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August 15, 2018

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Evolution
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, __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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Michael Egnor

Date
June 11, 2018

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Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __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
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, __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

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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
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, __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
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, __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

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

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 30, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
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, __k-review, Bruce Buff, consciousness, Dan Brown, Darwinian theory, death, emergence, Halloween, intelligent design, materialism, mortality, MRI, National Review Online, neurons, physicalism, soul, supernatural, thriller}

Bruce Buff and Robert Spitzer on All Hallows’ Eve — Materialism as Reality-Denial

_{David Klinghoffer
October 30, 2017

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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“Is the soul real? Or is it just an old construct used to explain what a scientifically illiterate society could not?” Read More ›

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Date
October 20, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
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, __k-review, cnidarian, comb jelly, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Ctenophora, ctenophores, Darwinism, dynein, evolution, hybridization, kinesin, muscles, Neil deGrasse Tyson, nerves, neurons, phylogeny, placozoans, Vanderbilt University, zebrafish}

Embracing Uncertainty: Evolution’s Latest Dodge

_{Science & Culture
October 20, 2017

Evolution, Life Sciences

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Faced with conflicting genetic evidence, Darwinians reach for a new “uncertainty principle” borrowed from physics. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 31, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, adult stem cells, dopamine, embryos, Kyoto University, monkeys, neurons, Research, skin cells, stem cells}

Ethical Stem Cells Relieve Parkinson’s in Monkeys

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 31, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

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The advance of ethical stem cell research continues exponentially. Read More ›

Human nervous system isolated 3D hologram.

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
July 30, 2016

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __nedited, biceps, Continuing Series, epidermis, Golgi apparatus, Health & Wellness, muscle fibers, muscles, nervous system, neurons, receptors, senses, sensors, spinal cord, The Designed Body (series)}

The Neuromuscular System: Your Body’s Balancing Act

_{Howard Glicksman
July 30, 2016

Anatomy, Intelligent Design

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Let's look at some of the ways the body acquires the information it needs about its external and internal environment. Read More ›