Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 30, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, bank account, bank card, body, brain, checkbook, currency, doctors, electrons, firecrackers, flags, immaterial assumptions, Labor Day, location, material facts, Michael Egnor, mind, neurosurgeons, password, public buildings, Saint Augustine, The Immortal Mind}

Lots of Real Things Are Immaterial; Here Are a Few

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 30, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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I have a bank account. That means I have a bank card and a password. Also a checkbook. Are those items “the account?” Read More ›

Young boy and chimpanzee, both with open mouths in excitement or surprise, side by outdoor setting

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
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, abiogenesis, ancient Greece, cells, chimpanzees, China, civilizations, complexity, David Berlinski, evolutionists, human origins, ID the Future, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, mathematicians, non-life, origin of life, RNA, RNA world, Science After Babel, Stephen Jay Gould, Western Europe}

David Berlinski on Human-Chimp Differences, Human Origins, Origin of Life, and More

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 29, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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He challenges Stephen Jay Gould’s idea that the difference between humans and chimps is merely one of degree but not kind, calling this “utterly ridiculous.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
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, Àlex Gómez-Marín, algorithms, artificial inteligence, backyard telescope, Bible, cats, chatbots, Closer to Truth, computer program, consciousness, Dogs, humans, hype, James Webb Space Telescope, mirrors, mushrooms, neuroscientists, Old Testament, physicists, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, robots, trees, Turing test}

AI Consciousness Hype “Conflates Simulation with Instantiation”

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 29, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviewed a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist, Àlex Gómez-Marín, on whether AI can become conscious. Read More ›

Old fashioned television set with green screen displaying static noise in a vintage living room with outdated furniture.

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Arts
Linguistics
Sociology
Tagged
, Bible, books, censorship, civilization, communication, COVID-19, economy, education, Fahrenheit 451, governance, Guy Montag, James Marriott, Jared Henderson, literacy, literacy rates, literature, memory, Newsweek, oral culture, post-literate culture, Ray Bradbury, screens, stories, storytelling, technology, Ted Gioia, television, UnHerd, visual media, Western canon, young people}

Thanks to Our Screens, Heading Toward a Post-Literate Culture?

_{Peter Biles
August 29, 2025

Arts, Linguistics, Sociology

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Whatever one’s opinions regarding solutions for declining literacy rates, people can always start to brew change in their own lives and communities. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, cancer, cancer research, Casey Luskin, cure, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, devolution, diseases, evolution, inhibitor mechanisms, intelligent design, Karl Krueger, machinery, Michael Behe, molecular leveI, National Cancer Institute, novel function, scientists}

What Cancer Reveals About the Limits of Darwinian Evolutionary Processes

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 28, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Dr. Karl Krueger explains what led him to become a skeptic of Darwinian evolution and why he thinks ID can better explain the behavior and effects of cancer. Read More ›

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
August 28, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aristotle, brain, careers, causation, Christof Koch, Denyse O’Leary, divorce, epiphenomena, families, free will, friendships, grants, human trafficking, jobs, livelihoods, machines, marriages, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, moral responsibility, neuroscience, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, philosophers, Plato, preference falsification, promotions, Saint Augustine, scientists, sexual abuse, soul, The Immortal Mind, theologians, worldview}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Are We Meat Machines, and Why Does It Matter?

_{John Zmirak
August 28, 2025

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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I found yours to be a fascinating and persuasive book on a crucial subject. You lay out the issues starkly. Read More ›

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Date
August 28, 2025

Categories
Environment & Climate
Psychology
Scientific Freedom
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, “consensus science”, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Andy May, Approved Views, carbon dioxide, climate change, Forest Romm, Kevin Waldman, Marty Rowland, Micaiah Bilger, Northwestern University, Orwellian, peer pressure, political correctness, psychology, The College Fix, The Hill, transgenderism, trust-fund babies, University of Michigan, Watts Up With That?}

Even Scientists Are Starting to Doubt “Approved Views”

_{Science and Culture
August 28, 2025

Environment & Climate, Psychology, Scientific Freedom

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A recent Orwellian firing gives some insight into what happens when an academic collides with Political Correctness. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
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, adults, assisted suicide, bioethics, Canada, Daily Mail, disabled, euthanasia, Groningen protocol, infant euthanasia, infanticide, infants, killing, Netherlands, Peter Singer, The New England Journal of Medicine}

Netherlands Already Allows Infanticide, So Why Not Canada?

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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In a more righteous world, allowing infanticide would make the Netherlands a pariah nation, but we have become morally stunted in the West. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science Reporting
Tagged
, American Medical Association, Arthur Caplan, Behind the Black, Bobby Mukkamala, Cross-Check, Eric Weinstein, expert opinion, John Horgan, Lawrence Krauss, Leif Le Mahieu, lobotomy, mastectomies, media, mental illness, New York University, News, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Robert Sapolsky, Robert Zimmerman, Royal Society, Sabine Hossenfelder, science communicators, Sean Carroll, Texas Children’s Hospital, The Daily Wire, The End of Science, transgenderism, trust}

Science Struggles with Reality as Crises Rock Disciplines

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Science Reporting

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There seems to be little relationship between many science writers’ current concerns and the reasons that public trust in science has been steadily declining. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 27, 2025

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, antiquity, brain, Christof Koch, Christopher Hitchens, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, eliminative materialism, evolutionary psychology, Four Horsemen, free will, human consciousness, human mind, Jonny Thomson, Michael Egnor, mind, neurosurgeons, philosophers, promissory materialism, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, technology, The Immortal Mind}

Reassessing Daniel Dennett on Consciousness as an Illusion

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 27, 2025

Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

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It is a waste of time to pretend that consciousness is simply an “amazing collection of almost mundane tricks in the brain.” Read More ›