Tag: birds

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beards, birds, brassiere, cows, Deborah Kellerman, DNA switch, EMBO Reports, evolution, Evolving Minds Project, fingernails, fish, flies, health, horned lizard, Ig Nobel Prizes, Igs, Improbable Research, jaws, jellyfish, just-so stories, Lasker Prize, leopard, lizards, mammals, Nature (journal), pangolin, paw pads, protocells, pufferfish, Regina Nuzzo, seahorse, storytelling, super-alcohol, supernova, Titan, turtle, Vladimir Leksa, vole}

What’s More Deserving of Ig Nobel Prizes than Evolutionary Just-So Stories?

_{David Coppedge
September 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The committee passed up some research that would have raised eyebrows and given the crowd some hearty laughs. Read More ›

Conceptual image of a large stone in the shape of the human brain

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 19, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, ALS, animals, apes, birds, bloodhounds, brain mapping, common sense, consciousness, Deepak Chopra, Doctor's Diary (series), dolphins, electrodes, elephants, evolution, functional MRI, Gordon Gallup Jr., inner conversation, inner speech, intelligent design, Jiminy Cricket, Lampwick, magpies, Michael Egnor, mirror test, motor cortex, octopuses, paralysis, radio show, red dot test, Rottweilers, self-talk, soul, speech, Stanford University, whales}

Doctor’s Diary: To Whom Are You Talking When You Talk to Yourself?

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 19, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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A comment by a national radio show host recently caught my attention. “So, I said to myself, SELF! What would you do under these circumstances?” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 26, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, anatomy, beak, biologists, biology, birds, communication, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, engineering, evolution, evolutionists, feet, food, injury, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, pecking, Ray Bohlin, skull, tail, tongue, woodpecker, woods}

Woodpecker Is a Stunning Example of Irreducible Complexity

_{David Klinghoffer
August 26, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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A partially functional woodpecker evolving to be a functional woodpecker would be evolutionary dead-end. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 28, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Arts
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstractions, amphibians, animal art, Antone Martinho-Truswel, bear marks, beaver logs, birds, bison paths, cars, cave bears, cave painting, cephalopods, driving, fish, Flight, human art, human consciousness, human exceptionalism, Lascaux cave, Michel Lorblanchet, natural selection, Pech-Merle cave, reptiles, Sarah Newman, University of Sydney}

Birds Don’t Drive Buicks Because of … Evolution, You See

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 28, 2025

Archaeology, Arts, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

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This all seems a roundabout way of saying that humans are exceptional. And here’s the question that no one in evolutionary biology has the answer to. Read More ›

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Author
Wayne Rossiter

Date
May 16, 2025

Categories
Technology
Zoology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, bird vocalizations, birds, bluetooth, Bob Placier, character, culture, fast food, Henry David Thoreau, meaning, Merlin, Neil Peart, Ohio, ornithology, personhood, piggy bank, restaurants, rhinoceros, Rush, wildlife, wisdom}

What Is Lost with the Rise of AI

_{Wayne Rossiter
May 16, 2025

Technology, Zoology

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Thoreau wrote, "A person's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town." That's what we're losing. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
April 23, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, beaches, birds, Caretta caretta, compass, declination, destination, inclination, intelligent design, intensity, loggerhead turtles, magnetic field, magnetic signature, magnetoreception, map coordinates, memory, migration, Nature (journal), navigation, North Pole, radio frequency, sea turtles, South Pole}

Sea Turtles and Their Trusty Magnetic Compass

_{Eric Cassell
April 23, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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All of these elements exhibit specified complexity that is indicative of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, abstractions, animal intelligence, birds, brains, chickadees, cockatoos, common sense, crows, evolution, evolutionary biology, Germany, Giacomo Gattoni, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, logic, mammals, Maria Antonietta Tosches, Niklas Kempynck, Onur Güntürkün, ornithology, paleornithologists, problems, ravens, Ruhr University Bochum, Science (journal), vertebrates, Yasemin Saplakoglu}

High Bird Intelligence Is Consistent with Design, Not Evolution

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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A discussion of animal intelligence that refuses to acknowledge human exceptionalism becomes a script for suppressing discussions we need to have. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, alligators, birds, brains, cognition, crabs, crocodiles, evolution, fish, Gilles De Meester, intelligence, intelligent design, Irina Epstein, lobsters, mammals, manta ray, Matthew Wills, Max Planck Institute, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, octopus, reptiles, rodents, Simon Baeckens, snakes, tool-use}

Get Smart: Recognizing Reptile Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 17, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Mammals, birds, and reptiles all developed different smart survival strategies on their own. It sounds like convergent evolution or intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
March 18, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, application, birds, bobcats, butterflies, capsids, deer, evolution, fermions, fossils, garter snakes, intelligent design, mice, molecules, nature, philosophers, qualia, Quanta, science, scientists, students, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teachers}

Summer Seminar on ID Is a Glorious (and Cost-Free) Opportunity

_{Emily Sandico
March 18, 2025

Intelligent Design, Science Education

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The setting, once again in Colorado, is idyllic — towers of red rock and ponderous pines against the bluest of skies. 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 ›