Tag: plasticity

Veterinarian in protective clothing tending to a pig on a farm, emphasizing animal care and health management

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 7, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, AIDS, animal experiments, animal research, animals, bodily systems, brain, Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy, dialysis, Edward Taub, federal funding, human organs, human research, Jesse Gelsinger, kidney, Make America Healthy Again, medicine, monkeys, organ transplant, pigs, plasticity, primates, Research, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., surgery, Towana Looney, World War II}

For MAHA’s Sake, Don’t Eliminate Animal Experimentation

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 7, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Years ago, Dr. Edward Taub hypothesized that brain function could exhibit greater plasticity than it was believed at the time. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 1, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Armin Moczek, charity, conferences, Darwinian theory, Douglas Axe, epigenetics, Eugene Koonin, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionists, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Facebook, Günter Bechly, Günter Wagner, Indiana University, intelligent design, Maryland, Modern Synthesis, New Trends in Evolutionary Biology, Paul Nelson, plasticity, Royal Society, status, Stephen Buranyi, Stephen Meyer, The Guardian}

Happy New Year! #1 Story of 2022: Evolutionists Admit Their Field’s Failures

_{David Klinghoffer
January 1, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If you’ve ever owned an automobile toward the end of its life, the situation will be familiar. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 1, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Armin Moczek, charity, conferences, Darwinian theory, epigenetics, Eugene Koonin, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionists, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Facebook, Günter Bechly, Günter Wagner, Indiana University, intelligent design, Maryland, Modern Synthesis, New Trends in Evolutionary Biology, Paul Nelson, plasticity, Royal Society, status, Stephen Buranyi, Stephen Meyer, The Guardian}

Donate Darwinism for a Tax Credit? Evolutionists Admit Their Field’s Failures

_{David Klinghoffer
July 1, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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If you’ve ever owned an automobile toward the end of its life, the situation will be familiar. Read More ›

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Date
April 26, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Connecticut, consciousness, free will, mind, MIT, neuroscience, plasticity, Russian, Wired}

Can a Human Be Gifted Despite Missing Lots of Brain?

_{Science & Culture
April 26, 2022

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Most of what is going on in the human mind is not as dependent on the brain as some approaches to neuroscience would require. Read More ›

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Date
January 20, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Darwinians, de novo genes, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, E. coli, George Wald, imagination, natural selection, Nature (journal), non-coding DNA, open reading frames, plasticity, proteins}

Can New Genes Emerge from Scratch?

_{Science & Culture
January 20, 2020

Evolution

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Evolutionary theory must account for millions of new genes by chance. Here are new ideas proposed for overcoming the huge probability barrier. Read More ›

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Date
August 15, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __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 ›