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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, arms, behavior, brain, consciousness, information, intelligence, jellyfish, learning, lions, marine biologists, nervous system, neurons, neuroscientists, octopuses, orcas, University of Washington, wolves}

Octopus Intelligence — A Challenge for Evolution

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 2, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Could such a different neurology really evolve purely by natural selection acting on random mutations? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 1, 2023

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cognition, Darwinism, EMBO Reports, emotions, infection, intelligence, panpsychism, random mutations, spirituality, Tel Aviv University, teleology, Third Way of Evolution, University of Heidelberg, ZME Science}

Are Plants Cognitive, Intelligent Beings?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 1, 2023

Botany, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Some plant biologists want to see them that way; others continue to insist on a Darwinian view. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 27, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bioengineering, birds, cells, communication, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, human body, human consciousness, humans, illusion, insects, Integrated information theory, intelligence, jellyfish, Macquarie University, Michael Levin, Nature (journal), octopuses, panpsychism, physicalism, Tufts University, University of Montreal}

Can a Brainless Jellyfish Learn? How About Individual Cells? Do Molecules Communicate?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 27, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Cells are intelligent, in a way. But that fact is a much better argument for intelligent design than for the idea that the human intellect is insignificant. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 27, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, authority, bacterial flagellum, biological complexity, Commentary, Darwinians, Darwinism, David Berlinski, doctors, evolution, eye, finch beaks, Galápagos Islands, heart, intelligence, intelligent design, Jay W. Richards, M.-P. Schützenberger, materialism, medicine, natural selection, peppered moth, random variations, René Thom, Science After Babel, The Deniable Darwin, Tower of Babel}

Jay Richards on Babel, Berlinski, and “Science After Darwin”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 27, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Something really came undone in the Covid era. Now, the phrase “science says” or “doctors say” prompts a smirk from about half the population. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 22, 2023

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, ABC News, afterlife, Arizona State University, bioRxiv, brain, burial, Chris Stringer, documentary, eLife, evolution, fire, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, human origins, humans, intelligence, Lee Berger, Natural History Museum, Nature (journal), paleoanthropology, peer review, religion, skeletons, The Guardian, University of Western Australia}

Peer Review Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Used Fire, and Scrawled on Cave Wall

_{Casey Luskin
September 22, 2023

Cultural Anthropology, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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I could not find a single reviewer who accepted the claims of the papers. They were harshly critical of claims of intentional burial of the skeletons. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 13, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, ChatGPT4, Chronicle of Higher Education, classical music, Erik Larson, Harvard University Press, hospital, human intelligence, humor, inference to the best explanation, intelligence, jokes, large language models, Ludwig van Beethoven, mouse, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, whale, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}

ChatGPT Is Becoming Increasingly Impressive

_{William A. Dembski
September 13, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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Yet I continue to maintain that human intelligence is qualitatively different from artificial intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 12, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, bacterium, encyclopedia, evolution, genes, genetic code, intelligence, intelligent design, Long Story Short, meaning, nanomachines, optimization, proofreading, repair, sophistication, unguided evolution}

New Long Story Short — Life’s Ingenious Code

_{David Klinghoffer
September 12, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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The video asks, “Where in your experience do things like language, proofreading, nanomachines, and information-rich code come from? You know the answer." Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 11, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ATP, Barbara McClintock, Daniel Nicholson, evolution, gene expression, genome, intelligence, Jacques Monod, Journal of Theoretical Biology, machine, mind, molecular biology, motor proteins, Nobel Prize, protein complexes}

Cellular Cognition? So Much for Darwinism!

_{Robert Shedinger
September 11, 2023

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Following up in considering Daniel Nicholson’s challenge to the machine concept of the cell, I will examine intracellular transport and cellular behavior. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
September 7, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adolescence, C.S. Lewis, Canceled Science, compass, human mind, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, mainstream science, matter, mind, naturalism, planets, rationality, universe}

A Profound Challenge to Materialism, Longing Is Our “Inconsolable Secret”

_{Eric Hedin
September 7, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Longings that are unsatisfied by the provisions of Earth are not just a weary response to our often stress-laden modern lifestyles. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 10, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, biological information, genes, illusion, information, intelligence, Marcello Barbieri, meaning, molecular biology, physicalism}

Is Life Just Chemistry, or Chemistry Plus Information?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 10, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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Theoretical biologist Marcello Barbieri finds that many biologists see information in life forms as something that “does not really belong to science.” Read More ›