Tag: Frankenstein

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 8, 2025

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alfred Russel Wallace, Allan Bloom, Anaxagoras, Biochemical Predestination, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charles Thaxton, chemical evolution, Dean Kenyon, DNA, Erasmus Darwin, Frankenstein, Guillermo Gonzalez, James Tour, Jonathan Wells, Joseph Hooker, Lord Byron, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Michael Polanyi, Miller-Urey experiment, origin of life, Percy Shelley, Plato, Return of the God Hypothesis, RNA, Roger Olsen, Shannon information, Signature in the Cell, spaghetti, specified complexity, spontaneous generation, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, uniformitarianism, Walter Bradley}

Walter Bradley and Intelligent Design’s First Edition

_{David Klinghoffer
July 8, 2025

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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How does life emerge from that which is not alive? This mystery exercises a peculiar fascination, with the power to elicit remarkable feats of imagination. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 13, 2023

Categories
Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, central dogma, Current Biology, diet, DNA, EMBO Reports, epigenetics, evolution, exercise, Frankenstein, genome, intelligent design, John Innes Centre, lifestyle, mind, mutations, piano, RNA, University of Georgia, zebrafish}

Epigenetics: Performing the Genome

_{David Coppedge
November 13, 2023

Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Epigenetics is surpassing genetics in distinction, just as the pianist gets the applause and not the piano. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
July 12, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, robots, YouTube videos}

Hyping Artificial Intelligence with Seductive Optics and the Frankenstein Complex

_{Robert J. Marks II
July 12, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting, Technology

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Some of the panicky AI-will-take-over-the-world talk grows out of seductive optics — that is, the AI packaging. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Origin of Life
Technology
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Aristotle, biotechnology, book reviews, defining terms, evolution, film, film review, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, intellectual history, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, movies, panspermia, satire, spontaneous generation, Stanley Miller, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Frankenstein and His Offspring

_{Neil Thomas
April 13, 2022

Biology, Origin of Life, Technology

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"Abiogenesis" seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life. Read More ›

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Date
August 14, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Andrew McDiarmid, evolution, fiction, first cell, Frankenstein, Neil Thomas, skeptics, Taking Leave of Darwin}

Taking Leave of Darwin’s Warm Little Pond

_{Science and Culture
August 14, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

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Neil Thomas explores some of the cultural influences that primed society to view the leap from non-life to life as easily made. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, early Earth, Erasmus Darwin, Francis Crick, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, J.B.S. Haldane, James Watson, Joseph Hooker, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, Ovid, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus, Richard Dawkins, Stanley Miller, Time Magazine, University of Chicago}

Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step

_{Neil Thomas
August 12, 2021

Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 11, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, body, brain, Frankenstein, humans, medicine, monkeys, muscles, nerves, neurosurgeon, paralysis, quadriplegia, soul, spinal cord, Wired}

Are Head Transplants Soul Transplants?

_{Michael Egnor
March 11, 2021

Bioethics, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The question of the disposition of the soul depends on what we mean by “soul.” Is the soul a thing somewhere in the brain, so to speak, or in the body? 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), emergency room, Frankenstein, heart, hospital, intelligent design, James Tour, lungs, oxygen, sleep, soul, spirit, Stephen Meyer, suffering, telomeres}

Doctor’s Diary: Till Death Do Us Part

_{Geoffrey Simmons
November 12, 2020

Medicine

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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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Date
November 4, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Aleksandr Oparin, Ann Gauger, Charles Thaxton, coacervates, Darwinian theory, Encyclopedia Britannica, evolution, Frankenstein, Geppetto, Illustra Media, intelligent design, Marxists, Nature (journal), Nature Communications, Penn State, Pinocchio, replication, RNA, RNA world, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, University of Basel, University of Chicago}

Sorry, Origin-of-Life Researchers, But Bubbles Are Not Cells

_{Science and Culture
November 4, 2020

Chemistry, Evolution, Origin of Life

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Oparin is back. Some origin-of-life researchers are using his coacervate theory without giving him credit or realizing they are retreading dead-end ideas. Read More ›

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Author
John Lennox

Date
July 7, 2020

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, eugenics, Frankenstein, Germany, humanity, Jews, John Gray, Mary Shelley, Nazis, Soviet Union, transhumanism}

Transhumanism’s Challenge to Humanity

_{John Lennox
July 7, 2020

Neuroscience & Mind

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“For myself, unregenerate humanity is preferable — the flawed and conflicted creatures we are.” Read More ›