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Split-Brain Surgeries Reveal Reality of the Soul

This is not only the perennial teaching of the great religions, but the evidence of the best neuroscience. Read More ›
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Consciousness — At Odds with the Flesh

The inescapable conclusion from studying the need for sleep is that the body cannot survive without a regular reprieve from effects of this system on the body. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Biologist Defines Goldenrod Plant as “Intelligent”

The media release for the journal paper, sponsored by Cornell University, illustrates the growing comfort of science with panpsychist ideas. Read More ›
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Our Universe Works … Yet Doesn’t Make Sense; How Could That Be?

How can so much uncertainty lie placidly at the basis of our universe but disrupt nothing in particular? We even build better computers because of it. Read More ›
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Darwinism Needs Laws to Look Scientific; Cronin and Hazen Stand Ready to Serve

Desperate to justify their worldview as legitimate, some Darwinians are making up new “laws of nature” to appear smiling inside the big tent of science. Read More ›
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Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs

A potential avenue of increasing the supply of organs — xenotransplantation — is not, in my view, morally problematic in the least. Read More ›
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Beyond Genes: Biologists Seek Purpose in Unknown Substances, Processes

There’s more going on in DNA and cells than the old Central Dogma predicted. The time has come to look beyond genes. Read More ›
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Are Birds Really Smarter than Reptiles?

Scientists clash over how to measure animal intelligence: brain volume, brain organization, numbers of neurons…? Read More ›
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Self-Replication? Not Even Close

Cornell University researchers allegedly “created a machine that can build copies of itself.” Read More ›
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Oh-So-Close to Self-Replication

All that is left is to add a factory to the Cornell device so it can produce for itself the molecubes that humans keep building and feeding them. Read More ›

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