near-death experience Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date October 26, 2024 CategoriesFaith & ScienceNeuroscience & MindPhysics Tagged , brain function, cardiac arrest, clinical death, Closer to Truth, consciousness, death, doctors, Lord Kelvin, Lucid Dying, near-death experiences, Nobel Prize, Psyche, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Sam Parnia, skepticism, soul Soul Survives Death? ER Doc Faces Skepticism Denyse O’Leary October 26, 2024 Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics 6 In discussion with Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Dr. Sam Parnia stuck to his clearly defined evidence, avoiding religious digressions. Read More ›
engineering Type post Author David Coppedge Date March 21, 2023 CategoriesBiologyEngineeringEvolutionIntelligent DesignScience Tagged , autophagy, Berlin, cell biology, communication, Darwinism, endoplasmic reticulum, endosome, evolution, fatty acids, genius, intelligent design, Lord Kelvin, Maria Clara Zanellati, mitochondria, Neil Thomas, organelles, Sarah Cohen, Science (journal), starvation, University of North Carolina, Your Designed Body Engineering Language Enters Biology — The Case of the Endosome David Coppedge March 21, 2023 Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science 7 An automated engineering system presupposes a designer with foresight and a mind that understands how to make things work. Read More ›
Queen_Victoria_by_Bassano 2 Type post Author Neil Thomas Date March 1, 2022 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , body parts, COVID-19, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), England, evolution, faith, Fleeming Jenkin, Lord Kelvin, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, pandemic, reviewers, Victorians Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith Neil Thomas March 1, 2022 Evolution, Faith & Science 2 Fleeming Jenkin (the distinguished Scottish scientist who with Lord Kelvin spearheaded the laying of the transatlantic cable) was particularly scathing. Read More ›
Steven-Pinker Type post Author Richard Weikart Date February 24, 2018 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPsychology Tagged , __k-review, “consensus science”, altruism, assumptions, bias, Chronicle of Higher Education, David Hume, Harvard University, Lord Kelvin, objectivity, postmodernism, replication crisis, science, Steven Pinker, subjectivity, thermodynamics Is Science Objective? Steven Pinker’s Counterattack Against the “War on Science” Richard Weikart February 24, 2018 Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology 5 Unfortunately, Pinker’s overweening faith in science as a reliable path to the truth has its own problems. Read More ›