2560px-TheStar-DancerinPointebyEdgarDegasNorton Type post Author Eric Hedin Date April 30, 2025 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , atoms, biomolecular activities, biosignature, Brian Miller, cells, choices, chromosomes, cognition, dance, David Coppedge, decision-making, DNA, enzymes, extraterrestrial life, information, information processing, limbic system, living systems, natural processes, primitive, response, senses, unnatural Information Processing: An Unnatural Attribute of Life Eric Hedin April 30, 2025 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design 6 The purpose-driven responsiveness of living systems to information appears as a truly confounding enigma for naturalistic explanations Read More ›
twins Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date July 11, 2023 CategoriesGeneticsMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , Aeon, behavior, children, choices, Cyril Burt, disease, doppelgänger, eugenics, gene expression, genes, genome, homosexuality, identical twins, psychologists, selfhood, statistical methods, twins, UC Berkeley Genes Rule? The Evidence of Identical Twins Denyse O’Leary July 11, 2023 Genetics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 6 Researcher on identical twins hoped to prove that Genes Rule! But there were ethics slippages along the way. Read More ›
free will Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date January 19, 2023 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindScience Tagged , Benjamin Libet, brain, brain activity, Chapman University, choices, consciousness, free will, Marcelo Gleiser, neuroscience, readiness potential, Scientific American, self New Brain Research Supports Free Will Denyse O’Leary January 19, 2023 Neuroscience & Mind, Science 6 Researchers, altering Libet’s classical experiment, found that human brains show no “readiness potential” when a decision is important. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date July 12, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , __tedited, assisted dying, choices, freedom of conscience, Health & Wellness, Hippocratic Oath, self-starvation and dehydration, suicide Dutch MDs Help with Suicide by Starvation Wesley J. Smith July 12, 2016 Bioethics, Medicine 5 Once the culture of death sinks its venomous teeth into a society, corruption follows upon corruption. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date May 3, 2016 CategoriesHuman Origins and AnthropologyNeuroscience & MindPsychology Tagged , __tedited, abstract thinking, choices, determinism, fallacy, free will, human mind, human responsibilities, illusions, mind-brain debate, natural causes, people, self Is Free Will Just "Your Brain Tricking Itself"? Michael Egnor May 3, 2016 Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology 5 When scientists propose a really inane explanation for a mundane observation, evolutionary psychology is likely the discipline invoked. Read More ›
Type post Date April 19, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsGenetics Tagged , __tedited, behavior, cell adhesion, character, children, choices, estrogen, free choice, genome, human responsibilities, moral responsibility, parenthood, personality, prophecy, reproduction, risk, sexual ethics, sexual misbehavior, sexual reproduction, storytelling Science as Astrology: A Gene for, or Rather Against, Virginity? Science and Culture April 19, 2016 Bioethics, Genetics 4 Sometimes it seems much of the most hyped research is about relieving us of the burden of personal moral responsibility. Read More ›
