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Return of the Lizard Brain? It Seems Not

It’s easy to see why people might latch onto the idea of a reptilian brain as an explainer, or an explainaway, for complex topics. Read More ›
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What if the Brain Is a Filter?

The idea would provides insight into one of the most significant characteristics of near-death experiences, the extraordinary lucidity that experiencers report. Read More ›
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Got Any Theories of Consciousness? Sure, About 325 of Them

Consciousness research may be a degenerating paradigm. Philosopher Imre Lakatos used the term to refer to a situation where science is not progressing. Read More ›
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Of Bee Brains, ChatGPT, and Fists of Ham

Happily, a recent philosopher has provided some intellectual tools for avoiding the sort of ham-fisted either/or approach to consciousness. Read More ›
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Nose Knows Better than Darwinism; Design Logic Explains Why

"By mapping millions of neurons in mice, researchers discovered that smell receptors in the nose aren’t random at all." Read More ›
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More Challenges to Ediacaran Animal Fossils

Joseph Botting is actually very skeptical of the paper’s purported example of an Ediacaran ctenophore, and he believes it is in fact a cnidarian. Read More ›
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Extraordinary Genetic Convergent Evolution in Moths and Butterflies

The practice of re-usage of functional parts in different systems is “ubiquitous” in human-designed technology just as convergence is “ubiquitous” in biology. Read More ›
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Precision Design Logic Explains Neural Wiring Guidance Better than Darwinism Does

This is why Darwinists can easily incorporate new discoveries into their origin narrative. It is because they never really address the true causal implications. Read More ›
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After K–T Extinction Event, Life’s Unexpected Rebound Was “Ridiculously Fast”

Although the welfare of plankton may not be at the very top of most people’s minds, these tiny organisms fill an important ecological niche. Read More ›
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Precision Design Logic Explains Childbirth Better than Darwinism Does

It is only in the last few decades that science has been able to unravel what is going on at the molecular level within the uterus during labor and delivery. Read More ›

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