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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
November 22, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, apoptosis, arthritis, cancer, cell death, cells, chemotherapy, death, DNA, embryo, Immune System, membranes, multicellular life, Neural Networks, neurons, organelles, radiation, recycling, tissues}

Cellular Self-Sacrifice — And an Allegory

_{Ann Gauger
November 22, 2019

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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No one knows how apoptosis came to be, although there are theories. Even the simplest of animals are programmed for it. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 22, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, abstract thought, Benjamin Libet, cerebral cortex, Darwinian evolution, Devil, dualism, magic, materialism, Michael Egnor, Neural Networks, neurons, neuroscience, psychiatry, Roger Sperry, Science Uprising, seizures, Spain, Spanish Inquisition, superstition, University of Toronto, Wikipedia, Wilder Penfield}

Explaining Abstract Thought in Materialist Terms: The Horns of a Dilemma

_{David Klinghoffer
July 22, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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What an interesting choice of art. What’s up with that? Goya painted other works on the same theme. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
June 27, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, anus, axon, brain, Darwinists, Doctor's Diary (series), embryo, eye, heart, intelligent design, lips, locomotion, nerve cells, nervous system, neurons, pain, pressure, temperature}

Doctor’s Diary: The Design of the Human Nervous System

_{Geoffrey Simmons
June 27, 2019

Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Our skin and our insides are laced with an invisible, highly sophisticated, selective, neurological netting. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 7, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, Albert Einstein, brain, creativity, information, math, microtubules, Mind Matters, nature, neurons, probability, quantum mechanics, quantum state, randomness, Robert J. Marks II, specified complexity, universe}

Robert Marks: Randomness and the Enigma of Creativity

_{David Klinghoffer
December 7, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Only a freely acting, designing agent resolves the mystery. Only such an agent creates, truly, ex nihilo. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 23, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, "survival of the fittest", baby, birth, brain, breathing, cells, cervix, development, Doctor's Diary (series), egg, embryo, fingerprints, hypoxia, intelligent design, lungs, Modernizing Darwin (series), mother, mutations, neurons, organs, oxygen, placenta, surgery, uterus, zygote}

Doctor’s Diary: To Make a Baby Requires Intelligent Design

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 23, 2018

Intelligent Design, Medicine

6}

Like a well-written, trillion-page novel, every micro-step, every macro-step, every twist and turn of our development follows a master plan. Read More ›

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Date
August 15, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, acorn worms, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran Period, evolution, Hong Kong, invertebrates, lancelets, nervous system, neurons, Nobel Prize, phylum, plasticity, PLOS Biology, PNAS, sea urchins, tunicates, vertebrates}

Placozoa: An Evolutionary Leftover?

_{Science & Culture
August 15, 2018

Evolution

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Simple, small, and worldwide in distribution, the placozoa don’t fit any clear evolutionary picture. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 11, 2018

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, abstract thought, animals, Aristotle, artificial intelligence, Australia, dog, food, honeybees, humans, neurons, nothing, researchers, universals, visual cortex, zero}

Can Bees Understand the Concept of “Zero”?

_{Michael Egnor
June 11, 2018

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The scientists credited the bees with more intelligence than some humans. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 5, 2018

Categories
Chemistry
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, abstract thought, action potentials, brain, cat, intellect, justice, mind, neurons, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, universals, will}

The Representation Problem and the Immateriality of the Mind

_{Michael Egnor
February 5, 2018

Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

5}

If I think about a particular thing — my cat Tabby, for example — my actual cat Tabby isn’t in my brain. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 22, 2018

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Aristotle, brain, Cartesian dualism, emergence, materialism, matter, mind, neurons, neurotransmitters, ontology, res cogitans, res extensa, soul, Thomism, water}

“Emergence” and the Soul

_{Michael Egnor
January 22, 2018

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Emergence, as a perceptual surprise, can’t explain the mind because emergence presupposes the mind. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 6, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, experiments, feelings, Ingrid Newkirk, laboratory, medicine, mice, neurons, Nuremberg Code, PETA, Research, schizophrenia, thinking, wrist}

Animal Researchers Should Be Proud

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 6, 2018

Medicine

4}

We are often awed at the medical miracles that save so many of our lives and alleviate unquantifiable levels of human suffering. Read More ›