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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
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Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
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Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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neuroscience

Venus flytrap
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 15, 2022
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Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
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Are Plants Conscious? Science Writer Says Yes

Denyse O’Leary
December 15, 2022
Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind
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Annaka Harris, neuroscience and physics writer, starts by casting doubt on human consciousness. Read More ›
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octopus
Photo: California two-spot octopus, by Tom Kleindinst via Marine Biological Laboratory.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 9, 2022
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Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
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MicroRNAs: A New Clue About Octopus Intelligence?

Denyse O’Leary
December 9, 2022
Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Science
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While octopus brains are very different from vertebrate brains, they share with vertebrates, a huge number of microRNAs. Read More ›
Marlies_van_Baalen_with_Kigali
Photo: Dressage, by Fotoimage, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 8, 2022
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Neuroscience & Mind
Science
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Do Centaurs Really Exist? The Surprising Truth

Denyse O’Leary
December 8, 2022
Neuroscience & Mind, Science
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Well, a half human/half horse cannot literally exist — but the way horses and humans work together has been called a “miracle.” Read More ›
near-death experience
Photo credit: Peter E, via Flickr (cropped).
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David Klinghoffer
Date
November 10, 2022
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Neuroscience & Mind
Science
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Neuroscientist: Near-Death Experiences Are “Utterly Incompatible” with Materialism

David Klinghoffer
November 10, 2022
Neuroscience & Mind, Science
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"NDE studies suggest that after physical death, mind and consciousness may continue in a transcendent level of reality." Read More ›
hallucination
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Michael Egnor
Date
October 19, 2022
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Neuroscience & Mind
Science
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Is Consciousness a “Controlled Brain Hallucination”?

Michael Egnor
October 19, 2022
Neuroscience & Mind, Science
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Anil Seth explains away consciousness away using fashionable terms like that. As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I know from clinical experience that he is wrong. Read More ›
túngara frog
Photo: A túngara frog, by Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Date
October 15, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
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How Frogs and Fish “Count”

Science & Culture
October 15, 2022
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind
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We’re beginning to find out more about how animals that don’t really “think” much can keep track of numbers, when needed. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
September 8, 2022
Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Philosophy
Science
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Can Red Have “Redness” if No Self Perceives It?

Denyse O’Leary
September 8, 2022
Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life, Philosophy, Science
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Is not the fact that we are having these discussions the best available evidence that we are not “just overgrown apes or undergrown apes”? Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
September 7, 2022
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Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Science
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Another Philosopher Says the Unified Self Is an Illusion

Denyse O’Leary
September 7, 2022
Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Science
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In an interview, Julian Baggini asserted that, while consciousness is not an illusion, a unified self that persists through time is. Read More ›

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