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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
August 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chairs, creationists, cytoskeleton, design constraint, diet, ecological niches, evolution, genes, Gutsick Gibbon, intelligent design, lifestyle, locomotion, memory, metabolism, migration, p-value, phylogenetics, selection, separate ancestry, splicing, synapomorphy, tinkering, YouTube videos}

Why Their Separate Ancestry Model Is “Wildly Unrealistic”

_{Emily Reeves
August 5, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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On Monday, I will look at the consistency of the phylogenetically informative sites for the Baum et al. (2016) paper. Spoiler alert: It looks like design. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 4, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, aging, dementia, Dogs, health, Hungary, memory, mice, neuroscience, Texas A&M, University of Arizona, University of Washington}

Can Old Dogs Learn New Tricks? It Depends

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 4, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

4}

Not much is known for sure about how dogs age. The Dog Aging Project aims to change that through systematic research programs. 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
May 24, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, abortion, animals, anti-human exceptionalism, communication, culture, dog, emotion, environmentalism, euthanasia, horse, human rights, humans, memory, New York University, self-awareness}

Professor: We Shouldn’t Necessarily Value Humans Over Other Animals

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 24, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

4}

NYU environmentalism prof Jeff Sebo argues that humans are not always rational and that some animals display mental qualities so we aren’t exceptional. 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?

_{Science & Culture
May 20, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

2}

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
April 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, bacteria, butterflies, calcium carbonate, cryptochromes, Darwinian evolution, fruit flies, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Israel, Living Waters, magnetotactic bacteria, memory, prokaryotes, salmon, Secrets of the Cell, The Scientist, United Kingdom}

For Navigating Animals, a Gift from Magnetotactic Bacteria

_{David Coppedge
April 29, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

10}

Nowhere do these scientists explain how bacteria invented magnetotaxis and encoded it into their genes. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
April 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alan Turing, Arizona State University, ATP, Charles Darwin, DNA, English, enzymes, Eugene Koonin, evolution, intelligent design, laptop computer, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, memory, National Center for Biotechnology Information, PNAS, RNA, Sara Walker, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Tree of Life}

Sara Walker and Her Crew Publish the Most Interesting Biology Paper of 2022 (So Far, Anyway)

_{Paul Nelson
April 5, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Universal functional requirements, but without the identity of material components — sounds like design. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 26, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, crabs, crustaceans, evolution, learning, lobsters, memory, octopuses, shrimp, stress, Swansea University}

Can Crabs Think? Can Lobsters Feel?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 26, 2021

Evolution

3}

What about shrimp? Their brains turn out to have memory and learning centers, which has triggered an evolution squabble. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 28, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Aristotle, body, brain, breathing, DNA, free will, intellect, intelligence, memory, mind, nervous system, philosophers, soul, Thomas Aquinas, vision}

If IQ Is Inherited, Is the Intellect Simply Material?

_{Michael Egnor
April 28, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

3}

The widely accepted heritability of IQ — between 57 percent and 80 percent in twin studies — is strong evidence for the materiality of the intellect. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 29, 2021

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, anesthesia, consciousness, medical students, medicine, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, pain, surgery, unconsciousness, Walter Bradley Center}

Egnor: Disturbing Questions About Consciousness

_{David Klinghoffer
January 29, 2021

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

2}

Think about this next time you are put under general anesthesia, which I hope neither you nor I will be anytime soon. Read More ›