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07Apr 2022 by Post

Evolutionary Psychologist Argues that Worms Feel Pain. But How?

Aimen Mirza, alarm system, biology, David Barash, earthworms, endothermic life, Evolution, evolutionary psychology, exothermic life, intelligence, invertebrates, Nautilus, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, pain, panpsychism, Richard Dawkins, sentience, slaughter, Through a Glass Brightly, University of Washington, Wormmy

Wait. Barash’s hypothesis overlooks the fact that suffering is more than an alarm system. An alarm could be going off in an empty building. Source

06Apr 2022 by Post

Event Report: Design and the Designer

biology, Biomimetics, COVID-19, Daniel Reeves, design triangulation, Emily Reeves, Eric Metaxas, faith, Faith & Science, history of science, human foot, intellectuals, Intelligent Design, International Space Station, John West, Michael Keas, Olympics, Philadelphia, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, Socrates in the City, Stephen Meyer, Stuart Burgess, Systems Biology, theology, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith

There were 16 different talks, ranging from the history of science and faith to more technical topics like systems biology and design triangulation. Source

05Apr 2022 by Post

Did Researchers Teach Fish to “Do Math”?

arithmetic, bees, cichlids, counting, fish, food pellets, infants, Intelligent Design, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, numbers, Rafael Núñez, Silke Goebel, Sophie Fessl, stringrays, The Scientist, UC San Diego

Some test fish learned how to how to get food pellets but the difficulty, as so often, lies with interpretation. Source

04Apr 2022 by Post

Origin of Life: The Problem of Cell Membranes

abiogenesis, balloon, cell membranes, chemical evolution, Evolution, first cell, Intelligent Design, Long Story Short, materialists, origin of life, protocells, soap bubble

Wow, the new Long Story Short video is out now, and I think it’s the best one yet — it’s amazingly clear and quite funny. Source

02Apr 2022 by Post

A Sympathetic Account of Panpsychism

Albert Einstein, brain, consciousness, David Papineau, general relativity, materialism, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, New Scientist, panpsychism, Philip Goff, physicalism, physicists, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, quantum world, Thomas Lewton

“Modern physics was founded on the separation of mind and matter.” Indeed, it was. And if that doesn’t work, materialism is dead. Source

01Apr 2022 by Post

Luskin: Adam and Eve and the Evolving Scientific Consensus

Adam and Eve, Casey Luskin, Christianity, consensus, dogma, Evangelical Christians, Faith & Science, Geology, Hank Hanegraaff, Hank Unplugged, Hebrew Bible, Human Origins, plate tectonics

Scientists have become much more reticent about saying the first couple must be no more than a product of the ancient Hebrew imagination. Source

31Mar 2022 by Post

Researchers: What’s Evolutionary Debris to You Is Unexplored Territory to Us

centromeres, DNA, Evolution, evolutionary processes, gene expression, Genome Research, human genome, Intelligent Design, Joe Felsenstein, John Avise, Junk DNA, Laurence Moran, Nicholas Matzke, nucleic acids, repetitive elements, researchers, RNA, T. Ryan Gregory, telomeres, transposable elements

From a new, open-access article, “Implications of the first complete human genome assembly.” Source

30Mar 2022 by Post

Unexplained — Maybe Unexplainable — Numbers Control the Universe

Carl Sagan, Contact (novel), Cosmos (magazine), electromagnetism, extraterrestrials, Fibonacci sequence, fine structure constant, Golden Ratio, Intelligent Design, Jordan Ellenberg, Laurence Eaves, Paul Davies, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, pi, Planck’s constant, quantum mechanics, relativity, Richard Feynman, University of Nottingham, Wolfgang Pauli

Richard Feynman called 1/137, the fine structure constant, “a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by man.” Source

29Mar 2022 by Post

Design Inference: Stone Structures Were Intelligently Arranged, Though We Don’t Know by Whom

Archaeology, Argument from Reason, Bedouins, chimps, crows, design filter, Design Inference, designer, Evolution, fairy circles, geoglyphs, geometric structures, Intelligent Design, John West, Jordan, Live Science, Middle East, Namibia, Nazca Lines, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Syria, World War I, Yemen

There are hundreds of these structures. They extend over much of the Middle East: Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. Source

28Mar 2022 by Post

Before the Third Reich: America’s Darwinist Eugenics Crusade

Adolf Hitler, Carrie Buck, Catholics, Center for Science & Culture, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Day in America, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, eugenics, Evangelical Christians, Evolution, forced sterilization, history, John West, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., religious leaders, Richard Weikart, scientists, Supreme Court, United States

One of the most famous instances was Carrie Buck, sterilized as “feeble minded” despite going on to live a normal productive life. Source