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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
January 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Linguistics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, beauty, brain, choice, consciousness, creativity, death, Denyse O'Leary, Emily Reeves, engineers, functional complexity, harmony, human being, immaterial genome, intelligence, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, life after death, living things, meaning, Mind Matters, nature, near-death experiences, Philip Ball, physicists, proportion, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Meyer}

What Lies Beyond Death? A Physicist’s Take

_{Eric Hedin
January 28, 2025

Biology, Faith & Science, Linguistics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The very existence of life — the fact that we are here at all to the pose the question — calls for something more than physical nature. Read More ›

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Date
January 9, 2025

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, archaic humans, brain, Denisovans, evolution, human origins, humans, modern humans, Neanderthals, Phys.org, researchers, skull, University of Padua}

Neanderthals May Be “Same Species” As Us

_{Science & Culture
January 9, 2025

Cultural Anthropology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Using coalescence analyses and molecular clock assessments, the researchers reconstructed a timeline of genetic events. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
January 5, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, atheism, beauty, brain, culture, faith, human experience, intelligent design, Living in Wonder, Matthew Crawford, meaning, New Atheism, Paul Kingsnorth, Rod Dreher, scientism, secular culture, The Free Press}

Recovering the Right Brain in a Scientistic Culture

_{Peter Biles
January 5, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Technology

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Science and technology were hailed as the saviors of mankind, but instead, they’ve helped to push out crucial aspects of the human experience. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
December 24, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, beauty, brain, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, creation, design, Epicureans, human eye, intelligent design, modern life, natural world, Plato, Platonism, randomness, scientific truth, theology, Wheaton College}

For Christmas, Reading St. Athanasius on the Beauty of the Universe

_{Peter Biles
December 24, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Besides the prose itself being so pleasing to read, these thoughts reaffirm some of my main reasons for believing this universe is the product of a Mind. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
December 19, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, artificial intelligence, brain, butterflies, creativity, DNA, embryonic development, flowers, large language models, nucleotides, origami, simulations, spinal cord}

Life and Origami: Lessons from the Art of Paper-Folding

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
December 19, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The differences between an origami figure and a living thing are more instructive than their similarities. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 14, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain imaging, coordination, fMRI, Michael Egnor, mind, movement, neuroanatomy, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, textbooks, The Immortal Mind, thinking, tumors}

Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 14, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 28, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, academia, brain, Darwinism, evolution, Fornace, gratitude, Harvard University, intelligent design, Italy, James Tour, Lee Cronin, materialism, matter, Michael Denton, mind, Minding the Brain, Scuola di Filosofia di Fornace, Thanksgiving, The Miracle of Man}

Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are Michael Denton’s Top 3 Reasons for Optimism About ID

_{David Klinghoffer
November 28, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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One reason, Dr. Denton says, is the “relentless” growth of the ID movement, in academia and around the world. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 22, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, birds, brain, Brazil, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), morphology, Nature (journal), Reuters}

Fossil Friday: New Fossil Stem Bird Is Surprisingly Modern

_{Günter Bechly
November 22, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Why do we mostly hear only one side of the story in the media? I suppose we must be protected from dangerous questions that could come up. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 9, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, chimpanzees, human language, languages, monkeys, neuroscience, University of Portsmouth}

A Mystery: How Human Languages Came to Exist

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 9, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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Neuroscientists wrestle with human language even more than poets or (for example) English majors do. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, Alberto Giubilini, Animal Liberation, babies, birth canal, brain, developmental biology, fetuses, Food and Drug Administration, Indiana, injury, Montana, New York City, newborns, pain, Peter Singer, petri dish, Planned Parenthood, pregnancy, Roman Catholic, Russia, tissue, United States, Washington Post}

At What Point In Its Development Can a Human Being Feel Pain?

_{Jonathan Wells
October 9, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Logic isn’t a sufficient answer to the question I raised, however. For a scientific answer, we need evidence. Read More ›