Tag: bats

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Date
October 2, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, artificial intelligence, atheists, bats, Chinese Room argument, computation, consciousness, Daily Nous, Dustin Sigsbee, Edward Feser, John Searle, philosophers, philosophy, popular culture, sea cucumber, sentient consciousness, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Nagel}

Farewell to John Searle, Philosopher of Mind and Language

_{Science and Culture
October 2, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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His Chinese Room thought experiment, an argument for why computers can seem clever without having minds, was widely understood among the lay public. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred William Bennett, anoura, anthologies, bats, biological origins, books, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, chelonians, convergence, Darwinists, development, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, excommunication, growth, humans, Ichthyosauria, Inkwell Classics in Evolution and Design, Inkwell Press, John Henry Newman, monographs, natural selection, On the Genesis of Species, pterodactyles, Roman Catholics, St. George Jackson Mivart, The Descent of Man, The Saturday Review, Thomas Henry Huxley, Vertebrata, William George Ward}

An 1871 Critic of Darwinism Whose Criticisms Still Pack a Punch

_{William A. Dembski
September 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A new series aims to restore a historically honest balance to the debate over evolution and design in the study of biological origins. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
May 12, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, bacterial flagellum, bats, biology, comparative biology, complex functional systems, Cornelius Hunter, Creation Myths, Dan Stern Cardinale, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, DNA, evolution, Evolution News, gene duplications, Google Scholar, honesty, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, mutations, National Geographic, natural selection, Nature Chemical Biology, Potemkin village, random variation, recombination, Richard Dawkins, Rutgers University, Theodosius Dobzhansky, whales}

Dan Stern Cardinale: Comparative Biology, Invincible Ignorance

_{Michael Behe
May 12, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Stern Cardinale loses it at the point where I note that Darwin-boosters go mute when asked how complex traits evolve (such as, say, those of bats or whales). Read More ›

The closeup image of Malayan flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus) wing. a southeast Asian species of megabat, primarily feeds on flowers, nectar and fruit.

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, bat wings, bats, Cornelius Hunter, Dan Stern Cardinale, evolution, Evolution News, Flight, intelligent design, lying, Michael Behe, neo-Darwinian evolution, ocean, peer-reviewed literature, professors, Rutgers University, whales}

Professor Stern Cardinale Stumbles on Bat Wing Evolution

_{David Klinghoffer
May 8, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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Behe was right. Dan Stern Cardinale really shouldn’t have called him liar for stating the truth. That was not a good idea. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
January 29, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, adaptations, Armin Moczek, automobiles, bats, BIO-Complexity, cars, convergence, creator, dependency graph, dolphins, echolocation, evolution, Evolution News, Field Museum of Natural History, genes, George Gaylord Simpson, history of life, humans, improvements, Indiana University, intelligent design, life, magic wand, New York Times, PDE2D, planning, software, testing, The Guardian, The Mathematical Intelligencer, theology, unintelligent process, Why Evolution Is Different, Winston Ewert}

Here’s the Other Common Objection to Intelligent Design — Answered

_{Granville Sewell
January 29, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics, Technology

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If you asked me, “Do you believe in evolution?” I would reply “I believe in the evolution of life, and the evolution of automobiles." Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bats, BBC News, birds, Boeing 747, Current Biology, fossils, gigantism, Günter Bechly, magic, mutations, Neil Thomas, Origin, paleontologists, pterosaurs, Scleromochlus, selection, The Conversation, University of Edinburgh, University of Leicester, University of Portsmouth}

Magical Thinking: Can Pterosaurs Be Darwinized?

_{David Coppedge
January 28, 2025

Evolution, Paleontology

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Neil Thomas has written about “Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking” and there is no shortage of examples in the literature on fossils. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 7, 2024

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bats, climate change, Elizabeth Kolbert, František Baluška, garden, Paco Calvo, plant rights, scientists, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Thomas Nagel, weeds, Zoë Schlanger}

To Weed the Garden, or Not to Weed the Garden, That Is the Question

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 7, 2024

Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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An award-winning environmental journalist tackles the question of plant consciousness and plant rights. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, bats, canids, cheetahs, clicks, Current Biology, Fantasia, foxes, hippos, humans, Imperial College London, kinetic energy, lizards, mammals, Mass, morphology, mouse, movement, New Scientist, PNAS, skull, speed, University of London, University of Michigan, University of New Hampshire, water}

Hippos, Cheetahs, Bats: Mammals Master Physics

_{David Coppedge
July 23, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Whether sleek, lumbering, or aerobatic, mammals are well equipped with the know-how to push their movements to the limits of the possible. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 23, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, appendages, bats, beetles, bioengineering, birds, butterflies, Caltech, dragonflies, Drosophila melanogaster, evolution, Flight, fruit flies, intelligent design, limbs, Michael Dickinson, Mona Lisa, Monarch butterflies, Nature (journal), neurons, smartphones, wasps, wings}

Fly Flight Is More Sophisticated than Imagined

_{David Coppedge
May 23, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Biological structures usually appear more complicated up close, and the fly wing is no exception. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
May 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, amphibians, animal behavior, animals, ants, bats, brains, Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, crustaceans, fish, fruit flies, great apes, honeybees, invertebrates, Mary Olmstead, mollusks, Nature (journal), Occam's Razor, pain, philosophers, play, reptiles, scientists, Thomas Nagel, tortoises, Valerie Kuhlmeier, vertebrates, worms}

Being a Bat: Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness

_{Eric Cassell
May 2, 2024

Evolution, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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A group of scientists and philosophers have published a declaration that there is evidence that a wide range of animals exhibit signs of consciousness. Read More ›