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Are We Looking for Consciousness in the “Wrong Part” of the Brain?

Al of this reasoning assumes that human consciousness — the human mind — is local. Located in one single place. It probably isn’t. Read More ›
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Sense of Touch Is More Finely Tuned than We Thought

Like machines that deliver goods or open doors at the push of a button, mechanosensitive channels respond on contact. Read More ›
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Want to Harmonize Evolution and Design? Consider the Bacterial Flagellum

I hope it’s clear that Kojonen’s effort to harmonize evolution and design (as he envisions it) is not so easy in the case of the bacterial flagellum. Read More ›
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Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework

Scientists have learned over the centuries that when a fundamental theoretical impasse is encountered, we do not blame nature. Read More ›
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Teeth, Mollusks: Design in Biominerals

The subject of biomineralization also allows comparing the explanatory power of design over Darwinian evolution.  Read More ›
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Irreducible Complexity Defeated? Behe on Ken Miller’s Mousetrap Tie-Clip

At a conference, says Miller, “I removed two parts from a mousetrap (leaving just the base, spring, and hammer), and used that 3-part device as a functional tie-clip.” Read More ›
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These Creatures Would Give Darwin Shivers

Darwin thought everything evolved from a simple cell by mindless chance processes. The animals don’t know that. Read More ›

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