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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 10, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethicists, democracy, employment, global warming, homelessness, Iran, Israel, mullahs, professors, Racism, Ukraine, virtue-signaling, Vladimir Putin, war}

Blessed Are the Peacemakers, for They Shall Be Called Bioethicists

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 10, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

Can you see it? Putin calling the Hastings Center and asking for a bioethics consultation before invading Ukraine. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, California State University Stanislaus, Canada, Center on Human Exceptionalism, culture of death, Darwinism, eugenics, euthanasia, From Darwin to Hitler, history, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, Netherlands, Richard Weikart, Stony Brook University, Switzerland, The Death of Humanity, United States, Unnatural Death, Wesley J. Smith}

Weikart: The Dark History of Medicalized Killing

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 9, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

"Richard Weikart’s superb new book is a vitally important reply to the organized disposal of unwanted people." Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 9, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alternative splicing, body plans, brain, diseases, evolution, function, humans, intelligent design, junk DNA, Live Science, monkeys, mutations, Nature (journal), Nature Ecology & Evolution, Scientific American, spinal column}

How “Junk” DNA Got Its Function: Evolutionary Tales Fail to Convince

_{Casey Luskin
August 9, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Earlier this year there was a flurry of stories about how “junk DNA” may explain why humans don’t have tails. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, body plans, Carboniferous Insect Explosion, common descent, evolution, Flight, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ghost lineages, Holometabola, information, intelligent design, Metamorphosis, molecular clock studies, neo-Darwinian theory, Palaeodictyoptera, paleontology, winged insects, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Carboniferous Explosion of Winged Insects

_{Günter Bechly
August 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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This represents just one of the many discontinuities in the history of life that strongly contradict the predictions from a neo-Darwinian theory of evolution. Read More ›

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Date
August 8, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, brain, brain circuits, Gizmodo, humans, illness, imagination, medication, medicine, mice, neurons, neuroscience, pain, researchers, University of North Carolina}

Research with Mice May Explain How the Placebo Effect Works

_{Science and Culture
August 8, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

The mice had to be placed in a painful situation in order to trigger a placebo effect. With humans, it is often just a matter of communicating orally. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, A Philosopher Looks at Science, abiogenesis, Alister McGrath, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Coming to Faith Through Dawkins, John Ray, magisteria, materialism, Meister Eckhart, Moses, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Philo of Alexandria, Richard Dawkins, speciation, Stephen Jay Gould, Tertullian, The God Delusion, theology, William Paley}

Some Unintended Consequences of Atheist (and Theist) Discourse

_{Neil Thomas
August 8, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

16}

This “law of unintended consequences” is an intriguing aspect of the whole Darwin/Dawkins affair that deserves further investigation. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Technology
Tagged
, archaea, ATP, bacteria, complexity, ecosystem, evolution, genes, genome, Immune System, intelligent design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, metabolism, molecular biology, Nature Ecology & Evolution, prokaryotes, protein-coding genes, Science (journal), viruses, Washington Post}

“That Is a Lot of Evolution”: Study Finds LUCA Required 2,600 Genes

_{Casey Luskin
August 8, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Technology

5}

One scientist commented, “LUCA was a very complex cell, with a genome similar to modern bacteria." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 7, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Bruce Greyson, Closer to Truth, death, eliminationism, immortality, materialism, Michael Egnor, naturalism, physicalism, Psyche, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Sam Parnia, soul, The Immortal Mind}

Mind Is Not Annihilated at Death, ER Doc Says

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 7, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

“The evidence so far suggests that the entity we call the human mind… does not become annihilated after a person has died.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 7, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bibliography, BioEssays, disease, ENCODE, function, junk DNA, non-coding DNA, paradigm shift, Research, scientific literature}

Defending Our Literature Survey on Function for Junk DNA

_{Casey Luskin
August 7, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Our list only scratches the surface of the literature, and you can’t negate the existence of that body of literature through a few complaints. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 7, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, Douglas Axe, Jerry Coyne, materialism, Neo-Darwinism, New Atheists, Normal Science, panpsychism, paradigm shift, post-truth, Professor Dave, PZ Myers, religious right, Royal Society, Sam Harris, scientism, spiritualism, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Third Way of Evolution, tipping point, vitalism, Zeitgeist}

Is This a Paradigm Shift?

_{Daniel Witt
August 7, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

7}

Something is changing. Here are more thoughts on the “tipping point” in dissent from neo-Darwinism. Read More ›