the cosmic scale down to the planetary and the environmental, finally to the biological. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brains, color, consciousness, Darwinism, determinism, evolution, Free Agents, free will, hard problem of consciousness, intelligent design, Kevin Mitchell, materialism, materialists, Michael Levin, naturalism, neurons, pain, Platonism, purpose, randomness, René Descartes, will}

Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? (Continued)

_{Daniel Witt
March 5, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The door is open to other causes — even those that neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell himself would prefer to keep out. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, animals, Aristotle, behavior, Dogs, emotions, evolutionary biologists, feelings, humans, Marc Bekoff, Michael Egnor, moral choice, prejudice, Psychology Today, Racism, sensations, sexism, speciesism, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, Wesley J. Smith}

Clinical Psychologist Supports Human Exceptionalism

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 4, 2025

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology, Scientific Reasoning

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Gregg Henriques, a secular humanist, has developed an approach that accepts human exceptionalism without denying that animals have mental abilities. Read More ›