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Close-up of a bacterium under a microscope, with vivid purple and pink colors highlighting cellular details.

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 11, 2024

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, archaea, bacteria, cells, cognition, consciousness, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, fungi, intelligent design, mind, minds, Neo-Darwinism, Peter Corning, protozoans, sentience, unguided evolution}

Was God a Bacterium?

_{Daniel Witt
April 11, 2024

Botany, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We should acknowledge that this theory is, unlike some similar attempts, at least an actual solution: if true, it would explain how complex life evolved. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, addiction, alleles, anomalies, Barbara McClintock, BioEssays, circadian rhythms, cognition, DNA, enhancers, epigenetic inheritance, epigenetics, evolution, genes, genomes, human genome, intelligence, intelligent design, introns, John Mattick, junk DNA, lncRNAs, methylation, molecular biology, mRNAs, neutral evolution, paradigm shift, personality, retroviruses, Ribosome, Scientific American, Short Tandem Repeats, Thomas Kuhn, transposable elements, transposons}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Ten “Anomalies” that Contradict the Junk DNA Paradigm

_{Casey Luskin
November 27, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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John Mattick uses the language of historian of science Thomas Kuhn to predict that we are witnessing a “paradigm shift” away from the concept of junk DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 1, 2023

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cognition, Darwinism, EMBO Reports, emotions, infection, intelligence, panpsychism, random mutations, spirituality, Tel Aviv University, teleology, Third Way of Evolution, University of Heidelberg, ZME Science}

Are Plants Cognitive, Intelligent Beings?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 1, 2023

Botany, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Some plant biologists want to see them that way; others continue to insist on a Darwinian view. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 7, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Barbara McClintock, cells, Chance and Necessity, circuitry, cognition, Daniel Nicholson, DNA, function, Jacques Monod, Journal of Theoretical Biology, machine, machine metaphor, membranes, molecular biology, nucleic acids, proteins, self-assembly}

Is the Cell a Machine, or More Like a Mind?

_{Robert Shedinger
September 7, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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At least as we’re accustomed to thinking in our age of AI, the alternative to a machine is a mind. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 30, 2022

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, anesthesia, chimpanzees, cognition, consciousness, dolphins, intelligence, invertebrates, panpsychism, ResearchGate, spiders, Venus flytrap}

Researcher Says Plants May Be Conscious, Too

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 30, 2022

Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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Paco Calvo has authored many papers in respected journals; his view is another instance of panpsychism overtaking materialism in science. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 4, 2021

Categories
Biology
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, archaea, bacteria, cells, cognition, Daniel Dennett, intelligence, intelligent design, James Shapiro, protoplasm, quorum sensing, University of Chicago}

University of Chicago Biochemist: All Living Cells Are Cognitive

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 4, 2021

Biology, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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James Shapiro’s recent paper points out, with examples, that bacteria meet the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of “cognitive.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 9, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, “consensus science”, atheism, cognition, computer scientists, consciousness, Darwinism, David Gelernter, intelligent design, materialism, Michael Behe, mind, Mind and Cosmos, neo-Darwinian theory, philosophers, Princeton University, Public Discourse, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Nagel}

Little Book, Big Waves — Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Nine Years Later

_{David Klinghoffer
August 9, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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As a colleague points out, Nagel's departure from the “right-thinking consensus” is on a par with David Gelernter’s 2019 farewell to Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 15, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Anaxagoras, ancient Greeks, Aristotle, atheism, atomists, body plans, Christianity, cognition, demiurge, Democritus, evolutionary theory, idealism, intelligent design, materialism, natural selection, Plato, purposefulness, Scott Turner, Socrates}

Scott Turner Explains Philosophical Traditions Shaping Biology

_{Brian Miller
April 15, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Turner classifies the intelligent design movement as a resurgence of Platonic idealism. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, ancient Greeks, cognition, Darwinists, evolutionary theory, evolutionists, homeostasis, intelligent design, Neo-Darwinism, physiology, Purpose and Desire, Scott Turner, State University of New York}

Scott Turner: New Video Series on His Model for Evolution

_{Brian Miller
April 12, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwin’s ideas have become a flashpoint in the culture, so any discussion of the science can easily become highly polarized and politicized. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
June 19, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Psychology
Social Sciences
Tagged
, __cedited, behavior, bullying, Charles Darwin, cognition, culture, education, evolutionary theory, humans, motivation, Nautilus, prestige, society, status, University of Texas}

Why Social Science Does Not Need Evolutionary Theory

_{Richard Weikart
June 19, 2018

Evolution, Psychology, Social Sciences

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The example that Professor Cristine Legare proffers is schoolyard bullying. Read More ›