Tag: rats

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 13, 2025

Categories
Arts
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, brain, brain activity, Bridget Queenan, Christof Koch, consciousness, human exceptionalism, immaterial reality, language, materialism, Michael Egnor, Michael Gazzaniga, mind, music, rats, Roger Sperry, signal systems, soul, spirit, split-brain patients, volume}

Missing Brains and the “Music Model” of Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 13, 2025

Arts, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Gazzaniga and Queenan’s new model accounts for missing brain parts but it leaves out the very thing that creates the music. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, Dogs, Faye Flam, Georgia Tech, Harvard University, hypothermia, mammals, mice, neuroscience, Phys.org, proteins, rats, The Scientist, water}

Non-Evolution of the Wet Dog Shake

_{David Coppedge
December 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Common things can become extraordinary when examined by science. In this research, evolutionists need not apply. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 3, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, animals, bioethicists, brains, doctors, experts, human life, humans, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, organoids, philosophers, rats, Research, speciesism, unborn humans}

We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals”

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 3, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

7}

Bioethics is a utilitarianish social-political movement whose primary advocates are usually philosophers, lawyers, and/or doctors. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, beavers, China, Cretaceous, Dan Graur, Darwinism, Early Paleocene, East Asia, Euarchontoglires, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, guinea pigs, mammals, mice, molecular clock studies, Mongolia, Nebraska, Oligocene, Paleocene, PaleoDB, placental mammals, rabbits, rats, rodents, squirrels, stratigraphy}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Lagomorphs and Rodents

_{Günter Bechly
February 10, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

60}

Molecular biologist Dan Graur mentioned his weird idea that guinea pigs are not rodents at a lecture at my university in Tübingen when I was still a student. Read More ›

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Date
July 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, African elephants, Asian elephants, bison, Casey Luskin, cattle, chimpanzees, Darwinian theory, evolution, Günter Bechly, Hawaiian Silverswords, horses, humans, ID the Future, mice, phenotypic plasticity, pygmy hippo, rats, river hippo, species pairs, spectacled bear}

Günter Bechly: Species Pairs Wreck Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
July 2, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

2}

Bechly and host Casey Luskin discuss cattle and bison, horses and donkeys, the Asian black bear and the South American spectacled bear, and more. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
June 21, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, adrenaline, Andromeda galaxy, ankylosing spondylitis, babies, bonobos, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, comedians, Doctor's Diary (series), evolution, exercise, fish, gorillas, human origins, humor, Immune System, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, laughter, oxygenation, rats, Robin Williams, specified complexity, The New England Journal of Medicine, topoisomerases, UCLA, Uranus}

Doctor’s Diary: There’s Nothing Funny About Evolution

_{Geoffrey Simmons
June 21, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Is a sense of humor a byproduct, an accident, or was it installed on purpose? For better health? There definitely seems to be a purpose. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
June 1, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, animals, ants, decisions, foraging, gambling, heuristic, humans, Mary Olmstead, neurons, pigeons, rationality, rats, reward, risk, Valerie Kuhlmeier}

Animal Algorithms: Ant Foraging Is a “Rational” Behavior

_{Eric Cassell
June 1, 2022

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

Of course, ants and other animals do not make decisions in a “conscious” manner as humans would. Instead they rely on algorithms. Read More ›

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Date
January 26, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, ants, Canada, Eric Cassell, ethology, evolution, flies, Flight: The Genius of Birds, gnats, instinct, intelligent design, magnetic field, map sense, Mexico, Monarch butterflies, mosquitos, National Zoo, Nature (journal), navigation, olfaction, rats, Rockefeller University, sea turtles, Stephen Talbott}

Uncannily Organic: Navigation Is More than Genes

_{Science and Culture
January 26, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

The capabilities of animals to know their positions and make corrections seem beyond the abilities of coded instructions or brain size. Read More ›

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Date
September 16, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood pressure, cats, Darwinism, Dogs, evolutionary theory, information, intelligent design, lobsters, Northwestern University, PNAS, rabbits, rats, rodents, whiskers}

Rats! Another Code Found in Whiskers

_{Science and Culture
September 16, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Neurons in a rat’s whiskers “represent multiple stimulus features in a tiled and continuous manner, thus encoding large regions of a complex sensory space.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 14, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, common descent, Copernican principle, fleas, Human Zoos, Jacques Barzun, John West, London, pandemic, plague, Plato, Racism, rats, scientism, Thomas Henry Huxley, Werner Heisenberg, X Club, Yersinia pestis}

Sunday with the Devil’s Acolyte — Thomas Henry Huxley

_{Michael Flannery
September 14, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

9}

Although the designation of Huxley as Darwin’s “bulldog” is well known, acolyte is a more appropriate term and here’s why. Read More ›