What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?

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A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be. Source
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Is the Human Eye Really Evidence Against Intelligent Design?

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Good empirical science searches for explanations that fit the evidence. But another kind of “science” is committed to telling stories about unguided evolution. Source
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Challenges to the Evolutionary Origins of the Glycolytic Pathway

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The complexity and engineering sophistication comport much better with the hypothesis of design. Source
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Pig Brains Thought Dead May Be Revived

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Pigs are considered useful biomedical models for humans so the implications of such studies sent waves through the field of resuscitation — and bioethics. Source
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Illuminating the Power of Life

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That which is unique to life alone, which offers the only valid explanation of irreducible complexity, is the manifestation of goal-directed functional logic. Source
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Design of the Elements Points to a Theistic Universe

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An innumerable number of features of the natural world show evidence of purpose and intent. Source
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The Remarkable Carbon Atom

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This is another one of many countless features of our universe that have to be “just right” for life — in particular, advanced life — to exist. Source
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An Astonishing Life-Friendly Coincidence: The Properties of the Nonmetal Atoms

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It is well established that there are far more ways in which the universe might have been that are non-conducive to life than there are life-friendly ways. Source
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In Aurora Borealis, Scientific and Aesthetic Design Arguments Meet 

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You appreciate the aurora borealis or aurora australis because you were not created by strictly material evolutionary processes. Source
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