Tag: nutrients

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 11, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, Arthur Caplan, artificial hydration and nutrition, bioethics, chemotherapy, competency, dehydration, dementia, feeding tubes, food, hygiene, liquids, medical treatment, medicine, Medscape, nurse, nursing, nutrients, patients, spoon-feeding, starvation, surgery, swallowing, Terri Schiavo}

Should Caregivers Be Forced to Starve Dementia Patients?

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 11, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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If you did such a thing to a dog, you would go to jail. When will we say, “Enough. This is too much to ask”? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 27, 2025

Categories
Botany
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Biomimetics, David Coppedge, Deightoniella, ferns, fungi, ID the Future, intelligent design, jackhammers, missiles, natural designs, nutrients, Pilobolus, plant anatomy, plant reproduction, plant root systems, podcast, root hairs, root tips, roots, soil, spores, squirt gun, stabilizers, turgor pressure, water}

Missiles and Jackhammers: How Plants Spread Themselves Far and Wide

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 27, 2025

Botany, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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I welcome science reporter David Coppedge to explore some fascinating examples of intelligent design in the plant world. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 4, 2025

Categories
Planetology
Rare Earth
Tagged
, astrobiologists, Christopher McKay, Icarus, Mars, nutrients, perchlorates, soil, spacecraft, Viking mission}

Hope for Mars Life Is Dashed Again

_{David Coppedge
March 4, 2025

Planetology, Rare Earth

1}

Subsequent landers discovered a high concentration of perchlorates in the soil. Perchlorates are chlorinated salts, often used in fireworks. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 20, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Abderrazak El Albani, agglutinated protists, Eukaryota, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Francevillian Formation, Gabon, Gabonionta, Lake Michigan, Metazoa, morphology, Natural History Museum, nutrients, phosphates, precambrian fossils, protists, Vienna, word salad}

Fossil Friday: Update on the Dubious Nature of the Precambrian Gabonionta

_{Günter Bechly
September 20, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

12}

What we definitely do not find here is any credible evidence for an evolutionary transition to genuine multicellular eukaryotes. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 29, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain damage, brains, circulation, death, emergency room, Lucid Dying, Nature (journal), neuroscience, nutrients, oxygen, oxygenation, pigs, resuscitation, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, Yale University}

Pig Brains Thought Dead May Be Revived

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 29, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

Pigs are considered useful biomedical models for humans so the implications of such studies sent waves through the field of resuscitation — and bioethics. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 21, 2024

Categories
Anatomy
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Aldovanda, carnivorous plants, carnivory, Charles Darwin, chitinase, Cologne, convergence, Darwin's Black Box, digestion, digestive enzymes, Dionaea, enzymes, evolution, Genlisea, Germany, Heinz-Albert Becker, insects, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, morphology, Nepenthes, nutrients, On the Origin of Species, prey, tentacles, Utricularia, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Carnivory in Plants: A Problem for Evolution

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 21, 2024

Anatomy, Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The paper highlights features of carnivorous plants that exhibit irreducible complexity, a characteristic of designed systems, citing the work of Michael Behe. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinism, Devonian era, Devonian Nekton Revolution, explosions, Fossil Friday (series), history of life, nutrients, oxygen, paleobiology, paleontology, revolutions, saltations, Scotland, sharks, swimming, textbooks, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: The Devonian Nekton Revolution

_{Günter Bechly
May 12, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

4}

Such explosions and revolutions dominate the history of life, which was rather a series of abrupt saltations than the gradual change predicted by Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
April 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, ATP, cell membranes, cells, evolution, histidine, intelligent design, lipids, Long Story Short, Mycoplasma genitalium, nutrients, phospholipid, proteins, protons, researchers, waste}

New Animated Video: Cell Membranes by Natural Processes Alone?

_{Rob Stadler
April 5, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

Cell membranes are essential for life because they actively maintain homeostasis, providing a consistent environment inside the cell. Read More ›

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Date
January 25, 2022

Categories
Biology
Geophysics
Origin of Life
Rare Earth
Tagged
, bacteria, biophysics, Cambrian Explosion, eukaryotes, evolution, geochemistry, geophysics, Great Oxidation Event, heme, hemoglobin, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, iron, Mars, nutrients, oceans, Oxford University, oxygen, PNAS, supernova, toxicity, Washington University}

No Iron, No Life: Intelligent Design in Iron Availability

_{Science and Culture
January 25, 2022

Biology, Geophysics, Origin of Life, Rare Earth

9}

As an exercise, count the number of lucky breaks that had to occur for the evolutionary story to work. Read More ›

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Date
February 15, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, biosphere, body heat, Bridalveil Fall, carbon dioxide, circulatory system, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Denton, minerals, nutrients, oxygen, rivers, rock, streams, The Wonder of Water, water, Yosemite}

Wonder of Water: Michael Denton at Bridalveil Fall

_{Science and Culture
February 15, 2020

Intelligent Design

1}

Thanks to a unique cluster of properties, water is able to fulfill many roles essential to our living planet. Read More ›