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Date
July 9, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain scan, chimpanzees, human brain, humans, neuroscience, temporal lobe, thought}

Human Brain Has Many More Language Connections than Chimp Brain

_{Science and Culture
July 9, 2022

Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The researchers were interested in a nerve tract that connects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, the arcuate fasciculus. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, brain, Cesare Lombroso, Charles Darwin, crime, criminal justice, criminals, criminologists, criminology, Darwin Day in America, evolution, heredity, human rights, Italy, museums, phrenology, prisoners, skeleton, skulls, Social Darwinism, Turin}

In the Footsteps of Social Darwinist Cesare Lombroso

_{John G. West
June 24, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution

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Lombroso’s ideas were quack science. But they were taken seriously by criminologists and public officials around the world until they were debunked. Read More ›

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Date
June 19, 2022

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, flies, food shortages, mice, Neuron (journal), neurons, neuroscience, neuroscientists, researchers, visual cortex}

Yes, Brains — Like Computers — Have a Low-Power Mode

_{Science and Culture
June 19, 2022

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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Sure they do. It makes a lot of sense to conserve power when food supplies are low. Read More ›

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Date
June 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Bobby Azarian, brain, Carnegie Mellon University, consciousness, feedback loops, information, machines, materialism, mind, neurons, neuroscientists, Santa Fe Institute, self, self-organization theory, self-reference, split brain}

Can Self-Organization Theory Account for Consciousness?

_{Science and Culture
June 13, 2022

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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One difficulty is that many humans produce a “self” with split brains, a brain missing key components, or half a brain. That’s not consistent with materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
May 20, 2022

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrophysicists, atheism, bioengineering, brain, Charles Darwin, Copernican Revolution, cytology, demiurge, Democritus, Denis Diderot, earth, Erasmus Darwin, human eye, humankind, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, natural selection, nature, Paul Davies, philosophes, physiology, Plato, purpose, teleology, The Miracle of Man, theism, William Paley}

In His New Book, Denton Shows How Science Leads the Charge to Theism

_{Neil Thomas
May 20, 2022

Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences

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In his new book, Michael Denton is particularly strong on what he terms “the post-Copernican delusion of mankind’s cosmic irrelevance.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Human Origins and Anthropology
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, abortion, Alfred Russel Wallace, atmosphere, Big Bang, bones, brain, breathing, Charles Darwin, circulation, Discovery Institute, environmental fitness, Harvard University, Homo sapiens, humans, hydrological cycle, Lawrence Henderson, Michael Denton, muscles, natural selection, nerves, Nicolaus Copernicus, nihilism, On the Origin of Species, oxygen, physical existence, Privileged Species, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, The Miracle of Man, transition metals, UFOs, United States, vision, water}

The Miracle of Man: New Book by Michael Denton

_{David Klinghoffer
May 10, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Human Origins and Anthropology, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Sputtering nihilists have turned their rage on the idea that someone, somewhere, could be thinking that the unborn man or woman is a miracle worth protecting. Read More ›

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Date
April 26, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Connecticut, consciousness, free will, mind, MIT, neuroscience, plasticity, Russian, vocabulary, Wired}

Can a Human Be Gifted Despite Missing Lots of Brain?

_{Science and Culture
April 26, 2022

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Most of what is going on in the human mind is not as dependent on the brain as some approaches to neuroscience would require. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 20, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Darwinian evolution, Edward Feser, England, intelligent design, Metaphysics (book), natural selection, neurons, neurophysiology, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, philosophers, stones, Wales}

Yes! There Is Evidence for the Intelligent Design of the Brain

_{Michael Egnor
April 20, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Imagine that you are on a train in England and you see a collection of stones on a hillside that says BRITISH RAILWAYS WELCOMES YOU TO WALES. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, axon, brain, Brown University, Duke University, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, library, Max Planck Institute, neuroscience, proteins, purpose, retina, Rockefeller University, visual cortex}

Brain Neurons Are “Comparable to a Library”

_{David Coppedge
April 8, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s one of those occasions in biology (not rare) when the term “intelligent design,” despite other merits, falls flat as a description. Read More ›

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Date
April 2, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, brain, consciousness, David Papineau, general relativity, materialism, neuroscience, New Scientist, panpsychism, Philip Goff, physicalism, physicists, quantum world}

A Sympathetic Account of Panpsychism

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April 2, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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“Modern physics was founded on the separation of mind and matter.” Indeed, it was. And if that doesn’t work, materialism is dead. Read More ›