2560px-TheStar-DancerinPointebyEdgarDegasNorton Type post Author Eric Hedin Date April 30, 2025 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , atoms, biosignature, Brian Miller, cells, choices, chromosomes, cognition, David Coppedge, decision-making, DNA, enzymes, extraterrestrial life, information, information processing, living systems, natural processes, primitive, 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, disease, eugenics, gene expression, genes, genome, homosexuality, identical twins, psychologists, selfhood, 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, 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, personality, prophecy, reproduction, risk, 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 ›
