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Date
July 21, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, birds, brain, genome, intelligence, intelligent design, invertebrates, jumping genes, junk DNA, mammals, marine invertebrates, octopuses, oysters, transposons, unguided evolution}

How Octopuses Got So Smart? “Junk DNA”

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July 21, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Jumping genes used to be dismissed as junk DNA which in turn was held to be slam-dunk evidence for unguided evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Brazil, Cambrian Explosion, Crato Formation, crocodiles, Darwin critics, Darwinists, dinosaurs, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), holotype, ichthyosaur, intelligent design, lizards, Lower Cretaceous, mammals, Nature Communications, Peter Ward, pterosaurs, turtles, Upper Triassic}

Fossil Friday: A Croc Smile from the Cretaceous

_{Günter Bechly
July 15, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Ubiquitous discontinuities contradict the gradualist predictions of Darwin’s theory and thus should count as empirical falsifications of that theory. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 14, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Australia, birds, brain, Canada, cephalopods, consciousness, crickets, Dogs, evolution, intelligence, Japan, London School of Economics, mammals, memory, New Zealand, octopuses, spinal cord, vertebrates}

If Octopuses Are So Smart, Should We Eat Them?

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 14, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We have tended to assume that intelligence rose with the development of a spinal cord and brain (vertebrates), and warmbloodedness (mammals and birds). Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 27, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, arthritis, birds, children, emotions, horses, mammals, New York Times, pigs, privilege, reality, Salon, social justice, squirrels, The College Fix, World Economic Forum}

Check Their Privilege: Are Squirrels Socially Unjust?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 27, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Researchers have long assumed that people think like animals. But now we see that the equation reads the same in reverse: animals think like people. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 4, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, agriculture, algorithms, antennae, ants, brains, cities, computer, computer programmers, E.O. Wilson, eggs, evolutionary biologists, foraging, humans, intelligent design, larvae, mammals, neurons, neuroscience, pheromones, slavery, Stanford University, superorganism}

Yes, Ants Think — Like Computers

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 4, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Computer programmers have adapted some ant problem-solving methods to software programs (but without the need for complex chemical scents). Read More ›

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Date
May 20, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, chromosomes, cuttlefish, emotion, genomes, intelligence, invertebrates, mammals, memory, mollusks, Nautilus, octopuses, pain, scientists, squid}

Can Largely Rearranged Genomes Explain Why Octopuses Are So Smart?

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May 20, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Even compared to each other, the genomes of three cephalopods studied had been broken up and extensively reorganized. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 21, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Darwinism, evolution, grasshoppers, intelligent design, lions, mammals, narrative gloss, Old Testament, photosynthesis, teeth, trees, UC Davis}

Redwoods, Grasshoppers: New Designs in Well-Studied Species

_{David Coppedge
March 21, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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If redwoods are a byword for great stature, grasshoppers represent the opposite. And what insect could be more common or familiar? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Altenberg 16, athletes, biological novelty, body size, Cambrian Explosion, Communications Biology, evolution, Gerd Müller, gradualism, humans, Jeffrey Schwartz, Jerry Fodor, mammals, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Nature (journal), Nature Communications, New Zealand, Paul Nelson, Royal Society, Science Daily, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, What Darwin Got Wrong}

Nature Communications Retroactively Concedes a Lack of Evidence for Darwinian Gradualism

_{Casey Luskin
March 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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Explaining the origin of complex phenotypic novelty is the million-dollar question in evolutionary biology. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 2, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, apes, birds, chimpanzees, golf, intelligence, invertebrates, mammals, New Zealand, octopuses, Smithsonian Magazine, vertebrates}

The Remarkable Things We’re Learning About Bird Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 2, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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These findings are only among birds that have actually been studied; most birds have not been studied for intelligence. Read More ›

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Date
January 27, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, ants, calculus, Darwinian theory, Eric Cassell, hardware, Irreducible Complexity, mammals, Nature (journal), navigation, neurons, olfaction, phyla, PNAS, sea turtles, software, University of Toronto}

Navigation Ability Crosses Phylum Lines — And That’s a Problem for Evolution

_{Science & Culture
January 27, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Yes, that is kind of adorable. It took only a few days for the fish to learn to drive. Read More ›