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Date
June 19, 2022

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, flies, mice, neurons, neuroscience, neuroscientists, researchers, visual cortex}

Yes, Brains — Like Computers — Have a Low-Power Mode

_{Science & Culture
June 19, 2022

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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Sure they do. It makes a lot of sense to conserve power when food supplies are low. Read More ›

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Date
June 9, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, eating, intelligent design, mice, neuroscientists, Research, traffic}

How Brains Use Data Compression to Get Things Right

_{Science & Culture
June 9, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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A recent experiment with mice showed data compression at work when the mice were making decisions about how to get a reward. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 11, 2020

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain activity, brain hemispheres, consciousness, dualism, human brain, materialism, mice, mind-brain debate, Neurologica, neuroscience, Steven Novella, Yale University}

Has Neuroscience “Proved” that the Mind Is Just the Brain?

_{Michael Egnor
December 11, 2020

Neuroscience & Mind

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Yale's Steven Novella has been trying to sell his materialist ideology in the guise of neuroscience for more than a decade. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
December 10, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, biological systems, blood clotting, Boston Review, Case Western Reserve University, Cell (journal), Darwin's Black Box, Darwinists, Eugenie Scott, evolution, fibrinogen, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan Wells, Karl Giberson, mice, Michael Ruse, MIT, National Academy of Sciences, natural selection, pathology, philosophers, pregnancy, Robert Pennock, Russell Doolittle, The Scientist, UC San Diego, William A. Dembski}

Excerpt: A Reply to Michael Ruse

_{Michael Behe
December 10, 2020

Biochemistry, Evolution

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Let me tell a little story about blood clotting, Russell Doolittle, and Michael Ruse. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 7, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, animals, anthropocentrism, bioethicists, humans, Jane Goodall, medical experiments, mice, misanthropy, monkeys, Nuremberg Code, rats, reduction}

Rats Are People, Too!

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 7, 2020

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Medicine, Philosophy

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A philosopher and a bioethicist want a “Jane Goodall” to come forward as “an ambassador for rats.” Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
February 28, 2020

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, carnivorous plants, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Black Box, Irreducible Complexity, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, mice, Michael Behe, mousetrap, nature, Utricularia}

Aquatic Bladderworts — Michael Behe’s “Irreducibly Complex” Mousetrap in Nature

_{Granville Sewell
February 28, 2020

Botany, Life Sciences

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Behe offered the mousetrap as an example of a simple everyday device that is “irreducibly complex.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 2, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, Amazon, Brazil, capitalism, China, Communists, Donald Trump, ecocide, evolution, fish, free market, genocide, grass, human rights, insects, mice, nature rights, New York Times, people, snakes, The Hague}

With Amazon Fires as a Pretext, “Ecocide” Advocacy Goes Mainstream

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 2, 2019

Bioethics

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Radical environmentalists intend to thwart human thriving in order to “save the planet.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 6, 2019

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, APOB, Arthur Hunt, blubber, brown bears, Cell (journal), cholesterol, Darwin Devolves, devolution, evolution, high fat diet, Liu et al. (2014), mice, Michael Behe, mutations, Nathan Lents, Nature Reviews Genetics, New Scientist, Polar Bear Seminar, polar bears, PolyPhen-2, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, Shiping Liu}

Polar Bear Seminar: New Evidence That Michael Behe Is Right

_{Casey Luskin
May 6, 2019

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Many studies show that degradative mutations in APOB cause decreased cholesterol. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
May 2, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptation, amino acids, APOB, cholesterol, Darwin Devolves, diet, disease, evolution, function, genes, genome, genotype, mice, Michael Behe, mutations, phenotype, polar bears, PolyPhen-2, proteins, Shiping Liu}

Remind Me Again Why We Picked Polar Bears?

_{Ann Gauger
May 2, 2019

Evolution

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The core difficulty for some scientists who read Michael Behe’s book is also the key idea at its heart. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 5, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __nedited, activists, criminals, development, earth, ecocide, environmentalism, fish, genocide, global warming, grass, insects, Lake Erie, mice, natural resources, natural world, nature, nature rights, people, prison, snakes, The Guardian, The Hague, Toledo, United Nations}

“Ecocide” Would Criminalize Resource Development

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 5, 2019

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Human Exceptionalism

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Note that “peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants” is a very broad term that is not limited to human beings. Rather, it includes everything from grass, fish, and insects, to mice, snakes, and people. Read More ›