Tag: sperm

Ancient footprint embedded in earth, showing detail of toes and sole

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 14, 2025

Categories
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, arithmetic, DNA, egg cells, footprints, Homo sapiens, James Woodford, modern humans, Monte Clérigo, Neanderthals, New Scientist, obstetrics, Patrick Eppenberger, PIEZO1, population disparities, sperm, stillbirths, Switzerland, University of Seville, University of Zurich}

The Neanderthal Story Keeps Evolving (Even if Nothing Else Does)

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 14, 2025

Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The University of Seville announces that Neanderthal footprints found along Portugal’s Algarve coast have led to unexpected insights about Neanderthal culture. Read More ›

Futuristic holographic baby in doctor's hand: exploring virtual reality and medical technology

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 23, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __trending, babies, Big Fertility, bioethics, Brave New World, cells, children, China, CRISPR, designer babies, eggs, embryos, gestational carriers, government, Katy Faust, manufacture, men, parents, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, regulation, reproduction, skin cells, somatic cell nuclear transfer, sperm, Them Before Us, women}

Human Reproduction Is Becoming Human Manufacture

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 23, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

Making eggs out of skin cells is just the latest example of an accelerating reproductive anarchy that is changing our very culture. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
May 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, brain, Brian Miller, chemicals, chess pieces, complexity, concertos, David Klinghoffer, Doctor's Diary (series), double helix, egg, electric cords, embryo, eyes, gene pool, genes, humor, information, intelligent design, Leonardo da Vinci, medicine, piano, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, skyscraper, sperm, Stephen Iacoboni, What Darwin Didn’t Know}

Doctor’s Diary: I Couldn’t Put Plato’s Revenge Down

_{Geoffrey Simmons
May 17, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

I rarely read a book as quickly as I read this text, and I virtually never read a book twice. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, Alabama Supreme Court, death, doctors, egg, embryos, fetuses, human beings, human rights, ideology, in vitro fertilization, independence, IVF, Judeo-Christian tradition, newborns, personhood, petri dish, pregnancy, right to life, sentience, sperm, Steven Novella, womb, Yale University}

The Humanity and Personhood of an Embryo

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2024

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine, Reproductive Science

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A sperm and an egg separately constitute a potential human. But when they unite, the result is a human being from the moment of fertilization. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 20, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, Charles Darwin, egg, evolutionary theory, foresight, forethought, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, podcast, sexual reproduction, sperm}

Sex: Engineered for Success

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 20, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Sexual reproduction depends on an irreducibly complex core of components for its success. Can we credit a gradual evolutionary process for this system? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
December 24, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, acrosin, acrosome, acrosome phase, bacterial flagellum, calcium ions, cap phase, capacitation, cervix, Daniela Nicastro, DNA, dyneins, egg cell, ejaculation, fertilization, fertilized egg, flagellum, foresight, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Golgi phase, haploid genome, Harvard University, human reproduction, hyaluronidase, infant, intelligent design, intent, intercourse, Irreducible Complexity, Jianfeng Lin, middle piece, mitochondria, ovum, reproductive tract, seminal fluid, sperm, sperm cells, teleology, uterine tubes, uterus, zygote}

No. 9 Story of 2023: Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells

_{Jonathan McLatchie
December 24, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

8}

Human reproduction is perhaps the quintessential example of teleology in biology. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
July 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, carpenter, cells, chemical reactions, cytoplasm, egg, ententional, enzymes, function, glucose, hammer, insulin, life, materialism, materialists, natural selection, nature, oxygen, purpose, randomness, science of purpose, scientists, sperm, structure, teleology, telos, Terrence Deacon}

Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
July 17, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Scientists have learned over the centuries that when a fundamental theoretical impasse is encountered, we do not blame nature. Read More ›

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Date
February 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, chimpanzees, colonialism, Darwin Comes to Africa, Darwinism, evolution, French Guinea, ID the Future, Joseph Stalin, Olufemi Oluniyi, podcast, Social Darwinism, sperm}

When Darwinism Came to Africa, Horrors Ensued

_{Science and Culture
February 27, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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Olufemi Oluniyi tells the story of Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, who, guided by Social Darwinism, “sought to produce a race of super-soldiers for Stalin’s army.” 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

7}

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

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 12, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, conception, Darwinists, DNA, egg, intelligent design, parasite, personhood, pregnancy, PZ Myers, sentience, sperm, womb}

Biologist P. Z. Meyers Denies That Life Begins at Conception

_{Michael Egnor
September 12, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine

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Obviously, life begins at conception. With the fusion of the sperm and the egg, a new human life begins. Read More ›