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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, death, doctors, egg, embryos, fetuses, human beings, human rights, ideology, in vitro fertilization, IVF, Judeo-Christian tradition, newborns, personhood, petri dish, pregnancy, right to life, sentience, sperm, Steven Novella, womb, Yale University}

The Humanity and Personhood of an Embryo

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2024

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine, Reproductive Science

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A sperm and an egg separately constitute a potential human. But when they unite, the result is a human being from the moment of fertilization. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 6, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Paleontology
Tagged
, burial, death, Emory University, Europe, genetic admixture, Günter Bechly, Homo sapiens, human origins, humans, invertebrates, life, life after death, Neanderthals, octopuses, Psychology Today, religion}

Were Neanderthals Religious?

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 6, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Paleontology

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We can’t poll long-dead Neanderthals on life, death, and the hereafter but the evidence we’ve dug up suggests they were thinking about that kind of thing. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 1, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain states, death, dreams, hippocampus, knowledge, memories, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neuroscientists, soul, YouTube videos}

Are Memories “Stored” in the Brain?

_{Michael Egnor
February 1, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The answer has implications both for neuroscience and for our deeper understanding of the mind-body relationship. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 2, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, behavior, Big Bang, biological complexity, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, convergence, death, diversity, Douglas Axe, environmental conditions, enzymes, equilibrium, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, George Ellis, gravity, initial conditions, intelligent design, laws of nature, leaves, mass-energy, natural selection, Nature (journal), nucleotide sequences, phenotypic plasticity, proteins, quantum physics, Rope Kojonen, Second Law of Thermodynamics, stem cells, Stephen Dilley, structuralism, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), theistic evolution, thermodynamics}

Physics and Chemistry Could Not Give Rise to Biology

_{Emily Reeves
January 2, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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The laws of nature provide stable conditions and physical boundaries within which biological outcomes are possible. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 1, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, blood pressure, death, degradation, Eric Anderson, health, heart, Howard Glicksman, human body, ID the Future, kidneys, life, medicine, podcast, receptors, salt, sodium, water}

Liquid Harmony: How Our Bodies Manage Salt and Water

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 1, 2023

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward degradation and death, not life. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 20, 2023

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Conservation of Information, death, Design Inference, education, father, Forensics, freedom, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, investigation, movies, murder, natural causes, pattern, podcast, relationships, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

A New Design Inference for a New Generation

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 20, 2023

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

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Is there an empirical method to determine whether a system is the product of chance or design? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 2, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, animals, anthropology, birds, death, Dogs, Eurasia, Homo naledi, humans, Israel, Live Science, Neanderthals, Oxford University Press, paleontologists, skeletons, South Africa, University of Arizona}

When Did Humans Start Burying the Dead?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 2, 2023

Bioethics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Only humans understand death as the inevitable and final reality for all mortal beings no matter what we do. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 1, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, blindness, death, faith and science, Gary Habermas, Heaven, ID the Future, Minding the Brain, near-death experiences, podcast, scientific evidence}

The Scientific Evidence for Near-Death Experiences

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 1, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Personal testimony about other realms can’t be independently corroborated, but objective evidence rooted in this world can be confirmed and evaluated. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 25, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, After Death, Andrew McDiarmid, death, documentary, Heaven, Hell, ID the Future, illusion, life, near-death experiences, podcast, resuscitation, soul, tickets}

Accounts from “After Death” Defeat Materialist Contentions About the Soul

_{David Klinghoffer
October 25, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Ahead of the Friday theatrical release, our colleague Andrew McDiarmid talked with Dr. Jeffrey Long, a cancer doctor who appears in the film. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 18, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, After Death, Christianity, death, documentaries, faith and science, Hamlet, health, Heaven, life, love, materialists, medicine, movies, naturalism, near-death experiences, neurosurgeons, religion, suicide, theology, William Shakespeare}

After Death — A Riveting Glimpse of the Hereafter

_{David Klinghoffer
October 18, 2023

Faith & Science, Medicine

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There sure are a lot more things about reality than are captured by a narrow naturalistic view. Read More ›