Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 17, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Charlotte Martial, death, drugs, dying, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Rachel Nuwer, resuscitation, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, Steve Taylor}

Near-Death Experiences Compared to Drug Trips

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 17, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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There is an effort underway to fully naturalize NDEs — that is, to make them something that just happens to the traumatized brain. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
July 17, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood vessels, brain, cells, chromosomes, digestive enzymes, DNA, Doctor's Diary (series), Dubai, enzymes, evolution, genetic disease, genetic instructions, heart, human body, intelligent design, Library of Congress, movies, nano-machines, Nautilus, New York City, nourishment, proteins, RNA, stem-cell, submarine, supplies}

Doctor’s Diary: A Truly Fantastic Voyage!

_{Geoffrey Simmons
July 17, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The old movie mostly dealt with the brain, lung, heart, blood vessels (all at the tissue level) and a few scattered cells. Read More ›

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Date
July 17, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, “consensus science”, chatbots, Gary Smith, junk science, large language models, Massimo Pigliucci, p-hacking, pseudoscience, science, settled science}

Three Genuine Tells of Junk Science

_{Science and Culture
July 17, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Scientific Trustworthiness

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This comes to us hard on the heels of philosopher Massimo Pigliucci’s effort to identify “pseudoscience.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 16, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, causation, coding, David Berlinski, Hoover Institution, information, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, John West, laws of nature, materialism, nature, Newton’s Gift, Peter Robinson, Richard Dawkins, Stanford University, Stephen Meyer, The Magician's Twin, universe}

The Magician’s Twin: A Conversation with Stephen Meyer, James Orr, and David Berlinski

_{David Klinghoffer
July 16, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Citing C. S. Lewis, Dr. Meyer calls the drama of materialism’s unravelling a kind “repentance.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 16, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alister McGrath, Bertrand Russell, Cambridge University, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Cicero, intelligent design, John Ray, multiverse, natural theology, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Plato, Richard Dawkins, St. Augustine, universe, William Paley, Zeitgeist}

On Natural Theology and Natural Revelation

_{Neil Thomas
July 16, 2024

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

10}

The nihilist sense of our having been involuntarily flung into the midst of some unchoreographed theatre of the absurd is swiftly offset, Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
July 16, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, bleeding, body, consciousness, Cornell University, foresight, intelligent design, living cell, matter, mind, Minding the Brain, molecules, naturalism, nervous system, neurons, panpsychism, protein molecules, sleep, wakefulness}

Consciousness — At Odds with the Flesh

_{Eric Hedin
July 16, 2024

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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The inescapable conclusion from studying the need for sleep is that the body cannot survive without a regular reprieve from effects of this system on the body. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 15, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", evolution, fitness, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, podcast, risk, sleep, systems, unconsciousness}

Eric Hedin on the Intelligent Design of Sleep

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 15, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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“Survival of the unconscious…the most unconscious person wins…that just doesn’t seem to fit at all with an evolutionary survival of the fittest paradigm.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, acorn, Aristotle, chance, Chance and Necessity, Francisco Ayala, Greek, information, intelligence, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jacques Monod, Jay Richards, Marcos Eberlin, matter, Metaphysics (book), Michelangelo’s David, Nancy Cartwright, naturalism, nature, possibilities, probability, Richard Dawkins, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, Shakespearean sonnet, specified complexity, systems, The Blind Watchmaker, Thomas Aquinas, tree, William Shakespeare}

Building a Better Definition of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
July 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Definitional change in science is par for the course: As paradigms shift because of scientific advances, textbook definitions change. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 15, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, culture, feathers, humans, intelligence, interbreeding, Neanderthals, paleoanthropologists, Phys.org, population size, Smithsonian Magazine}

Neanderthals Were a Lot More Like Humans than We Realize

_{Casey Luskin
July 15, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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There’s still much we don’t know and the evidence is sparse — due in part to the fact that Neanderthals probably had a relatively small overall population size. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 14, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, adaptation, apocalypticism, book reviews, bottleneck, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, evolutionary biologist, Herbert Spencer, human extinction, MIT, persecution, revolutionary science, University of Melbourne, University of Toronto}

When Darwinism Becomes a Fashionable Doomsday Cult

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 14, 2024

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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Like all cults, it can make otherwise intelligent people begin to sound rather strange, even precarious. Read More ›