Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 20, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain surgery, Cornell University, illusion, Justine Sergent, neuroscience, personality, Psyche, religions, scalpel, selfhood, soul, split-brain surgery, Yair Pinto}

Split-Brain Surgeries Reveal Reality of the Soul

_{Michael Egnor
February 20, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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This is not only the perennial teaching of the great religions, but the evidence of the best neuroscience. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 20, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin on Trial, Darwinism, Denis Diderot, England, Ernst Mayr, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, Harrisburg, Judge John E. Jones, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, Karl Popper, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, L’Homme Machine, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, natural selection, Norman Macbeth, Of Pandas and People, Pennsylvania, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, United States}

Teaching Darwin: A Hypothetical Program

_{Neil Thomas
February 20, 2025

Evolution, Science Education

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Charles Darwin himself contemplated being mistaken, writing “I have asked myself whether I may not have devoted my life to a fantasy.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 19, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Brian Keating, Bryan Callen, complex life, consciousness, Energy, faith and science, ID the Future, matter, Michael Shermer, mind, podcast, Skeptic Magazine, skepticism, Stephen Meyer, The Bryan Callen Show, truth, UC San Diego, universe}

Faith, Reason, and the Search for Truth: Stephen Meyer and Michael Shermer

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 19, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Origin of Life

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Dr. Meyer calls math mind-independent. We discover it, we don’t invent it. And it’s conceptual, not a physical material thing. Why is that Important? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 19, 2025

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal behavior, apes, awareness, bonobos, cats, Dogs, humans, Johns Hopkins University, Neurologica, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, puppy, Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, Steven Novella, theory of mind, ZME Science}

As a Cudgel Against Human Exceptionalism, Researchers Push for Bonobo “Theory of Mind”

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 19, 2025

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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Is it true that “recognizing when someone else lacks information” has been thought to be a distinctly human trait? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 19, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animal rights, CRISPR, Davos, discrimination, environmentalism, Europe, fauna, flora, genetic engineering, genocide, germ line, humanity, mammals, Munich, nature rights, oppression, PETA, rights, slavery}

Defending Human Exceptionalism in Munich

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 19, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

This matters tremendously because human exceptionalism is the necessary predicate to universal human rights. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 18, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, Big Bang, Bryan Callen, evidence, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, Michael Shermer, mind, nature, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientific debate, scientific investigation, Stephen Meyer, The Bryan Callen Show, universe}

Can Science Find God? Stephen Meyer vs. Michael Shermer

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 18, 2025

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

3}

Humans seem to be drawn in a certain direction toward truth and beauty. Is that an accident of nature? Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
February 17, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Bible, Charles Darwin, culture, Harvard University, junk science, males, mammals, morality, prisoners, prostitutes, secularists, sex, sexual abuse, Stockholm Syndrome Christian, The Descent of Man, United States, Victorian England, zoologists}

Darwin, Kinsey, and Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

_{John G. West
February 17, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Faith & Science

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Perhaps the figure most responsible for the breakdown of traditional sexual ethics in Western culture was a Harvard-trained evolutionary zoologist. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 15, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, Big Bang, cosmologists, equations, Frank Tipler, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Science Uprising, Singularity, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, transhumanists}

The Singularity that Atheists Try To Evade

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 15, 2025

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

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The singularity isn’t the supposed future singularity imagined by transhumanists, but the well-supported singularity at the foundation of the Big Bang. Read More ›

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Date
February 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Ajit Varki, authors, COVID-19, editors, Food and Drug Administration, Great Barrington Declaration, Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, National Institutes of Health, Science (journal), Sunetra Gupta}

Who’s Afraid of This New Science Journal?

_{Science and Culture
February 14, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

6}

Skeptics worry that the new journal "will be used to sow doubt about scientific consensus." Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
February 14, 2025

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Zoology
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, convergence, Darwinian theory, Darwinians, David Klinghoffer, earth, embryology, evolution, Evolution News, fingerprints, Günter Bechly, humans, John West, koalas, Richard Dawkins, state universities, sun}

How Evolutionists Overlook Signatures of Design — The Case of Koalas

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
February 14, 2025

Botany, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Zoology

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I note and discuss an astounding case of convergence between humans and koalas, “the only non-primates with fingerprints.” Read More ›