twins Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date July 11, 2023 CategoriesGeneticsMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , Aeon, behavior, children, choices, Cyril Burt, disease, doppelgänger, eugenics, gene expression, genes, genome, homosexuality, identical twins, psychologists, selfhood, statistical methods, twins, UC Berkeley Genes Rule? The Evidence of Identical Twins Denyse O’Leary July 11, 2023 Genetics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 6 Researcher on identical twins hoped to prove that Genes Rule! But there were ethics slippages along the way. Read More ›
twins Type post Author Cornelius Hunter Date November 14, 2022 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionGeneticsLife Sciences Tagged , adaptation, DNA, epigenetics, evolutionary theory, fruit flies, genes, natural selection, offspring, organisms, random mutation, teleological language, teleology, The Scientist, twins Why Epigenetics Contradicts Evolutionary Theory Cornelius Hunter November 14, 2022 Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Life Sciences 2 Epigenetic mechanisms are ubiquitous in biology. Because of epigenetics, organisms with otherwise identical genes (e.g., twins) can be quite different. Read More ›
tortoise Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date October 9, 2022 CategoriesLife SciencesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , cognitive capacity, conjoined twins, hearts, Janus, lungs, personality, researchers, resources, tortoise, twins Two-Headed Tortoise with Two Personalities? Denyse O’Leary October 9, 2022 Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind 4 Many would be surprised to learn that either head had any personality at all, and yet… Read More ›
Erika DeBenedictis Type post Author Elizabeth Whately Date June 9, 2021 CategoriesBioethicsIntelligent DesignMedicine Tagged , ARF, China, Emily Reeves, Erika DeBenedictis, Evolution News, Forbes, gene editing, genome, He Jiankui, HIV, Hong Kong, INK4a, intelligent design, Jordan Peterson, Marxists, Nature (journal), scientists, TEDx talk, twins, U.S. Senate, Wesley Smith Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God Elizabeth Whately June 9, 2021 Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Medicine 7 I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Read More ›
C. S. Lewis Type post Author James A. Herrick Date August 26, 2020 CategoriesBioethicsEthics Tagged , biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, Judeo-Christian tradition, magic, morality, prophecy, Science, scientists, Tao, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Conditioners, theism, twins Science and Scientism: The Prophetic Vision of C. S. Lewis James A. Herrick August 26, 2020 Bioethics, Ethics 6 This essay has argued that Lewis was prophetic as regards the advent of techniques powerful enough to bring about the effects he feared. Read More ›
twins Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date November 7, 2017 CategoriesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __k-review, brain, British Columbia, Canada, CBC TV, craniopagus twins, Denyse O'Leary, documentary, Krista Hogan, materalism, mind, neurology, personality, Tatiana Hogan, twins, Uncommon Descent Brain = Mind? Craniopagus Twins Argue Otherwise David Klinghoffer November 7, 2017 Neuroscience & Mind 3 Insofar as the mind subsumes the personality, these girls do not share a mind. Read More ›