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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 23, 2022

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, apes, Apollo 11, BBC, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, History Channel, humans, Ida, media, Messel, missing links, monkeys, Norway, paleontology, primates, Wikipedia}

Fossil Friday: Darwinius, or How Wishful Thinking Makes a Missing Link

_{Günter Bechly
September 23, 2022

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The media campaign lead to headlines that were not content with calling the fossil a missing link but simply “THE link” or “the eighth wonder of the world.” Read More ›

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Date
September 2, 2022

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, asymmetry, brain size, brains, chimpanzees, dopamine, FOXP2, humans, intelligence, macaque, memory, nerve fibers, Peter Hess, primates, speech, thinking, Yale University}

More Ways that Human and Ape Brains Differ

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September 2, 2022

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Underlying the significant differences in brain — to say nothing of the vast difference in mind — is a genetic mystery. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 1, 2022

Categories
Botany
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, animals, consciousness, David M. Peña-Guzmán, dreaming, electrons, Günter Bechly, human consciousness, humans, materialists, Michael Egnor, naturalists, panpsychism, philosophers, spiders}

Should Spider Dreaming Really Give Us “Ethical Pause”?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 1, 2022

Botany, Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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The discovery of REM sleep in spiders is morphing into vast claims that we have “urgent and inexorable ethical obligations” to them and other life forms. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 1, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, aliens, bacterial flagellum, clouds, debates, dragon, English, evolution, gears, humans, intelligent design, Internet, Jason Rosenhouse, jumping, Michael Shermer, Rosenhouse’s Whoppers (series), Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, SETI, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, Why Darwin Matters}

Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Seeing Patterns in Biology Is Like Seeing Dragons in the Clouds

_{William A. Dembski
September 1, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Since the flagellum gets so overused in the debate between ID and Darwinism, let’s change the system. Consider the leaf hopper. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Energy, fear, heart, human life, humans, intelligent design, invention, light, medicine, metaphor, Michael Denton, oxygen, predators, prior fitness, red blood cells, The Miracle of Man, transition metals, water}

Michael Denton Explains the Miracle of Your Heart

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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There is more that most people – probably most scientists – have never even considered, and that seals the case for the heart’s intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 12, 2022

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Bernardo Kastrup, birds, cephalopods, Christianity, consciousness, dreaming, general relativity, gravitational waves, humans, intelligent design, Judaism, mammals, mental states, Michael Egnor, neocortex, protists, rapid eye movement, REM sleep, sensory organs, spiders, thermostat, Thomistic philosophy}

Dreaming Spiders? My Disagreement with Michael Egnor

_{Günter Bechly
August 12, 2022

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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Rapid eye movement may indicate neural activity, but dreaming for me implies a conscious awareness of the dream state, which I consider as unlikely in spiders. Read More ›

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Date
August 9, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Age of Reason, chewing, children, face, Homo sapiens, human brain, humans, information, neurons, New Scientist, oxygen, reality, researchers, stars, universe, University of Southern California}

Human Brain Shape Has Hardly Changed

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August 9, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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The changes in human heads were not driven by a changing brain, researchers say. It was the human face that changed. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, asteroid, Big Bang, Big Think, biosphere, Cambrian Explosion, complex life, cosmos, Dartmouth College, dinosaurs, Ernst Mayr, fire, Günter Bechly, humans, intelligent design, life, Marcelo Gleiser, Michael Denton, prior fitness, providence, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, teleology, The Miracle of Man, Theistic Evolution (book), Thomas Huxley}

Recognizing Providence in the History of Life Is a Hint About Our Own Lives

_{David Klinghoffer
August 5, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics, Technology

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Any of us can point to certain pivotal events in our past that need not have occurred, but did. Read More ›

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Author
Amanda Witt

Date
July 22, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Blake Lemoine, chatbot, common sense, companionship, confidentiality, consciousness, conversation, emotions, fear, Google, humans, LaMDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, meditation, Non-Computable You, psychologists, reading, Robert J. Marks II, sentience, spirituality, Washington Post, Wesley J. Smith}

Chatbots Might Chat, But They’re Not People

_{Amanda Witt
July 22, 2022

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A Google engineer claims a chatbot meditates, believes itself to have a soul, has emotions like fear, and enjoys reading. Read More ›

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Date
July 19, 2022

Categories
Arts
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, cave paintings, evolution, humans, Michael Marshall, Neanderthals, paleontology, Spain, Stone Age}

Neanderthal Art, if That’s What It Is, Would Upset the Evolutionary Paradigm

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July 19, 2022

Arts, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Paleontologists resist the idea that early humans called Neanderthals created any artworks. Their reasoning is sometimes circular. Read More ›