Tag: Big Think

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 13, 2025

Categories
Astronomy
Planetology
Tagged
, 3I/ATLAS, alien technology, artificial intelligence, arXiv, astrobiology, astronomers, Avi Loeb, Big Think, Columbia University, David Kipping, extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrial light sail, George Gaylord Simpson, interstellar object, Medium, Oumuamua, technology, UFOs, Voyager spacecraft}

Astrobiology as a Secular Quest for Meaning

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 13, 2025

Astronomy, Planetology

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I don’t think this stuff does any harm — as long as it is understood as drama and not given undue importance in science or philosophy. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 19, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Astronomer Royal, astronomers, atmosphere, BBC News, Big Think, biosignature, Catherine Heymans, CBC, Christopher Glein, CNN, dimethyl disulfide, dimethyl sulfide, earth, exoplanets, fact check, Hyacean ocean planet, K2-18b, magma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, molten rock, Neptune, New York Times, Nora Hänni, Oliver Shorttle, phytoplankton algae, rocky planet, Sara Seager, Science (journal), Sky at Night Magazine, solar system, Southwest Research Institute, University of Bern}

Fact Check: Did Scientists Really Detect Evidence of Life on Exoplanet K2-18b?

_{Casey Luskin
April 19, 2025

Intelligent Design, Planetology, Science Reporting

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The molecule is dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or dimethyl disulfide (DMDS), and on Earth its sole known source is life (specifically, marine phytoplankton algae). Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 10, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Big Think, Dartmouth College, free will, John Horgan, Marcello Gleiser, Michael Egnor, militarism, Mind Matters, Minding the Brain, proofs, quantum mechanics, Racism, sexism, Superdeterminism, The Immortal Mind}

Can There Be Evidence for Free Will?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 10, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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John Horgan thinks that “proofs” of free will seem as dubious as denials but there is actually considerable neuroscience evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 5, 2024

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thinking, anthropology, Aristotle, behavior, Big Think, Bobby Azarian, consciousness, evolution, human mind, human origins, neuroscientists, panpsychism, Roger Penrose, Stone Age}

Getting Stoned: Did It Shape Human Origins?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 5, 2024

Evolutionary Psychology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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For a really wild excursion, nothing beats efforts to explain the evolution of the human mind. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Genetics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Adam Frank, Big Bang, Big Think, chatbot, consciousness, cosmos, Dartmouth College, developmental biology, human experience, human mind, information, knowledge, Marcelo Gleiser, materialism, molecular evolution, neuroscience, universe, University of Rochester}

“Lived Experience” Is Science’s Blind Spot

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 12, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Genetics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

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They are right about the dead ends. But is it true that the dead ends result merely from ignoring human experience? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 21, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adam Frank, Bernardo Kastrup, Big Think, Bruce Greyson, Chronicle of Higher Education, Closer to Truth, consciousness, David Chalmers, death, hard problem of consciousness, life after death, moral choice, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, npr, Scientific American, Standard Model}

Is Life After Death Incompatible with Physics?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 21, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science, Scientific Reasoning

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In 2011, Sean Carroll wrote an essay on why — from a science perspective — our minds must be extinguished at death Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
September 19, 2022

Categories
Astronomy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
Science
Tagged
, Big Think, carbon, decoherence, electric fields, electrons, Energy, Ethan Siegel, fields, graphene, Lawrence Krauss, matter, particle physics, particles, photon, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, universe}

Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Sells “Something from Nothing”: I’m Not Buying

_{Rob Sheldon
September 19, 2022

Astronomy, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology, Science

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In order to push this, he has to make some pretty big changes to our normal dictionary definition of what "nothing" means. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 22, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", ad hoc hypotheses, Big Think, Dartmouth College, David Klinghoffer, Eugene Koonin, Evolution News, First Cause, Gottfried Leibniz, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kirk Durston, Marcello Gleiser, multiverse, universe}

Physicist: “The Multiverse Is a Lot Like God”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 22, 2022

Faith & Science, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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I have to admit it makes me smile to think Professor Gleiser’s thoughts ahead of him. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, asteroid, Big Bang, Big Think, biosphere, Cambrian Explosion, complex life, cosmos, Dartmouth College, dinosaurs, Ernst Mayr, fire, Günter Bechly, humans, intelligent design, life, Marcelo Gleiser, Michael Denton, prior fitness, providence, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, teleology, The Miracle of Man, Theistic Evolution (book), Thomas Huxley}

Recognizing Providence in the History of Life Is a Hint About Our Own Lives

_{David Klinghoffer
August 5, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics, Technology

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Any of us can point to certain pivotal events in our past that need not have occurred, but did. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 26, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Tagged
, Australia, Big Think, carpal tunnel syndrome, Darwin Devolves, devolution, embryonic development, Eric H. Anderson, evolution, Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell, evolution in action, fact check, Flinders University, forearm, genes, median artery, medicine, Michael Behe, microevolution}

Fact Check: Humans Aren’t “Evolving a New Artery”

_{David Klinghoffer
July 26, 2022

Anatomy, Evolution

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The median artery was not caught in the act of “evolving,” either in the micro- or macro- sense. It has been caught in the act of “persisting.” Read More ›