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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, acorn worms, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Chengjiang biota, China, Darwinian theory, Fossil Friday (series), ghost lineages, paleontology, sea floor}

Fossil Friday: Hemichordate Body Plan and Lifecycle Goes Back to the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
April 12, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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This Fossil Friday we will discuss the abrupt origin of yet another animal phylum during the famous Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 14, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, armadillos, asteroid, Canada, cave bears, civilization, humans, Myth of the Dark Ages, New Scientist, nuclear weapons, Ontario, sloths, University of Alberta, University of Maryland}

What’s in a Name? Debating the Anthropocene Epoch

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 14, 2024

Life Sciences, Physical Sciences

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Earlier this month, geologists voted down a proposal to give the years since 1950 a geological name, the Anthropocene Epoch. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 28, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Brandeis University, Canada, doctors, euthanasia, honey, MAiD, medical aid in dying, medication, mercy killing, New York Times, nurse practitioners, patients, suicide, University of Colorado}

How “Medical Aid in Dying” Became the Euphemism of Choice for Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 28, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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When radical policies are proposed, the first step is to change the lexicon to make it seem less extreme, even mundane. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Bible, Canada, creationism, fundamentalists, intelligent design, magazines, media, National Post, newspapers, public education, Scripture, Stephen Meyer, Supreme Court}

Throwback Thursday: Meyer Asks, “What Is This Theory of Intelligent Design?”

_{Emily Sandico
October 19, 2023

Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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"As the story goes, intelligent design is just creationism repackaged by religious fundamentalists in order to circumvent a 1987 Supreme Court prohibition." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 15, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Belgium, Canada, Cornell University, human life, kidneys, Netherlands, organ transplant, organs, Peter Singer, pigs, surgery}

Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 15, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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A potential avenue of increasing the supply of organs — xenotransplantation — is not, in my view, morally problematic in the least. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 3, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alfie Evans, authoritarianism, brain, Canada, Charlie Gard, death, doctor, experts, freedom, hospital, medicine, mind, North America, patients, technocracy, Texas, United Kingdom}

Medical Authoritarianism Continues to Expand

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 3, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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We live in a time where individual freedom is under material threat from an emerging technocracy. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Darwin's Doubt, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran Period, evolution, fossil record, intelligent design, Kimberella, molecular clock, New York Times, Norway, Oxford University, precambrian fossils, Precambrian strata, Russia, Siberia, Stephen Meyer, taphonomy}

Taphonomy Study Shortens Fuse for the Cambrian Explosion

_{David Coppedge
August 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The “molecular clock” must be wrong, a study concludes. Cambrian animal ancestors are not there in the fossil record as hoped. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 31, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Canada, consciousness, dementia, euthanasia, memory, neurobiology, neuroscience, paradoxical lucidity, Stony Brook University}

Clues About Consciousness from Dementia Research

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 31, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The phenomenon is called "paradoxical lucidity" because it is unexpected and we know very little about its causes. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Canada, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, crustaceans, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, mollusks, On the Origin of Species, paleontology, protists, Stephen Meyer}

Fossil Friday: Eozoön, the Dawn Animal Fallen from Grace

_{Günter Bechly
July 21, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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In modern paleontology it is still a very common phenomenon that fossils are over-interpreted by the scientists and over-hyped in the media. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abandonment, Canada, compassion, disability, doctors, euthanasia, health care, housing, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, medicine, nurse practitioners, Ontario, PTSD, quadriplegia, veterans}

Canadian Disabled Woman Opts for Euthanasia Because She Can’t Get Timely Assistance

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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I am hearing about this kind of abandonment much more often since Canada loosened its euthanasia eligibility requirements. Read More ›