Tag: physiology

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 1, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, anatomy, anger, auditory system, awareness, biochemistry, Biological Psychiatry, biology, botany, brain, central nervous system, Champalimaud Foundation, Darwinian evolution, design sense, Douglas Axe, engineering, environment, False Messiah, fear, Helene Langevin, holistic approach, homeostasis, hunger, insular cortex, intelligent design, interoception, joints, limbs, Lisbon, mice, microbiology, muscles, Neil Thomas, neurons, neuroscience, organs, parasites, physiology, PIEZO1, Piezo2, PLOS Biology, Portugal, proprioception, Scripps Research, somatosensory cortex, space, stress, Systems Biology, TIME, Trends in Neurosciences, Undeniable (book), Wen G. Chen, zoology}

Interoception: An Emerging Design Concept in Biology

_{David Coppedge
December 1, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We’ve heard of proprioception, the awareness of our limbs in space and time, but interoception is a companion sense. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 20, 2025

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, acidopore, animal intelligence, animal tool use, ants, bears, biology, canine, crab bait, crab trap, Elie Dolgin, Formicinae ants, human intelligence, information, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, Keizo Takasuka, Lasius flavus, Lasius japonicus, Lasius orientalis, Lasius umbratus, Mihai Andrei, National Zoo, neuroscience, Paul Paquet, Phie Jacobs, physiology, Platonic realm, Science News, tool use, University of Victoria, West Coast, wolf, ZME Science}

Does Animal Intelligence Point to a Platonic Realm of Pure Information?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 20, 2025

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind

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How could a life form like an ant — not known for creative or independent thinking as such but rather for a hive mind — “evolve” such a strategy? Read More ›

Natural Selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype, text concept button on keyboard

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 17, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, agnosticism, Alexander von Humboldt, Artificial Selection, breeders, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Dov Ospovat, Edward Bouverie Pusey, English, fossil record, George Eliot, HMS Beagle, livestock, metaphors, natural selection, naturalists, Naturphilosophie, Origin of Species, paleobiologists, physiology, Quarterly Review, Richard Owen, Samuel Wilberforce, terminology, theology, Victorian England, world spirit}

What’s in a Name? Darwin’s Confusing Terminology

_{Neil Thomas
November 17, 2025

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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In the English language prior to Darwin, “natural selection” was a term used by those who reared animals to denote nature’s serendipity. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
October 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __recommended, abstraction, aeronautics, airflow, airfoil, Albert Einstein, anatomy, antennae, arches, Aristotle, balloons, biology, bird wings, black-body radiation, duality, emergence, engineering, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, footballs, formalisms, function, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, mathematicians, Michael Behe, molecular biology, parachutes, physics, physiology, Pierre-Simon Laplace, pistons, propellers, pulleys, radiators, René Descartes, Return of the God Hypothesis, rockets, science of purpose, scientism, specified irreducible complexity, Stephen Meyer, structure, structure-function dualism, structure-function relationship, Werner Heisenberg, What Is Life?, wing}

Emergence and Irreducible Complexity: A Unified Theory

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
October 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We are all familiar with the duality — structure and function — from both technology and biology. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
October 13, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anatomy, Artur Świergiel, beauty, biochemistry, Darwinism, Dimenticare Darwin, Discovery Institute, Europe, Giuseppe Sermonti, Grzegorz Malec, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Italy, Jonathan McLatchie, Jonathan Wells, Mauro Stenico, Nature, Norway, order, Øyvind Voie, paleontologists, physiology, Poland, Seattle, Umberto Fasol, United Kingdom, United States, utilitarianism, Venice, Vittorio Cocchi, Why Is a Fly Not a Horse?}

At Conference in Venice, Scientists Discuss Challenges to Darwin, Past and Future

_{John G. West
October 13, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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One of the highlights was a poignant talk by Italian biologist Umberto Fasol, who recounted how a seminal book challenging Darwinism had changed his life Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Environment & Climate
Faith & Science
Tagged
, American South, autobiography, barometers, Bible, California, clocks, daydreaming, health, inflammation, James Hutchings, Jeanne Carr, John Muir, Journal of Experimental Psychology, lamplighters, Madison, motivation, national parks, naturalists, nature, nostalgia, pain, physiology, sawmills, Sierra Nevada, stream of consciousness, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, thinking, wilderness, Wisconsin State Fair, Yosemite Valley}

Why John Muir Chose Nature Over Machines

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 4, 2025

Bioethics, Botany, Environment & Climate, Faith & Science

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The famous naturalist put human inventions aside to reap the benefits of nature. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 3, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, birds, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, dinosaurs, Dromaeosauridae, Fossil Friday (series), intelligent design, John Ray, mammals, physiology, pterosaurs, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Wyoming}

Fossil Friday: A Scientific Controversy About Warm-Blooded Animals

_{Günter Bechly
January 3, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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How do popularizers of Darwinism such as Richard Dawkins react? Unsurprisingly, they just ignore the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 23, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, behaviors, biological forms, body plans, computer code, creationism, Darwin's Doubt, David Klinghoffer, development, dGRNs, DNA, evo-devo, evolution, gene regulatory networks, Gerd Müller, intelligent design, Modern Synthesis, mutations, phenotype, physiology, Stephen Meyer, The Joe Rogan Experience, University of Vienna}

Eminent Biologist Gerd Müller Responds to Stephen Meyer’s Arguments from the Joe Rogan Podcast

_{Casey Luskin
July 23, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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These are important statements that get at the very heart of the viability of evolutionary models. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 20, 2024

Categories
Botany
Ecology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, animals, biofilm, calendars, caterpillars, Current Biology, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian evolution, evolution, foresight, intelligent design, natural selection, pandemics, Phenology, physiology, PNAS, Robert Shedinger, seasons, sensors, Stonehenge, temperature}

Phenology: The Science of Seasonal Adaptation

_{David Coppedge
May 20, 2024

Botany, Ecology, Intelligent Design

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No, not phrenology — phenology. It’s not pseudoscience, but a lesser-known branch of science that includes birds, bees, and trees. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
May 7, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, behavior, body size, Brown University, David N. Reznick, downstream, eggs, evolution, females, Finding Darwin's God, fish, genetic diversity, guppies, J.B.S. Haldane, Kenneth Miller, morphology, mutations, natural selection, physiology, population dynamics, predators, random mutation, upstream, variation}

Are Guppies Examples of Darwinian Macroevolution?

_{Emily Reeves
May 7, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It was 1961, in the steep mountain streams of Trinidad where cascading waterfalls create barriers which predatory fish can’t overcome. Read More ›