Tag: Gaia

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Addy Pross, chemists, cognition, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, decision-making, Gaia, Galen Strawson, Hard Problem, human consciousness, materialism, memory, panpsychism, philosophers, physicalism, Robert Wright, thinking}

Can a Chemical Preparation Display Cognition? This Chemist Says Yes

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 31, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Addy Pross, associated with the evolutionary "Third Way" community, states his guiding principles up front. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 26, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, astrobiologists, astrobiology, atmosphere, biosphere, complex specified information, evolutionists, Gaia, humans, information, information processing, intelligent design, life, plate tectonics, PLOS Biology, probabilities, prokaryotes, Universe Today, University of Edinburgh, volcanoes, water}

Astrobiologists Offer an “Information-Based View of the Biosphere”

_{David Coppedge
March 26, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Planetology

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Even if their estimates need to be revised by a terabase or two someday, they have made it clear that our biosphere is awash in information. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 6, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, Aristotle, design detection, Gaia, habitable zone, Howard Glicksman, intelligent causes, intelligent design, materialists, natural causes, Nature (journal), Paul Sutter, programmers, radio signals, rocks, SETI, SETI Institute, signals, Steve Laufmann, Your Designed Body}

SETI: Inventing Minds to Find Minds

_{David Coppedge
February 6, 2023

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

7}

SETI has a new technique to recognize patterns in gobs of data: invent intelligences to search for extraterrestrial intelligence that might be artificial. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 14, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agriculturalists, Basil Willey, breeders, Charles Darwin, Emma Darwin, faith, Gaia, George Levine, goddess, Janet Browne, literature, metaphor, Mother Nature, natural preservation, nature, On the Origin of Species, paganism, Robert J. Richards, Stephen Jay Gould}

Darwin’s Goddess: Natural Selection as “Divine Surrogate”

_{Neil Thomas
July 14, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

7}

When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 12, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, atheism, autopsy, bacteria, Christopher Hitchens, computer program, creation myth, Edward Feser, evolutionary theory, First Amendment, Five Ways, Gaia, genetic information, Lawrence Krauss, Ludwig Wittgenstein, meat machines, New Atheists, Nobel Prize, paganism, plagiarism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Thomas Aquinas}

New Atheism: A Shipwreck of Fools

_{Michael Egnor
December 12, 2019

Faith & Science

5}

New Atheism is dead. It was conceptually dead from birth, but now it’s stopped twitching. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 9, 2019

Categories
Biochemistry
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, __edited, atheism, Brights, cosmos, David Klinghoffer, eugenics, Ezekiel, Gaia, hate, human body, human life, human mind, Isaiah, John Milton, mankind, misanthropy, New Atheists, Paradise Lost, pride, Richard Dawkins, Sigmund Freud}

Milton and the Psychology of Materialism

_{Michael Egnor
July 9, 2019

Biochemistry, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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It is basically the denial of human exceptionalism. That is, it is hatred of man, in practically every way imaginable. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 19, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, climate change, DDT, earth, extinction, Führer, Gaia, global cooling, humans, junk science, morality, nature, New York Times, ocean}

Would Human Extinction Be Immoral?

_{Michael Egnor
December 19, 2018

Bioethics

5}

The oceans might be cleaner without man, but they would neither know nor care nor judge. Read More ›

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Author
David K. DeWolf

Date
June 22, 2017

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Carl Jung, climate change, earth, Gaia, Moon, overpopulation, Paris accords, space exploration, Stephen Hawking}

Stephen Hawking: Off the Planet, to the Moon, in 200-500 Years

_{David K. DeWolf
June 22, 2017

Physical Sciences

4}

I am struck by the similarities between Hawking’s call for space exploration and the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the Paris climate accords. Read More ›