Tag: conception

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethics, chattel slaves, children, Christian bioethics, Christof Koch, conception, Denyse O'Leary, human beings, in vitro fertilization, industrial manufacture, IVF, Michael Shermer, organ donors, persons, Piers Morgan, Roman Catholicism, sexual slaves, Skeptic (podcast), soldiers, The Immortal Mind}

A Disagreement with Shermer on the Ethics of IVF

_{Michael Egnor
July 8, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

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It is quite possible to seek good ends (children) by bad means (their industrial manufacture). These are very real concerns. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 13, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Biologist’s View, Alexander Tsiaras, Artificial Selection, birth, conception, development, duplication errors, evolution, foresight, geneticists, genotype, Giuseppe Sermonti, growth, In the Beginning, intelligent design, Jean Rostand, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, natural selection, Oxford University, phenotype, Yale University}

The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology,” Revisited

_{Granville Sewell
June 13, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

In the last 70 years it was expected by many that all three of Jean Rostand's "cardinal problems of biology" would be solved without design. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alan McComas, Alzheimer’s disease, Aristotle, atoms, behaviorism, Benjamin Libet, brain, breathing, concept cells, conception, consciousness, eliminative materialism, functionalism, galaxies, glaciers, heartbeat, hippocampi, hydranencephaly, identity theory, Justine Sergent, machine, molecules, neurons, neuroscience, perception, pineal gland, planets, pseudoscience, René Descartes, Roger Sperry, Scientific American, soul, trees, Werner Heisenberg, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

8}

If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t. Read More ›

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Author
Marvin Olasky

Date
January 3, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, babies, baseball, childbirth, conception, evolution, Evolution News, fallopian tube, Howard Glicksman, Human Errors, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, jellyfish, jesus, koalas, legislators, micronutrients, miracles, Nathan Lents, Neo-Darwinism, Steve Laufmann, Stuart Burgess, vitamin C, Your Designed Body}

Life as a Half-Full Glass

_{Marvin Olasky
January 3, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Science

5}

A 2018 book by biologist Nathan Lents is full of complaints about our bodies. Professor Lents has been answered in detail already. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 12, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, conception, Darwinists, DNA, egg, intelligent design, parasite, personhood, pregnancy, PZ Myers, sentience, sperm, womb}

Biologist P. Z. Meyers Denies That Life Begins at Conception

_{Michael Egnor
September 12, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine

3}

Obviously, life begins at conception. With the fusion of the sperm and the egg, a new human life begins. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 18, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, appendages, arms, biologists, biomolecules, budding, children, conception, culture, eyes, fingers, hermaphrodite, human life, humanity, humans, persons, pregnancy, right to life, science denial, womb, worms, zygote}

Question for Abortion Advocates: How Many Fingers Does a Pregnant Woman Have?

_{Michael Egnor
May 18, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

3}

Denial of the humanity of children in the womb from the moment of conception is the most lethal form of science denial. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 10, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Medical Association, cancer, children, conception, egg, embryo, human being, human life, law, National Academy of Sciences, newborn, parasite, public policy, scientists, settled science, sperm, womb, zygote}

Fact Check: Yes, Human Life Begins at Fertilization

_{Michael Egnor
May 10, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Ethics, Medicine

4}

So what are we to make of a scientific profession in which scientific experts consistently distort the science of human life? Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
November 12, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, blood pressure, body temperature, cell death, conception, death, Doctor's Diary (series), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, emergency room, fisherman, Frankenstein, heart, hospital, intelligent design, James Tour, lungs, oxygen, sleep, soul, spirit, Stephen Meyer, suffering, telomeres, windpipe}

Doctor’s Diary: Till Death Do Us Part

_{Geoffrey Simmons
November 12, 2020

Medicine

7}

When I was in charge of the Emergency Room at Los Angeles County Hospital, I saw many instances of near-death trauma, yet there was little complaint about pain. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
March 9, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, adolescence, aging, birth, bone cells, brain cells, conception, daughter cells, death, Doctor's Diary (series), dying, estrogen, growth hormones, infancy, liver cells, medical school, neurons, platelets, red blood cells, telomeres, testosterone}

Doctor’s Diary: On Designed Obsolescence

_{Geoffrey Simmons
March 9, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

6}

Dying actually begins at conception. From the moment of conception the directions for a person’s demise are passed on to every cell. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, AIDS, babies, climate change, conception, Darwinists, DDT, eugenics, evolution, fossil fuels, gender, global cooling, global warming, Jeffrey Epstein, life, malaria, materialism, men, Paul Ehrlich, polar bears, schoolchildren, schools, scientists, skeptics, Steven Novella, truck driver, women, Yale University}

Is Joe Blow “Anti-Intellectual”?

_{Michael Egnor
March 3, 2020

Evolution

7}

Joe wonders how a scientist could be so wrong and still keep his job. Read More ›