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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 18, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, arms, biologists, biomolecules, budding, children, conception, culture, eyes, fingers, human life, humanity, humans, persons, pregnancy, right to life, science denial, womb, worms, zygote}

Question for Abortion Advocates: How Many Fingers Does a Pregnant Woman Have?

_{Michael Egnor
May 18, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Denial of the humanity of children in the womb from the moment of conception is the most lethal form of science denial. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 16, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, abortion, act, adults, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, baby, genius, gestation, human being, Jerry Coyne, life, possibilities, potency, rational thought, soul, Thomistic philosophy, zygote}

Must We Be Able to Reason to Be Thought of as Human Persons?

_{Michael Egnor
May 16, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Life Sciences, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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A common argument as to why abortion is generally ethical is that the unborn child cannot reason. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 11, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, asexual reproduction, budding, corals, egg, embryo, fetus, Homo sapiens, human being, human development, human life, Jerry Coyne, microorganisms, morality, mother, murder, pain, pro-life, Roman Catholic, sperm, sponges, tissue, womb, worms, zygote}

If a Fetus Isn’t a Human Being, What Is It?

_{Michael Egnor
May 11, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine

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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
May 10, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Medical Association, cancer, children, conception, egg, embryo, human being, human life, law, National Academy of Sciences, newborn, parasite, public policy, scientists, settled science, sperm, womb, zygote}

Fact Check: Yes, Human Life Begins at Fertilization

_{Michael Egnor
May 10, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Ethics, Medicine

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So what are we to make of a scientific profession in which scientific experts consistently distort the science of human life? Read More ›

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Date
August 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, bioRxiv, CELS 2021, CRISPR, DNA, Emily Reeves, epigenetics, evolution, finches, gametes, genetic information, geneticists, hybridization, intelligent design, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, natural selection, Nature (journal), Neil Thomas, New Scientist, organelles, Peter and Rosemary Grant, PNAS, Taking Leave of Darwin, The Scientist, University of Copenhagen, zygote}

Non-Mendelian Inheritance Undermines Neo-Darwinism

_{Science & Culture
August 13, 2021

Evolution

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Neo-Darwinians breathed a sigh of relief when in the 1930s they found a way to incorporate Mendel’s laws of heredity. Now, that relief is unraveling. Read More ›

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Date
March 10, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, egg cells, embryo, embryonic development, evolutionists, fertilization, intelligent design, lockdown, Marcos Eberlin, oversight, Paul Nelson, RNA polymerase, zygote}

To Build a Body Plan, Start with a Plan

_{Science & Culture
March 10, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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What is a body plan if there is no plan behind it? It is not a body but a blob, a formless plop of biological matter. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
September 14, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, Alberto Giubilini, babies, Caenorhabditis elegans, Darwin Day in America, developmental biology, Drosophila melanogaster, empirical science, fallopian tube, fertilization, fetus, gastrulation, Haeckel’s embryos, Homo sapiens, human being, humans, identical twins, John West, Lewis Wolpert, materialistic philosophy, materialistic science, mother, pain, Roman Catholic, zygote}

Why Should a Baby Live?

_{Jonathan Wells
September 14, 2020

Medicine

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My title is adapted from a 2012 article by two philosophers, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
August 5, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, birds, blood, bones, brain, cartilage, chicken-and-egg problem, chromosomes, DNA, Doctor's Diary (series), evolution, evolution of the sexes, female, fertilization, fingers, fish, hormones, inbreeding, joints, ligaments, male, muscles, natural selection, nerves, ovum, primates, procreation, Science (journal), Science Advances, sperm, swimming, zygote}

Doctor’s Diary: Evolution’s Countless Chicken-and-Egg Conundrums

_{Geoffrey Simmons
August 5, 2020

Evolution

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It turned out last week that scientists have been wrong for 350 years about how sperm swim. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Sternberg

Date
July 29, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, central dogma, centromere, chromosomes, cytoskeleton, Drosophila melanogaster, junk DNA, kinetochores, meiosis, nucleotides, oocyte, Paul Davies, Y chromosome, zygote}

DNA May Be “Junk” at One Level But of Utmost Significance at Another

_{Richard Sternberg
July 29, 2020

Intelligent Design

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It is during the latter stages of the production of an animal oocyte that many functionalities of what some disparage as “junk DNA” take center stage. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
January 10, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Christian de Duve, eLife, embryo, embryonic development, evidence, evolutionary theory, evolutionists, genes, nucleic acids, proteins, zygote}

New Research on Animal Egg Orientation Shows “Unexpected” Diversity

_{Cornelius Hunter
January 10, 2020

Evolution

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Evolutionists cannot have it both ways. They cannot prove their theory when the findings work for them, and softly walk away when the findings do not work. Read More ›