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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
March 18, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artistry, contingency, death, Ernst Mayr, evolution, females, genetic drift, happenstance, hummingbirds, intelligent design, males, Michael Behe, Modern Synthesis, mutations, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, pain, peacock, phenotype, Richard Dawkins, sexual dimorphism, Stephen Meyer, waste}

Ingenious Artistry in the Origin of Hummingbirds

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
March 18, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In contrast with neo-Darwinism, I conclude that an absolutely ingenious artist was at work here, transcending all human abilities, ideas, and powers. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, David Barash, dehumanization, evolutionary theory, Holy Grail, human-animal hybrid, humans, humanzee, Nautilus, pain, Rob Sheldon, Soviet Union, Templeton Foundation, University of Washington, worms, wrongthink}

Return (Yet Again) of the Humanzee

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 14, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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So it comes down to a war on the human soul. Now, here’s the interesting part: Humans are self-evidently unique. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 26, 2023

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bats, bees, behavior, chimpanzees, consciousness, crows, elephants, emotion, exothermic life, human consciousness, humans, insects, joy, Lars Chittka, octopuses, pain, Scientific American, sentience, Thomas Nagel}

What Do Bees’ Joy and Pain Really Tell Us About Insect Minds?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 26, 2023

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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Efforts to relate insect to human consciousness are doomed because the distinguishing features of human consciousness are abstract thinking and moral choice. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, Africa, Casey Luskin, consciousness, evolutionary biology, fish, flatworm, fossil record, gestation, Gregory Chaitin, hominins, human intelligence, human mind, human origins, Israel, meat, mollusks, mussels, Neanderthals, pain, poetry, pseudoscience, tools}

The Human Mind Has No History

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 19, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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There is no good reason to assume that human intelligence evolved from mud to mind via a long slow history. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
October 11, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, Bible, bodies, cars, death, disease, droughts, evil, flat tire, floods, gravity, human evil, humanity, hurricane, injury, intelligent design, microbes, natural causes, natural disasters, natural events, natural evil, naturalism, pain, poverty, quarks, Scripture, Second Law of Thermodynamics, sickness, suffering, theism, theodicy, tinkering, tornadoes, universe, water, weather}

Thoughts of Evil in a Designed World

_{Eric Hedin
October 11, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Nowhere in the animal world do we see evil that comes anywhere close to comparing with the unfortunate depths of evil displayed by humanity. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 9, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, atheism, Charles Darwin, chess, evolution, fossils, intelligent design, Julian Huxley, Lex Fridman, Magnus Carlsen, meaning, meaninglessness, Norway, On the Origin of Species, pain, paleontologists, religion, Thomas Henry Huxley, University of Chicago}

The Problem of Pain: Julian Huxley, Magnus Carlsen, and the Meaning of Life

_{William A. Dembski
August 9, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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In a conversation with Lex Fridman, Magnus Carlsen betrays no sense of empathy for how his view that life is an accident might negatively impact others. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 31, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, asexual reproduction, budding, chromosome mosaicism, corals, egg, embryo, fetus, hermaphrodite, Homo fetus, Homo sapiens, human being, human development, human life, Jerry Coyne, mentation, microorganisms, morality, mother, murder, neonate, pain, person, pro-life, Roman Catholic, sperm, sponges, tissue, transient gestational hermaphroditism, womb, worms, zygote}

#2 Story of 2022: If a Fetus Isn’t a Human Being, What Is It?

_{Michael Egnor
December 31, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine

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How is it that a leading professor of biology could fundamentally misunderstand the biology of human development? Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
November 28, 2022

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Batsell Barrett Baxter, Brave New World, business, C.S. Lewis, chemotherapy, concentration camp, Corrie ten Boom, danger, freedom, grief, hatred, intelligent design, Jews, literature, love, Melissa Wehmann Sewell, music, pain, poetry, problem of pain, puppets, suffering, Utopia}

Intelligent Design and the Value of Suffering

_{Granville Sewell
November 28, 2022

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Technology

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After she realized she had lost her battle with cancer, my wife Melissa wrote a letter to our children. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
November 17, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, atheism, Batsell Barrett Baxter, C.S. Lewis, cancer, chemotherapy, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, human beings, In the Beginning, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, jesus, Melissa Wehmann Sewell, pain, philosophers, Rabbi Harold Kushner, suffering, surgery, UpReach}

Intelligent Design and the Problem of Pain

_{Granville Sewell
November 17, 2022

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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It is often claimed that the design inference is a religious conclusion. It is not. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 28, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, abstraction, crying, Dogs, emotions, joy, pain, pets, Research, Scientific Reports, Smithsonian Magazine, tears, The Scientist}

Study: Dogs Cry for Joy as Well as Pain

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 28, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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That shouldn’t really be too surprising because the fact that humans and dogs can share emotions is part of what forms bonds between us. Read More ›