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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 16, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, biology, brain tumor, caterpillars, chrysalis, Denyse O'Leary, earth, epicycles, German, Guillermo Gonzalez, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, heliocentric model, Johannes Kepler, Karina Kofman, Kevin Mitchell, materialism, Metamorphosis, methodological materialism, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, mind, neuroscience, planets, Plato, Richard Sternberg, solar system, The Immortal Mind, Tufts University}

Biologist Michael Levin Is at It Again, Now Pushing at the Mind-Brain Equation

_{Daniel Witt
April 16, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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When caterpillars are in their chrysalises, their brains physically dissolve (along with the rest of their bodies) and are rebuilt as butterfly brains. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
February 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Mathematics
Metaphysics
Tagged
, a priori, abstract objects, Andreas Wagner, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, flatworms, frogs, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, material world, materialism, Max Tegmark, Mereology, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysticism, naturalism, philosophy of biology, physical world, physicalism, Platonism, Platonists, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, secondary qualities, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, universals, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg}

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

_{Daniel Witt
February 28, 2025

Biology, Engineering, Mathematics, Metaphysics

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Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, American Humanist Association, C.S. Lewis, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, debates, Denis Noble, Denyse O'Leary, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Mendelian genetics, Michael Egnor, Miracles (book), MIT, Old Testament, qualia, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, Rudder Theatre, Santa Fe, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Steven Weinberg, Stuart Kauffman, Texas A&M University, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blind Watchmaker, Trotter Prize, Tufts University, violence, Zeitgeist}

Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

_{William A. Dembski
February 21, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 30, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, feelings, human consciousness, insects, Jerry Coyne, Lars Chittka, natural selection, naturalism, panpsychism, Princeton University Press, protozoans, qualia, Queen Mary University, Scientific American, sentience, Tufts University}

Bees with Feelings? A Darwinist Winces

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 30, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Most naturalist philosophers of mind have held that human consciousness — maddeningly mysterious — is an illusion. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 19, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Boston, Commentary, copyright, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, David Berlinski, ISI Books, letters, Michael Behe, MIT, Paul Nelson, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, Tufts University, Uncommon Dissent}

Farewell to Daniel Dennett

_{William A. Dembski
April 19, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dennett noted that Paul Nelson and I were in the audience and would be speaking at Tufts that evening on intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Boston, Commentary, copyright, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, David Berlinski, ISI Books, letters, Michael Behe, MIT, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, Tufts University, Uncommon Dissent}

Dawkins, Dennett, and the Taste for Iconoclasm

_{William A. Dembski
April 1, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I’ve had two memorable encounters with Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, one with Dennett alone, the other with both together. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
February 7, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Adam Frank, astronomers, black hole, cells, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, information, intelligence, intelligent design, James Barham, James Shapiro, life, Michael Levin, Mind Matters, natural, naturalism, panpsychism, self-replication, sentience, signaling, symbiosis, teleology, Tufts University, University of Chicago, unnatural, vitalism}

What Is the Essence of Life?

_{Eric Hedin
February 7, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The strength of the intelligent design explanation for life lies in its full-orbed ability to address all aspects of life. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 27, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bioengineering, birds, cells, communication, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, human body, human consciousness, humans, illusion, insects, Integrated information theory, intelligence, jellyfish, Macquarie University, Michael Levin, Nature (journal), octopuses, panpsychism, physicalism, Tufts University, University of Montreal}

Can a Brainless Jellyfish Learn? How About Individual Cells? Do Molecules Communicate?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 27, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Cells are intelligent, in a way. But that fact is a much better argument for intelligent design than for the idea that the human intellect is insignificant. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
May 18, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, addiction, Bible, compassion, COVID-19, dehumanization, doctors, emergency room, futile care, Greeks, human life, Human Zoos, medicine, MRI, nurses, police, Romans, Social Darwinism, Texas, Tufts University, Vaccines, Virginia, Wesley Smith}

When Medical Science Becomes Heartless: The Case of Joshua Smith

_{John G. West
May 18, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

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This might be a good time to take stock of those you rely on for your medical care. How much do you know about your doctors? Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 3, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, cell biology, cells, CNN, computers, frogs, intelligent design, John Timmer, robots, self-replication, Tufts University}

Xenobots: Researchers Claim to Have Created New Form of Biological Self-Replication

_{Brian Miller
December 3, 2021

Evolution, Life Sciences

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Xenobots are artificially interconnected biological tissues whose arrangements are determined by some algorithm. Read More ›