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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 8, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, American history, children, courts, deaths, embryos, IVF, law, legislators, parents, Steven Novella, Yale University}

Are IVF Human Embryos “Children”?

_{Michael Egnor
March 8, 2024

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Recently, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that human embryos accidentally killed in an IVF clinic mishap are considered children under Alabama law. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 16, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, algae, Avalon explosion, Darwinian evolution, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran fossils, evidence for evolution, fact check, falsified theories, Fossil Friday (series), India, junk science, microbial mats, Precambrian, radiometric dating, Spriggina, Tribrachidium, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: The Vindhyan Controversy and Debunking Alleged Ediacaran and Cambrian Fossils

_{Günter Bechly
February 16, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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The fancy speculations about the evolution of multicellular life and early animals turned out to be just smoke and mirrors. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 15, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Carl Sagan, cerebral cortex, Christof Koch, consciousness, Dogs, Duke University, hard problem of consciousness, Max Tegmark, MIT, neuroscience, New York City, Yale University}

Consciousness, a Hall of Mirrors, Baffles Scientists

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 15, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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To contemplate consciousness is, as professor of religion Greg Peterson put it, like looking into and out of a window at the same time. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
November 15, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Claremont Review of Books, Darwin's Doubt, David Gelernter, evolution, intelligent design, On the Origin of Species, species, Stephen Meyer, Yale University}

Wisdom Wednesday: Yale Polymath David Gelernter’s Farewell to Darwinism

_{Emily Sandico
November 15, 2023

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Writes Professor Gelernter, "The origin of species is exactly what Darwin cannot explain." Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
July 10, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Chinese, Chinese Room, computers, English, intelligence, intentionality, John Searle, observer, Yale University}

Blind Ambition — Revisiting Searle’s Chinese Room

_{David Berlinski
July 10, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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For the most part, computer scientists have tended to ignore Searle’s argument and the point of view that it represents. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 12, 2023

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, analogy, Carl Sagan, cerebral cortex, emotions, Frank Drake, J.B.S. Haldane, language, neocortex, neuroscience, persistent scientific errors, Pulitzer Prize, reptiles, textbooks, The Atlantic, Yale University}

Reptilian Brain Myth Is Still Alive and Kicking

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 12, 2023

Evolutionary Psychology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Many psychology students are subjected to this day to an exploded pop neuroscience myth endorsed by celebrity scientist Carl Sagan. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
May 12, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, academia, African Americans, anti-racism, atheism, BioLogos, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Charles Lyell, evolution, evolutionary biology, Francis Collins, history, Human Zoos, John West, Louis Agassiz, Racism, theistic evolution, Victorian England, Yale University}

Joseph L. Graves as the “Black Darwin”? Think Again

_{Robert Shedinger
May 12, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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Darwin could never be considered the kind of anti-racist activist Graves makes him out to be. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinism, explosions, Fossil Friday (series), history of life, nutrients, oxygen, paleobiology, paleontology, revolutions, saltations, Scotland, sharks, swimming, textbooks, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: The Devonian Nekton Revolution

_{Günter Bechly
May 12, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Such explosions and revolutions dominate the history of life, which was rather a series of abrupt saltations than the gradual change predicted by Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 5, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Science Education
Tagged
, biological origins, cell biology, DiscoveryU, education, empirical science, evidence, evolution, fear, free will, God, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, materialistic science, molecular biology, orthodoxy, skepticism, spirit, The Design of Life, The Myth of Junk DNA, totalitarian science, UC Berkeley, Yale University}

New Course on Evolution Challenges Group-Think with Scientific Skepticism

_{David Klinghoffer
May 5, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Science Education

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Consider spending the time — 40 lessons with accompanying quizzes to check your progress — to weigh the evidence for yourself. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 4, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, cell biology, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, complexity, Discovery Institute, DiscoveryU, education, evolution, homeschool students, Icons of Evolution, ideology, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, knowledge, Latin, life, materialism, molecular biology, natural selection, nature, public education, The Design of Life, The Myth of Junk DNA, Tree of Life, UC Berkeley, universe, Yale University}

New DiscoveryU Course: Jonathan Wells Takes an Objective Look at the Evidence for Evolution

_{David Klinghoffer
May 4, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The notion that knowledge must reject mind as a casual factor in origins studies is a materialist presumption — not science. Read More ›