Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 5, 2018

Categories
Chemistry
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, abstract thought, action potentials, brain, cat, intellect, justice, materalism, mind, neurons, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, Tabby, universals, will}

The Representation Problem and the Immateriality of the Mind

_{Michael Egnor
February 5, 2018

Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

5}

If I think about a particular thing — my cat Tabby, for example — my actual cat Tabby isn’t in my brain. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 4, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, __nedited, abortion, biotechnology, chromosomes, cloning, fetus, Frankenstein, genetic material, gestation, human cloning, human life, IVF, mitochondria, mitochondrial DNA, UK Parliament, United Kingdom, zygote}

First State-Sanctioned Three-Parent Babies to be Born

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 4, 2018

Bioethics, Life Sciences, Medicine

3}

The children could have serious health consequences — either early or later in life — having been generated, after all, from two broken eggs. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 3, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, A. N. Wilson, Abraham Lincoln, atheism, barnacles, Censor of the Year, Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker, Christmas, creation myth, Darwin Day, Darwinism, evolution, fish, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, religion, Richard Dawkins, Washington Times}

A.N. Wilson and the Religious Nature of Darwinism

_{David Klinghoffer
February 3, 2018

Evolution, Faith & Science

3}

Wilson's biography sounds like appropriate reading for the holy day of Darwin, which is hardly more than a week away. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 2, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, A. N. Wilson, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker, Darwinism, Edward Blyth, Erasmus Darwin, fossil record, HMS Beagle, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jerry Coyne, macroevolution, Michael Flannery, microevolution, Richard Dawkins, Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Yuri Filipchenko}

A.N. Wilson Is Right: “Darwin Was Wrong”

_{Jonathan Wells
February 2, 2018

Evolution

5}

I enjoyed Wilson's book, and I learned a lot from it. But this biography’s most interesting feature is its firm rejection of Darwin’s theory of evolution. Read More ›

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Date
February 2, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Abderrazak El Albani, Astrobiology Magazine, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran era, Gabon, Mary Droser, microbial mats, NASA, On the Origin of Species, oxygen theory, Philip Donoghue, Spriggina, U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Riverside, University of Bristol, University of California, University of Poitiers, West Africa}

Cambrian Explosion Blues

_{Science and Culture
February 2, 2018

Evolution

6}

Here’s a sampling of the latest speculations about the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 2, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, abortion, Ann Gauger, biologic institute, Darwinism, Down syndrome, egg, Frankenstein, human beings, human cloning, human dignity, human life, macaque monkeys, pregnancy, reproductive cloning, Richard Weikart, Tyler O’Neil}

Macaque Monkeys and Human Dignity

_{David Klinghoffer
February 2, 2018

Bioethics, Life Sciences

4}

Why does the evolution debate matter so intensely? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 1, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, brain death, Dartmouth College, dehydration, Jahi McMath, Michael Schiavo, neurology, Terri Schiavo, The New Yorker, video}

More Myths of Terri Schiavo

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 1, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

One myth is that the family somehow edited videos of Terri to make it appear falsely that she was conscious. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 1, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Adolf Hitler, career destruction, Charles Darwin, culture, Discovery Institute, evolution, From Darwin to Hitler, Germany, Great Britain, Great Minds with Michael Medved, history, media, Michael Medved, Nazism, Richard Weikart, science, Winston Churchill, World War II}

Michael Medved and Richard Weikart Lay Bare the Evolutionary Roots of Nazism

_{David Klinghoffer
February 1, 2018

Evolution

2}

Weikart, a meticulous scholar, traces the connection in his book From Darwin to Hitler, demonstrating that Darwin’s theory is tainted at its origins. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 1, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Adolf Hitler, crime, denial, earthquake, free will, Germany, guilt, Hannah Arendt, Jews, Joseph Stalin, murder, naturalism, punishment, Soviet Union, tornado, Ukrainians, University of Houston}

Free Will Denial and PreCrimes

_{Michael Egnor
February 1, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

5}

If we treat criminals the way we treat natural disasters — as physical events without moral culpability — the pragmatic approach is preemption as well. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 31, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, authoritarianism, doctors, families, futile care theory, law, medical futility, patients, Virginia}

Medical Coercion Comes to Virginia?

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 31, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

Futile care theory (as I call it) or medical futility allows doctors to unilaterally refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment based on the physician’s values. Read More ›