Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 2, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cognition, consciousness, ecocide, Ecuador, genocide, Harvard Law School, human rights, Iceland, nature rights, neo-paganism, Panama, panpsychism, personhood, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Wesley J. Smith}

Rocks’ Lives Matter: The Political Face of “Everything Is Conscious”

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 2, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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When it comes to rights, just being human is becoming much less of an advantage. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, anagenesis, Canada, cladogenesis, Darwinian gradualism, Daspletosaurus, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Montana, natural selection, speciation, Tyrannosaurus rex}

Fossil Friday: Controversial Gradualism in Tyrannosaurids

_{Günter Bechly
August 2, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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History will tell who is right in this scientific controversy, but personally I am more convinced by the evidence against anagenesis. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 1, 2024

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, beauty, C.S. Lewis, cosmic comprehensibility, harmony, ID the Future, Johannes Kepler, Ken Boa, Melissa Cain Travis, scientific revolution, Thinking God’s Thoughts, truth}

Finding Beauty and Harmony in the Sciences

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 1, 2024

Astronomy, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Melissa Cain Travis expounds on what she calls the principle of cosmic comprehensibility, the idea that the universe is intelligible to us. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
August 1, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, architecture, BioEssays, biological systems, bow tie, cells, chance, Design Patterns, DNA polymerase, Energy, engineers, enzymes, gene regulation, groceries, intelligence, intelligent design, kinase, metabolites, natural world, phosphatase, random processes, reaction networks, Ribosome, RNA polymerase}

Review Article Explores Design Patterns in Biological Cells

_{Emily Reeves
August 1, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Living cells are strong candidates for being seen as aspects of the natural world resulting from design by an intelligent agent. Read More ›

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Date
August 1, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adults, brain, children, Denyse O'Leary, epilepsy, human brain, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, pop psychology, stroke, The Immortal Mind}

Do We Need the Right Half of the Brain?

_{Science and Culture
August 1, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

A 29-year-old woman, CB, with no neurological or psychiatric history had a stroke, possibly due to medication issues. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, China, climate change, Columbia University, Ecuador, glaciers, Iceland, nature rights, Panama, personhood, pollution, river rights, University of Oregon}

Icelanders Nominated a Glacier for President to Push “Nature Rights” Movement

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 31, 2024

Bioethics, Physical Sciences

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Here is a story on “nature rights” activism that, on first impression, leaves one bemused. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Addy Pross, chemists, cognition, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, decision-making, Gaia, Galen Strawson, Hard Problem, human consciousness, materialism, memory, panpsychism, philosophers, physicalism, Robert Wright, thinking}

Can a Chemical Preparation Display Cognition? This Chemist Says Yes

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 31, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Addy Pross, associated with the evolutionary "Third Way" community, states his guiding principles up front. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, bony fish, buoyancy, ears, fish, hearing, humans, Nature (journal), neurons, pressure, sounds, swim bladder}

Study Unravels the Mystery of Fish Hearing

_{Eric Cassell
July 31, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

9}

The fish directional hearing algorithm appears to be another example of a complex programmed behavior in animals. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 30, 2024

Categories
Archaeology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, archaeologists, birds, bison, Casey Luskin, cave bears, cooking, Darwinian theory, horses, human mind, human origins, Neanderthals, Portugal, The Descent of Man, wolves, ZME Science}

The Joy of (Neanderthal) Cooking

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 30, 2024

Archaeology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

The Darwinian account of the human race would be much easier to believe in good faith if scientists could point to a clearly inferior and clearly human being. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
July 30, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, Asa Gray, athletes, blood, blood pressure, blood vessels, calcium, carbon dioxide, Charles Darwin, circulatory system, Communications Biology, Darwin’s Bluff, embryo, evolution, glucose, great apes, hard problems, heart, heart rate, humans, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, natural selection, oxygen, placenta, potassium, Robert Shedinger, selective pressure, Steve Laufmann, temperature, Your Designed Body}

Exposing the Heart of Neo-Darwinism

_{Howard Glicksman
July 30, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Technology

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At complete rest, for your organs and tissues to work properly, your heart must pump out about five liters of blood per minute. Read More ›