Tag: common sense

Conceptual image of a large stone in the shape of the human brain

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 19, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, ALS, animals, apes, birds, bloodhounds, brain mapping, common sense, consciousness, Deepak Chopra, Doctor's Diary (series), dolphins, electrodes, elephants, evolution, functional MRI, Gordon Gallup Jr., inner conversation, inner speech, intelligent design, Jiminy Cricket, Lampwick, magpies, Michael Egnor, mirror test, motor cortex, octopuses, paralysis, radio show, red dot test, Rottweilers, self-talk, soul, speech, Stanford University, whales}

Doctor’s Diary: To Whom Are You Talking When You Talk to Yourself?

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 19, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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A comment by a national radio show host recently caught my attention. “So, I said to myself, SELF! What would you do under these circumstances?” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 12, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, common sense, consciousness, demons, Divine Foot, eliminative materialism, immaterial reality, material world, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Richard C. Lewontin, split-brain patients, superstition, The Demon-Haunted World, The Immortal Mind, The New York Review of Books, universe}

Taking the Side of Science — But Which Side?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 12, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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In writing that science’s materialism is absolute, Richard Lewontin wrote as one who did not grasp the fatal flaw in his absolutism. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
May 30, 2025

Categories
Genetics
Mathematics
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, Alexander Tsarias, automobiles, BioCosmos, cars, common sense, David Klinghoffer, duplication errors, grandchildren, information, intelligent design, Levinthal paradox, materialism, Model T, molecular biology, natural selection, Plato, Plato's Revenge, replication, Richard Sternberg, Timaeus, unintelligent forces}

The Paradox of Biological Reproduction

_{Granville Sewell
May 30, 2025

Genetics, Mathematics, Reproductive Science

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Reproduction poses a difficult paradox for materialistic science despite the fact that we see it happen every day. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, common sense, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, Emily Sandico, epigenetics, genome, ID the Future, immaterial genome, information, intelligent design, interview, molecular biology, philosophers, Plato, Plato's Revenge, podcast, Richard Sternberg, RNA}

Plato’s Revenge: An Interview with David Klinghoffer

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 1, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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We are now overdue for a profound revolution in science, one you’ve probably heard very little about. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, abstractions, animal intelligence, birds, brains, chickadees, cockatoos, common sense, crows, evolution, evolutionary biology, Germany, Giacomo Gattoni, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, logic, mammals, Maria Antonietta Tosches, Niklas Kempynck, Onur Güntürkün, ornithology, paleornithologists, problems, ravens, Ruhr University Bochum, Science (journal), vertebrates, Yasemin Saplakoglu}

High Bird Intelligence Is Consistent with Design, Not Evolution

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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A discussion of animal intelligence that refuses to acknowledge human exceptionalism becomes a script for suppressing discussions we need to have. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 4, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, comedians, comedy, common sense, Darwinian evolution, evolution, evolutionary adaptation, insects, intelligent design, just-so stories, leaf, mimicry, predators, reverse-engineering, Stephen Meyer}

Steve Meyer and Comic Brad Stine on Insect Mimicry, and More

_{David Klinghoffer
January 4, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Apart from being a funny guy, Stine brings a gift for some shrewd common-sense, including about evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
May 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cell machinery, Center for Science and Culture, chameleons, common sense, Discovery Institute, DNA, evolution, Howard Glicksman, humor, intelligent design, kinesins, Long Story Short, media, Michael Behe, microtubules, monkeys, mousetrap, newspapers, proteins, replication, Secrets of the Cell, shrimp, Steve Laufmann, turtles, Your Designed Body, YouTube videos}

I Grew Up with Intelligent Design Videos — Let’s Make More!

_{Tova Levengood
May 17, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The scientific rigor and common sense in the CSC videos I watched as a child taught me to recognize media hype about evolution for what it is. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
February 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Big Bang, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, common sense, continuity, design detection, Douglas Axe, Emily Reeves, evolution, fauna, flora, hummingbird, intelligent design, intuition, laws of nature, Rope Kojonen, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), theist on the street, theistic evolution}

Bad News for the “Theist on the Street”

_{Stephen Dilley
February 14, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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On Rope Kojonen's model, she no longer has grounds to trust her common-sense intuition of the design of the eagle’s eye. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, atheism, Brown University, Christianity, college students, common sense, Dave Farina, decency, Europe, evil, Gaza, genocide, Günter Bechly, Hamas, Holocaust, incitement, intelligent design, Israel, Jerry Coyne, Jews, Michael Shermer, Middle Ages, Middle East, Nazis, New Atheists, Nick Fuentes, Passover, Professor Dave Explains, Sam Harris, terrorism, terrorists, Twitter, violence, Wall Street Journal, Why Evolution Is True, YouTube videos}

Professor Dave, Anti-Semite? You Be the Judge

_{David Klinghoffer
November 8, 2023

Bioethics, Intelligent Design

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What was unclear was whether his rage against intelligent design reflected just an isolated problem in his thinking, or whether it’s something more system-wide. Read More ›

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Author
Amanda Witt

Date
July 22, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Blake Lemoine, chatbot, common sense, companionship, confidentiality, consciousness, conversation, emotions, fear, Google, humans, LaMDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, meditation, Non-Computable You, psychologists, reading, Robert J. Marks II, sentience, spirituality, Washington Post, Wesley J. Smith}

Chatbots Might Chat, But They’re Not People

_{Amanda Witt
July 22, 2022

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A Google engineer claims a chatbot meditates, believes itself to have a soul, has emotions like fear, and enjoys reading. Read More ›