Tag: muscles

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 1, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, anatomy, anger, auditory system, awareness, biochemistry, Biological Psychiatry, biology, botany, brain, central nervous system, Champalimaud Foundation, Darwinian evolution, design sense, Douglas Axe, engineering, environment, False Messiah, fear, Helene Langevin, holistic approach, homeostasis, hunger, insular cortex, intelligent design, interoception, joints, limbs, Lisbon, mice, microbiology, muscles, Neil Thomas, neurons, neuroscience, organs, parasites, physiology, PIEZO1, Piezo2, PLOS Biology, Portugal, proprioception, Scripps Research, somatosensory cortex, space, stress, Systems Biology, TIME, Trends in Neurosciences, Undeniable (book), Wen G. Chen, zoology}

Interoception: An Emerging Design Concept in Biology

_{David Coppedge
December 1, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We’ve heard of proprioception, the awareness of our limbs in space and time, but interoception is a companion sense. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 24, 2025

Categories
Historical Sciences
Paleontology
Tagged
, Aspidella, Ausia, Ausia fenestrata, Australia, California, Cambrian Explosion, certainty, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Dilemma, Darwin’s Doubt, Death Valley, debates, ecology, Ediacaran biota, fossils, Günter Bechly, GUT, metazoans, muscles, Nama Group, Namibia, nervous system, organs, peacock, Petalonamae, Pteridinium, Rangeomorpha, sea squirt, Simon Conway Morris, South Africa, Stephen Meyer, suspension feeders, taphonomy, urochordate}

Despite Exceptionally Well-Preserved Namibian Fossils, Ediacaran Mystery Remains

_{David Coppedge
November 24, 2025

Historical Sciences, Paleontology

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Simon Conway Morris described the Ediacaran ecology as a “sleepy” world of simple, passive creatures bearing no resemblance to what was to come. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 7, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, alcohol, Alzheimer’s disease, Aristotle, behaviors, brain, brain activity, electrical discharges, emotions, epilepsy, forced thinking, medical treatment, migraines, mind, muscles, neuorscience, neurons, neuroscience, obsessive-compulsive behavior, odors, physiological reactions, seizure, stroke, Thomas Aquinas, Wilder Penfield}

What Epilepsy Can Teach About the Mind

_{Michael Egnor
May 7, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

I have treated thousands of patients with epilepsy. Seizures can result in a variety of behaviors and emotions. But let me tell you what they don't do. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 4, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, agency, Benjamin Libet, brain, compatibilism, Darwinian processes, Denyse O'Leary, Determined (book), evolution, Free Agents, free will, Kevin Mitchell, materialists, muscles, neurobiology, neuroscientists, randomness, Robert Sapolsky, Trinity College Dublin}

Did Evolution Give Us Free Will?

_{Daniel Witt
March 4, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

8}

If you pick up a book up about free will by a materialist, you are generally safe to assume that the point will be to explain that free will is an illusion. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 13, 2025

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract, animal intelligence, babies, cats, Dogs, human mind, humans, intelligence, Live Science, muscles, Oakland University}

Cat Versus Baby Intelligence: A Comparison

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 13, 2025

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

Cat intelligence is of a rather different kind from dog intelligence (to say nothing of human intelligence). Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 17, 2024

Categories
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, augustine, blood, brains, carbon dioxide, Denyse O'Leary, emotions, free will, heart, intellect, kidneys, memories, muscles, Mystery of the Mind, neuroscience, oxygen, pain, Plato, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, urine, Wilder Penfield}

What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?

_{Michael Egnor
December 17, 2024

Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

6}

A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 4, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, computers, design motifs, evolution, human limbs, ID the Future, intelligent design, muscles, robotics, sensors, Stuart Burgess, vehicles, vertebrate limbs, whale flipper}

The Universal Optimal Design of Vertebrate Limbs

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 4, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

When we look at feats of human engineering, like vehicles, skyscrapers, and computers, we don’t doubt our intuition that they’re intelligently designed. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, dickinsoniids, Ediacaran biota, Epibaion, flatworms, Fossil Friday (series), jello, microbial mats, muscles, nervous system, Precambrian, protists, South Australia, trace fossils, Tribrachidium}

Fossil Friday: An Ediacaran Animal with a Question Mark

_{Günter Bechly
November 8, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

8}

To claim that such undefinable blobs in sandstone represent fossils of the oldest motile animals is massively overselling the evidence to say the least. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 16, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, circulatory system, complexity, connective tissue, evolutionary mechanisms, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Behe, muscle contraction, muscle fibers, muscles, nervous system, respiratory system, skeletal system, tendons}

The Incredible Design of Muscles

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 16, 2024

Biochemistry, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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To understand the limitations of evolutionary mechanisms, we have to “bite the bullet of complexity,” as biochemist Michael Behe writes. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 26, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, air conditioning, aspirin, bacteria, blood vessels, body heat, body temperature, brain, catalysis, chills, enzymes, evolution, fever, heat, hypothalamus, infection, inflammation, intelligent design, muscle tone, muscles, neurons, ovens, skin, sweating, temperature, thermostats, white blood cells}

In Its Design, the Body’s Thermostat Resembles Human Technology

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 26, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The existence of thermostatic control of our body temperature is not at all surprising supposing life to be the product of a purposeful engineer. Read More ›